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  • Smoking Vulture Brains in South Africa

    29,494 views 3 weeks ago
    In this episode of Symbiotic, Motherboard travels to South Africa for a firsthand look at the traditional sangoma practice of smoking vulture brains, which has come under criticism from conservationists and sangomas alike who worry it's contributing to endangering certain species of Africa's vultures.

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    • Smoking Vulture Brains in South Africa - Duration: 9 minutes, 32 seconds.

      Motherboard
      • 3 weeks ago
      • 29,494 views
      In this episode of Symbiotic, Motherboard travels to South Africa for a firsthand look at the traditional sangoma practice of smoking vulture brains, which has come under criticism from conservatio...

    • The Math That Predicted the Arab Spring - Duration: 2 minutes, 48 seconds.

      Motherboard
      • 1 month ago
      • 29,735 views
      In this Pilot of Math that Explains the World, Motherboard talks to Yaneer Bar Yam, founder of the New England Complex Systems Institute who used new physics based math to explain the correlation b...

    • Leaving Earth the Greenest Way Possible: Water Cremation - Duration: 4 minutes, 49 seconds.

      Motherboard
      • 1 month ago
      • 23,950 views
      Most environmental issues are caused by the living but have you ever considered the environmental impact of death? Alkaline hydrolysis, a greener alternative to burial or flame-based cremation, use...

    • Shane Smith Investigates The True Cost of Climate Denial (VICE on HBO: Season 5, Episode 1) - Duration: 28 minutes.

      VICE News
      • 1 month ago
      • 194,903 views
      President Trump announced the U.S.’s intent to withdraw from the landmark Paris climate agreement – what many said was the world’s best chance to collectively limit the impact on the planet.

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    • The Underground Drag Racing Culture of Los Angeles - Duration: 10 minutes.

      Motherboard
      • 1 month ago
      • 28,188 views
      In this episode of Speed Daemons, host Derek Mead immerses himself in the underground culture of Los Angeles street racing. Taking an unexpected approach to this subject, we focus less on the legal...

    • The 80s Cult Classic Envisioning the Final Hour Before Nuclear Apocalypse - Duration: 5 minutes, 36 seconds.

      Motherboard
      • 1 month ago
      • 16,684 views
      In this episode of Future Shock, Motherboard speaks to Steve De Jarnatt, writer and director of Miracle Mile, a "missiles in the air" doomsday sci-fi thriller from 1988 set in Los Angeles, as the c...

    • POWER Ep 1: Going Nuclear - Duration: 6 minutes, 24 seconds.

      Motherboard
      • 2 months ago
      • 63,450 views
      In this 360/VR video, Motherboard takes you inside the Darlington Nuclear Generating Station, just outside Toronto, which provides 20 percent of Ontario’s electricity. Stand next to the giant turbi...

    • Who Killed the Smart Gun? - Duration: 43 minutes.

      Motherboard
      • 3 months ago
      • 417,714 views
      America is a gun culture. It always has been. With an estimated 260 to 300 million guns in the national gun stock today, firearms aren’t going anywhere. And it would appear the political will to cr...

    • Should Humans Try to Contact Alien Civilizations? - Duration: 7 minutes, 12 seconds.

      Motherboard
      • 3 months ago
      • 143,172 views
      Doug Vakoch is a former SETI member who founded METI International in 2015, an organization trying to craft and send targeted interstellar messages to extraterrestrials. However, his work has becom...
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    • Tracking Bacteria on the Space Station Could Help Us Survive Beyond Earth - Duration: 7 minutes, 46 seconds.

      Motherboard
      • 3 months ago
      • 93,824 views
      In this episode of Exo, Dr. Chris Mason is using genetics to understand how humans might prepare for —and defend themselves against— life in space.

      As one of 10 investigators on NASA’s twin study...
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    • A 360 Look Inside Brooklyn's Farming Revolution - Duration: 2 minutes, 47 seconds.

      Motherboard
      • 4 months ago
      • 98,371 views
      The future of urban farming is in shipping containers. In this 360 video, Motherboard goes to Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn to visit a high-tech, hydroponic farming that's fueling a new food revolution. By gr...

    • The NASA Lab Searching for Alien Life by Examining the Earth - Duration: 8 minutes, 49 seconds.

      Motherboard
      • 4 months ago
      • 239,359 views
      Lynn Rothschild is engineering microorganisms in her NASA lab to understand the potential for life on other planets.

      Using astrobiology and synthetic biology, Rothschild examines the origins and ...
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    In this 360/VR series, Motherboard takes you inside the Darlington Nuclear Generating Station, just outside Toronto, which provides 20 percent of Ontario’s electricity. Stand next to the giant turbines and hover on the edge of the glowing waste pool.
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    Tapping into the geopolitics of hacking and surveillance, Ben Makuch travels the world to meet with hackers, government officials, and dissidents to investigate the ecosystem of cyberwarfare.
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