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Science

Method, evidence, and the natural world.

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Body and Mind0022

Sleep

The brain's nightly reset

The nightly period when the brain repairs and files what it learned.

I · You23 / 53
Body and Mind0025

First Aid: Burns

Cool water, not butter

The first care given to a burn, before any doctor is involved.

I · You26 / 53
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Vaccination

Training the army before the war

A safe preview of a disease that teaches the body to fight it.

I · You34 / 53
Ready for Anything0045

The Scientific Method

The loop that built the modern world

A repeating loop of question, guess, test, and honest result.

I · You46 / 53
The Digital World0064

Confirmation Bias Online

The lie your brain prefers

The habit of trusting evidence that agrees with what is already believed.

II · The World13 / 53
Your Country0076

Road Safety

The physics of speed

The rules and physics that decide who survives a collision.

II · The World25 / 53
Your Country0078

Climate Change

The 1.5-degree line

The long-term warming of the planet caused by trapped gases.

II · The World27 / 53
Your Country0079

The Carbon Footprint

Your share of the sky

The total greenhouse gas one person's choices add to the air.

II · The World28 / 53
Your Country0084

Water Scarcity

The crisis that arrives without warning

Having less clean water than the people in a place need.

II · The World33 / 53
The Networks0107

Water at Scale

Four generations of plumbing, all buried

The works that move, clean, and store water for a whole city.

III · The Machinery04 / 53
How Things Get Made0122

Making Medicine

Ten years, and most of them fail

The long filter that turns a molecule into an approved medicine.

III · The Machinery19 / 53
How Things Get Made0123

Food from Air

Half your nitrogen came from a factory

The industrial process that lets the world grow enough food.

III · The Machinery20 / 53
How Things Get Made0128

Concrete

Second only to water in how much we use

The material most of the built world is made from, and its real cost.

III · The Machinery25 / 53

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