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Friday Nite Videos | September 24, 2021

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The Fight Over Masks in Schools | Jordan Klepper. Peace Train Featuring Yusuf / Cat Stevens. Bernie Sanders Takes on Fossil Fuel Lobby. Dutch Neanderthal Gains a Face, With Expression. The Card Counter | Movie.

How Much Water Do You Actually Need?

Christie Aschwanden The New York Times
“Stay hydrated” has become a new version of the old salutation, “Stay well.” Here’s how to know when you truly need to hydrate.

Dutch Neanderthal Gains a Face, With Expression

Watch palaeo-artists as they recontruct and interpret the layers of a Neanderthal skull to arrive at the face of ‘Krijn’, a young man with a conspicuous lump over his right eyebrow.

The New Science on How We Burn Calories

Kim Tingley The New York Times
How the new science of metabolism could change our understanding about, for starters, chronic disease, aging and obesity

Failure to Protect?

Charles Piller Science
A study of asthmatic children, most of them Black, shows how a common clinical trial design can expose vulnerable participants to serious risks

Call of the Wild

Jon Cohen With reporting by Kai Kupferschmidt. Science Magazine
Why many scientists say it’s unlikely that SARS-CoV-2 originated from a “lab leak”

Friday Nite Videos | September 3, 2021

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How Climate Change Makes Hurricanes Wetter. Come As You Are (Nirvana) | Playing for Change. Reservation Dogs | Trailer. Horsey Vax: The Alternative Medicine for Anti-Vaxxers. Costs of War: the Human Toll of the Post-9/11 Wars.
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