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Science Friday: How you count on your fingers says what about your brain? | Why humans laugh? | Edison’s car battery is back

What does the way you count on your fingers say about your brain?

    Put down your coffee for a moment. Now, without thinking about it too much, use your hands to count to 10.

    How did you do it? Did you start with the left hand, or the right? Did you begin counting on a thumb, or with a pinkie? Maybe you started on an index finger? And did you begin with a closed fist, or an open hand?

Science Friday: In Good Health? Thank Your 100 Trillion Bacteria | How Deforestation Caused Easter Island's Society to Collapse

In Good Health? Thank Your 100 Trillion Bacteria



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Dream Cleaners

    Dream Cleaners has already been shown at a number of festivals to great acclaim and once you watch it you will be left in no reason why. The creative team at SunnyBoy has really come up with something quite special here.

Science Friday: On this Tiny Sphere is All the World's Freshwater | Sunlight is a h2o Disinfectant | Megafires and Tree-rings

And THIS Tiny Sphere is All the World’s Water *That We Can Use*

    A few days ago, we wrote about a remarkable graphic released by the USGS, showing all the water on Earth—freshwater, saltwater, water vapor, water in plants and animals; all of it—rolled into a sphere.

    That sphere was only 860 miles in diameter, fitting comfortably between Salt Lake City and Topeka, Kansas, on a map. It was striking, especially considering that the water available for humans use in our daily lives is only a very small fraction of that; the vast majority of the Earth’s water is saltwater, and most of the freshwater is tied up in glaciers.


What would life be like if pterosaurs were alive today?




900 dolphins, 5,000 birds dead in Peru




Song For Mom: 7 Billion



Science Friday: Titanoboa vs T-Rex | Rare Photo: Black Hole Devouring a Star | CSI Neolithic: Ötzi's Autopsy

Sorry, the video's a fantasy; they lived about 5 million years apart




White Killer Whale Spotted—Only One in the World?

Christine Dell'Amore
