How YOU can become your own Grandfather

From Facts in Motion. You might have heard this in a song already—there is a way someone can become their own grandfather. But how, exactly? Sources: 8:45 London Literary Gazette – 12 Jan 1822 https://archive.org/details/sim_literary-gazette_1822-01-12_260/page/30/mode/2up 9:30 Titusville Hearald – 22 Nov 1866 https://archive.org/details/newspaperarchive-titusville-herald?tab=collection&query=Titusville+Hearald+%281866-11-22%29 10:08 Dover Chronicle – Friday 19 July 1872 https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0004171/18720719/109/0007 Sleaford Gazette –…

A Tire Company Gives Out The Most Prestigious Food Award – Here’s Why

From Facts in Motion. Go to https://brilliant.org/fim/ to sign up for free and get 20% off the annual subscription. Or check out the daily challenges at https://brilliant.org/daily-problems/eat-like-a-bird/ Why does Michelin – a tire manufacturer – rate restaurants? SOURCES: https://www.beyond.fr/food/michelin-guide-history.html Why Does a Tire Company Publish the Michelin Guide? How Restaurants Get Michelin Stars: A Brief…

Why Snails Kill 200 000 People Every Year

From Facts in Motion. Did you know that snails are the second deadliest animal on the planet and responsible for around 200 000 deaths every year? Here’s why. Sources: https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/schistosomiasis https://www.pri.org/stories/2016-08-13/why-snails-are-one-worlds-deadliest-creatures https://www.afro.who.int/health-topics/schistosomiasis-bilharzia https://phys.org/news/2019-02-mosquitoes-malaria-million-years.html https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/schistosomiasis/biology.html https://www.uni-giessen.de/faculties/f10/departments/departments/parasitology/research/schistosoma/lifecycle https://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/resources/vector337to356.pdf https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5694902/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9467732 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971216311808 https://schisto.stanford.edu/pdf/Japan.pdf An Example of Phylum Platyhelminthes: Schistosoma Haematobium https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959437X16300843 Thanks for watching. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Why Great Whites are So Dangerous

From Facts in Motion. How do sharks hunt and why do they sometimes attack humans? Thanks again to Brilliant: Go to https://brilliant.org/fim/ to sign up for free and get 20% off the annual subscription. Sources: https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/07/shark-attacks-in-the-us/ https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/shark-attacks/yearly-worldwide-summary/ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2004/01/great-white-shark-myths/ https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33049099 http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160817-one-creature-had-a-bite-more-powerful-than-any-other https://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs13412-013-0107-2 https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/shark-attacks/maps/world/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/sharks-reputation-as-man-eaters-is-unfair-and-threatens-the-species-authors-say/2013/02/04/5b7b6542-6bd7-11e2-bd36-c0fe61a205f6_story.html?utm_term=.a407c4511616 https://www.livescience.com/8309-jaws-changed-view-great-white-sharks.html https://www.livescience.com/64799-great-white-shark-genome.html https://www.livescience.com/8797-shark-smell-myth-fishy.html https://www.britannica.com/story/why-do-sharks-attack https://www.livescience.com/3899-truth-great-white-sharks-30-years-jaws.html Who is more aggressive, a Bull Shark…

This Animation Shows You How Small Atoms Really Are

From Facts in Motion. Atoms: The building blocks of everything around us. But how small are they? This animation will show you. Sources: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/248399628_An_estimation_of_the_number_of_cells_in_the_human_body http://book.bionumbers.org/how-big-is-a-human-cell/ https://foresight.org/Nanomedicine/Ch03_1.php https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_radii_of_the_elements_(data_page) Thanks for watching. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

How Dangerous Can Ocean Waves Get? Wave Comparison

From Facts in Motion. Rogue Waves – In this episode we will cover the most elusive of all waves and explain where they come from and how dangerous they can be. Sources: http://www.waveworkshop.org/13thWaves/Papers/Tropical%20Cyclone%20Generated%20Extreme%20Waves%20-%20waveworkshop%20paper.pdf https://www.ecmwf.int/en/newsletter/148/meteorology/what-conditions-led-draupner-freak-wave https://www.researchgate.net/publication/234151195_Oceanic_Rogue_Waves https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draupner_platform http://www.shipstructure.org/pdf/2007symp09.pdf https://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/fulltext/2007/20070019.pdf https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/69b8/1cd7a8e18e697d55511f0c0c94b6455ea124.pdf https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/10.1175/1520-0485%282003%2933%3C863%3ANFIAFW%3E2.0.CO%3B2 https://todayinhistory.blog/tag/rogue-wave/ https://www.weather.gov/jetstream/generation https://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/fulltext/2004/20040037.pdf https://www.researchgate.net/publication/267606460_Examining_a_Comprehensive_Dataset_Containing_Thousands_of_Freak_Wave_Events_Part_1-Description_of_the_Data_and_Quality_Control_Procedure https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2011JC007636 https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/10/161013095756.htm Thanks for watching

How Large Are Blue Whales Really? Size Comparison

From Facts in Motion. The Blue Whale is the largest animal of our time and the largest animal that ever lived. But how large are they exactly? This animation will show you. Sources: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/240590693_Body_weight_of_some_species_of_large_whales http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170216-how-an-empty-sea-helped-the-blue-whale-grow-so-enormous https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317134796_Independent_evolution_of_baleen_whale_gigantism_linked_to_Plio-Pleistocene_ocean_dynamics https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsos.140434 https://serc.carleton.edu/integrate/teaching_materials/coastlines/student_materials/901 https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-40032372 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2017.0546 https://www.bbcearth.com/blog/?article=the-anatomy-of-a-whale http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150820-see-the-worlds-biggest-heart-blue-whales-is-first-to-be-preserved https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/240590693_Body_weight_of_some_species_of_large_whales http://www.sararegistry.gc.ca/virtual_sara/files/cosewic/sr_blue_whale_e.pdf https://www.whalefacts.org/blue-whale-penis/ https://www.whalefacts.org/whale-milk/ http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_9265000/9265623.stm https://www.livescience.com/10332-whales-swallow-million-calories-single-mouthful.html https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2009/11/24/the-origin-of-big/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19841-blue-whale-feeding-methods-are-ultra-efficient/ http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/8/e1600883.full https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/why-whales-got-so-big/557213/ http://www-das.uwyo.edu/~geerts/cwx/notes/chap11/phyto.html http://jeb.biologists.org/content/205/12/1747.abstract…

Why Sea Cucumbers Are Dangerous

From Facts in Motion. Sea cucumbers are rather inconspicuous animals and are certainly not the most well-known sea creatures. They are nonetheless of enormous importance for the oceans and us humans. But don’t get too excited because despite their harmless appearance they are actually not as safe to handle as one might think. In this…

Brain-Eating Fly turns Victims into Zombies

From Facts in Motion. Some animals have developed astonishing strategies for survival. Like the ant-decapitating fly, which lays their eggs inside ants, so their larvae can feast on their brains. Sources: https://www.livescience.com/21326-smallest-fly-decapitates-ants.html https://web.archive.org/web/20090516023741/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fn%2Fa%2F2009%2F05%2F13%2Fnational%2Fa062256D48.DTL https://biocontrol.entomology.cornell.edu/parasitoids/pseudacteon.php http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/beneficial/flies/ant_decapitating_phorids.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20090522005217/http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090512/sc_mcclatchy/3231765 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFVvOo1Qd_8 Music by Jay Man Tracks used: http://ourmusicbox.com/ms_song/Past-Reflections http://ourmusicbox.com/ms_song/Sound-of-Silence http://ourmusicbox.com/ms_song/Web-of-Deceit http://ourmusicbox.com/ms_song/No-Momentum http://ourmusicbox.com/ms_song/Nightmare-on-my-street Thanks for watching. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

The Whale-Bone-Eating Zombie Worm

From Facts in Motion. Osedax – commonly called ‘bone worm’ or ‘zombie worm’ – is a genus of marine worms that feeds on the skeletons of dead whales. In this video, we will take a closer look at the life cycle and eating habits of these worms and find out what makes them so special.…

Why Sperm Whale Poop Is Worth More Than Gold

From Facts in Motion. Did you know that sperm whale poop is one of the most valuable natural substances on the planet and sometimes even traded for more than gold? Find out why in this video! Sources: https://www.nature.com/articles/srep28562 http://www.lajamjournal.org/index.php/lajam/article/view/231 https://www.press.uchicago.edu/books/excerpt/2012/kemp_floating.html http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20121121-the-sweet-smell-of-whale-poo https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/looking-for-treasure-on-the-connemara-coast-1.1327366 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4642722.stm https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/dog-walker-finds-lump-of-whale-1564302 https://www.sciencealert.com/fisherman-have-just-found-a-us-3-million-lump-of-whale-vomit Music by Jay Man Tracks used: http://ourmusicbox.com/ms_song/Winter-In-My-heart http://ourmusicbox.com/ms_song/Past-Reflections http://ourmusicbox.com/ms_song/Black-Skies http://ourmusicbox.com/ms_song/Swan-Lake…

Why (only) some Sharks are Warm-Blooded

From Facts in Motion. Sharks have the reputation of being cold-blooded killers that will attack and try to eat just about anything. But in reality, they are actually a lot pickier than many people realize – Attacks on humans are very very rare. But even the "cold-blooded" portion isn’t even true – at least not…

How Bamboo slowly kills the Panda – The Bamboo Problem

From Facts in Motion. Pandas are endangered for several reasons, the biggest of which is habitat loss. But the plight of the giant panda has just as much to do with the ecology of its food source as it does with the man-made destruction of its habitat. Here’s why. Further Reading: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/303243?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents http://www.completebamboo.com/bamboo_behaviors.html Music by…