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From SciShow. Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free. The first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription and a 30-day free trial. You’ve probably heard that urine is sterile. And we’re only just learning that’s not true. Understanding the urinary microbiome could help us find new ways to treat…
From SciShow. JMP offers a 30-day free trial for anyone, anywhere. Go to https://www.jmp.com/scishow to see the benefits of visual statistics for yourself. It’s impossible to have something colder than absolute zero…right? That’s why it’s called "absolute zero". Well, it turns out you can get certain substances to negative absolute temperatures (e.g. -1 Kelvin)…but in…
From SciShow. Ever wondered why nuclear power plant cooling towers or salt storage domes are the shape they are? SciShow has the answers! Hosted by: Niba @NotesbyNiba (she/her) ———- Support us for $8/month on Patreon and keep SciShow going! https://www.patreon.com/scishow Or support us directly: https://complexly.com/support Join our SciShow email list to get the latest news…
From SciShow. Take your personal data back with Incogni! Use code SciShow at the link below and get 60% off an annual plan: http://incogni.com/scishow In the desert of Peru, hundreds of enormous ancient drawings are carved into the dirt. They’re called the Nazca Lines, and archeologists are still arguing over what they mean. Hosted by:…
From SciShow. Companies are putting CBD in just about every kind of product imaginable these days. Which ones actually work? Hosted by: Niba @NotesByNiba ———- Support us for $8/month on Patreon and keep SciShow going! https://www.patreon.com/scishow Or support us directly: https://complexly.com/support Join our SciShow email list to get the latest news and highlights: https://mailchi.mp/scishow/email ———-…
From SciShow. Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free. The first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription and a 30-day free trial. In the 1970s, archaeologists discovered a strange grave in western Belgium, dating back to 100 CE or so. Unlike the 76 other graves, it actually had a…
From SciShow. Thanks for watching this episode of SciShow! And thank you again to The Kavli Prize for supporting this episode. The Kavli Prize in Nanoscience is awarded for outstanding achievement in the science and application of the unique physical, chemical and biological properties of atomic, molecular, macromolecular, and cellular structures and systems that are…
From SciShow. JMP offers a 30-day free trial for anyone, anywhere. Go to https://www.jmp.com/scishow to see the benefits of visual statistics for yourself. It’s no secret that humans have big brains, especially compared to the rest of the animal world. But big brains require big energy to power them, and shifting around all our calories…
From SciShow. In the 1920s, archaeologists discovered that the young pharaoh Tutankhamun was buried with a fancy iron dagger. It wasn’t just fancy because part of it came from outer space; it was also made by artisans in another kingdom and given as a gift. But maybe not to Tut himself. Hosted by: Savannah Geary…
From SciShow. This video was made in collaboration with BBC Earth in partnership with BBC Studios. Head over to https://youtu.be/0ErXkeWJdS0?si=ybYPqc3nQ_u1esfQ to find out more! Save our Species explores the incredible (and unexpected!) tech-based approaches being tested to help protect wildlife, including drones that catch whale snot, ferret vaccines shot from ATVs and even cryogenically frozen…
From SciShow. Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free. The first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription and a 30-day free trial. Because periods are inconvenient, many women are choosing to end them entirely with hormonal birth control. This episode explores the research on its safety. Hosted by: Hank…
From SciShow. Iridescent hematite, aka turgite, is rust with a great makeup artist. This beautiful mineral shines in all the colors of the rainbow. And scientists are completely split as to why. This month, SciShow Rocks Box subscribers will receive their very own sample to ponder over. Check out the SciShow Rocks Box https://complexly.store/rocks Hosted…
From SciShow. Huge thanks to KiwiCo for sponsoring today’s video! Go to https://www.kiwico.com/scishow and use code SCISHOW for 50% off your first monthly club crate. In 1327, a monk named Richard of Wallingford drafted plans for an engineering marvel: one of the very first truly mechanical clocks in the world, which helped to usher in…
From SciShow. Take your personal data back with Incogni! Use code SciShow at the link below and get 60% off an annual plan: http://incogni.com/scishow One fun fact about elephants is that they’re a lot less likely to get cancer than other animals (including us). Another fun fact is that unlike most warm-blooded animals, their testes…
From SciShow. Have you ever heard of the Emu War? It was a hilariously disastrous attempt at wild animal population control, and while you’d think that humans would have gotten better at that sort of thing in the last hundred-ish years, that doesn’t seem to be the case. From making drug-resistant super rats to shooting…
From SciShow. Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free. The first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription and a 30-day free trial. Sometimes, humans invent a technology that changes the game. From ancient hand axes to gunpowder, here are 6 weapons that changed the course of human history. Hosted…
From SciShow. Improve your career using our code “SCISHOW” for 30% off on all TripleTen’s programs! Sign up for a FREE TripleTen career consultation with the link: https://get.tripleten.com/scishow Lung Cancer has been stigmatized as something that mainly happens when you smoke cigarettes. But non-smoking lung cancer may be a new disease changing the narrative. Hosted…
From SciShow. You may have heard about a new invasive menace in the US. The spotted lanternfly is a relatively recent arrival from China, and while they may be tiny, they have the potential to cause some serious problems. So let’s talk about what these spotted lanternflies are, why they’re here, and what we can…
From SciShow. Thanks for watching this episode of SciShow! And thank you again to The Kavli Prize for supporting this episode. The Kavli Prize in Neuroscience is awarded for outstanding achievement in advancing our knowledge and understanding of the brain and nervous system. To learn more about Dr. Nancy Kanwisher, you can visit her page:…
From SciShow. Today, humans live on just a few staple crops, like maize, rice, and wheat. But in the early days of agriculture, humans were domesticating foods left and right. Come with us as we discover the lost crops of North America, like pitseed goosefoot, maygrass, and sumpweed. Hosted by: Savannah Geary (they/them) ———- Support…
From SciShow. Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free. The first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription and a 30-day free trial. Do you dream in color? For part of the 20th century, it was so rare, psychologists thought it meant something was wrong with you. For a generation,…
From SciShow. In the mid-1990s, a meteorite with the unmemorable name ALH84001 became the most famous rock in the world. Because one team of scientists proposed that it had the evidence of real, if microscopic, Martians. Hosted by: Reid Reimers (he/him) ———- Support us for $8/month on Patreon and keep SciShow going! https://www.patreon.com/scishow Or support…
From SciShow. Learn more about the Modern Makers and exciting manufacturing career pathways by visiting ManufacturingUSA.com/Modern-Makers Hollywood (and other fictional media) loves to show people dying in outer space. And it has several go-to causes of death, on a sliding scale of accuracy. But it turns out, reality has some ways to kill you that…
From SciShow. Arrokoth, an asteroid in the Kuiper Belt, is the most distant object ever explored by the New Horizons spacecraft. And it’s covered in sugar. Here’s why that might be important for understanding the nature of life itself. Hosted by: Stefan Chin (he/him) ———- Support us for $8/month on Patreon and keep SciShow going!…
From SciShow. In 2021, researchers reported a shocking disappearance in the Bering Sea. Not of people, but of Alaskan snow crabs. And it’s taken scientists years to understand how tens of billions of crabs disappeared all at once, so let’s take you through the mystery of the disappearing snow crabs! Hosted by: Savannah Geary (they/them)…
From SciShow. Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free. The first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription and a 30-day free trial. You’ve heard of Pompeii and the volcano that wiped it out, but how much do you REALLY know about this incredibly famous place? Turns out there are…
From SciShow. JMP offers a 30-day free trial for anyone, anywhere. Go to https://www.jmp.com/scishow to see the benefits of visual statistics for yourself. Sometimes, an ancient document is lost to history. Sometimes, you find it covered in mold and written over by an ancient scribe. Fortunately, thanks to science, lost doesn’t quite mean what it…
From SciShow. Get your Ekleipsis Blood Moon shirt now at https://Complexly.store/bloodmoon Mount Everest is the tallest mountain in the world. But it didn’t earn that title by coincidence. Even after achieving that superlative, it keeps growing taller today. Hosted by: Stefan Chin (he/him) ———- Support us for $8/month on Patreon and keep SciShow going! https://www.patreon.com/scishow…
From SciShow. Whether you’re trying to play Dungeons and Dragons or one of the many other TTRPGs out there, there’s a good chance your last campaign failed because there were simply too many adventurers in the party. And by "too many" I mean, like, four. It turns out scheduling really *is* that hard. Hosted by:…
From SciShow. Check out the Blood Moon “tracklist” here: complexly.info/BloodMoonTracklist In the early 19th century, a French weaver named Joseph-Marie Jacquard was searching for a better way to make fabric. And in so doing, he managed to invent a loom that inspired the first proper computer. Hosted by: Savannah Geary (they/them) ———- Support us for…
From SciShow. Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free. The first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription and a 30-day free trial. If you’ve ever watched a video of someone doing some crazy parkour daredevil stuff, you might have wondered how they’re still in the gene pool. But it…
From SciShow. Start speaking a new language in 3 weeks with Babbel. Get up to 60% off your subscription here: https://bit.ly/SciShowMar No, technically Earth doesn’t orbit the Sun. Yes, technically sound can travel through space. Over the years we’ve built up a lot of myths and misconceptions about astronomy. But of course some are more…
From SciShow. There’s a rare material called Darwin Glass that Tasmanian Aboriginals have prized for centuries. And while it took Western researchers a while to figure out what it was and where it came from, once they got their heads around it, they were pretty stoked too. Because these glittery little rocks could be the…
From SciShow. In the 1930s, a skeleton was discovered at the bottom of a well at the site of a medieval Norwegian fortress, severely injured and buried under large rocks. And to uncover his story, we need a combination of carbon dating, genetics, and Norse sagas. Hosted by: Savannah Geary (they/them) ———- Support us for…
From SciShow. If you’ve ever heard about things like mammoths being found in permafrost, you may have an image in your head of what that looks like. But you might be wrong! So let’s talk about what permafrost really is, why it’s so important, and why you should care about it. Hosted by: Reid Reimers…
From SciShow. Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free. The first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription and a 30-day free trial. Astronomers have two main ways to calculate how fast the universe is expanding. Unfortunately, they don’t agree with one another. The JWST was supposed to help solve…
From SciShow. Get your Ekleipsis Blood Moon shirt now at Complexly.store/bloodmoon Whether you’re an amateur sommelier or just a fan of the occasional glass, if you drink wine, you’ve heard of rules on how to pair it with food. But how many of those actually hold up? Let’s get into the details of the best…
From SciShow. Scientists are starting to find a strange connection between neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, ALS, MS, and dementia. They all seem to follow on the heels of common but severe infections. And that means we might be able to stop them. Hosted by: Savannah Geary (they/them) ———- Support us for $8/month on Patreon…
From SciShow. JMP offers a 30-day free trial for anyone, anywhere. Go to https://www.jmp.com/scishow to see the benefits of visual statistics for yourself. ME/CFS, or myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome, is way more than being tired at the end of the day. And, contrary to situations like that, exercise is the last thing you’d want to…
From SciShow. Cows in North America are getting bird flu. What happened? How did we get here? And is this the next pandemic? In this deep dive narrative history of avian influenza, SciShow takes on these questions. For updates on bird flu from the CDC, go to https://www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/situation-summary/index.html Hosted by: Dr. Pardis Sabeti ———- Support…
From SciShow. Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free. The first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription and a 30-day free trial. If you’ve ever had lice, you probably think of them as a temporary annoyance. But for the salmon industry, these pesky invertebrates cause real damage. So here…
From SciShow. This lake in Canada sports a stunning summer look – spots! And the weird geology and hydrology that makes these spots is definitely worth talking about. Plus, Spotted Lake may not be the only one of its kind, and might tell us more about ancient lakes on other planets – like Mars! Hosted…
From SciShow. Get your Ekleipsis Blood Moon shirt now at Complexly.store/bloodmoon Two billion years ago, an igneous rock in northern South Africa formed. Not long after, some bacteria crawled into cracks in that rock, and got trapped inside when the cracks got plugged up by a bunch of clay. But that bacterial colony didn’t die.…
From SciShow. Have you ever wondered why all the tasty parts of your box of cereal rise to the top? There’s a lot of physics behind why mixtures can sometimes un-mix themselves, and if you use it to steal all the marshmallows, we won’t tell. Hosted by: Stefan Chin (he/him) ———- Support us for $8/month…
From SciShow. JMP offers a 30-day free trial for anyone, anywhere. Go to https://www.jmp.com/scishow to see the benefits of visual statistics for yourself. Octopuses are smart. Like, gather a posse of fish to do their hunting for them smart. And when the fish step out of line, the day octopus punches them. Really. Hosted by:…
From SciShow. Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free. The first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription and a 30-day free trial. China’s Zhangye Danxia National Geopark is home to strikingly beautiful rainbow mountains — yes, what you’re seeing is real! But the secret to this amazing sight might…
From SciShow. Click this link https://sponsr.is/bootdev_scishow and use my code SCISHOW to get 25% off your first payment for boot.dev. One of game theory’s most famous quandaries is the Tragedy of the Commons. But, through her years of research, Nobel Prize winner, Elinor Ostrom, showed us that we’re not doomed to tragedy after all. Hosted…
From SciShow. Trees are dead inside. It’s true: the xylem tissue that supports their trunks technically isn’t alive. Archaeologists hate that because this problem, the old wood problem, can cause carbon dating to be off by hundreds of years. Hosted by: Savannah Geary (they/them) ———- Support us for $8/month on Patreon and keep SciShow going!…
From SciShow. Fecal transplants are often associated with treating intestinal issues, but they have uses far beyond that. In this List Show, we explore five surprising conditions they improve. Hosted by: Hank Green (he/him) ———- Support us for $8/month on Patreon and keep SciShow going! https://www.patreon.com/scishow Or support us directly: https://complexly.com/support Join our SciShow email…
From SciShow. JMP offers a 30-day free trial for anyone, anywhere. Go to https://www.jmp.com/scishow to see the benefits of visual statistics for yourself. In 2020, students from the University of Texas proposed sending a fleet of rovers to the Moon that, for a price, would carve words and symbols into the surface for *you*, random…
From SciShow. Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free. The first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription and a 30-day free trial. Every day, airplanes fly over the Panama-Colombia border and drop millions of flies from the sky. It’s part of an intense effort to control a deadly pest…
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From SciShow. The Vikings were renowned navigators at a time before magnetic compasses were invented. So how’d they manage it? Their secret may have been these pretty-pointed crystals of calcite called Iceland spar, and this month’s SciShow Rocks Box subscribers will get to try this out for themselves! Hosted by: Stefan Chin (he/him) ———- Support…
From SciShow. Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free. The first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription and a 30-day free trial. Groundhogs are famous in North America for "predicting" when spring will come (and also that Bill Murray movie). But while they might make for terrible meteorologists, they…
From SciShow. This episode was produced in partnership with the Future of Life Institute. If you want to better understand how AI might be dangerous, you can read their recent post explaining why we can’t just ‘switch off’ a dangerous AI at https://futureoflife.org/ai/could-we-switch-off-a-dangerous-ai/. For more resources on AI and to learn more about the Future…
From SciShow. Travel better with better coffee. Head to https://aeropress.com/scishow and save 20% off your order! Thanks to AeroPress for sponsoring today’s video! Why do we have wisdom teeth? They’re just going to come in wrong and cause problems. Wisdom teeth are a souvenir from our early human ancestors, and we actually understand less about…
From SciShow. Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free. The first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription and a 30-day free trial. If you’ve wandered down a supplement aisle recently, you may have come across a bottle for sale that has "anti-aging" ingredients to help your body make a…