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The Curiosity Box: https://www.thecuriositybox.com/ Mind Blow features the latest news in science, technology and amazing! *** LINKS TO EVERYTHING *** Parasitic Bacteria In Human Saliva (0:00) https://www.newscientist.com/article/2094902-new-life-form-discovered-in-saliva-is-linked-to-human-disease/ Pizza Delivery Drones by 2036 (0:11) http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160619005070/en/ Making Lava – University Of Buffalo (0:27) http://www.buffalo.edu/ubreporter/stories/2016/06/making_lava.html Pig Manure Roads (1:03) http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/science_nation/swinebioadhesives.jsp New Shampoo Bottle Coating (1:38) https://news.osu.edu/news/2016/06/26/shampoo/ LiquiGlide Peanut
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Click my CoPilot link https://go.mycopilot.com/Vsauce2 to get your FREE TRIAL with your own expert fitness and health coach. How does herd mentality go wrong and lead to the madness of crowds? How can we harness it for the wisdom of crowds? Vsauce2 explores the fine line between group smart and group crazy. The age of
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The Frobenius Number — also called the McNugget Number — is the highest number you *can’t* make out of two integers that have a greatest common divisor of 1. This late 19th-century math quirk was examined by Ferdinand Frobenius and expanded on by JJ Sylvester, but it came to public consciousness by examining the impossible
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Roman Numerals in alphabetic order: http://mat.msgsu.edu.tr/~dpierce/Poetry/English/Roman-Numerals/roman-numerals-2014.pdf Closky’s book: https://edcat.net/item/the-first-thousand-numbers-classified-in-alphabeti/ music by @jakechudnow 🎶
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TWITTER: http://bit.ly/SfQO8X INSTAGRAM: http://www.instagr.am/jakerawr ***CLICK “SHOW MORE” FOR LINKS*** 11 Nintendo Facts by Vsauce3: http://youtu.be/BisqdK1u6yU Super Mario Cross Over flash game: http://goo.gl/uE8f37 Interactive History of Video Game Consoles: http://goo.gl/8vs8kP IGN Presents Museum of Mario: http://goo.gl/lrR4eD *********************************************************************** Vsauce Links Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Vsauce3 Instagram: http://www.instagr.am/jakerawr Steam: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/vsauce3 Google+ http://goo.gl/lXy3CX Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/vsaucethree T-Shirts: http://www.districtlines.com/vsauce Music By Jake Chudnow: http://www.youtube.com/user/jakechudnow
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Thanks to Tide for sponsoring this episode and for their scientists’ time in talking to me. That was very nice. twitter: http://twitter.com/vsaucethree instagram: http://instagram.com/jakerawr facebook: http://facebook.com/vsauce3 Mary Roach’s wonderful book “Gulp”: Enzymes in detergents: http://www.academicjournals.org/app/webroot/article/article1380713950_Hasan%20et%20al.pdf More on surfactants: http://www.essentialchemicalindustry.org/materials-and-applications/surfactants.html **Credits** Patreon EPs: Star Melody, Ian Chi, Arsalan Noorafkan, Peter Buekering, Andrew Klein Directed/Hosted/Edited by Jake
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We know how difficult the Monty Hall Problem is for so many people even after they’re shown all the math behind the best possible strategy. It’s basic probability, but it’s deceptive — and it all started with the Bertrand’s Box Paradox. In this video, I go back to the origins of a probability problem that
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This pentalogy consists of the 5 videos that form the End of the World series in chronological order. I made these episodes with the idea that they were all part of the same universe and, when connected, tell one overarching story from the beginning of the end to the beginning of the unknown. Chapters 00:00
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On Tuesday, February 21, 1967, in the math department common room of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, the world of pencil and paper math games changed. John Conway and Michael Paterson were trying to invent a brand new simple-to-play, hard-to-analyze game, and the result came to be known as Sprouts. The basic setup of Sprouts is
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Guest Starring iJustine: https://www.youtube.com/user/ijustine Harris Heller: https://www.youtube.com/user/harrisheller Emily Graslie: https://www.youtube.com/c/EmilyGraslie/featured Watch the behind-the-scenes: https://youtu.be/cUZfazvSoE0 Life finds a way…Jake (that’s me!) is enjoying a relaxing vacation at Jurassic Park when something goes terribly wrong and the dinosaurs escape their cages. With the prehistoric beasts running rampant, the race is on to get to the last boat
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We made these coasters almost 6 years ago, and I just found out that we still have some! You can pick them up here: https://www.curiositybox.com/products/glowing-beverage-elemats-coasters ALSO: I talk about Vanadium, Sulfur, Gold, and Cerium in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_7KYoO5qHk
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The easiest fair games depend on equal, binary outcomes like flipping a coin or drawing a playing card that can only be either red or black. If a game depends on both players choosing an equally-probable outcome, how can one player have a massive advantage over the other? Welcome to the Humble-Nishiyama Randomness Game, a
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Watch Michael’s Video: https://youtu.be/9Vmwsg8Eabo Watch Ro’s Video: https://youtu.be/a2KuHgDenPs Watch the Making Of: https://youtu.be/yH0iFABR8M8 (Click “Show More” for references) Donning his black suit, Jake (me) finds out if you could survive being swallowed by a gargantuan alien insect, the kickback of an alien gun, and the immense power and consequences generated by condensing a universe into
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Join The Bring Back Mind Blow Project: https://www.patreon.com/vsauce2 Get Ad-Free Mind Blow episodes and much more. BENEFACTORS Xemboy01 Chillustrations EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Brent Tiggelaar, James, Wolfgang Hutton, NullBlox.ZachryWilsn, Jonathan Hawk, Markus Fleischer *** SOURCES *** Researchers turn to tiny robots to fight antibiotic resistance (0:00) https://www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pnas.2300515120 Hunting and processing of straight-tusked elephants 125.000 years ago: Implications
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Guest Star Rikky Poynter: https://www.youtube.com/user/rikkipoynter 12tone: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTUtqcDkzw7bisadh6AOx5w Sound device by Benn Jordan: https://youtube.com/c/BennandGear Watch the Making Of: https://youtu.be/q2vZuFTBnik Shhhhh… Years after an alien invasion, Jake (me) quietly ekes out a meager existence while avoiding the sound-sensitive alien race that’s hunting him. Although every sound *could* spell disaster, it provides the perfect opportunity to explore what
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there’s nothing #short about this stack of tops hahahaha hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
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A money game exists in which the potential payoff from being robbed makes perfect mathematical sense… but I won’t play it. Will you? “Pascal’s Mugging” is derived from the classic philosophical scenario of Pascal’s Wager, which posits that it’s rational for humans to behave as though God exists. If they’re wrong, they don’t lose much;
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Guest Starring Girlfriend Reviews: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2eEGT06FrWFU6VBnPOR9lg Dr. Italo Brown: https://www.youtube.com/user/alphastatusi20 Watch the Making Of: https://youtu.be/eTuxqkaZphI Jake (me) finds himself in a mall in the middle of a zombie apocalypse. Which turns out to be a great place to learn about viruses – what are they, how do they affect you, how do you stop them…and can
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