Can this be a regular occurring thing? Like, Jim's World (Of Minerals)? Jim and Emily discussing totally awesome minerals and failing to make any good songs about them? I'd watch that.
Agreed! You know, the Gem Room episode is one of my favorites... ^^ Like some people have already mentioned, maybe they could dig into the kind of research they do on these specimens and stuff.
Waiit a sec, so you didn't know "what you were going to be talking about today" but you DID know to dramatically and simultaneously rip open your lab coat and say "DEATH ROCKSSS!" ?? Emily, please don't take your subscribers for granite. This type of foolery really makes me loose my apatite.I mean, I guess it's okay. Schist happens.But seriously, I dig your videos Emily. They are very down to earth.
It reminds me of the day I walked into a minerals shop that was heavy on "gem therapy" and all that kind of B.S. I looked around and saw a couple pieces of realgar available for cheap. So I bought one, and when the shopkeeper went to grab it and put it in a bag, I looked at her and asked "Really? You're handling it with your bare hands?" She said "Yes, why? What's wrong" "Well, it's arsenic, you know..." She looked at me, really surprised. Then grabbed a mineralogy book, checked, and went from surprised to horrified. "-But... I had always seen minerals as something good and positive..." "-Well, heavy metals don't come out of thin air..." She somehow didn't question why I was buying it despite knowing it was toxic. (In case you wonder, trolling someone into pseudoscience was the only reason. It cost me four or five euros, and it was worth every penny!) (Oh, also, while pure arsenic sulfide is relatively harmless, the natural mineral also tends to contain the oxide as an impurity, especially after having been exposed to air and sunlight. So it can actually be quite toxic, especially if it is the powdery kind with no visible crystals, like the one she was selling)
+Michael Vipperman Don't worry. If you've ever seen a large mineral exhibit at a museum you have seen radioactive minerals. They may not have said it but torbernite, autunite and cuprosklodowskite all show up in museum displays and all are much more radioactive than that anemic crystal of monazite that Emily held up to the geiger counter.
i clicked on this video so you could show me the brightside of death. But all i got out of this video is disappointing reassurance that death doesn't rock. Thanks alot guys.
This episode was great! Jim was both entertaining and informative, and actually made talking about rocks fun. I would love to see more of him and Emily hanging out and talking about rocks!
He’s so excited 😆 it would be cheesy if we weren’t so genuinely exciting by his field of study. Such passion about the world around us is beautiful to see
I'm studying geology as my major, so this episode made me really happy. especially since I knew half of those minerals, and even handled a few too (mainly a bunch of cinnabar and galena)
When I was a kid in the 1970s and visited the Field Museum I was able to buy, at the gift store, a small asbestos mineral sample. I played with that for years along with the small fossil of a dino bone that was for sale too.
I am so sharing this with the kids thank you so much for sharing such an amazing show it's almost like finding a treasure just stumbling across what content do you all provide together the brain scoop rocks party on and cheers
My favourite single mineral display at the Field Museum is the Chalmer's Topaz, but I love the meteorites in general more. I love rocks, once at the British Natural History Museum I was looking and reading about every single rock, then I found that two hours had passed and I've only read two rows of displays and there were twenty more.
"one of the deadliest minerals known to man" Asbestos is bad news man, but that's overstating how dangerous it is; the long-term effects due to constant exposure are what is so deadly about it
Antimony was so much bigger than just silverware and I appreciate that it was mentioned because it was such a huge part of our medical history. Antimony pills were used as family heirlooms passed down from family member to family member. Sawbones did a fantastic episode on the mineral a long time ago, and it's well worth the listen!
I change my mind, the majority of these minerals have been used as medicine in our history; antimony, Mercury, arsenic, etc. Asbestos was used to make cloth in the past such as making table cloths because they were easier to clean. Just throw it in the fire for a second and tada you've got a clean table cloth. Asbestos mining is still done today and is still a problem everywhere, we're even currently loosening the restrictions of the laws banning asbestos here in the US. Good these minerals are such a huge part of human history since our beginning and it was barely touched on in this episode. That's not a complaint (I understand the importance of of slimming down information due to time constraints and getting as much information in aa short a period of time as possible) but I encourage everyone to look into the history of these minerals in our past because it's all amazingly fascinating stuff
Hey thebrainscoop, i love the videos. Can i suggest that you put the brainscoop logo in the thumbnails? I seem to miss them when they arrive in my inbox. Keep up the fantasticly interesting videos. Happy new year!
+JustOneAsbesto Whereas it's banned in Europe. We have to use photoelectric smoke detectors, which require low relative humidity. So that's a pain in a humid area. But supposedly the radioactive ones are more prone to false alarms. Fun fact; the queen of England starts every day with a radioactive drink.
i'm glad you spelled death "de(umlaut)th"... even though the e umlaut doesn't exist, in german and in scandinavian languages, at least, it makes sense that the umlaut would change the EE sound into EH sound, thus kinda sorta sound like death... yay!
I think we have antimonite and galena in my mom's mineral collection. If you don't eat them, only look, I don't think you can get any harm. And I saw most of the other minerals in Fersman's museum (Moscow). You can buy some of them too.
I thought this was going to be a video about how great death is. Incidentally, I think you *should* make a video about how great death is at some point.
4 year old video and I come here thinking I'll feel better about my own mortality and instead I learn how people in the past would put rocks in their products and die, I've been beaned
I've heard of antimony before (it's in the periodic table), but I had no idea it was that dangerous. I thought it was one of those chill, nondescript metals that don't do much.
And here I thought this video was going to be about how totally awesome death is. In my defense... such a topic would actually snuggle right into Brain Scoop, what with all the awesome dead things.
Exactly what happens to the body when lead and other toxic minerals enter the inner parts of the body, do they cling onto some kind of receptors or cause a reaction?
+Rick Seiden Lining the cabinet with lead might minimize the gamma ray flux but it wouldn't do anything for the radon gas and radioactive dust that are eeking out of the cabinet. If I were going to do anything to minimize the exposure risk from that cabinet I would put an exhaust vent on it. Taken together, I would peg the radioactive dust and radon as greater hazards than any gamma rays that made it out of that steel box.
+Rick Seiden What mark said, in addition, the radon gas is an alpha emitter. Alpha are much larger than gammas and don't have much penetration power. However, alphas generate more "hits" internally than other types of radiation. We generally weigh alphas x20 higher than beta and gamma for internal exposures. So in that, mark is doubly right that the radon is a much larger exposure than the gammas. (external alpha radiation exposure is essentially 0)
In the university I studied it was in 200 year old wooden cabinets. The real nice pieces in the mineralogy museum where presented in modern very protective lead-glass cabinets with switches for the lighting. So you can look at the minerals with different spectrums of light. They had real samples from reactors, pills and a bole from a 1940 test reactor. And really striking uranium-glass, cut boles, goblets, centrepieces; in green, pink, … wow.
The gamma radiation wont kill you from Th its the alpha decay which is only deadly when ingested. Gamma radiation is usually low energy from these kinds of minerals, unless your near a nuclear reactor where gamma radiation is a problem
+NautyEskimo Agreed. Gammas are a heck of a lot less ionizing than alpha particles. I'd rather sit next to a big lump of a pure gamma emitter than ingest even a micro-gram of an alpha particle emitter.
The thing about asbestos, and the other deadly stuff humans used to use for utensils and jewelry, it always makes me wonder what we have around us and use every day that in 20 years is going to be banned because it turns out to give you cancer, seizures, coma or kill you.
Can this be a regular occurring thing? Like, Jim's World (Of Minerals)? Jim and Emily discussing totally awesome minerals and failing to make any good songs about them? I'd watch that.
+Isis I would be quite happy with a regular series on minerals. Maybe with a bit less hype though.
Agreed! You know, the Gem Room episode is one of my favorites... ^^
Like some people have already mentioned, maybe they could dig into the kind of research they do on these specimens and stuff.
The Seizures, Comas & Death album is sure to go Platinum... or maybe Arsenic.
and, for the record, I probably didn't science correctly in that joke.
James is so dorky and positive, this has to be one of my favorite episodes.
I think this is the dorkiest brain scoop episode yet.
+Echo Jardini Thank you, we try.
+thebrainscoop He means the best episode. But you know, por que no los dos?
+thebrainscoop YAAAY, Ever since you did the gem room I've been waiting for more rocks :D Thanks Emily
+Echo Jardini Emily did a good impression of 80s Hair Metal too. :) Loved the episode.
All geologists should be proud.
Emily continues to rule. She rocks so hard, it's rated an 11 on the Mohs scale!
+John Clavis I'm more of a Rockwell man myself.
Waiit a sec, so you didn't know "what you were going to be talking about today" but you DID know to dramatically and simultaneously rip open your lab coat and say "DEATH ROCKSSS!" ??
Emily, please don't take your subscribers for granite.
This type of foolery really makes me loose my apatite.I mean, I guess it's okay. Schist happens.But seriously, I dig your videos Emily. They are very down to earth.
+WildBlueYonder chill, man~~ This is called making a parody of old education programs. It was fun anyway.
+tigerdemon 6 I think you missed the joke. Or maybe I did.
+WildBlueYonder "Schist happens". Congratulations, sir. You've won.
+WildBlueYonder Gneiss one!
+culwin Nah, he missed the joke.. lol
It reminds me of the day I walked into a minerals shop that was heavy on "gem therapy" and all that kind of B.S.
I looked around and saw a couple pieces of realgar available for cheap. So I bought one, and when the shopkeeper went to grab it and put it in a bag, I looked at her and asked "Really? You're handling it with your bare hands?"
She said "Yes, why? What's wrong"
"Well, it's arsenic, you know..."
She looked at me, really surprised. Then grabbed a mineralogy book, checked, and went from surprised to horrified.
"-But... I had always seen minerals as something good and positive..."
"-Well, heavy metals don't come out of thin air..."
She somehow didn't question why I was buying it despite knowing it was toxic. (In case you wonder, trolling someone into pseudoscience was the only reason. It cost me four or five euros, and it was worth every penny!)
(Oh, also, while pure arsenic sulfide is relatively harmless, the natural mineral also tends to contain the oxide as an impurity, especially after having been exposed to air and sunlight. So it can actually be quite toxic, especially if it is the powdery kind with no visible crystals, like the one she was selling)
This video was great but I was disappointed we didn't get to see inside the radioactive cabinet
+Michael Vipperman Don't worry. If you've ever seen a large mineral exhibit at a museum you have seen radioactive minerals. They may not have said it but torbernite, autunite and cuprosklodowskite all show up in museum displays and all are much more radioactive than that anemic crystal of monazite that Emily held up to the geiger counter.
Mark Andrews No doubt. But it would've been cool to see what such a museum keeps in such a cabinet
i clicked on this video so you could show me the brightside of death. But all i got out of this video is disappointing reassurance that death doesn't rock. Thanks alot guys.
+Halo CE Magnum Oh you might be interested in my friend Caitlin.. Ask A Mortician! ruclips.net/user/OrderoftheGoodDeath
That is exactly what I thought when I saw the title.
This should be an ongoing series, showcasing the type of research these rocks are used for.
This episode was great! Jim was both entertaining and informative, and actually made talking about rocks fun. I would love to see more of him and Emily hanging out and talking about rocks!
Awesome episode! "Put your hot rocks back in your room" Jim is great!
He’s so excited 😆 it would be cheesy if we weren’t so genuinely exciting by his field of study. Such passion about the world around us is beautiful to see
I love how excited you get over science!
How did I just find this channel? Man I've been on a hot streak of finding awesome educational channels lately.
this is the third video of brain scoop I have watched. So awesome to see fellow dorks enjoying science and being awesome.
Cringe count: 18
Fun count: 1,000
I'm studying geology as my major, so this episode made me really happy. especially since I knew half of those minerals, and even handled a few too (mainly a bunch of cinnabar and galena)
Fun fact: The ancient Egyptians actually used galena as eye makeup.
+Mitra Mirpour They also used stibnite (antimony sulfide) from what I read.
+Mark Andrews And cinnabar (mercury sulfide) was used everywhere as a red pigment.
That's interesting! I knew of galena from my time volunteering at the museum but not of the other ones
+Mitra Mirpour IIRC lead and arsenic were also popular make-up ingredients at various points in history.
+Mitra Mirpour The Romans put it in their food! Well, not Galena but lead.
Wow, you'd never see something as lifeless and mundane as rocks seem so deadly and frightening. Great work!
I've recently become interested in geology, and this video only gets me more interested in the field. Awesome work!
Aw. He's adorkable!
I love seeing scientists that enjoy their job! This was a riot and I learned new things too! Enthusiastic science FTW!!
HEY! You can now get a Deth Rocks shirt! Proceeds go towards supporting our program: bit.ly/293A1EY
Well, hello there. Don't mind me I just stopped by to watch this again with my freshly delivered DeTh RoCKS shirt. :)
pretty sure all rocks are deadly if you hit someone hard with it
thebrainscoop that's awesome, and I love your earrings in this video. Very cool.
I've only seen two of your videos and I'm already in love with them!
When I was a kid in the 1970s and visited the Field Museum I was able to buy, at the gift store, a small asbestos mineral sample. I played with that for years along with the small fossil of a dino bone that was for sale too.
Yikes!
That moment when you're such a nerd that you just now the atomic weight of oxygen is 15.999, not 16.999.
I was late to this episode but loved the fun loving approach. Happy New Year!
the shirt and the skit bits of the video are so cute! haha. great effort to get people interested in these things.
Thank you! Emily and Jim keep up the great work.
I am so sharing this with the kids thank you so much for sharing such an amazing show it's almost like finding a treasure just stumbling across what content do you all provide together the brain scoop rocks party on and cheers
Jim's an awesome host!!
i'm sad youtube only now told me about this channel, this is just the kind of stuff I love to watch when i'm anxious. Inviting education content! yay!
Your co-host is the asbestest in this video Emily!
This is all just as beautiful as the gem collection.
There's a a real mistake on the blackboard! Standard atomic weight of oxygen is in fact not 16.999u but 15.999u.
+Fluxie You're right! I had 6 on my mind, thanks for pointing it out!
My favourite single mineral display at the Field Museum is the Chalmer's Topaz, but I love the meteorites in general more.
I love rocks, once at the British Natural History Museum I was looking and reading about every single rock, then I found that two hours had passed and I've only read two rows of displays and there were twenty more.
Please tell me these shirts will be for sale at some point
"one of the deadliest minerals known to man" Asbestos is bad news man, but that's overstating how dangerous it is; the long-term effects due to constant exposure are what is so deadly about it
I think this is my favorite brain scoop video EVER!
Barely a minute in and already kind of in love with Jim and his unabashed nerdiness.
I love the energy in this video! It makes me so excited about rocks!
Well produced episode. I hope this style is the direction that The Brain Scoop is going.
Antimony was so much bigger than just silverware and I appreciate that it was mentioned because it was such a huge part of our medical history. Antimony pills were used as family heirlooms passed down from family member to family member. Sawbones did a fantastic episode on the mineral a long time ago, and it's well worth the listen!
I change my mind, the majority of these minerals have been used as medicine in our history; antimony, Mercury, arsenic, etc.
Asbestos was used to make cloth in the past such as making table cloths because they were easier to clean. Just throw it in the fire for a second and tada you've got a clean table cloth. Asbestos mining is still done today and is still a problem everywhere, we're even currently loosening the restrictions of the laws banning asbestos here in the US.
Good these minerals are such a huge part of human history since our beginning and it was barely touched on in this episode. That's not a complaint (I understand the importance of of slimming down information due to time constraints and getting as much information in aa short a period of time as possible) but I encourage everyone to look into the history of these minerals in our past because it's all amazingly fascinating stuff
That intro was the most awkwardly awesome thing, also I need one of those shirts.
Excellent video, very interesting James, thank you for sharing !
Hey thebrainscoop, i love the videos. Can i suggest that you put the brainscoop logo in the thumbnails? I seem to miss them when they arrive in my inbox. Keep up the fantasticly interesting videos. Happy new year!
This was beautiful. I love everything about this.
I remember the Q&A video when you told how this idea was pitched.....
this video just ROCKS! (horrible pun intended) :D
the atomic mass of oxygen is written incorrectly on the chalkboard. should be 15.9994
+TheAnonymous7124 Thank you, chalk error!
Thanks for the cool vid Emily! Keep on rockin!
Nooo you guys missed the chance of "metalizing" The Brain Scoop theme song! :p
I love your episodes with Holstein. Such a fun watch. :)
Here in Ontario, it's THE LAW to have radioactive chemicals outside of every bedroom in every legally habitable abode.
+JustOneAsbesto Source?
+Kehla Martri smoke detector ?
Use a photo electric smoke detector then.
+JustOneAsbesto Whereas it's banned in Europe. We have to use photoelectric smoke detectors, which require low relative humidity. So that's a pain in a humid area. But supposedly the radioactive ones are more prone to false alarms.
Fun fact; the queen of England starts every day with a radioactive drink.
rasmis
Is it some kind of... banana juice?
It still has seizures, coma, and death on it.
This was one of the most adorkable things I've watched.... this week.
Death rocks!! Been waiting for this episode!
Good show! That was fun. Looking to see where this will lead.
Came here expecting a video about decomposition or something relating to the upsides of things dying. Pleasantly surprised.
Best episode yet! I love it!!! :D More rocks!
I know they're not related, but this video radiates with the highest levels of father-daughter energy in the collection XD
i'm glad you spelled death "de(umlaut)th"... even though the e umlaut doesn't exist, in german and in scandinavian languages, at least, it makes sense that the umlaut would change the EE sound into EH sound, thus kinda sorta sound like death... yay!
The Rock jokes, though painful, made this video very funny. Another great video from you guys.
So... where can I buy that shirt?
+thebrainscoop
I would love it if there were an episode describing the chemicals processes that make these elements deadly in full detail.
The rock episodes are low key my favorite episodes on the the brain scoop
I think we have antimonite and galena in my mom's mineral collection. If you don't eat them, only look, I don't think you can get any harm. And I saw most of the other minerals in Fersman's museum (Moscow). You can buy some of them too.
I thought this was going to be a video about how great death is. Incidentally, I think you *should* make a video about how great death is at some point.
I think I need one of those Deth Rocks shirts! Hope they make an appearance at the museum shop!
This is a very cool episode. I like this and would like more.
I thought the title was an affirmation at first...
4 year old video and I come here thinking I'll feel better about my own mortality and instead I learn how people in the past would put rocks in their products and die, I've been beaned
So much enthusiasm. I love it!
This was such a fun and interesting video! I call for a part 2 :)
I've heard of antimony before (it's in the periodic table), but I had no idea it was that dangerous. I thought it was one of those chill, nondescript metals that don't do much.
And here I thought this video was going to be about how totally awesome death is.
In my defense... such a topic would actually snuggle right into Brain Scoop, what with all the awesome dead things.
I have been long since waiting for this video, and I must say I was not disapointed
Awesome co-host
I really enjoyed Jim in this video!
"How about we go downstairs and look at the other ones?" smooth
My father worked at the Dow Chemical Company, and he died of asbestos exposure well before his time.
Jim Holstein was a fantastic co-host! I loved his passion and enthusiasm for the rocks-- not every day you see that!
Exactly what happens to the body when lead and other toxic minerals enter the inner parts of the body, do they cling onto some kind of receptors or cause a reaction?
I own some galena, didnt really know it was that deadly but I always wash my hands after handling it. Should I be concerned?
"That was great! -- That was horrible..." 😄
Emily, those earrings are awesome! What spices are they? Are they actual bone and if not are they a 1:1 scale?
I snorted when they ripped open their shirts. LOL love this channel
This was great! We really miss our favorite museum!
Best. Entro. Ever! Awesome shirts.
They're such dorks. I love it.
I like that Jim addressed Soon Raccoon.
That joke you guys made hurt so badly.
That reference though, "Be Excellent To Each Other And Party On"
Best Episode Ever.
That was.....EXCELLENT! (add guitar riff here)
Why isn't the radioactive mineral cabinet lead lined?
+Rick Seiden Lining the cabinet with lead might minimize the gamma ray flux but it wouldn't do anything for the radon gas and radioactive dust that are eeking out of the cabinet.
If I were going to do anything to minimize the exposure risk from that cabinet I would put an exhaust vent on it.
Taken together, I would peg the radioactive dust and radon as greater hazards than any gamma rays that made it out of that steel box.
+Rick Seiden What mark said, in addition, the radon gas is an alpha emitter. Alpha are much larger than gammas and don't have much penetration power. However, alphas generate more "hits" internally than other types of radiation. We generally weigh alphas x20 higher than beta and gamma for internal exposures. So in that, mark is doubly right that the radon is a much larger exposure than the gammas. (external alpha radiation exposure is essentially 0)
In the university I studied it was in 200 year old wooden cabinets.
The real nice pieces in the mineralogy museum where presented in modern very protective lead-glass cabinets with switches for the lighting. So you can look at the minerals with different spectrums of light.
They had real samples from reactors, pills and a bole from a 1940 test reactor.
And really striking uranium-glass, cut boles, goblets, centrepieces; in green, pink, … wow.
Jim is amazing!
Jim is my favorite!
love the shirts! :)
The gamma radiation wont kill you from Th its the alpha decay which is only deadly when ingested. Gamma radiation is usually low energy from these kinds of minerals, unless your near a nuclear reactor where gamma radiation is a problem
+NautyEskimo Agreed. Gammas are a heck of a lot less ionizing than alpha particles. I'd rather sit next to a big lump of a pure gamma emitter than ingest even a micro-gram of an alpha particle emitter.
+Mark Andrews How about we just not ingest particulalrly radioactive things as a general rule?
+seigeengine Agreed! :-)
A bit disappointed they didn't talk about the piece of malachite on the table, but still LOVED the vid regardless!!
The thing about asbestos, and the other deadly stuff humans used to use for utensils and jewelry, it always makes me wonder what we have around us and use every day that in 20 years is going to be banned because it turns out to give you cancer, seizures, coma or kill you.
This intro made me laugh way more than it should have 😂😂😂