Craziest Scientific Discoveries You Missed in 2023
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6:50 -- My favorite was when aquarium workers found their Santa Monica Aquarium offices flooded. They thought it was vandals until they looked at the security footage. One of the octopuses was sneaking out, turning on a large water valve, and flooding the offices. She swam around for awhile and then returned to her own aquarium. :D
She was just trying to help! Don't want the humans getting too dry :(
I'm convinced that if octopuses lived longer than a petty five years they would take over Earth within just a few generations.
@@jimbozzi Also if they were able to pass on knowledge to the next generation.
@@jimbozzineed thumbs and fingers to create intricate tools like weapons. They can't even leave the ocean. . .
@@connoryork6631 They have 8 fingers.
"If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? Probably, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason." -- Jack Handey
If trees could voice an opinion...
If humans screamed, would another human be so "cavalier" to murder them...
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A large dairy animal approached Zaphod Beeblebrox's table, a large fat meaty quadruped of the bovine type with large watery eyes, small horns and what might almost have been an ingratiating smile on its lips.
"Good evening," it lowed and sat back heavily on its haunches, "I am the main Dish of the Day. May I interest you in the parts of my body?"
-- "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe" by D. Adams
That's a deep thought..
A cutting wit, indeed.😂
You jest, yet in my meditations the plant realm is a conscious unitary life force, operating to maintain a habitable zone for life. The plant realm is the natural 'machinary' of the planet, regulating and purifying the classical elements.
@@chyfields😂 that's a lot
Hi Simon, Astrophysicist here. The age of the Universe claim has been widely debunked. The original worked scaled other results to fit the proposition. As for the age of galaxies (I work with Webb extensively) most of these “issues” are due to our lack of understand of that epoch of the Universe or imperfect analyses. We’ve returned to a few of the troubling galaxies with full spectroscopic follow ups and found that they are in complete agreement with accepted theories. That said, there are still plenty of exciting findings, we are finding more black holes than we expect, it seems galaxies could be brighter and more enriched than models predict and closer to home there is the real possibility of detecting life in the atmosphere of an exoplanet!
Great video as always, but just want to clarify these facts since the less exciting follow ups that disprove the exciting findings rarely get any publicity so we’re left with wider media continuously reporting on what is effectively misinformation.
Thank u sir. I am cosmology fanboy and enthusiast. I have seen those headlines everywhere how "webb proved old models wrong" etc..actually that annoyed me littlebit and alienated me from sciemce for a allmost year now. That meaning that I have not followed newsfeed and latest papers and discoveries so much. I allways thknk it was some type of hype maybe, mostly. I know how carefully and with variety of methods some of the cornerstones of cureent models have been constructed that it sound odd that everything "have to be written again"...and your common sense view how media seem to be giving then wrong information because corrections are not so media sexy. This help me emotionally surprisingly lot. Not least because i hear it from yourkind of og who actually works with jwst. Thank u sir. :)
Doesn’t the issue of viewing entropic systems through selective information create an issue for understanding the universe’s expansion and uniform observations such as the first observable star?
Also, since entropy can theoretically leave a state of two bodies with fewer electrons than it began with, isn’t it then theoretically possible for entropy to decrease instead of solely remaining constant or increasing?
That makes me think our understanding of thermodynamics is incorrect… So how would we be able to trust observations in that case? It makes me think of the potential molecules we haven’t discovered. Do we similarly chalk this up to a value that is equal to zero, in order to validate the theories? Or is the theoretical tiny room of unknown accounted for in anyway, and in either case wouldn’t these leave room to upend our understanding of physics?
(I’m also trying to learn about Physics, so please bear with me 😂).
On the part about it being discovered that octopi have nightmares, I think it's quite logical to consider that any creature that can rest and dream may have the capability to have nightmares. I've personally witnessed my kitties clearly dreaming while sleeping (face twitches, growling, "whimpering", meowing, curling in on themselves, briefly moving limbs as if running, being startled awake by a dream) and even having bad dreams despite not experiencing any "scary" events in their lives. It's simply a byproduct of sleep which causes the mind to divulge into randomness. I'm sure even my kitties have fears to dream of even without a life threatening experience. Such as their fear that I'll never return one day or dreaming of a really bad fight with another animal or even their sibling. Honestly, I think it's quite silly to assume we're so different from everything else that evolved on the planet that we share. The more research that is done, the more science confirms that we have more in common than not.
Absolutely. Cats dogs. My rats would dream as often as they slept. I thought it was normal knowledge. Maybe just more "intuned" ppl can figure that much to be normal.
@@satanzmoma that or science is too busy trying to figure out how things differ that they miss the obvious similarities until they look for them xD
We adopted a dog who'd been roaming the streets and slept on pavements and he's sometimes like crying in his sleep. If we're around we'd wake him up and comfort him. I'm sure he's having nightmares.
@@MoiraMcGill they can do anything except see us as one... lol sad really.
Poor baby! May your kitty have only sweet dreams of love and cream ❤
Any dog owner can tell you dogs dream, often wagging tail woofing even running 😊
My dog used to run a lot in her sleep, but also even more often she was eating or drinking 😅
I'm sure most animals dream. I've seen my cat wake up frightened as if she just had a nightmare.
cOreCti1on! you merely assume that shit because you project your experiences onto your dog. your dog is a cold lifeless machine that cant even make it to heaven
sorry. its science.
@@yes12337. Mine will whine while dreaming and it's the same excited whine he makes when he sees rabbits and his back legs will start kicking 😊 having fun hunting and chasing
Mammals dream. Seeing it in something that evolved completely independently is new.
The octopus story sounds like the onion sketch, where researchers successfully taught a gorilla about its mortality.
...where do people even get the whole idea from, that all human traits are exclusive to humans? The bible? Biology sure as shit doesn't says that humans are special.
Thats my fav Onion sketch
Someday. You.
Not to mention that we already know some animals, like dogs and cats, have nightmares. Yet the video speaks about it as if this octopus is the first non-human to have one.
Did they euthanize his pet cat?
That plant thing makes so much sense. I love peoples houses that have lively healthy plants. However, I never would remember to water plants I had and would spend time apologizing as I would feel like they were judging me. So the screaming thing checks out for sure
If plants are sentient, animals are sentient, humans are sentient, planet is dying because humans.
If dogs dream, why wouldn't an octopus have nightmares. Although the irony is that octopuses have probably caused a few nightmares themselves.
I missed the mention of the connection between the octopus and a dog to make one think that if dog dreams an octopus would have nightmares? And, why haven't dogs caused just as many nightmares?
@@agimasoschandirthe connection is they're both animals with relatively highly evolved brain functions and it's well known that dogs dream all the time so it shouldn't come as such a massive shock that an octopus can do it.
OK. If dogs dream (they do) and have nightmares (they do), then it seems possible that an octopus, which is just as intelligent as a dog, if not more so, would also have dreams and nightmares.
I was joking about octopuses causing nightmares, but that might be true as well. Dogs are very social, domesticated animals, living among humans for thousands of years. We quite like each other, and they're mammals with many familiar physical features.
Octopuses, in contrast, do not live among humans as domesticated pets, do not share the environment, and are alien to us in appearance and physiology. They are fascinating, but I can see where some people might find them sufficiently frightening.
@@agimasoschandir
Dogs, cats, humans, and every other mammal are related. The fact that dreaming is common among mammals means we would've inherited it from a common ancestor. It's got nothing to do with intelligence in that regard. Cephalopods are not even closely related to mammals, which means dreaming evolved twice, completely independently and in different ways. That's a new discovery.
I'm sure survivors of dog attacks (of vicious dogs like Pitbulls for instance) would think so too 😂
Concerning the octopus nightmares, wasn't it already pretty well established that other animals dream and have nightmares too? I mean, I think we've all seen cats and dogs twitch and squirm in their sleep. Granted, I'm open to the proposition that octopus intelligence is more complex than these domestic animals and other ones, but is it that much of a leap to learn that they dream?
Exactly. This doesn't seem profound at all.
It's really not much of a breakthrough, more like checking a box for what does and doesn't dream. Could there be more to learn from this? Of course, but on its own, this bit of info is pretty obvious really.
I don't think there is any difference in intelligence between life, more that as our understand of said life distances from our own we presume it to be less. Each animal has different needs and behaviours from another. We just understandably veiw it from a human biased lens making them seem less intelligent to us.
The discovery here is in the fact that it shows parallel evolution of nightmares in completely unrelated species, which is very different to us sharing the feature with fellow mammals. We share a relatively recent (compared to the timeline of life on Earth) common ancestor with all mammals, which likely had already evolved dreaming, so subsequent mammals inherited the feature from that common ancestor. Whatever our last common ancestor with Cephalopods was, it wouldn't have been advanced enough for that sort of thing, so the evolutionary processes were totally independent. It's like discovering an insect that had developed bipedalism.
@@Pushing_Pixels I want to discover a bipedal insect, I bet it would look real funny
I absolutely love this channel of yours. Some of the others are interesting, but none are as comprehensive and based on ideas or questions that I have. There are many things I never thought of before that you tackle with your usual knowledge and wit and I thank you so much for sharing those with us.
That sponsor segment screams scam…
Even a Octopus is capable of getting PTSD
bald dudes with ridiculous beards AND grandma glasses AND upitty cricket /tennis fan/ Oxford polo player accents DEFINATLEY gives me PTSD
On the noisy plants thing - I've also heard something similar recently, That distinctive smell of cut grass (which most people perceive as a pleasant one, associated with summer and sunny days and suburban bliss) is actually the grass releasing some kind of distress signal, as those researchers discovered with tomato and tobacco plants.
And tomacco
It reminds me of landscaping at 9yrs old.. I hated summer lol
I love the smell of death on a summer Saturday morning.
Social media keeps me sad lol
@bykurt_is shoot, at my age I hate it now. Never thought I'd be so obscure with spring and fall- I love gardens in spring and harvesting in fall.
"The Secret Life of Plants" is a wonderful book about plant communication, and that came out a while ago. It's a great read.
I have always been able to feel the relief plants give off when they are watered after a period without.
An interesting thought on the plant noises and agriculture: If we create a system that waters the plants when they make the clicks, we create a selective benefit for noisy plants. Observing to see if "louder" traits emerged would be an interesting way to test whether this noise is due to simple structural processes or if it's actually a signal.
What if, in the beginning of us letting plants scream for their own water, the plants ask for too much water, because they’re not used to having that power. Then, they end up dying because of over watering
@@victorsantiago5997but at the same time the plants would be adapting to taking in that much water and evolve over time so in fact they make start to grow larger kind of like when there was more o2 in the atmosphere all creatures were larger
Plants also feel pain. They scream when bugs eat them and when people trim them too. Vegans gonna love this.
@@bash2847increased CO2 in the atmosphere would increase plant size. Then with lather and more plants on earth, they would O2. CO2 is good for plants- people seem to forget this with the nonsense climate change grift while they ignore actual issues like pollution and horrible processes like lithium mining.
Sounds like the beginning of an apocalypse movie, then they can all talk to each other across the world and decide to poison humanity thru pollen and stuff like that one movie, idk. 😅
The plant noises can absolutely be heard. I’m an arborist in Idaho and if certain species of trees get damaged. Mostly maple trees. The borers seek them out! I’ve never found a more plausible explanation than this! The beetles must be able to hear it! My hypothesis is that damaged trees produce more sugars to fortify their heartwood and thus are more desirable for the predators.
If their eating trees, they are herbivores. ... or did you mean they call for predators to come and eat the bugs that are eating the tree? Plants will release specific chemicals in response to being stressed in different ways, they will actually try to attract predatory insects to eat the bugs eating them... I watched some videos on it last year.. its pretty interesting... plants do a lot more than we thought.
I think this may be what happened to the Chestnut, tho there are other causes too
The story of the octopus escaping through the drain pipe was hilarious
Just stumbled upon this video by random, checked the channel(s) and realized the 13 year grind with 10 YT channels this man has been on, gotta love to see that as a fellow entrepreneur! Keep up the good work! 👍
0:55 - Chapter 1 - Battling alzheimers
3:05 - Mid roll ads
4:35 - Back to the video
6:00 - Chapter 2 - Octopus PTSD
9:50 - Chapter 3 - Screaming plants
12:20 - Chapter 4 - New perspectives
Mid roll ads in the middle of a sentence. That seems more like something RUclips would do...
That alzheimers drug has been around for well over a decade, and arguably two. It's just been banned by the FDA and other organizations in the same fold all this time.
When Screenrant started to remix Ryan George's videos with mid roll ads like this, he put a stop to it and apologized (though faultless).
13:22 - I stopped to make a cup of tea
Thank you! Now I don't have to watch the video
"Imagine that in the future farms could automate their crop watering based on plant feedback" I just find that pretty funny.
Or it could be manually done. Have a plant psychologist sit down with each plant and discuss their anxieties.
"Yeah, that dick ran a tractor over me when I was just trying to talk to Geoff! The nerve!"
If someone were to now invent a "plant translator", I'd expect the first translation to come out as "Feed Me!" 😋
@@mdpenny42"Feed me, Seymour!"😂
All jokes aside, that would be pretty incredible
I wasnt ready for the screaming tomatos lmao
I knew a dog that had dreams of "running in the field" as we called it..
He could be running from anything but he seemed happy when doing it.
He was lying on his side and after a while he start running while laying on his side.
This became pretty normal, and when he woke up from it he was usually very happy and vocal.
More then average. After a while when we "talked to him" saying; Yeah boy, where you running again, had fun?
He always replied very happy and exited. He knew the word running from early age.
It could be because we where exited and he was exited that it was excitement what got him in that state.
But not all dreams where happy, once in a while he woke up a bit confused and scared.
And respond very different then what we saw as normal.
That indicated after a while he sometimes has bad dreams,
automatically assuming the "normal" dreams where happy.
So i was surprised when i heard scientist talking about studies in animals about dreaming.
To me, i assumed every living creature can dream, why would they not?
If a animal is conscious and aware, why could it not dream?
All explanations of why not, seem to me like BS.
I am pretty sure a chimpanzee, a dolphin ect ect can dream.
Why? Well like a octopus, they require to solve problems, to achieve that you have to have imagination.
To come up with "creative" solutions you have to have a visual perspective in the mind.
If you have those capabilities, then i assume you should be able to dream as well.
These "skills" are linked to each other IMO. I do not need a PHD to understand that.
My approach is every animal dreams until proven otherwise, instead of the other way around.
To me thinking the other way around is a bit arrogant, assuming humans are the only ones...
We are somewhat "special" but not that special. In the end we are just animals, like our DNA tells us.
Nice to see the world waking up to the fact that we can not assume animals does not have;
Emotions, feelings, dreams, fantasy, long term memory, recognition, love, desires, trauma, hold crunches ect ect.
The main difference between animals and humans is, they let it go more easy and move on much quicker.
Inky’s escape was an indication of bravery as well as brains. If that image is correct, he had no way of knowing the drain would be a path to the ocean. His escape may have been a consequence of curiosity.
Depends - if the drain led directly to the open ocean, he/she may have smelled or tasted (or used some other sense we don't know about) to know that there was salt water at the other end. Inky would have known the difference between the water in their tank and the real stuff, so to speak. Or maybe Inky could hear/feel the vibrations of the sea or it's creatures through the pipe?
I do wonder, if Inky got out so easily, if he/she had gotten out before and explored the drain a little at a time, coming back to it's tank before the team came on duty? I wonder if they had cameras going all the time?
In Nemo, the fish in the tank know that all pipes lead to the open ocean! It's a known fact!
Or some kind of desperate longing for something not in its current environment that we can’t understand.
Based on that image, i can't lie, there weren't that many other outcomes. Firstly, the pipe may not have exited anywhere else but the ocean, so the outcomes would've been the octopus either comes out the other end, stays in the pipe, or comes out the end it went in from. Secondly, they like to climb into most holes, so it probably saw the hole and climbed inside after it got out of its tank. Maybe after if stuck a tentacle or two in the pipe, it felt that the drain was wet, so it would prefer to slide into there than a completely dry environment and it kept going.
Inky knew that if you put a shell to your ear, you can hear the ocean. 🐚
The dreaming octopus thing isn’t that surprising. Dogs and cats have dreams and nightmares, and I don’t put them anywhere near octopus in intelligence. Heck I’ve seen squirrels look like they are having a nightmare too.
I do not see a connection between dogs and cats with octopi? Is it they are both life forms of Earth?
@@agimasoschandir It's that most animals have dreams and this is not new information to most of us.
Indeed, but cats and dogs are both mammals. They're extremely closely related to humans. Octopuses are significantly closer to slugs than humans, which is what makes their intelligence so intriguing.
I have the world's smartest dog. Free room and board, paid heailthcare, half a pantry of "favorite" foods and snacks, and still cons me out of half of my supper.
Worst of all, he thinks I can "fix" any situation. And it's almost depressing to know how shallow human love is compared to his love for his home and family.
I wish I was all he thinks I am.
I just assumed they did
Thank you for taking time to explain the current knowledge around Alz. My father died of Alz and it continues to be my hope that we'll be among the last families to have to suffer through that disease.
Is it just me, or does it feel like everytime I turn around Simon has a new channel?
Roald Dahl wrote a short story about a scientist who accidentally invented a machine that amplified the cries of plants when they were cut. He went insane after hearing all the screaming blades of grass while a neighbor was mowing the lawn.
🧢capp
@christopherrobinson1219 The story was called "The Sound Machine". It appeared in The New Yorker in September 1949 and subsequently in collections of RDs short stories. BTW, if want to call someone a liar, just do it. It took me 20 minutes to research your Gen Z slang for same.
@@rickhaydan3433 😂😂im gen x. 43 yo. tryna keep up w the youngsters. ill check it out👍🏽
I was fishing a few weeks back. Out of nowhere an octopus came to the surface with a squid jig in its arm. It waved it in the air. I was with my son he couldn’t believe it. I asked everyone around if they lost a squid jig and no one had. So this octopus found a squid jig and showed us he knew what we were doing. It was very cool to see
The more I learn about octopi the more I think eating them is wrong. I'm not a vegetarian, but after us, dolphins, whales, great apes and these guys are the smartest beings on Earth. They are in a tier above other animals, and I wouldn't eat dolphins, whales or apes either.
@@Pushing_Pixels yeah I don’t eat octopus. Crazy thing is people eat baby octopi
@@Pushing_Pixels Your probably just preparing them incorrectly. I mean all of Spain can't be wrong .
@@southcoastinventors6583
Yes they can
8 billion can be wrong while 1 is right.
@@eclipse369. excellent point!
The plants screaming killed me
I enjoy literally all your channels. Keep up the great work. 👍
These advancements in scientific knowledge is why I laugh my head off every time somebody claims “civilisation has reached its peak”, “humanity is stalling” etc etc. There’s so much more to know about the world, we’ve barely scratched the surface. Thanks for the informative collection, Simon!
Yh even knowing everything we know. There's so much information out there, it's too much to know? Lol😢
A lot of the so-called science is bull shit anyway. Real science is theories based on observation, and the testing of those theories. But lately, it's the other way around, where they come up with an idea and bend the data around it. It's the same as religion. We are given enlightment thousands of years ago; but instead, we bend and alter the truth for greed and power.
Its backwards we going the greeks knew the world was made of atoms
Not to mention that how far we are collectively from wisdom, when everything can be forced into divination and people will follow one side or another.
Is it just me or was this fairly disappointing? a rather calm and tame year of science discovery.
"This Changes Everything" is one of the seven levels of clickbait hell and I cannot condone it.
The octopus with PTSD was very interesting but it wasn’t really surprising that it can happen, I remember having a cat that was getting a bit wild and savage by the time we met though she still preferred to come home with me and she used to have bad dreams, and I also had a dog which had fun dreams, one night I woke up to the bed shaking violently and by the time I realised that she was dreaming about chasing the frisbee I didn’t have time to grab hold of her before she jumped of the bed and bang into the wardrobe.
Great video! Idk why octopus nightmares would be a big deal though, every dog owner knows dogs dream all the time, and sometimes they have nightmares
The plants screaming was a premise of a very old story in an Asimov's Anthology paperback. Unfortunately my copy was lost in a house fire. Looking up stories from those without actually having a copy is nearly impossible.
Perhaps check the local library? I really want to know which story 😂
I think you’re referring to ‘Sally’ from the Multivac book
@@kalevala1778
Sally was about cars with positronic brains.
If you can remember the title of the book try ordering it from a large bookshop or online bookshop.
Nightfall? Or perhaps Green Patches?
Dangit Simon. Now I'm sad about Costello:(
Dogs definetly get PTSD, having had 1 rescue who had scars in her fur. She'd basically wake up scream-howling every now and then.
regarding people being concerned about plants "screaming" in pain; that's actually a great argument FOR switching to a plant-based diet - the vast majority of plant crops are produced to feed animal agriculture, we could all feed ourselves directly on dramatically less plants...
9:20 Doing a bit of a google, it seems we recognize that most animals dream and have nightmares including cats and dogs, though I guess, the answers are more vague when looking at marine life.
Other mammals dream, but they're related to us and had a common origin. Finding it in a completely unrelated species, where it evolved independently, is not the same.
@@Pushing_Pixels Ya, we all know and figure that, except that Simon mentions hoping to find dreams in Dolphins, Elephants and Apes. Mammals. So again, what is he talking about?
Honestly, the octopus story really feels like they are the real aliens we keep looking for in the sky. They don’t live long, but the amount of intelligence we keep finding out that they have is… almost startling?
I 💯 agree!
I’m more surprised that the octopus knew it was in a “cage” and was like. “Man I am so much more comfortable here then being in that hell hole.” -points to ocean.
The smell of fresh cut grass is them actually screaming.. also is a way of communicating between plants
Simon, how about a “good news” channel? We hear so much distressing news all the time and it is really refreshing to see the positive side of humanity in videos like this.
Such channels have been tried before - they fail almost immediately. Good news don’t sell, and if they do - only to a very niche audience who then also gets tired of it and moves on. Human brain is programmed to seek out bad news to then prepare for the fallout. Good news bring temporary relief, but the brain quickly loses interest and starts looking for the next trouble to avoid.
That's what o.g. brain blaze was for
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Simon needs all the money to pay for all the bottles of beard oil its the only hair he has left.
I’m pretty convinced that dogs have nightmares. We already know they can dream, and there’s been a few times where I’ve heard my dog crying or growling in his sleep. One time he even barked and woke himself up.
The plants screaming is very interesting because song birds use ultrasound to promote flowers to open in the morning so I have to wonder if they aren’t more complexly related.
I actually got to meet one of those escaping octopuses. The way it observed people and reacted to them was very different from what I've seen in other animals. It definitely had intelligence behind it though.
Honestly, the only thing limiting them is the inability to speak and communicate with us. Intellect way greater than a toddler, easily.
@@lunar.nepneus TBH, I believe my cat Nox has similar levels of intelligence, and my mom believes she may even have a sense of humor. She's demonstrated self-awareness, through passing the mirror test, as well as object permanence, and was also able to figure out where the dot from the laser pointers came from lol. She would literally bring a laser pointer to my mom whenever she wanted to play. Smart cat. Apparently she even laughs sometimes? Not like a human though, more like a chuckle that sounds almost like a sneeze.
Thanks, I have now connected my tentacles to a cable in sea. I am humbled.
I sympathize and relate to that octopus. Waking up drenched in sweat from a nightmare, only to try and continue going about my day as if nothing happened. Hopefully this observation will increase human sympathy for other lifeforms we share this planet with.
Next section reminded me to water my pineapple plants. Texas is hot this summer. I hope this sort of study makes vegetarians recognize that another will suffer so they can survive, regardless of what they choose to eat. I'd happily set up a microphone to listen to my pineapple plants to know when they are in distress. It doesn't matter to me if they don't actually suffer in any way comparable to ourselves, I simply want to care for them as best as I can.
Many of us have seen dogs have dreams. They will kick and bark.
I'm pretty sure I've seen my pet fish dreaming. They will swim in place.
@@MarkBarrettI had a snake that would "Fall asleep" on me.. then Freak out sometimes just out of nowhere, either epileptic or dreaming one or the other, but it was like once it realized it was "Awake" it'd chill out.. must have been a dream.
As an avid hiker, I would never step on plants if I could help it. I visit the redwoods and wonder what they are communicating to one another. But also, too much love and attention will kill a plant, as I have found out many times. Some plants need stress to continue on and grow stronger.
I hope you are also going to eat the fruits of your labor. I want a pineapple right now.
@@magnificentfailure2390 I doubt they'll ever produce pineapples in Texas. Wrong climate for them. But I will if they ever do.
This is actually really useful. Please keep doing these videos. The amount of clickbait trash out there like “THIS STAR EXPLODED!!!!” only to find out that the star actually has about a billion years left at the end of the video is ridiculous.
I just came across your channel and really liked this video. And will check out your site!
Ideas and inspirations come to us in dreams and while awake, many don’t invite them and some just want to share and use it.
I have had downloads of awesome ideas that at the time it just wasn’t viable for me to raise the money and find backing. So our world is full of these inventions, science and our spiritual side opening all the time, to move humanity forward.
Just love to hear them all come out of the wood work here. Great narration too with an upbeat tempo and enthusiasm. However a pause here and there would best help us catch up to the concept your explaining 😀
Another neat thing about plants is that they can send nutrients to each other through the roots, and mother trees and plants will prioritize sending more nutrients to the plants that spawned from their seeds.
“I’m approaching middle age”
Simon plz I’m not that much younger than you 😭
I love it when 30 year olds think they're getting old. ❤
Boy in another 30 years are they suprised.
My Astronomy lecturer told me that his PhD group ripped apart the paper claiming the universe being 26Byrs old. Saying that the scientist frequently referenced his own material from other papers he'd written and that the findings had not been substantiated
Really enjoyed this video... great stories and well done. I've got an old one to submit. Not long but freaked me out.
Anyone who’s had a dog knows animals dream and are capable of nightmares.
Octopus having nightmares is a cool revelation. It means it's not just a characteristic of mammals.
bald dudes with ridiculous beards AND grandma glasses AND upitty cricket /tennis fan/ Oxford polo player accents DEFINATLEY gives me nightmares dude!
Birds dream too.
Yeah, like I said, they're mammals. You can see their eyes flicker when they're sleeping.
Birds are Avians, think dinosaurs
Mammals give birth, eg humans and dolphins. Birds lay eggs :))
My Grandad has Alzheimers. It's been really hard watching him get worse and more confused. He gets angry and frustrated with himself if he can't remember things. 😢
Just a bit ago I was watching a video about the possibility that the bright ancient galaxies that JWST has observed aren't galaxies at all, but are rather gigantic stars powered by dark matter annihilation (due to the much greater density of dark matter in the early universe) rather than fusion. The early universe is a mysterious and exciting place.
Hearing about the octopus' potential for higher intelligence really makes me feel bad about how they are harvested and cooked. It's pretty brutal since they essentially have to be chopped up and boiled while they are alive to prevent their ink sack from tainting their meat.
The bit on Alzheimer’s was fascinating. I watched my grandmother fall to that disease. It’s sad to see someone decline like that. She lived for over 10 years before her body gave out. It’s been one of my fears to die of that disease. It’s great to see the proton treatment options.
My father had Alzheimer's, and passed away in April 2022. It's a little late to hear about great new drugs. Sorry for your loss.
My wife has dementia, it could be Alzheimer’s?
I have been thinking about this for a long time.
It appears to me, this is a modern disease. Anyone remember from the past anyone dying from Alzheimers?
Any of our founding fathers (who lived a long life) dying from that disease, ANYONE?
Most likely something in our processed foods.
Nitrates (I believe ?) is used in our meats sold at the supermarkets, so they look like Red meat.
If you go to a country butcher and get your meat, the color is more grey.
Sulfates are used to keep salad's fresh on the store shelf.
Monosodium Glutamates are used in all kinds of foods and canned goods of all kinds.
etc...... The list is huge....
Unfortunately this drug won't help at all - the last decade of alzheimers drug r&d has been based on a falsified study. Reduction of beta amyloid plaque does nothing to help and only carries side effects. Pharma companies have gone after the publisher of the original study and are only selling these ineffective drugs to recoup losses
If they stopped poisoning our water with fluoride it would stop the plaque
@@tellmemoreplease9231 As I understand it, Alzheimer's is a form of dementia - but dementia is not always Alzheimer's.
Modern, I'm not sure ... My grandma (born 1923) died from it and her grandma also died from it (no supermarkets I think back then). Well, at least that is what one can assume in hindsight. It's more common in older people and people didn't tend to live as long as they do today so that could be part of the reason it seems modern.
On the other hand, diet and general health conditions are said to also play a roll. Like cancer, I bet it's a lot of different factors both environmental and genetic and you're gonna see people doing everything they can to avoid it and still get it, and you'll get others doing exactly all the wrong things and never get it.
It's a really horrific disease. I hope they find at least something to slow it down enough so it is no longer a factor. There is so much research going on that I am somewhat hopeful.
I only post this gentle reminder because this is an education channel, which I like very much. The word "octopus" is Greek in origin, not Latin. As such, the appropriate pluralizations are octopuses (English) or octopodes (Greek), but never octopi.
This is why I unapologetically work in animal research. Every small discovery can help people suffering from these diseases. Alzheimer’s is one of the saddest diseases. Robbing someone of their personhood in their golden years, and robbing a family of their lives one slowly.
"We may have a cure for Alzheimer's soon."
Oh yay! :D
"Also, octopi can have PTSD."
O-oh... :(
"And plants can scream in agony."
I don't like this...
Genie: "there are 4 rules now"
Mental Health isn’t only for humans. Only Judeo-Christians would ever think that only humans have souls.
I hope you‘re right about knowledge continuing to progress. There seem to be a lot of people in this world who are intent on not only stopping such progress, but even rolling back the knowledge we have acquired.
Much of it coming from senior, tenured academia....as usual.
Just ask Einstein.
Anyone with a pet knows they dream and have nightmares.
I've had to calm down more than one animal who woke up and needed some reassurance that whatever they experienced was only a dream and nothing bad had actually happened. Especially frequent in rescues with psychological trauma.
It sounds odd, but I imagine it's a form of neural training akin to AI training. I'm 73 and I've improved my memory simply by Thanking my mind whenever I remember something. Where I used to forget where I put something, I now almost always get a mental picture of its location to retrieve it. This came about when I was trying Buddhist "thanfulness," and it occurred to me that I could thank myself.
Please do a Casual Criminalist on Vincent Chin. His attackers got off with a disgustingly light sentence and his story is important to this very day.
Try contacting one of the writers for cascrim, it'll probably be easier to get a video on him
@@baileyhayes3001 Yeah, that's true. I could try it, thanks.
Agreed
In this case Ilser...hahah
Whats so fascinating about octopus nightmares? I used to have a dog who suffered from night terrors, an even a guinea pig who often showed signs of dreaming ie movements while it slept as well as vocal sounds as if it where interacting with another pig.
Didn’t mythbusters once do an episode on plants showing fear? Pretty sure they did something like having two plants side by side and burned one of them. When they aimed the flame at the other it screamed. I’ll have to rewatch that but I remember being very amazed and a little creeped out.
I was really hoping for that room temp super conductor. It'd be insane.
There's still time in the year, the last i heard while no publicly funded labs looking into it have been able to recreate the results supposedly some private labs have either come close or have replicated the results. Info is a couple weeks old so things may have changed even since just then.
@@aceundead4750 the data have always been sketchy with that one, but the interest it created in the problem is what's really exciting!
Thunderf00t debunked that one
Yeah I was as well.
Unfortunately it's been debunked.
Cool video except the last entry. Zwicky's theory of tired light was never confirmed even though scientists tried from time to time for almost 100 years. That's why Gupta doesn't have much support and that's why the probabilty of him being correct is very low.
You could say the scientists grew tired of being wrong, eh? Eh??
Methuselah's age and the ancient galaxies still need an explanation though, so we can be pretty sure the existing model is wrong on its timeline, even if his model doesn't end up being used.
I'm not sure how you could confirm it because we only know the round-trip speed of light. You can't send a signal from somewhere else to saying "I see it" because nothing can go faster than light lol.
This is my favorite video about octopus trawmer and plonts making sounds.
I don’t know when sideprojects started tackling science 🥺 but I love it please don’t stop lol
On one hand, humans tend to interpret much of what is around us based on our senses, and that results in us missing a lot of things just bc they don't fit into OUR reality. On the other hand, we have a tendency to anthropomorphize things and events to the point where we put meanings behind them when there is none.
£252 for the sponsored product?!
So they've got to trick around 40 of us to break even 😂 not sure they'll be a returning sponsor.
Obviously not a channel that is selective of it's sponsorships lol
I thought about clicking the link to have a look because I suspected it would be ridiculously priced, then realised they're probably paying for click-throughs and not just sales. I don't know who he thinks is buying these, or whether he vets his sponsors at all. He probably has one of his minions handle that side of the business and doesn't realize or care that they end up reflecting on him.
If dogs can have nightmares, why can’t octopus
Cat sleeping peacefully in lap before suddenly shredding my legs in a mad dash to escape...probably a dream where that octopus showed
I'm amazed he kept a straight face during the snake oil skin witchcraft device sell!
Simon is a profesional
Yeah how many version of electrical healing device can they sell, not even very creative anymore.
@@southcoastinventors6583 I recently heard about a college professor who bought a "healing device" knowing it was a scam, but thought it was worth it because his wife used it quietly for several hours a day! 🤣
Up until I started watching your podcasts I missed and craved for a series like "Tomorrow's world" the format, the exceptional research and incredibly exciting subjects. Your wee programs are brilliant Simon, I love them. When you finish I always wait for second to see if Judith Han comes to sign off ha. Continued success good man.
God I miss tomorrow's world!
I miss Tomorrow's World, but if it were around today, it would spread so much misinformation. And since the BBC is now a propaganda wing of the Tories, it would just be how being a brain-stapled drone is a great career choice.
@Bruisewillies me too, although it would probably be used to deliver a sermon on why minority scientists have been hard done by knowing the modern BBC
What's the name of the podcast?
@wistle04 it's called... wait for it... the why files podcast
Holycr- this is amazing. The octopus dreams was fascinating
I could watch a whole video each on the last few subjects. Fascinating!
Amazing as always Simon and crew!!!, If there's any possibility of doing a further video on the last entry about the universe expansion theory I'd love to see it
The idea of the old age of the universe being how many billions of years is supported by 10% of scientific findings. It is a very complex subject and one way or another, most hypotheses are just wrong. I think that idea is interesting.
Science rules!
Gonna add “science is everything”, including brain functions that allow belief in whomever 🤭
Ha!
God rules over all.
@scottmccloud9029 which god(s) are you referring to exactly?
@@willsmith4466often wonder what the flying flock “believers” are viewing a SCIENCE program 🤣
My husband was diagnosed with Stage IV brain cancer Glioblastoma multiforme with 4 to 6 months at most to live. All kind of warnings (to me his wife) paralysis, memory loss, etc. None of that happened. He never exhibited any signs he continued working, he graduated with an Engineering Degree when he was 39 then passed away suddenly. The doctor told me "Your husband re-wrote the medical books" The cancer had covered the entire right side of his brain and half the left. They couldn't understand how he could present so normally. But I remember when the neurosurgeon told him he didn't have but a few months to live he said "Just because you SAY it doesn't mean I'm going to DO it!" I'll always believe there's something to that. Mind over matter. Faith. We met a lot of others with cancer and I remember one young mother telling us that she had planned everything for the future and said she was ready to die. My husband got really angry and said "Then you will!" We still don't understand everything about illnesses especially cancer or the brain. But the will to live is strong.
Studies that concluded that plants communicate with each other via sound were established facts already 50 years ago.
But if you forget history, you can always claim to have invented the wheel.
Probably the most informative channel on RUclips 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Well done and keep it coming 🎉
makes me wonder where the Octopoid's crashed their ship and how long until they finish repairs and rise up and take their rightful place as our overlords?? 👑🐙👑
Welp, in the meantime they're still delicious.
It's in that trench in the pacific
Happy New Year! Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada.
Now, I want you to take the last line of your presentation and apply that to other areas of science! Thanks have a great one!
Hi Simon, great video! I was waiting to watch this one all day. I do have an unrelated question. What brand of glasses are you wearing in this episode? I am in the market for a new pair and I really like the retro classic look of the glasses you have in this video. Any information would be much appreciated. Cheers!
Thanks Simon. I went veggie because I didn’t want to harm animals. Now I learn that plants feel pain. Going forward, what am I going to eat? How do I keep my lawn short without cutting it? How do I tell my wife, who is a florist, that she needs to find a new career? Life just got complicated.
just start eating meat again if u enjoy it. the world is cruel and its meant to be like that. imagine a lion stopping eating animals. u are an apex predator. come to peace with it.
I advise just eating what you want and need while causing the least trauma you know how. Some foods are "intended" to be consumed, such as fruits. Chilies evolved their burning sensation presumably to save themselves for birds to eat since birds don't react to it the way mammals do. But then we came along, developed a liking for it, and have now planted them all over the world.
In the meantime contemplate our love of voracious monsters like vampires and zombies in this context (we're the vampires and zombies to our prey). And maybe contemplate the future of tech as well, like will we eventually figure out how to grow something tasty and nutritious with absolutely no consciousness attached to it?
Back in the '70's when vegetarianism, veganism were new a man came on a local morning news show and proclaimed that "plants aren't living so they're okay to eat." At the time I thought it was one of the most singularly idiotic comments I had ever heard and it turned me away from that whole movement for decades.
the only thing we regularly eat that has no pain response or similar analogue is salt.
Great video. Anyone who has had a dog knows that they make sounds and move around like they are dreaming when they are sleeping.
Thanks for sharing this fascinating information!
Seems logical for dreams/nightmares to be advantageous to a creatures survival. I mean, it’s almost like a brainstorming session inspired by your day and unusual thoughts. Also, makes you value life more when your nightmare feels like a near death experience.
The way i figure is this:
Gotta make sure that "fight or flight" response is worked out like a muscle.
Mainly dreams are just a random memory dump into long term storage, with a bit of sorting.
Go too long without sleep, you hallucinate. Because the brain's memory cache is full and spilling over into the consciousness.
Our subconscious tends to notice things without passing it forward unless trained. Wonder how much danger our subconscious noticed to cause a nightmare when it does a cache dump.
The coolest thing to me about science (especially astrophysics) is that the right answer keeps getting righter, if that makes sense. Cheers....
Science is a process to continuously arrive at knowledge that is **less wrong** than before.
@@tektrixter exactly. Cheers....
Dogs have dreams, so probably also nightmares. Mine was running and barking, sometimes she woke up to her own barking.
Out of curiosity how do they calculate the age of stars and galaxies and do they take time dilation into account?
Using my limited knowledge of astrophysics, one would imagine it would be possible for something to be older than the observable universe considering it might be affected by accelerated time but then how did they estimate the age of the universe if time could run at different rates?
I started typing this with one simple question and then it got more complicated as I typed 😅
In regards to the "tired light" theory I have always wondered if the apparent speed of light changed as the universe expanded. Imagine someone running toward you on a treadmill. In the beginning the treadmill is being rapidly stretched, so if the runner's legs are moving at 5 miles per hour in the observable universe he is actually moving much slower. The Treadmill's rate of stretch is rapidly slowing and eventually the runner reaches you and you measure his speed at the current snapshot of time as 5 mph. How would this affect the light emitted from all these objects during different rates of expansion, how would that skew the red shift estimates of speed and distance?
Does relativity not account for the expansion of space time when stating that the speed of light is constant?
In response to your treadmill analogy, essentially the fact that the universe is expanding faster than the speed of light means that the distance over which that light is travelling is increasing as the light travels and thus the light takes longer than expected to get to its destination? I feel like I'm struggling to understand what you mean by the treadmill being stretched...
So expansion is faster than light?
I wasn't thinking faster than light but that the speed of light itself changed as the underlying quantum fabric of the universe stretched or spread out.@@whiteeye3453
@@whiteeye3453 No, then we wouldn't see anything.
@@doben or we simply don't understand everything in universe