5 interesting things - episode 3
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1 - you can cut ice with a blunt diamond because it is such a good conductor of heat
2 - The filament in an old fashioned incandescent light bulb is a helix of a helix - a meta helix!
3 - Some vampire bats mimic chicks so they can snuggle up to a hen's brood patch and drink her blood.
4 - The word "second", as in the length of time comes from the fact that it is the second time we subdivide the hour into smaller units. The first time being minutes. So why aren't minutes called firsts?
5 - Most owls have asymmetrical ears. It helps them to figure out the direction of its prey by sound. The asymmetry causes an interaural intensity difference that the owl can use to figure out the origin of sound in the vertical plane.
Here's Bill Schutt's articles about vampire bat behaviour: www.naturalhistorymag.com/feat...
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It shows 1sm.com/a on the video, which takes you to a casino website
Oh damn
Steve at the end you show 1sm.com/a on screen. This links to a weird Chinese website.....
You say it properly too, just typed incorrectly
in Italy we use the word "primi" as a misure of time meanning "minute" but it also mean "first" so here it is
That's awesome! I should have known that and said that in the video!
That's not common though. "Minuti" is the normal one you use for time. "Primi" is sometimes used for angular minutes, so it doesn't sound like you are talking about time.
@@Mobin92 what's an angular minute?
@@Mobin92 exactly, sometimes if someone wants to be pompous calls minutes "minuti primi" and seconds "minuti secondi". Anyway generally we call them minuti if it's time related, and primi if it's angle related. I would have discovered earlier that hours, minutes and seconds have the same exact structure as degrees, minutes and seconds, because being aware of that makes it really easy to calculations involving time with a scientific calculator!
@@KaliTakumi It's the subdivision of the 360° of an circle. So 1/60th of a degree is an arc minute, another 1/60th of that minute is an arc second. It's mostly used in nautical an aerial measurements of the earth. The nautical mile is 1/60th of longitude (one arc minute).
The moment I learned about the brood patch is the moment I wished that I didn't know about the brood patch.
You need to see what owls legs look like under their feathers, I wish I could unsee that
I have an opposite brood patch, where there are feathers coming out
to be honest, i want to forget the entire video other than the diamond-cut-ice "thing"
Chicken boobies.
Yeah, I suppose that's fair.
Once you know the derivation of "minute" and "second" , it suddenly seems far less crazy that they're also used for angles.
This just made my life slightly less stressful.
We may even start referring to extremely small measures as 'quanta'...
Minute should be Prime, or Prima.
6:00 This also means that minute (unit of time) and minute (very small) have the same origin! So glad to know this.
Etimology is one of the wildest and most pleasant rides.
Who else pronounced that correctly?
sorry, but...... duh. like, DUH.
Duh? Minute and minute are pronounced differently, have different meanings (One means small and one is on the smaller side of time measurement, but how often do we name something small just because it's kind of small? Minutes aren't even close to the smallest measurement of time), and other words that share the same spelling don't always have the same root meaning. Don't be an ass, there's almost always a decent reason for not knowing something, and stroking your ego makes you look arrogant and, frankly, dumb.
If the fastest moving indicator on an old clock goes missing you might be able to replace it with a second hand second hand.
Smart
I already handed out my Comment Of The Day award for today, and already promised it to someone else for tomorrow, but you get it for Saturday. Also, this is the first time Ive had my Comment Of The Day booked out for the future.
If the second hand second hand goes missing you can replace the second hand second hand with a second second hand second hand.
@@michaelcherokee8906so on Saturday, this comment will officially be second to none
@@vibaj16 A year ago, yes.
These are really cool facts that my brain will subsequently forget and will enjoy watching again a year from now.
I eagerly await youtube's recommendation in a year's time too.
so this is what is like to be a bodhisattva. brilliant attitude!
@@anarbatzoriganar To understand consciousness is to understand thyself
That's why i kept it in my watch later playlist 😂😂
That's exactly what I'm doing now... Rewatching and I remember only 25%. Yes.... I actually watched all the three episodes and calculated that to analyse myself lol
"Cutting eyes with diamonds" Wait what?!
... oh, ice. Nvm.
I thought he was goint to talk about eye surgery. Nowadays it is done with lasers but who knows
Grapes are the new thing in surgeons. Get with time.
Just put it in an owls ear.
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@@Rabbit-the-One your reply is how I've just realized that these comments are 4 years old
Using the word "second" to describe seconds never seemed strange until you called minutes "firsts"
thinking about it now, I feel like I could get used to calling minutes first.
It comes from the Latin, so wouldn't we have to call it "primas"?
@@scragar, or prima for singular and primae for plural.
@@scragar well we don't call seconds secundae, so not necessarily
10'49"
6:24 omg he *actually* made the video 10 firsts and 49 seconds long....
wizard
Wait why not use the latin versions and call them primes and seconds
@@mahmoudelsharawy692 but that still increased the length further. My guess is that he did that, made a good guess, then sped up or slowed down the video by like 0.1% to make up for it
@@matthewstuckenbruck5834, he could have already scheduled how long that shot would be.
@@mahmoudelsharawy692 He went in after the video was shot and edited. If you look closely, his under shirt and hair are slightly different. And he hid it with a cutaway.
Too bad you didn’t make the “second” interesting thing second in this list.
For some reason seeing the ice cut like this is very satisfying
2:47 - can we just spend a minute contemplating the fact that this is a cockerel and a chicken sitting in a tree?
I once saw a duck sitting in a tree.
No you didn't. It was all an illusion.
Chickens do have limited flight, they also like to roost off the ground, as it's safer.
It's hard to fit trees into chicken sheds, so that's why we don't see many hens on trees.
@@maxximumb treehouses.
Just saying.
@@maxximumb, you mean hutches aren't their natural habitat?
THEY'RE SO FLOOFY
That owls eye-ball made me feel a bit queesy. Thanks for that. LOL.
6:45 "What, my skull is asymmetrical?! I never knew that!"
😂i see what u mean...🤣🤣
"I must tell my bois at once, brb"
Great video, as always. You are exactly right about how our brains ignore the form of the word for the semantics. It's all about the context here. Just look at the phrase "a patient patient". It's crazy.
"This video is 10 firsts and 49 seconds long"
Huh? Steve decided exactly how long the video would be before he finished taping it?
Notices the outro starts at 10:27
never mind
I thought the same. Maybe he recorded this part at the last after he finished everything and edited it to this point in the middle of his video.
Or he is a witch / demon. Both things sounds reasonable and are possible.
Undershirt.
That's all I'll say
LiveOverflow has a video where he shows the video ID number inside the same video. It's a neat trick.
@@JonesP77 or he streched the outro to match the timing he said
@@akshaytati Thats basically impossible....
I was just about to get some work done and then I pressed the refresh button.. Great video as usual!
hold on, at 6:29 how did he know how long the video was going to be once he'd edited it??
That was the very last shot I filmed!
@@SteveMould genius
6:25 for anyone else who wondered what the OP was referring to.
What kind of black magic is that?
@@SteveMould, Do you know that there is a method that lets you show and even say the video URL inside the same video?
Check the video "Self-aware Video: it knows its own RUclips Video ID?" on the "LiveOverflow" channel.
I'm having daydreams of a flat sheet of synthetic diamond you can lie down on intermittently on really hot days to avoid using A/C
I always forget if diamond has a great thermal or electrical conductivity. Think I will remember from now on, thanks Steve
Diamond is made of just carbon, which is a non-metal. Non-metals in the vast majority of cases have low electrical conductivity. There are exceptions like graphite (which is also made of pure carbon) and some type of polymers.
Gravitational conductivity. Dum-dum.
@@jeromeorji1057 yes, in fact just thinking of the definition of a metal would be helpful. But this image of the diamond cutting ice as if it was butter will stick in my mind forever
I'd have liked to see it with sheet copper, which has much better thermal conductivity than steel. Guess I'll have to get off my a**e and try myself.
When you grow up in a language, those things like "second" are easy to miss. But if you have to learn the language then those things kinda hit your brain in a different way. My first grade teacher taught us the word butterfly by first quizzing us what we thought it was and only after us giving answers like olympic sport and weird foods etc. she told us what it was. My six year old brain exploded that day :D
DNA folds up into a 'meta helix' too, which is probably why the interference pattern matched.
DNA takes it to even the next level, as it has to be extremely compact and ends up being twisted yet again to take up as little space as possible.
@@JustWasted3HoursHere yep those histones be getting some serious bondage :P
That's why he did a video on that topic.
4:05 "it only works because..."
me: "...because chickens are dumb"
JNCressey Not at all. They are incredibly complex beings with equally complex social structures. And they have a high level of curiosity which translates into a range of behavioural changes depend upon the circumstances and their environment. Further, each of the hens in my backyard flock of 8 knows her name and comes when called. (And no, they don’t all come when I call out one name... nor do any of the chickens come when I call out a random word)
@@spiralpython1989, counter to that: they don't know the difference between a bat and a chick.
Also, drawing a line on the floor totally breaks them.
@Thu Nell Ⓥ, cats are pretty dumb tho.
This is quickly becoming one of my favorite science channels. I love the way Steve explains things. Its soothing and reminds me of Brian Cox.
Really underestimated how interesting these facts would be. Watching your channel gives me too many things to dwell on at once! Love it and all the work you do
I literally can’t thank you enough for making the videos you do, Steve. The amount of time and effort you put into them are unfathomable. While at the same time delivering bite-sized information for us all to take in.
You have taught me and probably hundreds of thousands of other people about mind-blowing, interesting concepts and things in such an understandable way.
Thank you, from the all of us!
I love learning from you. Your sneaky the way you use your calming voice to pack in a lot of information :)
Wow. I didn't know diamond was a conductor of heat. It looks like glass crystal so my mind assumed it to be an insulator
Carbon is pretty good at it. The termal conductivity of diamond is about 2.3-3.5x that of copper. Graphite is also really good.
@@HappyBeezerStudios I didn't know that. Thanks!
Seriously, where did you get that diamond? I've never wanted anything as much as I want an off shape sliver of diamond it seems!
Leaving this here just in case.
Me too, I would love some of that too!
yeah, me too. where do i get a broken sheet of diamond?
@@BrianFedirko it's been a year and my desire hasn't waned at all...
@@InspMorse85 How about now?
In Portuguese, the word for 'cousin' is 'primo', which also comes from the Latin 'primus', as it is the first cousin. But get this: It is also the word for 'prime', as in 'prime number', and there is a subset of primes called 'cousin primes'. Now, I don't really know what cousin primes are called in Portuguese, but I would have to guess that it's 'primos primos', and I kind of love it.
Destin (Smarter Every Day) has an interesting video on aural location. We do the same thing as owls, but not with asymmetric ears, but with frequency analysis on how the intricate shape of our outer ear modifies the arriving sound.
The fact 3 really scares me as a hen
I've been waiting for the next one of these for a really long time. I still have hope they'll become a more regular thing in the future.
I had already figured out the "second" part on my own, but had no idea where exactly it came from, or whether it was even correct! Until now. Thank you so much! :-)
This guy could teach me about anything and I wouldn't be bored
I enjoy your videos so much, I hope your channel soon gets the attention it really deserves! Keep up the great work
7:22 the op and down distinction for humans is the form of the ears, Dustin from smarter every day , made a cool video on this :-D
as a fan of etymology, interesting thing #4 blew my mind and is now my favorite thing today
These 5 interesting thing videos are a great series.
I remember a lightbulb advertised as a new innovation because it had a metahelical fillament. At the time, you could still see some bulbs without a helix at all. They were very old for the most part.
Hen: let’s the bat touch it’s brood patch
Bat:Fool You fell for it! Thunder cross split attack!
I woke at 5am this morning unusually and whilst dozing wondered about the name for the second hand of the clock. 50 minutes later I’m watching this video and I’m discovering the mysteries of Latin with Steven. By his eyelids I suspect he also is woken from his slumber with brilliant ideas and questions about the universe. There’s nothing like the present second for awe!
Cool episode. Didnt watch it yet tho.
That's the spirit!
Hahaha I appreciate your honesty here
Aaahh, that beautifully explains Degrees, Minutes, and Seconds, too.
I'd love to see that opening ice being cut shot via a FLIR camera to watch how fast the cold spreads across the diamond shard
Yes, that'd be great! It'd be especially cool to see the heat leaving his fingers too
love this format!
Love this series!!!!!
Please make more of these!!!
I really like these videos, I love learning new, fun facts. Just Awesome, thank you.
Every one of these episodes blows my mind somehow.
Those were awesome. Thanks.
In some old Italian sports commentaries athletes' times were often announced in “primi” and “secondi” instead of “minuti” and “secondi”
That was fun. See you next year guys!
@Steve Mould , I'd love to see a video on how they make a meta-helix filament (out of superhard Tungsten to make things more difficult) so it doesn't short with itself anywhere along the length.
Thanks for another amazingly good video Mr. Mould. I don't have any nitpicks this time.
About sound source height direction: there is good smarter every day video about it. our specific shape of ear does figures out direction(height) of sound source. Because of shape sound enters in ear with different angles
Great video as usual. Please do more on how carbon (at least in the form of diamond) conducts heat so well.
i love the "5 interesting things" series
the second thing is awesome. i remember trying to figure out the minute/minute second/second thing in elementary school, and just not figuring it out. i hadn't really thought about it again until now, but it makes sense that both minute and second share the same latin source as minute and second. super interesting
Humans use the interaural level difference and the head related transfer function (hrtf) for localizing sounds as well. The pinna alone has a pretty amazing directional properties.
Steve Mould you are a delight and I love your videos
Ha! Tech Ingredients just posted a video in a thermal conductive epoxy they're making and he talked about the thermal properties of diamond.. as soon as you stated cutting through the ice I thought, ah ha! Thermal conductivity. Very nice video Steve, I really enjoy these interesting thing videos
I was about to mention that myself. Both channels are among the best things on youtube.
0:49 It could be a great segue into how lasers work by focusing light power into a very tiny spot. There seems to be a lovely relationship between these incredible ways in which energy is focused/diffused.
As a complete and utter nerd, I have to say I really enjoy your interesting and informative videos. Keep up the good (great) work dude! :)
For the second/minute part, it is also why they are represented with < ' > and < '' >, like in coordinates too, and that in math, < ' > is called "prime". Same for first derivative < f' > and second derivative < f'' >
So it's not a coincidence that minute (meaning small) and minute (the time) have the same spelling! Also seconds! MIND BLOWN! Don't ever stop this series!
Graphene is even better/more smooth/gives more satisfaction when cutting ice!
@SteveMould, having recently sat in a seminar on Immersive sound, it's a very interesting concept coming from the live events industry,
If reccomend it as a follow up to the time delay perception of sound and direction.
How do I get a diamond chip like that? I've seen plenty of diamond coated tools and tips and whatever, but not a full diamond disc.
I would like to know the same thing. Seems like just an incredibly handy and interesting thing to have.
I don't know, but sheets of artificial sapphire and ruby are made for viewing windows in scientific experiments, if that helps.
CVD diamonds seem to be the thing to search for. Alibaba has heaps. Even a photo of a bit 90mm sheet of it on Wikipedia
10:04 **brit accent intensified**
I just did the experiment with the diamond on ice a few days ago with a thicker piece of diamond at the university. It is really amazing how fast the "cold" of the ice was tranferred to my hand thru a length of several centimeters of diamond. I could feel it almost instantly and the ice was melting like crazy.
It would be interesting to see video of this from a thermal camera
@@iamdave84 Yes that might be intersting. At the moment I do not have the opportunity to make a video with a thermal camera.
I did not know about the thermal conductivity of diamond, very interesting. Most people don't use diamond for much of anything because of the cost lol
you should do more of these!
Another interesting thing about vampire bats: they often drink so much blood that they are too heavy to fly. So they run around on the ground, weeing out the excess liquid and flapping their wings, until they're light enough to take off.
I really want to see this some day.
so, ive been deaf in my left ear for as long as i can remember, not since birth, just since i was little, and it always fascinated me that people could locate the source of a noise almost as easily as hearing it
I just found that really interesting video format
And now I'm mad I watched all of it at once...
Thanks for the video 👍👍👍
There is another use of second in sports and military. In Swedish we have a "Sekond" meaning 2nd in command which is XO in english, Executive Officer.
Maybe not a primary use of seconds but hey, good to know. =)
nd simular to the owl yet inverse, i listened to the dialog through my eye lol. thanks steve.
It's worth noting that we humans of course do recognize elevation differences in sound sources (and back/forth placement) and to my understanding it has to do with how the pinna-the outer ear-along with the rest of our body (skull, torso) filter different sound frequencies differently versus how they sound when entering the ear more directly, and apparently it works well enough only if the sound in question is complex enough. I tried moving a simple sine wave vertically and indeed it didn't seem to affect its perceived elevation.
One study mentions giving participants silicone ear moulds which effectively change the outer ears' shape, and indeed all participants had lost their vertical auditory spatial perception at first, but what's interesting is that most also regained it with the moulds completely or partially after wearing them for several days.
I really love these episodes
Saw you at maths fest 2020, your talk was great.
The thing about not noticing that the time measurement and the ordinal number are both called "second" reminds me that English will use the same word for 2 things that have 2 different words in other languages. Like in English "to return" can mean like "I returned from work" or "I returned the book", but I'm Spanish, one of those returns would be (a conjugation of) "regresar" and the other would be "devolver"
Please dont discontinue this! Please
In greek we sometimes use the words first and second minute to tell the time. Also, we use them for the subdivisions of an angle.
Awesome video, Steve👍
Minutes / Seconds - also used to subdivide degrees; as in 'minute of arc' and 'arcseconds'. The former being used in marksmanship, the latter, astronomy.
thanks ! now i get the owl ear thing. and my head went, well, like duh! :) 🦉
and the ear sound mechanism evolved 3 different times so there are 3 different ways they work. must look that up :)
Thing #4: I absolutely second that ;-)
8:13 holy shit that's so freaky! 😨
Today I was astonished that read and read are about the same thing, but in context we (English speaking natives) know how to say them. I read a book yesterday. I am going to read. Remarkable.
I hope you make more of these
I love 5 interesting things!
Honestly, when you said we use time differences to realize where a sound comes from, I never thought of it before.
As I only have one functioning ear, I believed you notice only through difference in volume of sound from where the sound's from, never considered the inconsistency of the sound from both ears albeit as miniscule as it may be
If that inconsistency is perceivable it is only detected and processed unconsciously by our brain. We can't really "counsciously" perceive the delay between the sound coming into one ear before the other. I think it is mostly the difference in volume from one side compared to the other that tells us de direction from which a sound came.
Maybe the wings also act like an extended acoustic cup , like a dome mirror /concave skylight/lens for light focusing sound into a point!
6:20 I see how you did that length of video trick, took me a couple rewinds to see it but well done on not even smirking or anything. Just keeping totally nonchalant!
Hi Steve, I’d love any more interesting things you’re willing to share with us!
In Italian, the old fashioned way to express minutes is indeed "primi".
Still used in motor racing, sometimes, for some reason.
I was hoping to find more interesting things on your website, sadly I did not. I like these, not only are they interesting, they are also funny and easy to digest.