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Monday 21 April 2014

The Best Pencil Ever Made



There is a pencil so amazing that someone was buried with it! GMM 289
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What Color is Your Blood?

What color is your blood. Red, right? Well, actually, yes. So why does it look blue when you see it through your skin? And is everyone's blood always the same color red (spoiler: no)? Do all animals have red blood ('nother spoiler: no!)? And why is red blood red anyway? Hank gives you the facts on vampires' favorite
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Why We Have Pain, & How We Kill It

Hank makes it all better by explaining the biochemistry of pain -- how it works, why we have it, and how painkillers, whether they're over the counter or heavy-duty prescription bad boys, make the pain go away.
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What Happens when you Stop Eating?

You know what starvation is, but do you know what it does to you? Hank walks you through the three major metabolic phases of starvation, from burning sugars to, basically, self-cannibalism.
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What Happens If You Go Without Water?

Sorry! This is a re-upload of an episode that went live earlier today. Thank you to all the fans of SciShow who helped us out by pointing out an error in the original upload and thank you for bearing with us and understanding that these kinds of things do happen from time to time!

Ever wondered what happens to your body if you don't get enough water? Our bodies are mostly water by weight, so in today's episode of SciShow Hank explains what happens to your body as it starts to shut down when you go without that tasty H2O.

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Animals That Do Drugs

Turns out humans aren't the only animals that can medicate themselves - many other animals have found ways to deal with illness by using natural remedies. Hank will tell you about some of the most interesting methods animals have found to heal themselves, and maybe get a little crazy in the process.
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Why Do Cats Purr?

he smaller members of the felid family can purr, but why? Hank takes on this most adorable of life's mysteries in todays episode of SciShow.

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Is SHARKNADO Possible?

Well? Is it?
No.
But that doesn't mean that this ... bizarre ... attempt at cinema doesn't raise some interesting questions. Questions that we will explore in this episode of SciShow. Hold on to your buckets!

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The Door to Hell

In this episode of SciShow, Hank talks about a crater in Turkmenistan that has been on fire for decades and has earned itself the title of: The Door to Hell!
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The Door to Hell

n this episode of SciShow, Hank talks about a crater in Turkmenistan that has been on fire for decades and has earned itself the title of: The Door to Hell!
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Sun VS. Atomic Bomb

Hank puts the immense power of the sun into perspective through comparison with the most powerful nuclear bomb ever detonated.
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Absolute Zero: Absolute Awesome

Hank explains absolute zero: -273.15 degrees Celsius - and the coldest place in the known universe may surprise you.
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Why Aren't There Giant Insects?

Hank and physiologist Jon Harrison discuss the question of insect size and major theories that attempt to explain why there is a limit to how large insects can get with current conditions on Earth.
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Facts about Human Evolution

Hank brings you the facts, as they are understood by scientists today, about the evolution of humans from our humble primate ancestors. On the way to becoming Homo sapiens, game-changing evolutionary breakthroughs led to the development of many hominin species, now all extinct. Hank will introduce us to these species & the breakthroughs responsible for their development, and help us understand the awesome ways in which they led to us.
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The End of Everything

Hank gives us an inclusive overview of how everything in the universe is thought to have begun, and how cosmologists predict it will all come to an end. Now get happy!
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What Happens if Your Body is Exposed to the Vacuum of Space?

Hank explains where that over-simplified image of evolution comes from and what it is actually supposed to mean.

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What Happens if Your Body is Exposed to the Vacuum of Space?

Hank answers a SciShow viewer's most pressing question about what happens if the human body gets exposed to space. Would your head really explode?
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Amazing Creatures of the Deep Ocean HD

Amazing Creatures of the Deep Ocean HD

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The Evolution of Venom - Who is The Most Poisonous?


An amazing Documentary on the Evolution of Venom. Who has the most poisonous Venom of all? Spiders, Snakes, Scorpions or someone else?
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Snake Island (Full Length Documentary)


The highest concentration of one of the most venomous snakes in the world is located about 90 miles off the coast of Santos, Brazil, on a small, craggy chunk of otherwise uninhabitable land. It's known as Ilha da Queimada Grande, or Snake Island, and it's the only place you will find 2,000 or so of the wholly unique golden lancehead viper, or Bothrops insularis.

When you step ashore, with a keen eye you spot one of these snakes roughly every 10 to 15 minutes after clearing the base of the island, and as many as one every six square yards in other parts of the island. This means, as you are walking through the waist-high brush, even with some good boots on, it's like walking through a minefield that moves and, instead of blowing you into chunks, slowly paralyzes you and liquefies your insides, as the golden lancehead does to the migrating birds it feeds on in the treetops.

Well, "liquefying your insides" may be a stretch, but no one knows for sure because no one bitten has lived long enough even to be admitted to a hospital, or at least none of the researchers who accompanied VICE on their journey to Snake Island owned up to that fact. Nor did the Brazilian Navy, who allowed VICE exclusive access to document their annual maintenance inspection of Snake Island's lighthouse—which has been automated ever since the 1920s, after the old lighthouse keeper ran out of food and disappeared while picking wild bananas in a small grove near the shore. According to legend, he and the members of his rescue party died one by one, all alone and in search of one another after each had been missing for some time.

The golden lancehead is so unique and its venom so potent that specimens procured by snake-smuggling "biopirates" can fetch up to $30,000 apiece on the black market (with prices going much higher depending on the location of the rich weirdo snake collector or, some have speculated, the black-market biopharmaceutical chemists attempting to beat Brazil on a patent).

Is that the craziest fucking description of a documentary you've ever heard? The answer is yes. So of course VICE's editor-in-chief, Rocco Castoro, and senior producer, Jackson Fager, had to go there and nose around for themselves. On their return they said things like:

"It was like a David Lynch movie through the prism of Satan's asshole. The anti-Galápagos. Darwin in reverse."

"[It's] cut off from the mainland and perhaps the land of a long-buried pirate treasure, according to the stories from local fishermen. But they also told us there were aliens on the island, so pretty much anything goes. It's scorched earth. It's where I would send my worst enemies to live, and I look forward to setting up a business with the Brazilian government to do just that. After the World Cup, of course."

"What I can tell you is that there are stone fucking steps hand-carved into the face of one of the prominent cliffs, all the way up. But you can't dock anywhere near there. There's also the possibility that [the venom] could be used for an anti-cancer drug, or perhaps anti-aging. Maybe it could save mankind. Whatever. They wouldn't have saved my ass."

"There are blue locusts and so many of these weird, prehistoric-looking cockroaches on the ground at night that it crunches when you walk. Place is fucked. No one is allowed there for a reason. Don't ever go."

"All that said, great shoot. Great diving, too."

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HOW DOES HE DO THAT?!?!?!?!?


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Crazy Chris is checking out levitation and shows you how to levitation a tonfoil ball right at home!

Objective: to understand how magicians make things appear to levitate.

Materials Needed:
~ Tinfoil
~ Thread

If we break this down step by step we can figure out how this was accomplished.

Step 1) First thing we notice is that the tin foil ball seems to float in mid air, this means there must be a string attached to the tin foil ball.

Step 2) Second thing we notice is that the ball always seems to follow the magicians hands, which means the magician is using his hands to guide the string.

Step 3) Third thing we notice is the magician passes the tin foil ball around his body, which means the tin foil ball isnt attached to the hands but instead attached to another object perhaps off screen or the magicians body some where.

When ever you see something floating there's always something causing the object to float in mid air.

!!!LEVITATION TRICK REVEALED!!!

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!!!LEVITATION TRICK REVEALED!!!
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How To Float Things Without Strings! MAGIC REVEALED!

No Thread? No Problem! Learn how to make objects levitate in an impromptu fashion using everyday items and no expensive gimmicks in this Free Magic Revealed Tutorial by Mike St. Clair ScreamfreakRewind! No invisible thread needed! T4BA!
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How To Know If You Have ADHD

I'm no doctor, but if you can relate to this video, you're probably just as messed up in the head as I am.

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