5 Things We Can Learn From Alaska
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Science probably isn’t the first thing that pops into your head when you think about Alaska, but it has a lot to offer when it comes to learning about the world, from cold corals to our behavior.
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Joan Priednieks of Westonzoyland, Somerset, UK, grew a celery plant that measured 2.74 m (9 ft) tall in 1998.
The heaviest celery weighs 42.0 kg (92 lb 9 oz) and was grown by Gary Heeks (UK) and ratified at the CANNA UK National Giant Vegetables Championships, staged at the Malvern Autumn Show in the Three Counties Showground, Malvern, Worcestershire, UK, on 29 September 2018.Sep 29, 2018
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I work in a psych hospital in Anchorage, and the dark months are not the most problematic. March and April - when the light is increasing fast - means a big increase in mania and psychosis. Especially if there is late snow. Late April has a lot of sun and it is light till 10 pm or so, so to add bright white snow makes a big difference. Thanks for the cool video.
This is a really interesting occurrence. Thank you for sharing!
My sister and her husband work at API in Anchorage, I'm on Maui, it's kind of hot today around 80°f
Hello from Kenai!
@@ZeFroz3n0ne907 the peninsula is beautiful
@@kennybooboo3926 I am not at API, but they would tell you the same thing - I have been here a long time
As someone in Fairbanks Alaska, during the long cold dark winter months the gym is a life saver. Weight lifting leaves me feeling alert and refreshed and gets me through to our outstanding summer months
So true.
Video games and liquor
not alcohol.
Kenai here!
@@ZeFroz3n0ne907 Went to high-school down there, 05 to 07. Got to admit, I hated that town...
Alaska has another feature that could be contributing to sweeter vegetables: the cold temperatures. Plants produce sugars to protect themselves from the frost, so the tail end of of them growing season could be forcing them to sweeten up. Brassicas, like broccoli and Brussels sprouts, lose a lot of their bitterness if they’re harvested after the frost.
That is very intriguing; thank you for sharing!
Very intriguing, and yo?
@@sharkeyjabs6145 your first time seeing another Sharkey, too?
Spinach, too?
In Belgium everyone says to pick Brussel sprouts after frost, never before.
SAD is just a part of the Alaskan experience, depression in the winter, not realizing its 9pm in the summer. Its a perfect balance
Will you be my friend?
It's a perfect balance until it isn't. If one is seriously affected by SAD it could lead to a suicidal depression. Fortunately we have light therapy available now.
I've lived in the north most of my life. I pretty much hibernate all winter and live to the fullest during spring, summer and fall.
I was stationed in Fairbanks for 4 1/2 years....never had a problem with SAD myself - biggest problem was losing track of time during the summer. One afternoon some friends and I were cutting down some trees to clear a space for a cabin buld....we stopped to refill saws and sit for a few moments; one of them said they were super hungry and we should take a break and go get something to eat.. We looked at our watches: it was 9:30pm...everything was closed except some fastfood places....
Alaska sucks but do you
As a former resident of Alaska I am so happy to see that once in awhile people remember it exists. Everybody forgets that it's there. Unless a volcano goes off or something. So I wish that you could put on a series about science Alaska. Your thumbnails were just teasers.
SAD is much more complicated than this brief description. Until it is experienced you will not understand the stress of going from 20 hours of light a day (mowing the lawn at midnight) to barely five in just 4 months.
Also about those big vegetables in Matanuska - in reality there is no dark in the summer because the few hours of "night" are so bright. There is enough light to read a newspaper until the sun clears the horizon again.
Heck, I'm in BC and round about parallel with the tip of the Panhandle, and even here, around Midsummer, even though the sun does eventually dip below the horizon (twilight and dawn last *forever* though!), if you're someplace dark you can see a smudge of light circle around the horizon for the three or four darkest hours of the night, before dawn starts up again, tracking where the sun, while below the horizon, never truly quite goes away.
It's pretty neat! I know that only around four hours or so north of me, round about Dease Lake, I think, you get a few days at Midsummer where, even if the Sun does dip below the horizon (not sure if it does), the sky still stays as bright as ever.
There was a de Niro movie back in like the Nineties about a detective who ends up in Alaska on the trail of a crime; he does *not* sleep well in 24-hour daylight! I thought they portrayed that very well, trying to sleep when it's effectively still daytime and will *still be* daytime for *far* too long!
I went to Alaska for spring break once and we did a sunset photo tour. It was at midnight and the sun just dipped below the horizon for a couple hours and it never got very dark
I’d like to go again in the fall or winter to see the northern lights
SAD is a real problem here in Alaska. So is drinking.
They work best to drag you down if you combine them.
As a Swede there is a reason why we focus and spend so much money on our houses, if the sun just start to raise at 9 in the morning, and is fully set and pitch dark by 2 in the afternoon. You have to make things cozy. Winter is the time of year to focus on your close relationships. Have a dinner and board game night with your close friends.
There is reason why Norweigans made Hygge a thing.
But the summers are great! Summer parties where you have hour and hour long sunsets, that go directly into hour and hour long sunrise. So you basically get a never-ending sunset all night. Summers are quite magical here.
It never gets to dark to see or walk home, just a bit dusky.
Autumn and early spring suck. Just wet and cold, and everything is brown, gray, and depressing.
Winter has snow that reflect light even if it's just moonlight, and is quite beautiful. And I will take dry cold over wet cold any day of the week.
It’s nice to see some Alaska representation!! As an Alaskan myself.
I grew up in Fairbanks and spent a lot of time at UAF. I found out that the Tannana Valley is one of the largest Valley's in the world which brings Climatologists from around the world to study it. One affect of it is are the temperature inversions.that happen in winter causing 45° F temperatures when it would normally be -20° F or colder.
Helsinki, Finland is at the same latitude as Anchorage. Finnish strawberries are sugar bombs of delight, so I wonder how good Alaska's berries are.
Very, very good. Blueberries especially
My favorite part of scishow is they give you a couple of ways the information is utilized in greater concepts. It's hard to figure that out as a pleb in a vacuum, but at least now I can grasp some of the importance of what seems like obscure sciences. Thanks scishow!
Shoutout to the UAF and UAA!
Also I loved seeing the giant veggies at the State Fair when I was a kid, biggest in the world!
Grew up in the mat-su, had to hoot when I heard it’s mention. I had all but forgotten, or possibly lost to perception and scale the giant vegetables at the fair.
I just got back from Alaska today. Insanely beautiful state.
I lived in the Great Land for a year in the early 70's with 6 months traveling the state and 3 months each in Anchorage and Juneau. Later I canoed the length of the Yukon R. and made two kayak tours on the Inside Passage from Seattle to Skagway. It is an awesome state and for anyone who wants to experience a wilderness environment with minimum human impact Alaska is the place.
My aunt lived in Fairbanks and used to send us pictures of her cabbages that were big enough to hide behind and tomatoes the size of basketballs. The soil is crazy rich there.
Silt from glacial recession is abundant as is the sun.
For years, I have been suffering from severe depression. Now, I've spent a long time trying to figure out the causes for it. In my case, it's likely partially genetic with a large heap of quite traumatic experiences that I've been subject to both a child and young adult. What I can definitely say is that dark dreary and cold days definitely do not help and tend to be a trigger for depressive episodes. That's why I love warm and sunny days which don't take away depression, but at least tend to make it easier to have positive moments
Depression is insidious. It affects how you perceive the world and while you want to feel happy, it often makes that quite impossible making you feel even more left out and lonely. It has cost me more than one romantic relationship and has dragged me down when it comes to career. I hate it and while I'm in therapy, the depression seems to find ways to eventually evade whatever I can use to fight back at it. I hate it
@Mimi Ja thank you for your kind words. I'm trying to celebrate my accomplishments, but the last few weeks have been real bad. I found out that my ex got married to someone else. I don't blame her of course. We last saw each other 10 years ago, but the way I left her behind wasn't pretty. I just ghosted her. It's been in the last few weeks where a lot of memories seem to be coming back. Stuff that I have seem to have lost access for a long time. Ironically, it's the meds I'm taking that seem to old neural connections to regrow again which is part of the healing process. I just wish I had been given the right meds while I was still with her. At the time though, I just didn't let her know about my inner turmoil. I projected my own insecurities onto her. It was unfair and I know I hurt her emotionally. I wish I could undo that. It's really hard to put into words, but since you're in the same boat I'm sure you know what I mean
@@macbuff81 I can’t say that I’ve felt the same way, but I know people who have. Please, your own sake and for the sake of everyone around you, take care of yourself. No matter how you feel at your lowest, you always deserve care and support. Use all the resources at your disposal, and at least know on some level, deep down, that you’re worth it. I hope you can come to grips with the memories that are coming back. It sounds incredibly scary. You’ll get through it, though.
For years, I have been suffering from severe depression. Now, I've spent a long time trying to figure out the causes for it. In my case, it's likely partially genetic with a large heap of quite traumatic experiences that I've been subject to both a child and young adult. What I can definitely say is that dark dreary and cold days definitely do not help and tend to be a trigger for depressive episodes. That's why I love warm and sunny days which don't take away depression, but at least tend to make it easier to have positive moments
Depression is insidious. It affects how you perceive the world and while you want to feel happy, it often makes that quite impossible making you feel even more left out and lonely. It has cost me more than one romantic relationship and has dragged me down when it comes to career. I hate it and while I'm in therapy, the depression seems to find ways to eventually evade whatever I can use to fight back at it. I hate it
@@PurpleHorse42 Why tf are you trying to make a serious post about depression into a copypasta?
I feel you 100%
As an Alaskan myself, I've never been so quick to click on a video in my notifications.
there are literally dozens of us
Same.
Same! Hi from Anchorage
I have the other type of SAD, where I dread the coming of both light and heat. not much research into it and fewer treatments
Me too. It’s largely socially-driven for me (heat meant I had to stay alone inside + sabbath-observance has conditioned me to really Hate longer days vs shorter nights), but golly summer heat&humidity and late night still daylight are just miserable
It’s a bit better for me now that I live someplace where I can actually enjoy the summer temps, but the days are even longer now + depending on the month there’s hundreds of larvae of multiple species falling from the trees so I just refuse to go outside (I’ll just. Get fresh air from open windows. I guess.)
3:06 forgot to mention the vitamin from Sun you dont get in the winter :)
Vitamin D. This is why UV lamps are sometimes suggested to help both SAD and normal depression. (And may play a small part of the Covid mental health crisis.)
@@Infernoraptor Yes :)
Talking about Alaskan permafrost and sinking buildings, you were actually showing a picture of Dawson City, Yukon, Canada... where there are many historical buildings sinking into the ground like this, including the ones pictured.
Hey, that’s cheating! The old building was in Dawson City, Yukon, not Alaska!
We Alaskans have a bunch of buildings-on-permafrost pics we can suggest … plus I’d have added the CRREL Permafrost Tunnel to awesome science we do here!
I get seasonal depression during the summer months. Those hot, still days just seem more dead than alive to me. I like to be able to see the effects of weather outside of just feeling warm.
Plus, we literally did not evolve to live in humid climates, idk how the rest of humanity tolerates it lmao
I get it in summer, too. Also from a hot&humid climate and hated it. It’s a bit better now that I’ve moved a bit further north…but now it’s daylight at almost 9-10 PM and I kinda hate that. I prefer having longer nights/shorter days (another reason why autumn is my favorite month but winter isn’t bad).
But yeah. It developed in summer for me ‘cause the heat and white haze and fried-to-dust and the only rain being Explosive Storms drove me inside + I didn’t have anyone to socialize with (or remotely NICE). So it’s that heat, isolation, and never-ending days (this one is more of a sabbath-observance thing; growing up we couldn’t do Anything Fun like read or play anything that wasn’t Church Approved so it just really sucked if parents wanted to nap with us all staring at the clock for sunset. Defeated the purpose of sabbath imo, but. I don’t attend regularly anymore or observe it that way. They can stay miserable. I’ll relax with fresh air and pokemon.)
I would think that gym goers with SAD were more likely to be friendly bc they're lonely. If you feel shitty, always remember HALT: hungry, angry, lonely, tired.
I live is the Mat-Su Valley. I found the best way to not get bummed out in the winter is to keep doing things. I also snowboard a lot. If I lay around all day playing video games and drinking alcohol then my sleep gets messed up pretty fast and I'm tired all day. You just got to force yourself to stay busy and productive.
I live in Juneau and I am in love with both seasons of the light. I can have a beach fire in winter, go to bed at like 5 AM and it feels like I'm going to get a full nights sleep. I can have a beach fire in the summer until 5 AM and feel like I've done so much in a night. I can't understand SAD because I am not mentally wired that way. But I do understand the effects of how much Sun light can effect people. It does not effect everyone, I just want to put that out there. Born and raised here, I've come to love it and would be effected the same way if I lived near the Equator.
SAD... whoever named it that did a great job and they knew what they were doing, lol
The same holds true for night shift workers, who are depressed, become recluse , withdrawn, and sad, that is unless they connect and interact with others who are also living a nocturnal lifestyle while the rest of the world sleep.
Will you be my friend?
we don't have winter here but i sometimes get sad ☹️🤪
SAD is a day too
I have it, and unfortunately, moving south to Florida doesn’t get rid of it. It’s a *bit* better than it was when I lived up north from here, but since it also has a tendency to trigger episodes of my major depression, it’s still not great lmao.
In the S.A.D. study, I hypothesise the chatty gym goers are "self-medicating," in a way, because socialising causes the release of serotonin and dopamine. The less chatty folks may simply need less supplementation of these natural neurochemicals. It's also possible that various members of these groups may be eating, drinking, or taking in substances that either lower or raise these neurochemicals. We would need to do a deeper dive into their personal habits, including medical and recreational drug use.
I was wondering if it might be due to people being less conversational in winter, adding onto the difficulty of SAD by not fulfilling social needs as easily.
… by “looking at Alaska.”
JOHN: Thanks for that shout out, Hank
After 10 years of being up here In Fairbanks I'm done. Moving back to FL this summer. I love it here but we don't have any family here anymore and my wife and I are tired of the - 30. But my depression has been severe since living up here. But it's so beautiful I don't want to leave lol.
This video comes out 2 days after I visited Fairbanks and Anchorage.. amazing place!
I think it’d be valuable to reintroduce the reindeer to the island, but then also introduce predators, like wolves. It could be a good 2nd experiment on how to restore a balanced ecosystem and serve as a place of further conservation for those species.
I've noticed how environmentalists love to reintroduce species and restore balance to ecosystems . . . in places where Other people live. I've noticed that California's flag has a picture of a grizzly bear on it. That state hasn't had grizzly bears outside of zoos in well over 100 years. It's well past time to restore balance to California's ecosystem and reintroduce grizzlies to the former wilderness of downtown Los Angeles.
Joan Priednieks of Westonzoyland, Somerset, UK, grew a celery plant that measured 2.74 m (9 ft) tall in 1998.
The heaviest celery weighs 42.0 kg (92 lb 9 oz) and was grown by Gary Heeks (UK) and ratified at the CANNA UK National Giant Vegetables Championships, staged at the Malvern Autumn Show in the Three Counties Showground, Malvern, Worcestershire, UK, on 29 September 2018.Sep 29, 2018
I went to Alaska when I was a kid. I remember being in a motel and waking up to pee at 3am. I peeked out the window and it looked like it was noon. It’s been 15 years and I want to go again.
Excellent video as always :)
I love these videos. Brain food helps us thrive!
"But how,, HOW will you learn things from this great state?"
"Alaska, of course!"
1: its cold a lot
2: bears will eat you
3: so will mountain lions
4: moose are not friendly
5: very very very long night
What's strange is I get more depressed in the summer and when I see snowfall I get the happiest.
Me too. I’ve found a few others who experience that here. You’re not alone. I’m glad he did put a footnote in “but it occurs for some in other seasons too”
Another surprising area of research is unreliable/bad internet connections. Alaska is big and empty, which makes it a great way to test networking theories
Hello from Alaska! Love the channel, wasn't expecting to see this on my list
hearing a science man refer to a type of depression as "SAD" is way more funny than it should be
Woo! Way to go SciShow team for featuring the awesome science we do here in Alaska!
My plants LOVE 18 hours of light. :-)
The lack of sunlight decreases our natural ability to generate vitamin D. After living here for a lifetime, I noticed that not only if I take a larger supplement of vitamin D daily, it helps immensely, but if I take it before bed, I don’t seem to wake up with all the aches and pains that make your day feel more crummy. Anybody who has ever experienced depression knows that for whatever reason, your entire body feels achy and tired. But, just from my own experience, taking the vitamin D before bed has all but eliminated that.
Nobody ever mentioned that. I'll try it.
@@akeleven it isn’t science, it is my experience. If it helps you, you are heartily welcome to it. 🖖🏻
On the topic of island carrying capacity.
A similar thing happened to the last remaining mammoth population on wrangel Island.
Another reason was due to inbreeding.
Inuit were the people to warn NASA that the earth had tilted on it's axis. Not wealthy academics, Inuit with ancestral knowledge that goes back tens of thousands of years. All that technology and we were still the first to notice.
I always thought Alaska as some magical frozen place but as I got older I realized that north Scandinavia is pretty much the same.
I would think the athletic peoples who experience SAD more intensely do so because they're extroverts who get out frequently and interact with others while those who just go to the gym and work out in a more isolated sense are introverts.
During winter in Alaska I'd think there wouldn't be much going on in the way of folks going out and visiting each other.
So just like what happened when lockdowns happened all the extroverted people start going stir crazy and getting depressed and lonely to the point of madness and the introverted people just take it all in stride cause they prefer staying inside and not having much in the way of interaction with others.
As an introvert who keeps to myself and intensely focuses on my workout while at the gym, I agree with your point.
Actually, at least in the more populated areas, there's often as much if not more visiting during the winter months. This is because a lot of work is seasonal, so people have less time to get together in the summer. Except kids, of course, with school being out in the summer and all that.
Oh, and depression is in the winter, but madness is in the spring. Definitely recommend keeping Christmas lights up a few extra weeks in the winter and getting blackout curtains in the spring/summer.
@@SakraIgor0qNomoko When I had a home I always had blackout curtains up all year round and lit as much as i could using warm white LED string lights.
Bob Ross used to say, "God was having a good day when he made Alaska." I hope to visit someday. Beautiful place, I'm sure.
DO IT. Don't live here though, it's garbage. Visit for two weeks in summer.
I went there on a cruise as a kid. It is amazing
@@kibordpengin It depends what you want out of living here. If you are an outdoors person or just love to fish and hunt this can be an amazing place to live.
Yeah it's really scenic, but you'll freeze your butt off.
@@kibordpengin I tell people that all the time, Its beautiful to visit. It will forever be my home, and I miss it every day. I will never move back though.
The Klondike gold rush happened in the Yukon territory in Canada, not in Alaska as I should know as a Canadian myself.
Thank you, I was very bothered by this. Then again, it's still weird to me that the U.S. has Alaska instead of Canada having it. Oh Well.
@@stax6092 It makes a lot more sense to have Alaska be part of Canada, if then also chop off the Alaskan panhandle and merge it to British Columbia to make it look nice and tidy on a map.
@@Rainforestdelight Russia wasn't going to sell its colony to the hated British.
...also, the gold rush passed through Alaska to access the Klondike, via Skagway.
@@stax6092 Then this beautiful place full of personal freedom would be ruined by canadian oppressive laws.
I dread everytime i ever had to step foot in canada.
I passed through there with a blowdart in my truck i bought as a novelty toy at cabelas. I was briefly detained and fined for “smuggling an assassins weapon into canada”. Yeah, no. They treat their citizens as their personal babies. 😖
An Assassin’s weapon. Lmao. geez
People over 40 are less likely to have SAD - in Alaska.
Maybe people who are badly affected by SAD are less likely to move to, or stay in a place with long dark cold season?
This is something a lot of people from south of the arctic circle think, it is dark in winter here. Even though I haven't seen the sun for 1,5 months just a while back, it was still light. Even on december 21st we get about 4 hours of light even though we are 300 km north of the arctic circle. The light of the sun reflects from behind the horizon and because of the snow it is so light, the couple of streetlights we have around here don't need to be on.
Alaska also grows some of the most beautiful flowers for florists to use!
Thank you for this wonderful video!
To be fair, I wouldn't have associated Montana with science (other than paleontology). But the Greens taught me otherwise. Challenge biases!
Yep, we all go crazy up here every winter. Buildings melting into the soil. Microbes and greenhouse gasses everywhere. Dead reindeer...
Really sucks.
Funny. The US Navy and Army did a similar deer experiment on the island of Culebra, a municipality of Puerto Rico.
How does vegetable growth in Alaska compare with growth in Lapland?
not sure about lapland but the soil is also very rich in Alaska which probably helps a lot.
"Just because you live together doesn't mean you're friends"
I think the scriptwriter has a problem with his roommate.
As someone who lives in Anchorage the season change really gets to me
I bet its not so much the change, as its anchorage. Its the absolute worst place in Alaska to live or even pass through. Its existence is necessary as a hub, but its truly a garbage pit of drug addicts and a poorly laid out city.
I lived in Kodiak and Dutch Harbor for 4 years, and worked on a ship in the Arctic Ocean for 3 years. First thought, you're only talking about Anchorage. That's like talking about the continental United States, but only talking about things in Chicago. (Alaska is huge.)
1. There may be sun, but it's still pretty cold year-round.
2. The other problem is that there's very little soil. It's sometimes only an inch or two deep, meaning only grasses can grow there.
And randomly, after I jokingly said a video was "sponsored by brilliant" and pulled out a hundred year old brilliant brand cast iron waffle maker, and after I jokingly sang Phish's song Alaska in another video, you guys post "things we can learn from Alaska sponsored by brilliant." The funny thing is you are not the only one, I had no clue that "brilliant" or "Alaska" were gonna be trending topic words when I did these things. I was just trying to be silly, before commenting on very serious news articles.
glad to hear alot of intersting things is going on there, plan to visit
Hi from Anchorage! 👋 It's so cool to see a video about my state.
I am in high school in new england and I really want to move to alaska when I'm older. I love nearly everything about it.
Me my BF want to eventually have our forever home in Alaska. He loves the cold weather.
Ah, home. My new favorite episode
Excellent video
Picture of the two buildings sinking because of the permafrost melt is Dawson City, Yukon. Worth a visit. Wish I could afford to go back
Alaska is beautiful
Thank you for covering Alaska! We tend to get misrepresented a lot or not payed attention to. We are more than our oil and fish! We are very diverse in almost everything including people!
Not a climate change disputer we have villages being eaten by winter storms because therre is no sea ice to buffer them. That said, the houses sinking into the permafrost isn't because of global warming, its because of improper insulated foundations allowing the heat from the home melt surrounding permafrost. I worked for a company that would go in and do cold abatment for sinking buildings in Fairbanks.
Also, I noticed people born in Alaska don't seem to suffer from SAD as much transplants. I wonder if the numbers back my observation.
The transplants bit might be partly due to diet. One of the effects of low light is reduced vitamin D production, but a traditional alaskan diet (lots of salmon, etc.) is very high in vitamin D, so deficiencies are less likely to occur than with a typical American diet.
@@halforest1118 True. I fill my freezer with salmon, halibut and snapper and anything else I pull out of the depths all summer, They make up ⅓ of my diet. Funny how your body craves the things it needs if you pay attention.
I think those of us that do well up here have the ability to just roll with whatever comes our way. 'Plans change' and 'weather permitting' are a normal part of our vocabulary. We tend to make the best out of whatever the season gives us to work with not letting it get us down because we know it will soon change. Old timer made me laugh when he said "Enjoy the slack time when ya get it cuz its going to be assholes and elbows any minute now." Damn if he wasn't right.
Mixing two of my favorite things, Scishow and the Final Frontier, true wilderness, big ole state of Alaska, into one video? This is gonna be good.
Edit: nevermind, this one was kind of a bummer.
Alaska looks so amazing! I would love to go there. Must be so hard to be in dark so Lang. Nothing harder than flughting your own brain with depression. 🥰
Not getting enough sun in the winter up here is a big deal. I had a doctor tell me once that nearly everyone she sees has a vitamin d deficiency.
Good job
I'm Alaskan, and I didn't know some of these things weren't normal.
Though as I've gotten older, I've noticed a specific "season" for the end of SAD. Near the start of the year, more people tend to pass away from their own means.
Alaskan tip here! Happy lights help with SAD it helps my Mom in winter. I hope this helps!
(P.S. If you ever have the chance try a raindeer dog they are amazing!)
This is cool and 36 crazyfists is awesome!🤘🏽
Sitting in dark sweden with a case of S. A. D. :(
*offers virtual hug*
My firsthand knowledge of Alaska comes from spending a month there. Mainly in Denali, Fairbanks, and Haines. But, here’s five things I learned.
Unbelievable beauty; flora, fauna, skies, and land.
Friendly people.
Be afraid of moose. Very afraid.
Buy DEET by the railroad-car load.
The Alaskan ferry system is a treasure.
i have an issue with the reindeer part, you left out the Sami involvement, like, the part of the vid seemed to omit AK native and Sami history regarding why they were brought up as an emergency food source
The video referenced a very specific historical event on a very specific island, at a very specific time. If this were a broader discussion on the history of the domestication of caribou (reindeer) then I would agree that they should also go into Alaska Native involvement in the industry.
As for Sami and Alaska Native peoples, you seem to know the difference, but for those not in the know, the Sami and the Alaska Native people are very different. With very different cultures, languages, and geographic locations; the Sami are indigenous to the north of Norway and Sweden. They do have similar hunter-gatherer histories (but then again, so do we all).
The Sami and Alaska Native peoples hunted caribou throughout much of their histories, however it was the Sami who domesticated the caribou to create the reindeer back in the 1600s, according to certain sources. The earliest evidence we have of Alaska Native peoples domesticating caribou is the late 1890s, well after the beginning of Alaska’s colonial history. No need to go to the trouble of domesticating animals when there’s an abundance of game to simply go out and hunt like your people have done since time immemorial. Or so it seems.
I do however, appreciate where your heart is. History is all-too-often Whitewashed and the contributions of our indigenous brothers and sisters are spoken of only in passing, if at all. And that needs to change.
Happy first day of Black History Month to you as well. I hope you will join me in standing as an ally and co-conspirator with our African American brothers and sisters as well.
#IndigenousLivesMatter
#BlackLivesMatter
#StopHate
alaskool.org/projects/reindeer/history/iser1969/rdeer_1.html
www.laits.utexas.edu/sami/diehtu/siida/hunting/jonsa.htm
"You know how Alaska has sweeter produce?" "No. Not really."
By coincidence we are vacationing in Alaska this week. Several additional things that we have learned from Alaska include factors that cause Aurorae and other upper atmospheric phenomenon.
I live in interior alaska. The one thing they never tell you on the internet Northern Lights photos, is that they absolutely do not look like the pictures in real life. Every photo is enhanced by the long exposure.
In reality, it looks like fuzzy white/barely green clouds. Put a long exposure camera to it and BAM! purple ribbons and neon green streaks galore. Put the camera down and look up again…… soft fuzzy white/barely green clouds.
Countless people come up every winter hoping to see those internet pics and leave underwhelmed.
A lot of lessons for _all_ of us, certainly! From the Climate Crisis, to overpopulation, to antibiotic resistance, and the rest, all are relevant to all of us. More relevant than I'm sure many want to think about, too.
The Klondike Gold Rush took place in the Yukon not Alaska. The Yukon is in Canada. Alaska did have its own golf rush tho.
GOOD show, sci-folx.
1:00 has a very phallic growth 😂
Hello SciShow, I wad wondering if you could do a video about negative Volume, if its possible and how it could look like. Ive seen a few videos on negative mass, but how woulf negative volume behave?
And now imagine if photosynthesis wasnt only 2% effective...
Alaska has very narrow maritime border between a foreign country, Russia, and on the other side the land boundary that they have with Canada. Their next door neighbors are foreign countries.
They're in the state that Gov Palin was the executive of.
I looked at the thumbnail and was like
"Got it. This is a video about a goat named Alaska."
Am wondering if there is SAD for those of us in subtropical areas. My point being is that it is soo hot 🥵 day AND night and as such leads to the inability to sleep 🛌 comfortably. You could add air conditioning, but that has its own respiratory afflictions. I would put forward that, it is not only light; but temperatures that need further investigation?
There’s people who are definitely affected by it during summer instead, myself included. Humid heat definitely plays a role. It forces you to stay in if you can’t tolerate it. Haze white sky and fried to dust plants with only a brief relief from explosive severe weather is also a factor-it’s so depressing to look at + sucks to be you if your home doesn’t have a place to shelter. I never lost my home but I’ve been in storms that wiped out communities just a few miles a direction instead and I’m still twitchy if the wind gets too strong. Long days are also miserable, especially for religious subcultures that bar Fun until After Dark (that alone has me preferring No Daylights Saving + Fall&Winter) but are still disorienting for everyone-your body wants to sleep but it’s still light (or for kids: being told to sleep “in the middle of the day”) …but that one’s a bit more Earth Axis than Heat but Still Summer (and some places get both)
If someone has a healthy social group, Summer SAD can be tolerated a bit. But if not? It’s Hell outside and a Void inside, made worse by keeping lights off to not generate heat (since even with AC and good bulbs the heat and energy bill are still There)
high risk of SAD!
I've been Looking for Alaska for years. Maybe Hank could get John to write a book for us with some pointers 😉
So what are we going to do to protect ourselves when all this antibiotic resistance gets unleashed from the melting permafrost?
I've lived in Alaska for over 22 years now, weed helps.
The reindeer may have had a shot if wolves were introduced
The reindeer learned the lesson of the Tragedy of the Commons better than we ever did...yet