Tyronethe3rd i could be wrong but i think it's because when you pour the hot water on it causes a rapid change of temperature and therefore a rapid change of pressure, also it starts to sublimate which also increases the pressure. You put that in a bottle and it will tear it up since it will have no room to escape. Ice is somewhat similar, it will crack in the part where the pressures differ the most.
That my friend is thermal expansion. When an object is heated the molecules become more energetic, causing them to begin shaking faster and spread out.
@Tj Cowan - But water is an exception to that. Water is a bipolar molecule, and unlike most other materials, it expands when it gets cold. Any expansion would be from the gas bubbles inside the ice, not the ice itself.
I'm really glad to know they're other people like me who just randomly pop weird scenarios in their head, and actually talk about it lol. most people are too scared to show a bit of weirdness.
Anthropology has taught me that much like evolution, environments shape dialects and accents. 12:00 That's a very important factoid sally glossed over.
when I was 5 years old I enjoyed jalapenos and peperoncinis but I've recently been significantly more vulnerable to spicy foods and I've also noticed I appreciate flavors more thoroughly
Its not a fat in milk that does the trick to spiciness but the milk protein. The thing is that capsicin has sort of "waxy" structure so casein covers that so its being washed out afterwards.
the Australian accent actually comes from generations of children learning English from their drunk parents. its why our vocabulary is smaller than most other English speaking countries
When Sally was talking about accent changes between America and England, I thought it was both rather than one or the other. I thought that because America wasn't interacting with England as much their accent changed (much like how Australian accent is different than English), and then Victorian England would change their accent away from the 17th and 18th century accents. Even Gus was getting it. I think I might have heard about birds having different pitch volumes but I don't think I attributed to them having accents. Interesting.
Note to Sally: there's more than just capsaicin that is spicy to us. Peperine, gingerol, and there's some others that I can't remember off the top of my head that cause spiciness. Also, capsaicin is alcohol soluble too, so that will help things as well. Hmm, tequila is popular with spicy foods...
Since capsaicin binds to the heat receptors in the tongue, and eating spicy food reduces the effect in future meals. Does that mean people who eat a lot of spicy food can also eat hotter food temperature wise than non-spicy food eaters?
Not trying to be rude but It's the TRPV1 receptor that it binds to, which the main function of is to detect heat. That's why it feels hot, not just painful.
actually in canada we're losing a lot of our accents! It's to the degree where an older person may have a very distinct, say, newfoundland accent, and a young person from the same place will sound completely dissimilar with a standard canadian accent. This standard accent sounds nearly identical to the standard american accent.
I’m a complete theatre history nerd, so i’m going to have to call you out on that ‘American accents sound closet to old English accents’. The old English accent sounded more like the modern Scottish accent. Often this is refered to in the theatre world as OP, or original pronounciation. Pronouncing Shakespeare plays in this way actual reveal a lot of hidden jokes that are lost by pronouncing in RP (recieved pronouncation). Such as ‘from forth the fatal loins of these two foes’ in Romeo and Juliet. In OP loins and lines sound exactly the same and it was meant to be a play-on-words about the lines of the script, and the loins/lines of the family. American accents however evolved out of an elogation and relaxation of the sounds in the English accent. Similar to how today we get quirks like the Vocal Fry, younger generations have often relaxed the formal sounds of the older generation creating a more ‘lazy’ acccent. The southern accent came from this devoltion of the upper class accent, similar to the modern RP, as most early settlers in the south were wealthy aristocrats. In the north however, where more settlers were working class, the dialect and eccent evolved from the OP accent.
I bet coating your mouth in peanut butter would be a great way to make the heat go away. Or you'll just be crying from pain while choking on a mouth full of peanut butter
In yorkshire in the UK we're renowned for only saying the "T" to replace the word "the" (Despite what some think, not every use of the, but a lot) e.g. Off to t'pub. With a glutterol stop kind of thing right after the t. (Also reet and neet, instead of right and night, that's not relevant, it's just language is fun.)
In London, they say 'woughter' As in: 'The woughter in Majorca don't taste quite like what it oughta' But the 't' is a glottal stop, so more like 'wough'a' with a hard a. And ough'a. And the Majorca would replce the J with a W, sowould be Majowka. Ther, hope this helps.
JhericFury in the part of Yorkshire i'm from (Scarborough), ut top ut stairs is a perfectly acceptable sentence haha. Yorkshire accent is a mess. Dropped H, intrusive T, missing words like "I'm off 'ospital cause I've me nose".
While this has more impact on language, the use of slang and jargon can also create unique dialects and, to a degree, accents. Surfers started as a subset of Cali accent, but blended with Hippie slang and became it's own kind of subgroup.
The discussion of variations within a language caused by isolation isn't an accent, it's a dialect. Accent is a carryover from a native language to a different language, like when a native German speaker is speaking English.
Joshua Lacy Except here are very distinct accents within languages, even with minimal dialect variation. An accent is a regional moniker, just as a dialect is. If a man from Liverpool stops using Liverpool dialect words , he want lose his Liverpool accent and start sounding like a Londoner.
Before I even hear Sally drag Chris' explanation of accents. I'm gonna have a go at it. If I remember correctly, all kids have the potential, when small, to make all the sounds humans make in the world--phlegm-y ch's, weird polish dz and cz noises, etc--but as they grow and learn the language immediately around them, it sorta becomes muscle memory, the sounds that particular language makes, to the point where, even when learning to speak another language, it's often difficult to pronounce it like a true native speaker. You are trained to be better at making certain sounds to speak your own language. That's all.
Was anyone else hoping when Chris said "people are just being lazy sloppy about accents" that Sally would say "how very dare you Sir!" and slap him with a glove?
Is this show on iTunes? All of the other RT podcast productions are. I haven't been keeping up with this show because I listen to most of their podcasts while I'm on the car
Why do humans have such a range in thermoregulating? For example,someone can feel very cold and another person in the same room can be even burning up or sweating.
I actually think that the thing about humans eating spicy food and seeking sensations is because we're bored. Yeah it's our brain inability to be bored. It was proven that we would rather cause pain to ourselves than be deprived of stimulus. Plus think of it in which places natives eat spicy food. Rural environments places of low external stimulae.
I remember reading somewhere that some chimpanzees in the wild have been observed habitually eating ants which produce an irritant that acts similarly to capsaicin. Don't ask me for a source though I have no idea where I read it exactly.
Having somebody with a strong accent plopped into a group without it (say Gavin into AH), the group can start picking up little bits and pieces of vocabulary and accents, inflections, etc. and change the local accent. I mean seriously how many AH regulars use words like gubs and bevs IRL because of AH?
Laziness in language created the Australian language... we drop all the word endings and other letters like to add o's to things. G'day, this arvo, utes, bevs, Aussie etc. most english words, despite being our origin language, we will have a different word for :)
No, she has a British accent. Accent is the way people pronounce words. Dialects are the differences in words used. Chris gave the example of "y'all". It is a part of a dialect because it is a different word/combination of words. It can still be pronounced with a British, Texan or whatever accent. In other words, a word can be pronounced with any accent. A word isn't part of an accent, it is part of a dialect.
That specific example is more dialect, but many accents can also be from laziness. As another southern example: dropping the "G" on words ending in "ing". Or any proliferation of dropped sounds ("H" is a popular one in some British accents). It starts as sloppy or lazy speech, but becomes understood and then more efficient.
wait my dog loves hot cheetos almost as much as I do years ago I gave him one to make him stop begging I thought he'd smell it and turn up his nose or put it in his mouth and immediately drop it but he ate it and has been addicted ever since so much so that if I have a bag I have to keep it on the top shelf to keep him from getting into them
a weird question: i'm writing a fantasy story and decided that fire-mages should use their digestive gases as ammo. just so i know how much i'm working with, how much space is in the human digestive and repritory systems? (liters please)
If the Earth didn't have a massive area of molten lava in the core of it, could you dig completely straight down? No turning or spinning or anything. If so, would you end up upside down on the other side of the Earth?
They should have different variations of this show with different types of science. Like have an astronomer answering astronomy related questions instead of a biologist.
With the whole accent thing, is it true that the midwestern American accent is considered the easiest to understand? That's what I've always heard, but I'm from the midwest, so I don't know how much I can trust that. Now that I think about it though, I don't think I've ever seen a piece of media where someone has a hard time understanding that accent. It's always the reverse.
i had a pet rat that loved chilli. she was a fussy eater. she didnt like her food blocks and only some of the seeds in her seed mix. the rats i have now as much as they want what i eat. they dont like chilli
I love how Chris's shirt never changes but Sally's does
Why does ice explode when warm water is pored onto it? This weekend I had a piece of ice pop out of the damn cup.
Tyronethe3rd i could be wrong but i think it's because when you pour the hot water on it causes a rapid change of temperature and therefore a rapid change of pressure, also it starts to sublimate which also increases the pressure. You put that in a bottle and it will tear it up since it will have no room to escape. Ice is somewhat similar, it will crack in the part where the pressures differ the most.
That my friend is thermal expansion. When an object is heated the molecules become more energetic, causing them to begin shaking faster and spread out.
@Tj Cowan - But water is an exception to that. Water is a bipolar molecule, and unlike most other materials, it expands when it gets cold. Any expansion would be from the gas bubbles inside the ice, not the ice itself.
Tyronethe3rd I'm not so sure about that. If that were the way you stated boiling water would condense it into ice and freezing it would produce steam.
Water is at it's most dense at around 4 degrees Celsius. So Ice AND warmer water are both less dense.
Sally mentioned sensation crisps. What's all of your favourite flavours?
Mines Thai sweet chilli
King Nigroin what colour are they
They are the red ones
Last time I was this early Chris wore a different shirt
I'm really glad to know they're other people like me who just randomly pop weird scenarios in their head, and actually talk about it lol. most people are too scared to show a bit of weirdness.
I love this show. You guys should try to get someone like Bill Nye, or Neil deGrasse Tyson on your show.
yo, start social disorder again! its been 2 years, that show was dope
Thanks for all the hard work you guys put into these videos for us :]
Thank you, so much! This just video sparked the ideas I needed to complete my essay!
I cited you guys on my term paper about the risk and reward response in the section about spicy food. You're an official scholarly resource!
I really need more people to watch A Spot of Science so they'll keep making it.
This was the best episode of anything RT has made ever.
Anthropology has taught me that much like evolution, environments shape dialects and accents.
12:00 That's a very important factoid sally glossed over.
when I was 5 years old I enjoyed jalapenos and peperoncinis but I've recently been significantly more vulnerable to spicy foods and I've also noticed I appreciate flavors more thoroughly
Chris's shirt is making me want to play Earthbound.
I'm early...
Really love this series btw! Always informative.
Can we please give Chris a red hat to complete his Ness cosplay already?
I feel like Chris and Sally get closer and closer every week.
Its not a fat in milk that does the trick to spiciness but the milk protein. The thing is that capsicin has sort of "waxy" structure so casein covers that so its being washed out afterwards.
the Australian accent actually comes from generations of children learning English from their drunk parents. its why our vocabulary is smaller than most other English speaking countries
Dr Damn I learned this from Ned Stark: Australian Dad
Best show on RT in a long while
When Sally was talking about accent changes between America and England, I thought it was both rather than one or the other. I thought that because America wasn't interacting with England as much their accent changed (much like how Australian accent is different than English), and then Victorian England would change their accent away from the 17th and 18th century accents. Even Gus was getting it. I think I might have heard about birds having different pitch volumes but I don't think I attributed to them having accents. Interesting.
It was like Gus was staring into my soul with that Blue Apron ad read, holy damn
Note to Sally: there's more than just capsaicin that is spicy to us. Peperine, gingerol, and there's some others that I can't remember off the top of my head that cause spiciness.
Also, capsaicin is alcohol soluble too, so that will help things as well. Hmm, tequila is popular with spicy foods...
My daughter loved spicy food, at the age of 2 or 3 she'd eat chips at Lahacienda, and she got the salsa one time and loved it.
Sally's accents are adorkable.
Since capsaicin binds to the heat receptors in the tongue, and eating spicy food reduces the effect in future meals. Does that mean people who eat a lot of spicy food can also eat hotter food temperature wise than non-spicy food eaters?
Curtis Hart pain receptors not heat receptors
Not trying to be rude but It's the TRPV1 receptor that it binds to, which the main function of is to detect heat. That's why it feels hot, not just painful.
Near the end of Sally's New York accent she kinda turned into John Travolta. Loved it.
Always enjoy these!
actually in canada we're losing a lot of our accents! It's to the degree where an older person may have a very distinct, say, newfoundland accent, and a young person from the same place will sound completely dissimilar with a standard canadian accent. This standard accent sounds nearly identical to the standard american accent.
I have/had 3 birds that absolutely love spicy peppers, 2 Macaws and an African Grey
Can we make a kickstarter for a new shirt for Chris?
I went to Europe about 10 years ago, and I did notice that the dogs' barking sounded different that what I was use to.
Omg Sally is sooooo amazing, pretty and smart af
one of my cats likes chilli quite a bit, and one of my dogs absolutely cannot get enough jalapeno cheeto's
I’m a complete theatre history nerd, so i’m going to have to call you out on that ‘American accents sound closet to old English accents’.
The old English accent sounded more like the modern Scottish accent. Often this is refered to in the theatre world as OP, or original pronounciation. Pronouncing Shakespeare plays in this way actual reveal a lot of hidden jokes that are lost by pronouncing in RP (recieved pronouncation). Such as ‘from forth the fatal loins of these two foes’ in Romeo and Juliet. In OP loins and lines sound exactly the same and it was meant to be a play-on-words about the lines of the script, and the loins/lines of the family.
American accents however evolved out of an elogation and relaxation of the sounds in the English accent. Similar to how today we get quirks like the Vocal Fry, younger generations have often relaxed the formal sounds of the older generation creating a more ‘lazy’ acccent. The southern accent came from this devoltion of the upper class accent, similar to the modern RP, as most early settlers in the south were wealthy aristocrats. In the north however, where more settlers were working class, the dialect and eccent evolved from the OP accent.
I bet coating your mouth in peanut butter would be a great way to make the heat go away. Or you'll just be crying from pain while choking on a mouth full of peanut butter
ycart3285 the later. totally just the later.
Joe Dissolvo ladder*
Omar Salinas no.
@Omar you're wrong too lol. It's latter. Ladder is the thing you climb.
it comes down to learned traits vs inherited traits
talking about the change between sides of the city. think north Dublin and south Dublin there's huge difference.
I hope Chris and Sally get together. They're adorable.
I'm surprised they didn't talk about how the different sounds used in different languages alter people's accents.
In Michigan nobody pronounces "T" right, like when we say "water" its "Wader"
Ugo318 I confirm, we are also very nasally
yes we are :)
In yorkshire in the UK we're renowned for only saying the "T" to replace the word "the" (Despite what some think, not every use of the, but a lot) e.g. Off to t'pub. With a glutterol stop kind of thing right after the t. (Also reet and neet, instead of right and night, that's not relevant, it's just language is fun.)
In London, they say 'woughter' As in: 'The woughter in Majorca don't taste quite like what it oughta' But the 't' is a glottal stop, so more like 'wough'a' with a hard a. And ough'a. And the Majorca would replce the J with a W, sowould be Majowka. Ther, hope this helps.
JhericFury in the part of Yorkshire i'm from (Scarborough), ut top ut stairs is a perfectly acceptable sentence haha. Yorkshire accent is a mess. Dropped H, intrusive T, missing words like "I'm off 'ospital cause I've me nose".
7:37 My fave example: Australian Ravens vs North American Ravens
While this has more impact on language, the use of slang and jargon can also create unique dialects and, to a degree, accents. Surfers started as a subset of Cali accent, but blended with Hippie slang and became it's own kind of subgroup.
The discussion of variations within a language caused by isolation isn't an accent, it's a dialect. Accent is a carryover from a native language to a different language, like when a native German speaker is speaking English.
Joshua Lacy Except here are very distinct accents within languages, even with minimal dialect variation. An accent is a regional moniker, just as a dialect is. If a man from Liverpool stops using Liverpool dialect words , he want lose his Liverpool accent and start sounding like a Londoner.
I love this show
Before I even hear Sally drag Chris' explanation of accents. I'm gonna have a go at it. If I remember correctly, all kids have the potential, when small, to make all the sounds humans make in the world--phlegm-y ch's, weird polish dz and cz noises, etc--but as they grow and learn the language immediately around them, it sorta becomes muscle memory, the sounds that particular language makes, to the point where, even when learning to speak another language, it's often difficult to pronounce it like a true native speaker. You are trained to be better at making certain sounds to speak your own language. That's all.
sally and chris sorta fit together in a sit com kinda way
I kinda wanna see a show where Sally is this scientist superhero and Chris is her comic-relief sidekick....
i heard dairy has a thingamajig in it called casein that binds with capsaicin but i just know milk works.
the remedy for hot pepper is strong peppermint candy or peppermint gums
Dang it. Senpei Sally notice me! Her intelligence is the most alluring thing in the world.
Was anyone else hoping when Chris said "people are just being lazy sloppy about accents" that Sally would say "how very dare you Sir!" and slap him with a glove?
Is this show on iTunes? All of the other RT podcast productions are. I haven't been keeping up with this show because I listen to most of their podcasts while I'm on the car
new T-shirt, "The cows up north are different to the cows down south."
Why do humans have such a range in thermoregulating? For example,someone can feel very cold and another person in the same room can be even burning up or sweating.
"Would you like to have... a Sensation?"
I actually think that the thing about humans eating spicy food and seeking sensations is because we're bored. Yeah it's our brain inability to be bored. It was proven that we would rather cause pain to ourselves than be deprived of stimulus. Plus think of it in which places natives eat spicy food. Rural environments places of low external stimulae.
Universal language? I've been learning Esperanto. Thought it would be interesting after learning this was it's initial purpose.
Why is this not available on the podcast app
I remember reading somewhere that some chimpanzees in the wild have been observed habitually eating ants which produce an irritant that acts similarly to capsaicin. Don't ask me for a source though I have no idea where I read it exactly.
WE NEED A PATHFINDER
I'm Mexican i remember eating chile/salsa as young as elementary school
I thought the accent thing came from people speaking different languages so they pronounce letters differently and have different annunciation
The Albino Panda There are very distinct accents within Languages though, so it's not just that.
Harry Pothead good point
Having somebody with a strong accent plopped into a group without it (say Gavin into AH), the group can start picking up little bits and pieces of vocabulary and accents, inflections, etc. and change the local accent. I mean seriously how many AH regulars use words like gubs and bevs IRL because of AH?
I think Chris just wears the same shirt while Gus and Sally change their shirts
Is enjoying spicy food similar to enjoying things like horror movies, or roller coasters?
Sallys cheeks reddened when Chris brought spicy food to sex hahaha
Laziness in language created the Australian language... we drop all the word endings and other letters like to add o's to things. G'day, this arvo, utes, bevs, Aussie etc. most english words, despite being our origin language, we will have a different word for :)
Only thing I remember from this one is how Sally's says yogurt like yogg art
I still can't get over the way she said yogurt
When I was little I loved spicy food but I ate spicy food a lot so that may be the reason I liked it
There is actually a mild high associated with ingesting capsaicin
I always noticed this but get weird looks trying to talk about it. Thanks m8
Dude Ness is back!!!
I like how this show has become Chris saying something ridiculous and looking for Sally's approval as he says it.
Isn't the laziness Chris talks about about dialects and not accents?
Yeah, they kind of mixed the terms. Accents are more like when non-native speakers speak English.
So does that mean we use the term wrong when we say Sally has a British accent when it should be that Sally has a British dialect?
No, she has a British accent. Accent is the way people pronounce words. Dialects are the differences in words used. Chris gave the example of "y'all". It is a part of a dialect because it is a different word/combination of words. It can still be pronounced with a British, Texan or whatever accent. In other words, a word can be pronounced with any accent. A word isn't part of an accent, it is part of a dialect.
That specific example is more dialect, but many accents can also be from laziness. As another southern example: dropping the "G" on words ending in "ing". Or any proliferation of dropped sounds ("H" is a popular one in some British accents). It starts as sloppy or lazy speech, but becomes understood and then more efficient.
As far as I know, dropping a letter is also a part of a dialect.
Edit: For example, the Wikipedia article for "H-dropping" describes it as a dialect.
Will Chris get some kind of impromptu science degree when the show comes to an end?
i wanna know what sally has to say about john risingers health issues.
Burnie should be on this show, according to the last RT short, he is a "science person".
Oh, it's fat soluble. NOW I get why water doesn't alleviate the heat of spiciness. Thanks!
Sally doing accents 😂
you know i think Chris is smarter than we might give him credit for, he was valedictorian of his high school wasn't he?
Eli Howland turns out he was salutorian. But yeah, it's kinda like Gavin.
I didn't spicy was painful I thought some people couldn't handle the taste like really sweet food.
I can't eat strawberries cause they're too sweet
so we're the only ones who sometimes poke our bruises for pleasure? (since the pain isn't as bad as the pleasure of it is good)
wait my dog loves hot cheetos almost as much as I do years ago I gave him one to make him stop begging I thought he'd smell it and turn up his nose or put it in his mouth and immediately drop it but he ate it and has been addicted ever since so much so that if I have a bag I have to keep it on the top shelf to keep him from getting into them
a weird question: i'm writing a fantasy story and decided that fire-mages should use their digestive gases as ammo. just so i know how much i'm working with, how much space is in the human digestive and repritory systems? (liters please)
Marco Pohl 10
10 Liters of gas? thx!
Remember not 10.1. 10 only
I used to eat fistfuls of salsa when I was a baby by my self
If the Earth didn't have a massive area of molten lava in the core of it, could you dig completely straight down? No turning or spinning or anything. If so, would you end up upside down on the other side of the Earth?
Sally's New York accent sounded like Christopher Walken.
They should have different variations of this show with different types of science. Like have an astronomer answering astronomy related questions instead of a biologist.
With the whole accent thing, is it true that the midwestern American accent is considered the easiest to understand? That's what I've always heard, but I'm from the midwest, so I don't know how much I can trust that. Now that I think about it though, I don't think I've ever seen a piece of media where someone has a hard time understanding that accent. It's always the reverse.
Where did Sally get her shirt from??
i had a pet rat that loved chilli. she was a fussy eater. she didnt like her food blocks and only some of the seeds in her seed mix. the rats i have now as much as they want what i eat. they dont like chilli
Why humans enjoys music? And animals can enjoy it too?
also, what makes music\sound good or bad?
Sally's New York accent sounds more like Christopher Walken
So is Roosterteeth closing too like Sourcefed?
10:00 they've obviously never met my dog
I like Gus's shoes
Is it weird that i watched this only realizing after i was eating Tabasco Peanuts the whole time
Nope sorry my dog loves hot sauce, we put hot sauce on the wood coffee-table to keep her from chewing it, she chewed more.