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...
    Thanks to Dr. Kelly Williams for her photograph of the inside of an owl's ear (at 8:12).
    Thanks to Dr. James Duncan at Discover Owls for this image: www.owlpages.com/owls/article...
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  • @SteveMould
    @SteveMould  4 роки тому +110

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    • @benbarberian1701
      @benbarberian1701 4 роки тому

      Suggest some good books

    • @ihascleverness
      @ihascleverness 4 роки тому +43

      It shows 1sm.com/a on the video, which takes you to a casino website

    • @SteveMould
      @SteveMould  4 роки тому +43

      Oh damn

    • @__Ben
      @__Ben 4 роки тому +12

      Steve at the end you show 1sm.com/a on screen. This links to a weird Chinese website.....

    • @sauravsumughan
      @sauravsumughan 4 роки тому +7

      You say it properly too, just typed incorrectly

  • @gabrielepetrazzo6701
    @gabrielepetrazzo6701 4 роки тому +905

    in Italy we use the word "primi" as a misure of time meanning "minute" but it also mean "first" so here it is

    • @SteveMould
      @SteveMould  4 роки тому +198

      That's awesome! I should have known that and said that in the video!

    • @Mobin92
      @Mobin92 4 роки тому +74

      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.

    • @KaliTakumi
      @KaliTakumi 4 роки тому +10

      @@Mobin92 what's an angular minute?

    • @karellen00
      @karellen00 4 роки тому +36

      @@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!

    • @Rakkumun
      @Rakkumun 4 роки тому +37

      @@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).

  • @ilangated
    @ilangated 4 роки тому +965

    The moment I learned about the brood patch is the moment I wished that I didn't know about the brood patch.

    • @NA-yq4pe
      @NA-yq4pe 4 роки тому +39

      You need to see what owls legs look like under their feathers, I wish I could unsee that

    • @SangheiliSpecOp
      @SangheiliSpecOp 4 роки тому +32

      I have an opposite brood patch, where there are feathers coming out

    • @biggo4637
      @biggo4637 4 роки тому +12

      to be honest, i want to forget the entire video other than the diamond-cut-ice "thing"

    • @rzrx1337
      @rzrx1337 4 роки тому

      Chicken boobies.

    • @Rabbit-the-One
      @Rabbit-the-One 4 роки тому +1

      Yeah, I suppose that's fair.

  • @macronencer
    @macronencer 4 роки тому +227

    Once you know the derivation of "minute" and "second" , it suddenly seems far less crazy that they're also used for angles.

    • @frankmurphy5
      @frankmurphy5 2 роки тому +9

      This just made my life slightly less stressful.

    • @barttemolder3405
      @barttemolder3405 Рік тому +5

      We may even start referring to extremely small measures as 'quanta'...

    • @trashtrash2169
      @trashtrash2169 Місяць тому

      Minute should be Prime, or Prima.

  • @desmo750f1
    @desmo750f1 4 роки тому +121

    If the fastest moving indicator on an old clock goes missing you might be able to replace it with a second hand second hand.

    • @PhantomGato-v-
      @PhantomGato-v- 2 роки тому +1

      Smart

    • @michaelcherokee8906
      @michaelcherokee8906 Рік тому +6

      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.

    • @rosebrigade
      @rosebrigade Рік тому +2

      If the second hand second hand goes missing you can replace the second hand second hand with a second second hand second hand.

    • @vibaj16
      @vibaj16 4 дні тому

      ​@@michaelcherokee8906so on Saturday, this comment will officially be second to none

    • @michaelcherokee8906
      @michaelcherokee8906 2 дні тому

      @@vibaj16 A year ago, yes.

  • @MrKelsomatic
    @MrKelsomatic 4 роки тому +288

    6:00 This also means that minute (unit of time) and minute (very small) have the same origin! So glad to know this.

    • @metametodo
      @metametodo 4 роки тому +34

      Etimology is one of the wildest and most pleasant rides.

    • @PackerFanGamer
      @PackerFanGamer 4 роки тому +4

      Who else pronounced that correctly?

    • @mailliw94
      @mailliw94 4 роки тому

      sorry, but...... duh. like, DUH.

    • @trashtrash2169
      @trashtrash2169 Місяць тому

      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.

  • @PaulPaulPaulson
    @PaulPaulPaulson 4 роки тому +425

    "Cutting eyes with diamonds" Wait what?!
    ... oh, ice. Nvm.

    • @ronwesilen4536
      @ronwesilen4536 4 роки тому +4

      I thought he was goint to talk about eye surgery. Nowadays it is done with lasers but who knows

    • @Rabbit-the-One
      @Rabbit-the-One 4 роки тому +5

      Grapes are the new thing in surgeons. Get with time.

    • @sgmikaelsson5213
      @sgmikaelsson5213 4 роки тому +4

      Just put it in an owls ear.

    • @U014B
      @U014B 4 роки тому +7

      Andalusian Dog II: Electric Boogagloo

    • @vibaj16
      @vibaj16 4 дні тому

      ​@@Rabbit-the-One your reply is how I've just realized that these comments are 4 years old

  • @n0klevrname
    @n0klevrname 4 роки тому +275

    Using the word "second" to describe seconds never seemed strange until you called minutes "firsts"

    • @Michaelonyoutub
      @Michaelonyoutub 4 роки тому +9

      thinking about it now, I feel like I could get used to calling minutes first.

    • @scragar
      @scragar 4 роки тому +6

      It comes from the Latin, so wouldn't we have to call it "primas"?

    • @JNCressey
      @JNCressey 4 роки тому +1

      @@scragar, or prima for singular and primae for plural.

    • @Michaelonyoutub
      @Michaelonyoutub 4 роки тому +1

      @@scragar well we don't call seconds secundae, so not necessarily

    • @anothrto1045
      @anothrto1045 4 роки тому

      10'49"

  • @nate882
    @nate882 4 роки тому +347

    These are really cool facts that my brain will subsequently forget and will enjoy watching again a year from now.

    • @bmac3933
      @bmac3933 4 роки тому +17

      I eagerly await youtube's recommendation in a year's time too.

    • @anarbatzoriganar
      @anarbatzoriganar 4 роки тому +4

      so this is what is like to be a bodhisattva. brilliant attitude!

    • @nate882
      @nate882 4 роки тому +1

      @@anarbatzoriganar To understand consciousness is to understand thyself

    • @zakirreshi6737
      @zakirreshi6737 4 роки тому +1

      That's why i kept it in my watch later playlist 😂😂

    • @govindarajd3248
      @govindarajd3248 3 роки тому +1

      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

  • @PiR2InTheUSA
    @PiR2InTheUSA 4 роки тому +148

    Too bad you didn’t make the “second” interesting thing second in this list.

  • @haniyasu8236
    @haniyasu8236 4 роки тому +192

    6:24 omg he *actually* made the video 10 firsts and 49 seconds long....

    • @oliversmall
      @oliversmall 4 роки тому +2

      wizard

    • @hadhamalnam
      @hadhamalnam 4 роки тому +6

      Wait why not use the latin versions and call them primes and seconds

    • @matthewstuckenbruck5834
      @matthewstuckenbruck5834 4 роки тому +6

      @@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

    • @JNCressey
      @JNCressey 4 роки тому +4

      @@matthewstuckenbruck5834, he could have already scheduled how long that shot would be.

    • @nuancedhumour
      @nuancedhumour 4 роки тому +9

      @@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.

  • @NA-yq4pe
    @NA-yq4pe 4 роки тому +56

    For some reason seeing the ice cut like this is very satisfying

  • @mrkrunch4340
    @mrkrunch4340 4 роки тому +84

    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.

    • @Rabbit-the-One
      @Rabbit-the-One 4 роки тому +8

      No you didn't. It was all an illusion.

    • @maxximumb
      @maxximumb 4 роки тому +8

      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.

    • @mrkrunch4340
      @mrkrunch4340 4 роки тому +2

      @@maxximumb treehouses.
      Just saying.

    • @JNCressey
      @JNCressey 4 роки тому +2

      @@maxximumb, you mean hutches aren't their natural habitat?

    • @meflea3675
      @meflea3675 4 роки тому +2

      THEY'RE SO FLOOFY

  • @frankowalker4662
    @frankowalker4662 4 роки тому +26

    That owls eye-ball made me feel a bit queesy. Thanks for that. LOL.

  • @cas54926
    @cas54926 Рік тому +3

    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.

  • @Eric14492
    @Eric14492 4 роки тому +62

    "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

    • @JonesP77
      @JonesP77 4 роки тому +1

      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.

    • @DowzerWTP72
      @DowzerWTP72 4 роки тому +1

      Undershirt.
      That's all I'll say

    • @user-jp7tw3sd3x
      @user-jp7tw3sd3x 4 роки тому +2

      LiveOverflow has a video where he shows the video ID number inside the same video. It's a neat trick.

    • @akshaytati
      @akshaytati 3 роки тому

      @@JonesP77 or he streched the outro to match the timing he said

    • @JonesP77
      @JonesP77 3 роки тому

      @@akshaytati Thats basically impossible....

  • @covodex516
    @covodex516 4 роки тому +15

    6:45 "What, my skull is asymmetrical?! I never knew that!"

    • @vedantsinha7374
      @vedantsinha7374 4 роки тому

      😂i see what u mean...🤣🤣

    • @alazrabed
      @alazrabed 4 роки тому

      "I must tell my bois at once, brb"

  • @zambo6453
    @zambo6453 4 роки тому +3

    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

  • @wint3rsmith42
    @wint3rsmith42 4 роки тому +112

    hold on, at 6:29 how did he know how long the video was going to be once he'd edited it??

    • @SteveMould
      @SteveMould  4 роки тому +133

      That was the very last shot I filmed!

    • @LaplacianFourier
      @LaplacianFourier 4 роки тому +11

      @@SteveMould genius

    • @unvergebeneid
      @unvergebeneid 4 роки тому +12

      6:25 for anyone else who wondered what the OP was referring to.

    • @alazrabed
      @alazrabed 4 роки тому

      What kind of black magic is that?

    • @user-jp7tw3sd3x
      @user-jp7tw3sd3x 4 роки тому +3

      @@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 UA-cam Video ID?" on the "LiveOverflow" channel.

  • @JNCressey
    @JNCressey 4 роки тому +11

    4:05 "it only works because..."
    me: "...because chickens are dumb"

    • @spiralpython1989
      @spiralpython1989 4 роки тому +2

      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)

    • @JNCressey
      @JNCressey 4 роки тому +2

      @@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.

    • @JNCressey
      @JNCressey 4 роки тому

      @Thu Nell Ⓥ, cats are pretty dumb tho.

  • @hypock1
    @hypock1 4 роки тому +30

    I was just about to get some work done and then I pressed the refresh button.. Great video as usual!

  • @nicoloalbanelli5220
    @nicoloalbanelli5220 4 роки тому +21

    I always forget if diamond has a great thermal or electrical conductivity. Think I will remember from now on, thanks Steve

    • @jeromeorji1057
      @jeromeorji1057 4 роки тому +2

      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.

    • @Rabbit-the-One
      @Rabbit-the-One 4 роки тому +2

      Gravitational conductivity. Dum-dum.

    • @nicoloalbanelli5220
      @nicoloalbanelli5220 4 роки тому

      @@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

    • @raykent3211
      @raykent3211 4 роки тому

      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.

  • @lenaevess
    @lenaevess 4 роки тому +6

    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

  • @AJD...
    @AJD... 4 роки тому +16

    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

    • @HappyBeezerStudios
      @HappyBeezerStudios 2 роки тому

      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.

    • @AJD...
      @AJD... 2 роки тому

      @@HappyBeezerStudios I didn't know that. Thanks!

  • @jcims
    @jcims 4 роки тому +55

    DNA folds up into a 'meta helix' too, which is probably why the interference pattern matched.

    • @JustWasted3HoursHere
      @JustWasted3HoursHere 4 роки тому +12

      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.

    • @oldbootz
      @oldbootz 4 роки тому +7

      @@JustWasted3HoursHere yep those histones be getting some serious bondage :P

    • @maxximumb
      @maxximumb 4 роки тому +2

      That's why he did a video on that topic.

  • @grandexandi
    @grandexandi 4 роки тому +5

    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.

  • @johnnyregs2378
    @johnnyregs2378 4 роки тому +1

    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.

  • @ee5142
    @ee5142 3 роки тому +1

    Hen: let’s the bat touch it’s brood patch
    Bat:Fool You fell for it! Thunder cross split attack!

  • @knifeninja200000
    @knifeninja200000 4 роки тому +3

    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

  • @HotelPapa100
    @HotelPapa100 4 роки тому +6

    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.

  • @Clubboomers
    @Clubboomers 4 роки тому +1

    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!

  • @CorneliusQuiring
    @CorneliusQuiring 4 роки тому

    I love learning from you. Your sneaky the way you use your calming voice to pack in a lot of information :)

  • @eekee6034
    @eekee6034 7 місяців тому

    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.

  • @gratefulpianist8640
    @gratefulpianist8640 2 роки тому +4

    The fact 3 really scares me as a hen

  • @mortenrollsen271
    @mortenrollsen271 3 роки тому

    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.

  • @Shadow81989
    @Shadow81989 4 роки тому

    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! :-)

  • @brianwgDK
    @brianwgDK 4 роки тому +6

    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

  • @RaindropsBleeding
    @RaindropsBleeding 2 роки тому +3

    as a fan of etymology, interesting thing #4 blew my mind and is now my favorite thing today

  • @vex8499
    @vex8499 4 роки тому +3

    This guy could teach me about anything and I wouldn't be bored

  • @RestWithin
    @RestWithin 3 роки тому

    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!

  • @WowUrFcknHxC
    @WowUrFcknHxC Рік тому

    Asymmetric ears are so good for pinpointing location that an owl flying at 100m can hear a mouse scurrying around under some cover and know exactly where the mouse is.

  • @Protegit
    @Protegit 4 роки тому +10

    Cool episode. Didnt watch it yet tho.

  • @uberfuzzy
    @uberfuzzy 4 роки тому +2

    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

    • @iamdave84
      @iamdave84 4 роки тому

      Yes, that'd be great! It'd be especially cool to see the heat leaving his fingers too

  • @PnlBtr
    @PnlBtr 4 роки тому +1

    These 5 interesting thing videos are a great series.

  • @jsytac
    @jsytac 4 роки тому

    Aaahh, that beautifully explains Degrees, Minutes, and Seconds, too.

  • @straight-outta-jutta
    @straight-outta-jutta 4 роки тому +1

    I enjoy your videos so much, I hope your channel soon gets the attention it really deserves! Keep up the great work

  • @OhSoUnicornly
    @OhSoUnicornly 4 роки тому

    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.

  • @StuartB138
    @StuartB138 4 роки тому

    Bats are great and all but is no one going to mention the chickens casually sitting in a tree?! Literally never seen that before. Mind=Blown. 😂

  • @larssjodahl7660
    @larssjodahl7660 4 роки тому +2

    @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.

  • @SnakeSolidPL
    @SnakeSolidPL 2 роки тому

    Every one of these episodes blows my mind somehow.

  • @JohnnyAngel8
    @JohnnyAngel8 4 роки тому

    Those were awesome. Thanks.

  • @SangheiliSpecOp
    @SangheiliSpecOp 4 роки тому +1

    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

  • @vioariton8510
    @vioariton8510 4 роки тому

    That was fun. See you next year guys!

  • @Freizeitflugsphaere
    @Freizeitflugsphaere 4 роки тому +1

    Love this series!!!!!

  • @eldattackkrossa9886
    @eldattackkrossa9886 4 роки тому

    love this format!

  • @InspMorse85
    @InspMorse85 4 роки тому +43

    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!

    • @Piemanding
      @Piemanding 3 роки тому +2

      Leaving this here just in case.

    • @skylineuk1485
      @skylineuk1485 3 роки тому

      Me too, I would love some of that too!

    • @BrianFedirko
      @BrianFedirko 3 роки тому +1

      yeah, me too. where do i get a broken sheet of diamond?

    • @InspMorse85
      @InspMorse85 3 роки тому +2

      @@BrianFedirko it's been a year and my desire hasn't waned at all...

    • @MrTrickBrick
      @MrTrickBrick Рік тому +1

      @@InspMorse85 How about now?

  • @jaredgray7872
    @jaredgray7872 4 роки тому +1

    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

    • @ambulocetusnatans
      @ambulocetusnatans 4 роки тому

      I was about to mention that myself. Both channels are among the best things on youtube.

  • @DaxxterDreams
    @DaxxterDreams 3 роки тому

    i love the "5 interesting things" series

  • @laborral
    @laborral 4 роки тому

    Great video as usual. Please do more on how carbon (at least in the form of diamond) conducts heat so well.

  • @DangerDaiman
    @DangerDaiman 6 місяців тому +1

    Please make more of these!!!

  • @AL_O0
    @AL_O0 4 роки тому +5

    In some old Italian sports commentaries athletes' times were often announced in “primi” and “secondi” instead of “minuti” and “secondi”

  • @Gunbudder
    @Gunbudder 3 роки тому

    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

  • @sanjayg6842
    @sanjayg6842 4 роки тому

    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!

  • @matthewbartsh9167
    @matthewbartsh9167 2 роки тому

    Thanks for another amazingly good video Mr. Mould. I don't have any nitpicks this time.

  • @dhellebaut
    @dhellebaut 4 роки тому

    I really like these videos, I love learning new, fun facts. Just Awesome, thank you.

  • @Kaxlon
    @Kaxlon 4 роки тому +1

    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. =)

  • @pulli23
    @pulli23 2 роки тому

    Graphene is even better/more smooth/gives more satisfaction when cutting ice!

  • @oliverolover
    @oliverolover 4 роки тому

    nd simular to the owl yet inverse, i listened to the dialog through my eye lol. thanks steve.

  • @321tryagain
    @321tryagain 4 роки тому

    Steve Mould you are a delight and I love your videos

  • @DaveCurran
    @DaveCurran 4 роки тому +3

    "So, the first hand is the hour hand, the second hand is the minute hand and the third hand is the second hand." - Dave Allen.

  • @ysquaredyobozo
    @ysquaredyobozo 4 роки тому

    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

  • @kristyanne719
    @kristyanne719 4 роки тому

    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! :)

  • @skulpturlamm294
    @skulpturlamm294 3 роки тому

    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.

  • @tbarkalial_saafy2594
    @tbarkalial_saafy2594 4 роки тому

    Thanks for the video 👍👍👍

  • @rderbez4900
    @rderbez4900 Рік тому

    you should do more of these!

  • @raamv15
    @raamv15 4 роки тому

    Awesome video, Steve👍

  • @blitzkreg335
    @blitzkreg335 4 роки тому

    I really love these episodes

  • @cerberaodollam
    @cerberaodollam Рік тому

    "oh, it must just be my kid"
    *schlorp*
    That's a whole Tim Burton movie.

  • @pbp6741
    @pbp6741 4 роки тому +2

    We’re all listening to him stretch out the words, “Most owls have asymmetrical ...,” while thinking, “pupils!”

  • @timlockwood_
    @timlockwood_ 3 роки тому

    I just found that really interesting video format
    And now I'm mad I watched all of it at once...

  • @DowzerWTP72
    @DowzerWTP72 4 роки тому

    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!

  • @SwGuru
    @SwGuru 3 роки тому

    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.

  • @oliverbecquart8048
    @oliverbecquart8048 4 роки тому

    Saw you at maths fest 2020, your talk was great.

  • @RoryOConnor
    @RoryOConnor 4 роки тому

    Maybe the wings also act like an extended acoustic cup , like a dome mirror /concave skylight/lens for light focusing sound into a point!

  • @oleksiifurdylo7930
    @oleksiifurdylo7930 4 роки тому +1

    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

  • @themrflibbleuk
    @themrflibbleuk 4 роки тому

    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.

  • @amadexi
    @amadexi 10 місяців тому

    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'' >

  • @madimadisofian
    @madimadisofian 4 роки тому +4

    10:04 **brit accent intensified**

  • @MrMeldro
    @MrMeldro 4 роки тому

    That oddly made perfectly sense to me when you called minutes "firsts"

  • @timelsen2236
    @timelsen2236 Рік тому

    I also never noticed double meaning of the second. Your videos are fantastic to me. Sublime curiosity stream #1.

  • @skyranger9743
    @skyranger9743 2 роки тому

    I hope you make more of these

  • @HappyBeezerStudios
    @HappyBeezerStudios 2 роки тому

    The diamond ice reminds me of ice skates, which work similar. But in that case, it's the pressure from bodyweigth being concentrated on such a small surface.

  • @feralbluee
    @feralbluee Рік тому

    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 :)

  • @dumchican
    @dumchican 3 роки тому

    I really want a diamond ice cream scoop now. :O

  • @lank_asif
    @lank_asif 4 роки тому

    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.

  • @JWentu
    @JWentu 4 роки тому

    I love 5 interesting things!

  • @jorehir
    @jorehir 4 роки тому +1

    In Italian, the old fashioned way to express minutes is indeed "primi".
    Still used in motor racing, sometimes, for some reason.

  • @cook13snip3aa
    @cook13snip3aa 4 роки тому

    @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.

  • @THVEssays
    @THVEssays 3 роки тому +1

    Hi Steve, I’d love any more interesting things you’re willing to share with us!

  • @briangeer1024
    @briangeer1024 4 роки тому +1

    what a mind blow to leave us with before the sponsor... oh and by the way, if you look into an owls eat, you’ll see its eye.
    Really? That’ll probably set off a few nightmares.