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- Why Do We Smile?Viewers like you help make PBS (Thank you 😃) . Support your local PBS Member Station here: https://to.pbs.org/PBSDSDonateSeveral jokes were harmed in the making of this videoDon’t miss our next video! SUBSCRIBE! ►► http://bit.ly/iotbs_sub↓ More info and sources below ↓T-SHIRTS! http://dftba.com/besmartLaughing is a universal human behavior, one that transcends borders of language and culture. But it's also REALLY WEIRD. Why do we do it? The answer has less to do with humor than you might thinkLearn more:"Laughter: A Scientific Investigation" by Robert Provine http://amzn.to/1fzZQLy"Ha! The Science of When We Laugh and Why" by Scott Weems http://amzn.to/1etLLyvHave an idea for an episode or an amazing science question you want answered? Leave a comment or check us out at the links below!Follow on Twitter: http://twitter.com/okaytobesmarthttp://twitter.com/jtotheizzoeFollow on Tumblr: http://www.itsokaytobesmart.comFollow on Instagram: http://instagram.com/jtotheizzoe-----------------It's Okay To Be Smart is written and hosted by Joe Hanson, Ph.DFollow me on Twitter: @jtotheizzoeEmail me: itsokaytobesmart AT gmail DOT comFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/itsokaytobesmartGoogle+ https://plus.google.com/+itsokaytobesmartFor more awesome science, check out: http://www.itsokaytobesmart.comProduced by PBS Digital Studios: http://www.youtube.com/user/pbsdigitalstudiosJoe Hanson - Creator/Host/WriterJoe Nicolosi - DirectorAmanda Fox - Producer, Spotzen IncKate Eads - ProducerAndrew Matthews - Editing/Motion Graphics/AnimationKatie Graham - CameraJohn Knudsen - GafferTheme music: "Ouroboros" by Kevin MacLeodOther music via APMStock images from Shutterstock, stock footage from Videoblocks-----------------More videos:Why Does February Have 28 Days? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgKaHTh-_GsWhy Vaccines Work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aNhzLUL2ysWhy Are Some People Left-Handed? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPvMUpcxPSAWhere Does the Smell of Rain Come From? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGcE5x8s0B8
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10 min - Why Are Cicadas So Excellent At Math?Viewers like you help make PBS (Thank you 😃) . Support your local PBS Member Station here: https://to.pbs.org/PBSDSDonateSubscribe so you don't miss any cool science ►► http://bit.ly/iotbs_subFollow me to Gross Science: http://youtu.be/IDBkj3DjNSM↓ More info and sources below ↓Do periodical cicadas "know" how to calculate prime numbers? One of the strangest life cycles in all of biology, explained!Special thanks to Samuel Orr (www.motionkicker.com) for the beautiful cicada footage!Learn more about magicicadas at http://www.magicicada.org/Have an idea for an episode or an amazing science question you want answered? Leave a comment or check us out at the links below!Our website: http://www.itsokaytobesmart.comFollow on Instagram: http://instagram.com/DrJoeHanson http://instagram.com/okaytbesmart-----------------It's Okay To Be Smart is written and hosted by Joe Hanson, Ph.DEmail me: itsokaytobesmart AT gmail DOT comFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/itsokaytobesmartFor more awesome science, check out: http://www.itsokaytobesmart.comProduced by PBS Digital Studios: http://www.youtube.com/user/pbsdigitalstudiosJoe Hanson - Creator/Host/WriterJoe Nicolosi - DirectorAmanda Fox - Producer, Spotzen IncKate Eads - ProducerAndrew Matthews - Editing/Motion Graphics/AnimationKatie Graham - CameraJohn Knudsen - GafferTheme music: "Ouroboros" by Kevin MacLeodOther music via APMStock images from Shutterstock, stock footage from Videoblocks-----------------More videos:Why Does February Have 28 Days? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgKaHTh-_GsWhy Vaccines Work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aNhzLUL2ysWhy Are Some People Left-Handed? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPvMUpcxPSAWhere Does the Smell of Rain Come From? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGcE5x8s0B8
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8 min - Why Do Disney Princesses All Look Like Babies?
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Uploaded 07-08-18
I noticed something weird about Disney Princesses lately. Naturally, I had to examine it through the lens of science. The answer led me to new knowledge about human development, the domestication and taming of animals, and why we find things cute in the first place. You’ll never look at cartoons the same way again
Siberian silver fox footage courtesy of Lee Alan Dugatkin and Lyudmila Trut. Check out their book “How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog)” to learn more, it’s great! https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo25568406.html
Skull reproductions courtesy of Boneclones: https://boneclones.com/
REFERENCES:
Gould, Stephen Jay “Biological Homage to Mickey Mouse” https://faculty.uca.edu/benw/biol4415/papers/Mickey.pdf
Bogin, B. (1990). The evolution of human childhood. Bioscience, 40(1), 16-25.
PDF: http://bit.ly/2vDb3Vy
Somel, M., Franz, H., Yan, Z., Lorenc, A., Guo, S., Giger, T., ... and Webster, M. J. (2009). Transcriptional neoteny in the human brain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106(14), 5743-5748.
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11 min - Barrage of the Cosmic Space Junk!Viewers like you help make PBS (Thank you 😃) . Support your local PBS Member Station here: https://to.pbs.org/PBSDSDonateNo Sandra Bullocks were harmed in the making of this video.Tweet this video ⇒ http://bit.ly/OKTBSjunk Share on FB ⇒ http://bit.ly/OKTBSjunkFB↓ More info and sources below ↓Window chip in the ISS: http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2016/05/Impact_chipThe extent of space debris: http://www.esa.int/spaceinvideos/Videos/2013/04/Space_debris_storyWhere did all that debris come from? http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/where-did-all-that-space-debris-come-from/USSTRATCOM space surveillance fact sheet: https://www.stratcom.mil/factsheets/11/Space_Control_and_Space_Surveillance/This is cool: http://stuffin.space/Every satellite orbiting Earth, visualized: http://qz.com/296941/interactive-graphic-every-active-satellite-orbiting-earth/8 weird pieces of space junk: http://www.wired.com/2009/02/spacestuff/Project West Ford: http://www.wired.com/2013/08/project-west-ford/STK animation courtesy of Analytical Graphics, Inc.Get yourself an awesome IOTBS shirt! http://dftba.com/besmart----------------It’s Okay To Be Smart is written and hosted by Joe Hanson, Ph.D.Have an idea for an episode or an amazing science question you want answered? Leave a comment or check us out at the links below!Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/itsokaytobesmartTwitter: http://twitter.com/okaytobesmarthttp://twitter.com/jtotheizzoeTumblr: http://www.itsokaytobesmart.comInstagram: http://instagram.com/jtotheizzoeSnapchat: YoDrJoeProduced by PBS Digital StudiosMusic via APMStock images from SciencePhoto http://www.sciencephoto.com/ and Shutterstock http://www.shutterstock.comStock footage from Videoblocks (unless otherwise noted) http://www.videoblocks.com
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8 min - When Will We Stop Consuming Oil?Viewers like you help make PBS (Thank you 😃) . Support your local PBS Member Station here: https://to.pbs.org/PBSDSDonateCheck out our whole series on ENERGY! http://bit.ly/1BnH5zuSubscribe: http://bit.ly/iotbs_sub Twitter: @okaytobesmart↓ More info and sources below ↓We've heard news of "peak oil" and "the end of the oil age" for years now, but we keep coming up with ways to find and pump more of it to the surface. Rising CO2 levels and the changing climate that results from burning fossil fuels mean that we should probably stop using oil sooner rather than later, thoughLet's take a look at history and see how we've used different fuels, so that we might figure out when and how to make oil a thing of the pastLEARN MORE:Special thanks to Sheril Kirshenbaum and the Webber Energy Group at the University of Texas at Austin for their help with this series. http://www.webberenergygroup.com/Check out their awesome online course "Energy 101" to learn about energy and energy policy from A to Z! http://www.energy101.com/And to find out what people think about energy, check out the UT Energy Poll: http://www.utenergypoll.com/Have an idea for an episode or an amazing science question you want answered? Leave a comment or check us out at the links below!Follow on Twitter: http://twitter.com/okaytobesmarthttp://twitter.com/jtotheizzoeFollow on Tumblr: http://www.itsokaytobesmart.comFollow on Instagram: http://instagram.com/jtotheizzoe-----------------It's Okay To Be Smart is written and hosted by Joe Hanson, Ph.DFollow me on Twitter: @jtotheizzoeEmail me: itsokaytobesmart AT gmail DOT comFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/itsokaytobesmartGoogle+ https://plus.google.com/+itsokaytobesmartFor more awesome science, check out: http://www.itsokaytobesmart.comProduced by PBS Digital Studios: http://www.youtube.com/user/pbsdigitalstudiosJoe Hanson - Creator/Host/WriterJoe Nicolosi - DirectorAmanda Fox - Producer, Spotzen IncKate Eads - Associate ProducerAndrew Matthews - Editing/Motion Graphics/AnimationKatie Graham - Director of PhotographyJohn Knudsen - GafferTheme music:"Ouroboros" by Kevin MacLeodOther music via APMStock images from Shutterstock, stock footage from Videoblocks-----------------Last week's video:Does the Moon Orbit the Earth? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cJ3AemeUFMMore videos:Why Does February Have 28 Days? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgKaHTh-_GsWhy Vaccines Work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aNhzLUL2ysWhy Are Some People Left-Handed? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPvMUpcxPSAWhere Does the Smell of Rain Come From? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGcE5x8s0B8
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7 min - Is Earth's Most Important Ocean Current Doomed?
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Uploaded 19-04-21
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Ocean currents are our planet’s circulatory system, and they keep everything from ecosystems to the climate healthy. But we’re changing Earth in ways that threaten to disrupt and even break critical ocean currents like the planet-wide Great Ocean Conveyor. This could have devastating effects on our future. In this video, we explain how ocean currents work, how climate change is threatening to disrupt them, and what we can do to stop that from happening.
References: https://sites.google.com/view/ocean-conveyor-belt/home
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17 min - Could Planet Minecraft Possibly Exist?Viewers like you help make PBS (Thank you 😃) . Support your local PBS Member Station here: https://to.pbs.org/PBSDSDonateThis episode is brought to you by Dropbox https://www.dropbox.com/Tweet ⇒ http://bit.ly/OKTBSmcraft Share on FB ⇒ http://bit.ly/OKTBSmcraftFB↓ More info and sources below ↓Gravitational field of a cubic planet:Chappell, James Michael, et al. "The gravity field of a cube." Physics International 3.2 (2012): 50.http://search.proquest.com/openview/6c982d4a364d8b7d7829ec389e2a907e/1?pq-origsite=gscholarMore:http://www.askamathematician.com/2011/05/q-what-would-earth-be-like-to-us-if-it-were-a-cube-instead-of-spherical-is-this-even-possible/https://possiblywrong.wordpress.com/2011/09/09/if-the-earth-were-a-cube/1884 claim of cubic planet discovery:http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=940DE5D91038E033A25755C1A9679D94659FD7CFHats off to the Minecraft wiki community at Gamepedia for collecting stats about the Minecraft world!http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Minecraft_WikiHave an idea for an episode or an amazing science question you want answered? Leave a comment or check us out at the links below!Follow on Twitter: http://twitter.com/okaytobesmarthttp://twitter.com/jtotheizzoeFollow on Tumblr: http://www.itsokaytobesmart.comFollow on Instagram: http://instagram.com/jtotheizzoeFollow on Snapchat: YoDrJoe-----------------It’s Okay To Be Smart is written and hosted by Joe Hanson, Ph.D.Follow me on Twitter: @jtotheizzoeEmail me: itsokaytobesmart AT gmail DOT comFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/itsokaytobesmartFor more awesome science, check out: http://www.itsokaytobesmart.comProduced by PBS Digital Studios: http://www.youtube.com/user/pbsdigitalstudiosJoe Hanson - Creator/Host/WriterJoe Nicolosi - DirectorAmanda Fox - Producer, Spotzen Inc.Kate Eads - ProducerAndrew Matthews - Editing/Motion Graphics/AnimationKatie Graham - CameraJohn Knudsen - GafferTheme music: “Ouroboros” by Kevin MacLeodOther music via APMStock images from Shutterstock, stock footage from Videoblocks (unless otherwise noted)
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8 min - Is Space a Thing?
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Uploaded 20-06-17
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Since the days of Ancient Greece, philosophers and scientists have been wondering: What is space? Is the absence of things… a thing? These questions continued to fascinate physicists in the modern era, leading Isaac Newton, Ernst Mach, and Albert Einstein to wonder about the true nature of the fabric of the cosmos. The search for an answer led them to some of the greatest theories in physics. This week, we ask if space and time are really real, and how they come together to make “spacetime”!
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“The Fabric of the Cosmos” by Brian Greene http://amzn.to/2tF9fZO (Public library: http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/681349969)
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12 min - Why Does the Wind Blow Through?PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to: http://to.pbs.org/DonateOKAY↓ More info and sources below ↓Wind. Always there. Where does it come from?Click here to SUBSCRIBE, it's FREE! -- http://bit.ly/iotbs_subWind is everywhere. The air is constantly moving, sometimes gently, sometimes violently. Why? Pressure, temperature and rotation come together to make wind in some *cool* and unexpected ways.Written and hosted by Joe HansonProduced by Painted On Productions (http://www.paintedon.com/)-----------Join us on Patreon!https://patreon.com/itsokaytobesmartTwitterhttp://www.twitter.com/DrJoeHansonhttp://www.twitter.com/okaytobesmartInstagramhttp://www.instagram.com/DrJoeHansonhttp://www.instagram.com/okaytobesmartMerchhttps://store.dftba.com/collections/its-okay-to-be-smartFacebookhttps://www.facebook.com/itsokaytobesmartpbs/
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5 min - Cuttlefish: Psychedelic Camouflage Chameleons of the SeaViewers like you help make PBS (Thank you 😃) . Support your local PBS Member Station here: https://to.pbs.org/PBSDSDonate↓ More info and sources below ↓Now you "sea" them, now you don't! Cuttlefish are more than the chameleons of the sea, these cephalopods take camouflage to a whole new level.Follow Joe during Big Blue Live!Twitter @DrJoeHanson @okaytobesmartInstagram: @DrJoeHansonFacebook: facebook.com/itsokaytobesmart-----------------It's Okay To Be Smart is written and hosted by Joe Hanson, Ph.DFollow me on Twitter: @DrJoeHansonEmail me: itsokaytobesmart AT gmail DOT comFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/itsokaytobesmartFor more awesome science, check out: http://www.itsokaytobesmart.comProduced by PBS Digital Studios: http://www.youtube.com/user/pbsdigitalstudiosJoe Hanson - Creator/Host/WriterJoe Nicolosi - DirectorAmanda Fox - Producer, Spotzen IncKate Eads - ProducerAndrew Matthews - Editing/Motion Graphics/AnimationKatie Graham - CameraJohn Knudsen - GafferTheme music: "Ouroboros" by Kevin MacLeodOther music via APMStock images from Shutterstock, stock footage from Videoblocks (unless otherwise noted)
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We give you deep answers to simple questions about science and the rest of the universe. And also dad jokes.
Be Smart is hosted by Joe Hanson, PhD. He's a molecular biologist and an award-winning science communicator and journalist