Amazing Scientific Discoveries Made by Ordinary People

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[@thymythymyth]

3:48 Credit: Steve Zhu 😂

[@KingOfGamesss]

An Aurora named 'Poop'

[@Gladpants]

That story about the hair dresser is absolutely amazing. As a Marylander, and one that lives right outside of Baltimore this story gave me some immense pride.

[@calladricosplays]

Janet Stephens has a channel on KZbin! I've been following it for years now, and I love her mention here

[@moonjunimo]

out of all of these that one fascinated me the most

[@auroracp7994]

I have personally been researching (for the fun of it and because no else else has done it before here) the diversity of ant species in my town located in Spain. As a way to store all of my observations in a nice neat place, I uploaded all of the observations of ants to iNaturalist. To my surprise, I found out a month or so ago that some of my data was actually used for an actual research article on new observations of one invasive ant species here in Spain, the which I was quite happy to find out that my work has helped someone else with their own research.

[@georgemuller6038]

Look up research by E.O. Wilson from Harvard who has spent many years studying ants. Great research. Keep working on the subject.

[@furuyakeifu]

That’s great! 👍🏼👍🏼✨

[@moonjunimo]

genial :) te dieron créditos por lo que investigaste?

[@robertbeacham1459]

I'm a medical laboratory scientist. I love introducing myself as a scientist, because people are always like what's your job though? What's your degree or certification? Well my job title is Medical Laboratory Scientist, my degree is in Medical Laboratory science, and my certification is, you guessed it, Medical Laboratory Scientist. Our field is little known, but is very interesting! I would love if scishow did a piece on it, I think if more people knew about it we would have a lot more interest in this field.

[@crazyhouse5648]

There's definitely a huge need for medical laboratory scientists right now

[@jyrahsorzi]

What is a day in the life of a medical laboratory scientist like?

[@wintersnowcloud]

Oh yeah, I'm an MLS also. I just re-certified finishing up year 3 as an MLS. Same noted as one of those who also replied, there is an MLS shortage where I am too.

[@robertbeacham1459]

@Jyrah Sorzi the bulk of it is running analyzers and making sure the results we give to doctors are accurate. That's a tall order for sure, think of all the hoops to jump through in order to be certain that when we get a number for the level of medication in someone's blood, that its accurate enough to be able to up the dosage and not overdose them. So instrument calibrations, quality control, verifications and maintenance. But there is also blood banking, microbiology, urinalysis, and hematology, and where I really enjoy my job is microscopy, where I can really use my knowledge and experience to help diagnose people with blood cancers or other diseases like hemaglobinopathies or blood parasites. It's super interesting

[@richardhaselwood9478]

A few thoughts from a geologist 1. Almost none of the science I do involves working in a lab and producing papers. 2. Never trust someone wearing a clean lab coat... 3. Communication of what we do is fundamental to the job. We provide data to engineers who are doing mine designs, and we also need to communicate info to equipment operators so they can more cleanly extract ore. 4. Information collected from non geologists can be useful but needs to be verified carefully before using.

[@rivitraven]

Citizen science when considering geologic constituents is highly sketchy because very few people can correctly even identify a piece of quartz.

[@richardhaselwood9478]

@@rivitraven that's the crux of the matter. Even people who are regularly exposed to geology in their jobs still don't have a fine grasp of the important details.

[@borttorbbq2556]

Citizen research should always be taken with a grain of salt until it has either Ben looked at by scientists or if that crazy person has decided to actually submit it peer review which would be impressive

[@richardhaselwood9478]

@@borttorbbq2556 very true. I'll use these observations as a starting point for work I'm doing, but it sure as hell won't go into a database before I 'fix' it

[@JH-fk8ow]

''2. Never trust someone wearing a clean lab coat...'' the opposite is true if the person is virologist

[@ParallelPenguins]

Steve is a great name! It's awesome that you can give something scientific a fun name.

[@WouterCloetens]

Missed opportunity to call it Lighty McLightface.

[@kugelblitzingularity304]

the fun comes from the fact that 'steve' is an un-fun name with its original context of a human name

[@stevefranklin9176]

Couldn’t agree more.

[@kisakisakura6663]

oh boy, do I have news for you... Many a science person is also a nerd. So yes, we do have see slugs named after Game of Thrones Danerys Thagarian. Also a bird's latin name translates to something like 'piece of poop'. Spaghettification: The process of matter stretching as it get's absorbed by a black hole. Volcanic/lava bomb: fast cooling lava ejection from a vulcan over a certain size. Basically rock spit out of a vulcan.

[@imberrysandy]

I recently attended a Native Plant Conference where academic researchers and speakers encouraged people who don't have college degrees be citizen scientists. They couldn't stress how important having people in their communities to observe interactions, collecte data and surveying.

[@piplupcola]

All you have to do to be a scientist is love exploring the world, asking questions and loving science. As they always say a "experiment is just a game that you wrote down the results to". Go out. Learn about the world. Ask good questions and have solid facts. Anyone can be a scientist.

[@SomeKidFromBritain]

Good luck passing peer review with that.

[@firstname405]

@SomeKidFromBritain what exactly are you trying to gatekeep? I am a published scientist (yes, I passed peer-review), and I think it's a great thing to encourage people to explore their worlds and employ the scientific method more in their everyday life. Why is this worth being a jerk about, brit kid?

[@SomeKidFromBritain]

@@firstname405 I am pointing out the formal world of academia does have higher standards. I agree with the sentiments, but people should not be led astray by them.

[@jerrywhidby.]

Didn't several people question the science in the last couple of years, were painted as science deniers, and are now vindicated. I doubt many of us will "trust the science" again that the so called professionals offer. Not as long as their main duty is to enrich big pharma.

[@wontnotawill1356]

Bro you have to use the scientific method, this is what they tell middle schoolers to make them intrested. There is a lot of rules if you want anyone to take you seriously

[@BackYardScience2000]

INaturalist is a good app that you can use to document your wildlife sightings and the observations can be used to study wild populations of pretty much any animal. You also have other users who can verify your sighting and add details. It's really cool and I love using it.

[@laletemanolete]

Was about to comment that.

[@IcedKatana]

Sounds awesome, thanks!

[@calladricosplays]

I would also like to mention Zooniverse!

[@IchorX]

@@calladricosplays I couldn't bare having an app named that in the event it's seen in public.

[@seraranasisca2434]

big props for that photographer who call the phenomenon as steve and not trx-16 or something

[@calladricosplays]

Citizen science and experimental archaeology in one video? This exceeds my expectations! I'd just like to mention projects like iNaturalist and Zooniverse where people can participate in all different kinds of citizen science as well

[@SSRT_JubyDuby8742]

Bravo to the lady the unearthed the Roman hair styling methods, what an achievement 👏

[@ericf9479]

I love them naming the aurora steve, please name things regular names

[@beamteammom5431]

I remember seeing a sparrow pulling fur off our collie mix while he was sleeping. He didn’t notice.

[@alien9279]

4:46 this is the only confirmation we ever needed that scientists start with the word they want and then smash words together to make that acronym 🤣🤣

[@TonyHammitt]

As a scientist with a real academic degree, I really enjoyed this video 😊

[@my-alias-obviousleh]

I'm more into space stuff than aurora's but I'll remember aurora Steve much longer than M-70..4? 3? See I forgot already. Steve's a great name for an aurora

[@nettlesandsnakes9138]

On the Christmas bird count; remember that birdwatching goes both ways!

[@Dustinspeed1]

Write it down is what Jamie and Adam taught me.

[@paulbennett7021]

This is one of the very few American channels upon which I can rely for accurate content. Thanx to all.

[@pgtmr2713]

It's never a good idea to "rely" on a "KZbin" channel for "accurate content." These clowns have definitely tried to pedal some political BS as science in the past. Trusting is anti-science in the first place.

[@paulbennett7021]

@@pgtmr2713 Don't agree. 1, no doubt you're able to cite an instance or two; 2, distrusting everything & everyone is futile.

[@pgtmr2713]

@@paulbennett7021 You're free to look back through their library. You've been informed, you can do with the information what you will. I'm sure you'll make quite a scientist once you just believe everything they say. :-D

[@paulbennett7021]

@@pgtmr2713 You made the claim, it's for you to back it up. I've got better things to do than chase phantoms.

[@pgtmr2713]

@@paulbennett7021 No. You made the claim, I disputed. Then you got all weepy culty about your heroes.

[@sophierobinson2738]

My favorite scientists scramble around on rocks, oohing and ahing over the history they tell.

[@thisisme1999]

Late one winter I was out birding, and I spotted a Common Raven plucking hair from a camel. This was not in the middle east but in Western Canada where an animal trainer had a family of camels. The camel was not happy about this Raven on its back and kept turning around and yelling at it. After the one Raven got its beak full and flew away another jumped on board and did the same thing.

[@LimeyLassen]

It's free real estate 😂

[@davetoms1]

Now I want to discover a new bird species so I can name it Steve

[@Nenriel]

I came across Janet Stephen's youtube channel years ago and it's so interesting. Very cool to see her mentioned here.

[@sschmidtevalue]

For obvious reasons, I'm fond of the name Steve for the phenomenon.

[@danielroder830]

The fact that birds steal hair has to be known by some people at least given that birds are doing it for thousands of years. But it might have never occured to those who saw it, that this is something science didn't know.

[@jackmason5278]

Very inspiring! Thank you.

[@draven_sword7092]

As a land surveyor, I recently came across an endangered species of tortoise. I told my boss about it, and he told me to not say ANYTHING about it, as it would shut down the entire jobsite. (This parcel of land is going to become a subdivision) I reported it anyways, and have yet to see results. However, I still hope to one day work in the favor of natural life even though I can't afford a conventional degree.

[@romulusnr]

Regarding the fruit story. I've always been kind of shocked at how rare it is for different disciplines to collaborate and result in new discoveries or corrections of existing confusions -- or even to look for inspiration for further discovery. It seems like science overall reached a point where scientists were so focused on their field that they didn't even consider how their discoveries (or unanswered questions) may overlap with other fields. Because when this does happen -- such as the case here of *linguistics* leading to new *biology* research -- they always seem to make things make so much more sense. This kind of interdisciplinary crossover really ought to happen much, much more.

[@calladricosplays]

This is why I miss being on a sports team at a research university. What a surprising place to bring together highly educated people of different disciplines. One of my best experiences was watching the sci Fi horror movie Life with them. We spent two hours after the movie discussing how the ending could have been avoided

[@RainbowMama143]

Same with the hairdresser story. Why did scientists not collaborate with hairdressers to figure it out? Kudos to the hairdresser for doing such an amazing job.

[@andreareitan]

"STEVE" actually started out as just a goofy reference to the movie Over the Hedge. I read an article about it written by the guy who came up with the name sometime in the last couple of years. I think it was in either the Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada or Sky News, which is another of the RASC's publications.

[@barbarajeanne8351]

Loved this video!!!

[@richardp5920]

The difference between ‘screwing around’ and ‘science’ is writing things down.

[@militantpacifist4087]

That’s why I’m going to donate my right hippocampus to science, within two months, since I’m getting brain surgery because I get epileptic seizures, and I’m donating my whole brain, and all parts of my body, before I die.

[@spoopi7195]

I hope the surgery is successful!

[@jerrywhidby.]

I watched a video on someone who had surgery to remove one hemisphere of their brain. It was done for a similar reason as yours. The remaining hemisphere eventually took over the function of the missing hemisphere. It was very interesting to me. The surgery was a success, and with a little work the patient was able to act completely normal. I wish you success.

[@stischer47]

Interestingly in the 1800s, a time of great technologic and scientific advancement, naturalists many times were common citizens who recorded and shared their findings and observations. We need to get back to that.

[@IIARROWS]

Thanks, Steve.

[@StellarLimpkin]

The Christmas Bird Count I participated in was so fun.

[@annekec4666]

"Steve" was a reference to Over the Hedge, which is a valuable commentary on habitat fragmentation. Imagine the Steve-doers complexly.

[@polarperlen]

I registered 4600 of my cluster headache attacks. Start and end time, severity, symptoms, medicine and location. That turned into an article in Cephalalgia. I have since made the raw data (it's around 6000 attacks by now) available online and some other patient with mad programming skills managed to predict the monthly frequency of attacks for two years "into the future". Next up is to raise some money for a wearable device and use the biometrics data along with the headache diary to see if it is possible to predict upcoming single attacks. Could be nice to be waken up before the sleep induced attacks gets too difficult to treat due to late awakening into an attack

[@borttorbbq2556]

You know that's something that I think should be done more often. Bring people in who are from different types of work and just talk to that try to understand their trade or bring them in to take a look at something you know if you're not sure how a type of architecture could have been built ask people who build you know like without a crane how would you move a 200 ton block of sandstone I mean pretty easily get enough people on the back of it pushing it and getting enough people on the front of it pulling it you're good to go and then just have a fistful of people moving logs so it can travel across the sand without sinking once it's moving it isn't that hard to keep it moving cuz it'll want to move.

[@jerrywhidby.]

I've thought that there should be one difficult hurdle, that scientists in a field are trying to solve, which is then presented to the world to help figure out. Imagine having the focus of the entire world on your problem.

[@romulusnr]

The science version of the fan and the empty cereal boxes tale.

[@calladricosplays]

This is why I love interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary studies

[@3nertia]

Along those lines, you may find this of interest: kzbin.info/www/bejne/e2bTi2qrh5upbsU

[@mymyhi9921]

I agree is only people w limited view think it's impossible all walks of life should be counted in science

[@Merennulli]

At least it wasn't Aurora McAuroraface this time.

[@John-bv2ft]

Great ideas

[@thomasgoodwin2648]

Science isn't a profession. It's a where you find it way of life. Question everything.

[@agentsprocket]

"The difference between science and messing around is writing it down" -Adam Savage

[@TheDanEdwards]

"beat the _____ at their own game" - I realize that is a popular stance to take, a way to make an audience identify with a presenter, to make the presenter feel like one of the viewers. But the bottom line is that, globally, most knowledge (which is what the word "science" means) that is accumulated that turns out to be significant enough to change the lives of people... is accumulated by those who have spent years in formal study.

[@little_forest]

I am a professional scientist and I encourage every amateur scientist to call their findings "Steve" or "Paul" or "Fritz"!

[@KnightSlasher]

This gives me "trust me I'm an engineer" vibes

[@silversurfer3202]

😛 ME TOO!!!!... I think I'm feeling I wanna' be a Heart Surgeon vibes 😷!!!!.........😲😎🚬. 😝!!!!

[@TehlItER]

Do not trust engineers, trust me in that one I am an engineer.

[@jackielinde7568]

Booo! Hiss! No. STEVE is a perfect name. It's also a joke in Over the Hedge, when the animals wake up to find a large, privacy hedge erected in their hunting grounds. Since they had no name for it, they called it Steve. And now you know.

[@R.M.MacFru]

And this makes me love Over the Hedge even more.

[@isaacthek]

Hey! Steve was a FANTASTIC name!

[@dkoykov]

Steve is a great name!!!

[@alittlewarlord]

I misread the title of this as "how to be a **bad** scientist, no degree required" this morning and sat down ready to hear the tea before bed.... still an absolutely delightful video, but perhaps an exploration of pseudosciences and/or how to spot misrepresented or misleading data sets could be a fun idea for the future!

[@FacesintheStone]

Neil Degrasse Tyson says that a scientist is a child who never lost their curiosity.

[@osmia]

Hair sewing was pretty cool

[@guymontag2948]

The Egyptian hair styling reminds me of Legally Blonde in the best possible way.

[@1laurelei1]

Steve rocks.

[@stax6092]

Cool.

[@kisakisakura6663]

I had kind of hoped to see a segment about the field of mushroom as they got neglegted in science so long that basically most disoveries of spieces can traced to hobbist.

[@stonehouseitunes2058]

Justice for my man STEVE

[@capnpicard6146]

Where was this video during the pandemic, damn dude.

[@kyle-silver]

5:00 next time it will be called Stefan!!

[@paulbennett7021]

I've had long hair since the 60s, and since I'm now getting old some of it is always left in my hairbrush. But I don't waste it; I keep it & when nest-building time comes along I hang it in the garden in a string bag, so that the fowls of the air may make use of it.

[@dutchik5107]

You used to not lose any hairstrands?!

[@paulbennett7021]

@@dutchik5107 Not in the quantity I do now. I'm not going bald, just thinning.

[@paulbennett7021]

@@Marine_Veteran_Vegan_Gamer I guess the fallen ones are replaced by new growth.

[@dutchik5107]

@@Marine_Veteran_Vegan_Gamer hair also just physically thins with age. There is a reason blonde hairstrands have a thinner diameter. They have no pigment. Grey hairs are also thinner. So the same amount of hairs, can seem like less because it is thinner.

[@mosquitobight]

I'm afraid the annual bird massacre was ended less by Audubon's suggestion to turn it into a count and more by the scarcity of birds. That's how species like the Passenger Pigeon and the Carolina Parakeet went extinct around that time.

[@Shirtdust]

How does the bird census deal with the risk of double counts?

[@Dicyroller]

I am proud to say I have a birder in the family who always participates in the count.

[@TheLaughingMan42]

STEVE is a great name!

[@eclecticaaronbentley]

Kleptotrichy may have first been described in Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose. A "fresh little Zinn-a-zu-Bird" pulls hairs from Thidwick's head to build its nest.

[@beastbIade]

At least Steve is easy to pronounce. If a scientist came up with the name, we would need the acronym anyways because, the full name would be hard to pronounce and remember.

[@fumfering]

And here I've been thinking that I would name any discovery I might make "Dennis."

[@rgruenhaus]

So if Steve was created by a bird it could be called Steve Martin?

[@Master_Therion]

If your field of study is thermodynamics then degrees are required.

[@Master_Therion]

And before anyone replies, we don't talk about Kelvin.

[@Master_Therion]

@@ge2719 I made a joke. Thermodynamics is the study of heat, which is measured in degrees ;)

[@jer103]

I don't think published scholar scientists get the subtle joke that Steve was a monkey from the animated movie: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.

[@katherinegarlock2249]

How to be a scientist: Ask a question, form a hypothesis, research the answer, examine your results, rinse, and repeat.

[@tempestive1]

You make it sound easy xD I see some people saying "anyone can do science" - well yeah, in the same way anyone can be an astronaut. Knowing the methods, applying reliable testing and demonstration, and understanding the nature of evidence. You need knowledge of those, formal or informal. That's why there's so much pseudo-science - reason isn't instinctive.

[@snowpaw360]

AntsCanada has made a few contributions as well.

[@nubia2621]

I know in the US there are a lot of fees involved with studying (getting a degree), but in case somebody really wants it and is not afraid of leanring a new language, there are countries, which do not charge as much or sometimes any fees for studying, for instance here in Germany, it is almost free, apart for some fees to cover admin costs and paper for handouts, it is basically free (also for foreigners). Just thought I would share this, as some people do not agree with the approach, that you need to go into deep debt in order to get a higher education.

[@yakustone6356]

The best thing I learned after my engineering degree is that I didn't need school and wouldn't need it to continue my education. All school is is the topic extract. You learn a lot of important concepts very quickly. You can get all the same knowledge for free by yourself but it will take you a bit longer.

[@arvetis]

If your tit nest contains fur from all sorts of different species, it might be time to take Old Yeller behind the shed

[@Stella737E]

aahhh I wanna be a scientisttt

[@mr.jglokta191]

Shearing is caring 😉

[@tpmsnewenglandworld6069]

It makes the point about a scientist.

[@huh2275]

"If you want to be wrong then follow the masses" - Socrates

[@Safaura]

Turns out weaves have been a thing for forever

[@MadhusudanSinha]

Name everything like steve :D

[@rexromana]

Maybe natural Philosophy will make a comeback. You don't need permission to learn.

[@SHiFTDI3S3L]

Really easy. It's F-around, and find out. The difference between a scientist and an idiot, is there's safety and documentation involved. So, you make sure nothing of value will be lost, you F-around, you find out, and finally document your findings. Repeat until you get your desired results, or you run out of funding or room to F-around.

[@eliasmondino]

At some point in becoming a scientist one should learn to trust only those sources that cite their sources.

[@Inconsistent-Dogwash]

I don’t know, Steve is very easy to remember

[@theark1400]

Tbh I would love to let a bird take a few of my hairs for a nest

[@JCUDOS]

There's also a kind a bird called boobies!

[@tsholomothibi8788]

No. 4 many black (African) hairstyles are still created using those exact tools and techniques. Maybe white, males being the most dominant voices in archeology and history is a mistake

[@aliceslab]

i kind of dont like the diploma barrier. back in the day you didnt need that, you just needed curiosity but now we put a price tag on being able to be a scientist, IF you get the job. i shouldn't have to be rich to be able to contribute to the world using my brain. im not even the only one, countless people who could have changed the world, never were given that opportunity.

[@jacquelynfether1593]

Noice

[@jcoop3660]

Feelin hot hot hot!

[@DennisMcCoy-b2r]

Some of the science I have done, mostly as a child Storing your food in your mouth for later like rodents doesn't work on humans Regular earthworms won't live on as two worms if you cut them in half, they just die If a cow chases you 90 percent of the time if you don't run they will just stop, but not always Lawns can't be used to help world hunger Cats don't eat spaghetti Dog's retire and settle down if they actually get their own tails

[@DragoNate]

I'm sorry but "T!T nests" just sounds too funny :D (and YT doesn't understand context, so not censoring it will likely leave this comment hidden... sadge.)

[@mirwurscht7515]

Hey, don't complain about Steve, it could be called "Aurori mc Auroraface"

[@rexromana]

Imma name it Esteban.

[@Kithanalane]

Just call any new discoveries Bruce.... To avoid confusion.

[@R.M.MacFru]

Is your name not Bruce?

[@alwinbenjamin]

👏🏻

[@DavidSmith-jj7ll]

What, like Bob or Larry? Whaddaya got against Steve?

[@mehmetgurdal]

You know what? I'm kind of a scientist myself. :)