How Does... With James May | BBC Science

[@JustLilGecko]

I'm almost disappointed this wasn't a 35 minute deep dive on Glue

[@Littleman879]

But you stuck around all the same

[@MrDuane-lr8dm]

I'm disappointed he didn't showcase the stupidity of people, as it relates to what they thought would be hilarious to glue together. It would have been a perfect segue into the cohesive deterioration of glue through a natural process, id est, sweat, which would segue into deodorant.

[@chris2746]

I absolutely would have listen James do a 35 minute deep dive on about just about anything technical or mechanical

[@feelincrispy7053]

New Mind does deep dives on the evolution of engineered products like glue, sandpaper and cardboard. And they arnt just some crappy production that mocks your intelligence either, it’s very professional

[@andrewberridge4630]

So dumbed down. Ridiculous

[@EliteLucarioRS]

That time Clarkson and Hammond glued mays stereo 🤣

[@voornaam3191]

That when may may be May, kew very much.

[@boo00oo021]

I could hear James May talking about anything and I would still be happy

[@juliobrian4757]

He literally talking about glue drying...and is still entertaining

[@kushagrachaturvedy2821]

34 mins of James May talking?……Amazing!

[@BigGuy10Points]

Anyways

[@darrenwendell1723]

zzzzzzzzzz

[@ThatOpalGuy]

Meanwhile, Jeremy and I are going to glue James's car doors shut...

[@FatManWalking18]

with an adhesive

[@HOTD108_]

Bottom Gear mates

[@syahminorizan8064]

CLARKSOOOOOOOOOOOON!

[@frederickphelps2380]

Clarkson: "Volume control's glued, track selection is glued, that's all glued" Hammond: "I think you'll find track 4 to his liking."

[@michaelj.beglinjr.2804]

I can't believe Jeremy and The Hamster used to complain about having to listen to James talk all the time. If I was getting paid for hanging out with James May I'd be the happiest man on Earth.

[@JoseEncarnacao]

00:01 Glue 03:43 Deodorant 08:56 Radar 14:22 Quartz 18:17 Plasma TV (thanks @digitalk68) 23:07 Bulletproof vests 26:51 Canceling Audio 30:08 Digital Cameras

[@ClaudeSac]

Thank you.

[@Rincypoopoo]

Cheers mate.

[@redwez1982]

Spoiler

[@krisnarefaagusta16]

Thanks very much. We missed that man called The Captain Slow, who's now at The Grand Tour. James May also a good friend of Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond formerly on Top Gear.

[@James-hy8zs]

'......cheese.' Sorry, had to be done (if you haven't seen the meme, this will seem like a very odd thing to post)

[@gizmobowen]

Love James May and am hoping there are plenty more where this came from.

[@Atomy111]

This is just reuploaded old content unfortunately i don't think he does this anymore

[@gizmobowen]

@@Atomy111 That's what I was thinking, but I'm hoping that they can upload some more episodes. Hopefully this isn't the only one in the series. Fingers crossed.

[@trisjor]

I’m afraid there’s only one James May.

[@Natatattatification]

These are reuploads from a channel he used to do called Head Squeeze

[@danmayberry1185]

May's 34-minute chat-up routine at the bar.

[@brettanderson8526]

Thank you James may for curing my insomnia. I don’t know how I would sleep without this man.

[@o7g67987yukiuit7uti7]

James mays solo programs are still the best

[@papa_xan]

I love videos like this, and of course having James May present it makes it that more entertaining. Plus, I appreciate that the final sentence is a dig on Hammond.

[@jeremybryan61]

Thank you James May and all involved In these videos for adding more science, facts, and truth to the internet. We need more of this type of stuff and less clickbate

[@Nintendo3DSdude1]

I sometimes forget that this channel used to be Head Squeeze!

[@Spfinator]

Head Squeeze! Thank you, I couldn't recall the name, but I knew it wasn't Man Lab.

[@Natatattatification]

@@SpfinatorI loved watching Head Squeeze and Man Lab and the series he did on toys (can’t remember what it’s called atm). I don’t even really care what he’s talking about, his voice is so lovely

[@screaminghorse8818]

@@Natatattatification it might have been james may's toy stories

[@gg_vard]

Is that the logo blurred on the top left?

[@ap-qd9xf]

Yes ​@@gg_vard

[@paulisbest1970]

Crikey! The only you tube video I've watched in ages that doesn't need subtitles. Proper speak like. Thank you James.

[@longway7948]

Yes! English isn't my first language so it's really easy to recognize his speech. Actually his native British pronunciation is really pretty tho.

[@meagain3876]

Informative and entertaining - James is always worth watching. This clip is particularly good - lots of information and the odd dig at Jeremy and Richard included too.

[@carguybikeguy]

Good stuff! I especially loved the last second loving jab at Hammond. Great work!

[@grdprojekt]

12:28 I can hear Clarkson is shouting "May you blithering idiot, stop filing the spanners, we haven't got all week"

[@adam.dzwoniarek72]

I love this guy. He could give a lecture on a broom stick and it still would grab attention.

[@darrenwendell1723]

Listening to James makes you feel so tired. These videos are great. When I wake up in the middle of the night I watch this. Back to sleep within 10 min. Thanks James

[@Ricimer671]

He still didn't explain why super glue sticks to me but not the object that I am trying to glue together.

[@medler2110]

maybe you're a bit rough. 😂 Sorry I couldn't resist, I'm sure you're really a lovely person and not at all rough. 😁

[@scottmorse9403]

Most likely the item you are trying to glue is oily or glossy and your hands are cleaner and dry.

[@jspaceemperor420]

You sanded your own hand instead of the object you wanted gluing, Simple

[@nigelliam153]

Super glue was designed as a battlefield dressing so that’s why it’s best at sticking skin together

[@wilson5377]

"You blithering idiot... Hammond!?" - Jeremy Clarkson -

[@saltedbarofbutter]

I want more of this. nah I NEED MORE OF THIS.

[@Redmenace96]

Watching the RADAR segment made me think of something: Sending and receiving EM waves is a big part of the tech, but what about the timing mechanism? Light travels very fast! The elapsed time is incredibly small. Did they have to also develop timer/clock of new ability/precision?

[@SuperRemion]

To process signals from radar, timing is king. As the time passed, the tech had to get quicker too. From the creation of the signal, generating the needed power, switching between sending and receiving, to signal processing, a lot of development had to be done to fasten up all these processes.

[@ChrisMasto]

But how can you glue audio and video together? Apparently it's a mystery to the BBC

[@dipling.pitzler7650]

There is a delay because of the Doppler effect!

[@topmandog1]

and covering the old bbc earth logo wioth a grey square and placing the new one over it

[@oliverhooper435]

18:54 Currently watching how the technology of a television works whilst watching this (essentially a video) clip from an electronic device similar to an iPad whilst listening to it via Bluetooth headphones is absolutely mind boggling when you think of it! Watching something how it came about in a completely new form now makes me think at the time what people saw when they first saw colour TV from black and white think what would happen in years to come. And here I am now learning about how it worked then although now through a completely different aspect. Mind blown 🤯

[@moniquem783]

I just watched a video that left me feeling really icky. Back to the home page. Scroll. Oooh James May! My version of kittens and puppies when I need to feel better! Perfect timing. Thank you 😊

[@straingedays]

Watching this makes me want a return of The Reassembler

[@cheesetoast99]

This was great, really helped my insomnia

[@drnanjo]

Thank you!

[@solsol1624]

Since James is known for cars I'll put the first glue segment in terms of tyres. Open to correction on this, but we all know the wider the tyre the more grip. Yet the formula for friction seems to suggest width, or contact patch, should be irrelevant. Think the formula is just coefficient of friction by force or weight. However as the tyre is made of 'rubber ' it moulds itself to the rough road surface making a mechanical bond, hence more rubber on road = more grip

[@XBOXTimeDevil]

That was brilliant! More please!

[@dannyb5874]

Yes! James talking wristwatch! More of this please...

[@peter4210]

Thanks for not including the incorrect episode in which james may ( by extension the research team) claims that glass is transparent because it is a slow moving liquid. (the real answer is the complex interaction between light and the particles that make up the glass. This interaction is also why when we add different particles to glass, we can make filters which can allow us to select which light particles we want to make it trough the glass)

[@LeChuck652]

Hey James! Love goes out to you from Germany, from me. For this Aluminium/Aluminum thing .

[@UXASSAKY]

my face is hurting thx to Mr. James now

[@regiasama3565]

More of this please! ❤

[@GregConquest]

@11:50: In addition to Doppler radar, there is one more major development: radar arrays. Numerous small transmitters are structured as a flat grid. Radio waves are emitted such that destructive and chicken interference between the waves results in a directed wave. The direction can be altered without moving the physical array. Arrays can also be used with ultrasonic audio waves. The can produce waves emanating from a distant point. The descriptions of this, like "hearing a sound coming from within your own head" make me think of Havanna Syndrome. I imagine these arrays will be transformational for various kinds of wave emitters - light, radio, audio, x-ray, etc. Military radar is already switching over. The next-gen AIWACS will have a flat "fin" instead of the current, spinning disk. And there are interesting kit radar arrays that can be experimented with now.

[@shinjiwolf]

Great video, such a shame the subtitles are terrible though.

[@NotYourAverageMeatball]

2:33 0.1nm is known as an Ångstrom, used for measuring DNA

[@erinhowell8377]

Poetry. Absolute poetry.

[@Juni_0220]

4:10 does anyone know where this music comes from/what its called? ive heard it a lot

[@Graciesmom-gp5ng]

What year was this filmed?

[@bastiaan7777777]

2013

[@samkaraca1337]

Love you May! 🤘

[@rocoe9019]

🤮

[@Mariazellerbahn]

0:29 Nice to hear someone pronounce "controversy" properly.

[@stuv1996]

Sounds horrible this way imo. Language evolves and if everybody says it "unproperly" it becomes the proper way to say it and you become a pedant.

[@trupower22]

Vand der vaals force is described incorrectly, it's created from instantaneous dipoles, not from the interaction of polar forces. Even non Pilar molecules experience this.

[@EricDKaufman]

Vand der vaals force is spelled incorrectly Van der Waals Force is the correct spelling :-) The rest of your statement is also correct. Well done. I will not troll you on the difference between instantaneous dipoles and a true polar molecule/polar interactions. That would make me look bad.

[@voornaam3191]

2:04 Finally somebody trying to say Van der Waal! Thank Gott there is no letter ü in that. Déjà-vous is wrong, most of you can't produce the normal u anymore. Try German München, or French brut, or Dutch muur. Forget it. So, nice that Van der Waal was okay!

[@scottishlifetm1906]

James may finally found his calling, i miss the docuseries our man in, he should reopen this series on KZbin

[@liamtaylor849]

22:24 Did he just turn samsung into Sadsong?! 😂😂😂

[@nate6862]

Should this be added to the James May's Q&A playlist?

[@glenncurry3041]

R.G.B., Red. Green. Blue. Not Yellow! On a TV, yellow is produced by combining red and green.

[@cinthe3]

I think Samsung made a yellow TV years ago

[@glenncurry3041]

@@cinthe3 WRONG! Samsung's were known for yellow vertical stripes because of blue channel issues. And their backlights tended to fade to warmer/ more yellowish. But they never produced a set using a yellow pixel. Current video operates in an RGB space. You could not directly map to a yellow replacement pixel.

[@osochozi5647]

Sharp ​has quatron panel in aquos tv. That was RGBY panel. @@glenncurry3041

[@waffle4308]

​@@glenncurry3041 Okay

[@Dr.Claw_M.A.D.]

James May is the perfect presenter for discussing inventions as he was there at the time they were invented. Like the wheel. Or fire.

[@bluegizmo1983]

30:12 Is that... is that background just a zoomed in shot of one of James May's shirts? 😂

[@sno4439]

I am 50 years old and I have an allergy to chemicals, so I don't use deodorant. Once every couple of years someone might say I smell if I haven't had my normal routines... But even if I get really smelly I normally only have to air out for about half an hour and I won't smell anymore

[@davidmccrory5604]

This show is awesome

[@hansiman1977]

glue i simple..just need somthing that stops o2 and n2 to come between the parts..you only need to get the edge of the glue to dry the rest dossint need to dry..epoxy is stronger at prewenting this to happen cos it has a hardiner and ewrything dryes

[@deadbilly667]

This is better than a roofie for makin me fall asleeep 👍

[@DaveG6HNI]

Red, Blue & Yellow ??? I think you'll find TVs use(d) Red, Green & Blue not yellow ! - Cyan, Magenta & Yellow are secondary colours, whereas RGB are primary colours. Really James, you surprise me not knowing that.

[@patrickcraenen5163]

Indeed 100% correct 🙂

[@thevideogamer0mg99]

what year was this from?

[@Noon1263]

18:16 "Is there Plasma in a Plasma TV?" ... (Mirophone Feedback Noises) "Yes. There is." (😊👋🙇🙏✋🤚👍)

[@RustyShavlefordlll]

Give this man all the joints

[@BrokenSoul79x]

if you want a really good laugh, turn on the auto-generated captions.. LMAO

[@docsgearheadgaming2503]

fun fact, a 250 GTO again recently sold for 57 million, shattering the old record.

[@stevetaylor5815]

I think you'll find that the reason quartz second hands don't move more smoothly is to save power. Its not an inherent limitation, and there are exceptions.

[@donwest5387]

what about "solvent adhesives"?

[@aromaticsnail]

I'd listen to James May talk about pait drying all day

[@stephenwest9757]

At 19.33 he says colour Television uses red,blue and yellow but it is red blue and green. This is also normally said in the order red, green and blue shortened to RGB.. A very interesting video and I would like to see more.

[@terranceparsons5185]

Yellow, cyan and magenta, actually.

[@dogwalker666]

​@@terranceparsons5185that's svga, The pixels are still rgb.

[@bobyoung1698]

I can't address the deodorant information, but I will offer this about adhesives. I once worked with the Adhesives and Sealants group of the Dow Chemical Company. There, I learned more about the stuff than any man should know. They stuck things to cars, boats, subway trains, airplanes, well just about anything that remained static long enough to get their sticky fingers on. The last I checked, they were working on adhesives for the tops of cereal bags, and if you've tried to open one lately, you know they're doing well. Do you know how difficult it is to type when your fingers are stuck together with CA?

[@borntoclimb7116]

Very interesting

[@โนรีคอกเบิร์น]

Subject 1. James, the 3 colours in a crt are rgb, red green and BLUE NOT Yellow as you said.

[@WilliamTurk]

Thank you! I'm surprised he got something so basic wrong.

[@patrickcraenen5163]

Indeed Red, Green and Blue. Perhaps he was mistaken between additive models and subtractive models of primary colors...

[@ۥٴٴٴٴۥۥٴٴٴٴۥ]

James May is honestly no joke Tom Scott 2.0 ❤

[@rileychadwell5635]

Share! Share that electron.

[@Cyberpunk001]

Despite Hammond and Clarkson's constant jokes about May being boring, I've watched every docuseries he's made, and listened to him narrate his audiobooks. There are certain voices that go with certain topics. For example in the UK, David Attenborough is the voice of natural history. And I'd say James May is the voice of science, tech, and man stuff.

[@CaptainAfterland]

If there's ever another attempt to bring the Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy to the screen (or radio), I'm thinking James should be a shoe-in for the voice of "The Book".

[@nothankyou2497]

normally I wouldn't care about this but cause its James may talking about it I'm quite intrigued

[@paladinkhan]

Facts and Knowledge

[@michaeldowd8422]

How does.....James May keep appearing on our screens? Ah, it's the BBC.

[@Roberto_Steele]

James May is basically BBC's Internet personality!

[@robsaunders1978]

Should do a podcast I say

[@GuyLakeman]

what about mastic ?

[@apexv]

James May saying the word GLUE is an aphrodisiac.

[@AAYMF]

Good days ❤❤

[@Liferoad371]

I wasn't that interested in glue, but I was in Radar. Thanks, James.👍👍

[@urmumsballs69]

You are very welcome!

[@johnkean6852]

Pls answer this question: why can't you comment straight away on YT the way one used to? You have to wait 60 seconds, like one does when it's live!

[@Dr.Claw_M.A.D.]

Censorship

[@UCannotDefeatMyShmeat]

8:10 this is hilarious considering the existence and use of leaded gas back then

[@EyesOfByes]

18:18 There was...

[@nostalgiaof98]

3:19 ok the wording is just purely James May now I'm trying to imagine Jeremy Clarkson being forced to watch this

[@terranceparsons5185]

He'd just sit there grumpily saying, bored, bored, bored!

[@melbournewolf]

Just as you said it...glue, combination of both quantum mechanics (vanderwaals force) AND chemistry (locking bonds) and whatever other physical processes (pressure, tension, compression etc.).

[@Steve.Cutler]

I can tell the person who made the bullet fired from the gun graphic has no idea how guns actually work..😂

[@lilBabyBornInCalifornia]

this man needs a Knighthood

[@darrenmclellan6712]

How old is this and why is the sound not in synch?

[@bastiaan7777777]

2013

[@robcarter55]

James May is an excellent presenter as is Jeremy Clarkson. They are both easy to listen to and keep your attention. Whilst I like Richard Hammond I don't find he has that gift. Hence I watch virtually anything May and Clarkson present and hardly anything Hammond does. I've no idea why ! Is it just me ??

[@yep8058]

James please explain why we breathe air in a 1 hour video

[@RagexPrince683]

24:36 that bullet... my god it is so wrong

[@gfdggdfgdgf]

How does.... James May talking about anything produce interesting results However, the audio is not even a little bit in sync with the video

[@Reprint001]

Oh. I thought the whole thing was going to be about glue. That would have been more interesting.

[@Verbindungsfehle]

6:23 lmao the subtitles here say "Melissa" instead of "nicer"

[@darrenwendell1723]

Now I understand what Richard and Jeremy mean.

[@johnkean6852]

I thought even if it's simple glue - no mixing - it was still a chemical reaction as it sets?

[@Flyinghook]

No, adhesive at its simplest is a compound that fills the voids between and can bond to the two pieces being joined. You don't necessarily want the adhesive to react to the base material (bonding primer might be required, or it may be self etching) because typically, a reaction would compromise the material and the strength of the joint (this is why you have to use specific construction adhesive for foam).

[@Flyinghook]

The bond to the base material typically comes from its ability to fill the voids or soak into the material. Porous materials will allow it to soak in, but even metal has voids for adhesive to fill. Drying comes from exposure to air or porosity of the base material (the moisture soaks in and dissipates). Reactive chemicals might be required when there is no air, quick drying, or special properties required.

[@sm0lvoicc958]

liquid poetry

[@bettyswollox8020]

The LCD displays use red, GREEN and blue. Not red, YELLOW and blue. Surprised he didn't know that. Its because our eyes have Red, green and blue receptors. Our eyes perceive yellow as a combination of those colours.

[@J.G.Wentworth69420]

Wow like ur rly smart. U make smart ppl look not so smrt

[@StephenPickells-bi2ii]

Hi James, have you ever done a show called “that’s too much information”?