What The Ig Nobel Prize Says About Us

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@1One2Three5Eight13 Ай бұрын

I think it's important to remember that the Ig Nobel prizes aren't just about the science being weird - it's about the weird science that actually is useful if you think about it.

@korbindallas4552 Ай бұрын

I feel it was originally meant as a Darwin Award or Razzie equivalent to the Nobel Prize. But each year I review the prizes I find more and more value to the research.

@1One2Three5Eight13 Ай бұрын

@@korbindallas4552 I'm young enough that the "For achievements that first make people LAUGH then make them THINK " description (or similar phrasing) has been around for the entire time that I was aware of the Ig Nobels, but that could well be a later tag for them.

@mindwarp42 Ай бұрын

@@1One2Three5Eight13That has always been the description of the Ig Nobels, as a fan of them from the beginning.

@travcollier Ай бұрын

Maybe not "useful", but at least interesting and done rigorously. Serious answers to silly questions have long been part of them ;)

@shnilikmw Ай бұрын

@@travcollier questions are only “silly” if you don’t understand the questioning. Why did Newton asking about an apple falling despite him knowing full well that he’s seen things fall off tables, buildings, and even at construction sites, he’s always known everything falls, but he gave new inspiration to the question by trying to figure out what was actually causing the “phenomena” to happen.

@deawinter Ай бұрын

The stock footage for men fighting being a pillow fight is so delightfully wholesome

@mostlyghostey Ай бұрын

I was just about to comment that lol. It does look super wholesome.

@lundden Ай бұрын

I feel programmed to think men fighting is wholesome

@THE-X-Force Ай бұрын

Especially considering that whenever I've been in a pillow fight with other men, it was all out warfare trying to knock each other into a different dimension.

@angusmatheson8906 Ай бұрын

@@deawinter super hot

@mostlyghostey Ай бұрын

⁠Yeah, girls are definitely gentler when it comes to pillow fights but occasionally I have been in a pillow fight with other women where a deep primal rage is unleashed and not a single person escapes unscathed from that.

@Wrens-hellsite-adventure Ай бұрын

My great-grandmother used to routinely look up randomly, she'd wait for others to join her and when a sizeable crowd had gathered she'd walk off. It was one of her favourite pranks, staring at nothing and tricking others to do the same.

@JillKnapp Ай бұрын

We used to do this at Great Adventure (Six Flags) in high school. It's so satisfying and silly.

@sevenstars004 Ай бұрын

I have no idea who your great-grandmother is, where she was from or anything else, but I like her. I bet she was a great person to hang out with. The kind of person who can make you laugh so much, your stomach and the sides of your mouth hurt from laughing so much 😂

@The.Oracle. Ай бұрын

My cats do that to me all the time.

@corwin32 Ай бұрын

Pillow talk: “Hey Babe, would you say your nose is a) very stuffy, b) slightly stuffy, or c) not stuffy?”

@mrcryptozoic817 Ай бұрын

I'm stuffy occasionally. But not my nose.

@rainydaylady6596 Ай бұрын

🤣😂🤣🖖

@firelunamoon Ай бұрын

"On a scale of 1 to 10, how stuffy would you say you are?"

@mrcryptozoic817 Ай бұрын

@@firelunamoon 3 but when I'm 3 I'm 100%

@countermelody167 Ай бұрын

*with a single rose in my teeth* How are those 100 left nostrils feeling tonight?

@Scum42 Ай бұрын

I love that "stopping to look" study. The idea of a researcher going out and staring intently at nothing just to bait other people into doing the same thing is hilarious

@mehere8038 Ай бұрын

Not a researcher, but a friend of mine moved to the UK & LOVES doing a version of this, she calls it "the queueing game" & has found it only takes her & 1 friend to stand one behind the other & others will come & join the queue, cause people there love to queue lol. I am curious which country the staring research occured in (and some of the others too), cause I do think country would make a difference to the results

@jaqihegland6232 Ай бұрын

I remember one a long time back where the researcher stood in an elevator facing the back. The general response is people entering the elevator looking confused or uncomfortable and also standing facing the back. People just assume that if you're looking at something, they want to see what's so interesting.

@SiiriCressey Ай бұрын

I remember one time in first grade when I was bored + didn't want to have math lessons. I convinced a bunch of other students that there was an ominous looking stranger outside under the trees at the far end of the playground. I think I even convinced myself. 😈 Heh heh. You lost your illusion of control over your class for a bit, didn't you, Miss Stuart?

@SiiriCressey Ай бұрын

@@mehere8038 "...'cause people there love to queue." "I'm British. I know how to queue." Arthur Dent

@magokulo1341 Ай бұрын

4:36 Im 30 and live across the street from my middle and elementary school. I still panic if I hear the school bell thinking I'm late for class. The clicker really does work.

@moosemaimer Ай бұрын

I had a science teacher in middle school who wouldn't allow us to start preparing to leave class until the bell rang... he would start talking about Pavlov and his dogs, even after the bell, and we couldn't get up until he finished. This was seen as being unnecessarily obtuse as failure to reach your next class in the three minutes we were allotted was pretty much an instant detention.

@MDuarte-vp7bm Ай бұрын

@@moosemaimeri think it did us well to not make extra time for people to waste in the halls. Of course, there were students who had close-by classes who would clog the halls, but it wouldn't have helped anyone to teach kids that "someone else caused me to be late" was a valid excuse in life.

@Just_A_Dude Ай бұрын

@@moosemaimer The thing about conditioning like that is it's easy to break once you're aware it's happening and the association is in the front of your mind. Spite and defiance aren't "pretty," but they're very useful tools for humans that need to reprogram themselves.

@MDuarte-vp7bm Ай бұрын

@@Just_A_Dude I find most changes in my behavior are for spite, for better or worse.

@Toadsavior Ай бұрын

@@MDuarte-vp7bmthere’s a reason people stay alive out of spite- it works. It’s not pleasant, generally, but you get a lot of older folks who have stayed alive simply to stick it out and be grumpy til the very end xD

@scv4236 Ай бұрын

I like this new host, he's really good at engaging, reminds me of Hank

@pmosh1 Ай бұрын

feels like he's trying too hard, but I'll give him time.

@Scum42 Ай бұрын

Unfortunately I think he's only a temporary host; he's also one of the cohosts of the podcast "Let's Learn Everything" and he was described as a "guest host" for SciShow. I could be wrong though, and I like him a lot so I hope he sticks around for a while

@ARomashchenko Ай бұрын

One suggestion for improvement is watching the constant repeating hand gesture that can become a little distracting from what he's delivering

@macdaddyx12 Ай бұрын

I’ve seen some of Tom’s other content. Always entertaining

@alexandramaclachlan7597 Ай бұрын

Yooo, is this the math dude? He's fun :D

@Cerbera66 Ай бұрын

Students, the guinea pigs of human sciences 😅😂🤣😁

@kaitlynoddie9649 Ай бұрын

we’re all broke and sometimes studies give you gift cards

@mm-yt8sf Ай бұрын

we know sooo much about freshmen 😊

@AnnoyingNewsletters Ай бұрын

Studies = extra credit!

@evelynharber6077 Ай бұрын

I do like Tom Lum's energy. He is very energised which flows through to his audience. Welcome Tom to SciShow.

@Fr00ter Ай бұрын

I actually don't. It's a bit like someone who tries too much to be excited for a tiktok video but now he's extending it for 15min+

@evelynharber6077 Ай бұрын

@@Fr00ter Maybe that the hosts are just acting as they believe is expected by the audience. I just like the energy that Tom Kum is portraying. Very similar to the young lady who has left Sci Show.

@AnnoyingNewsletters Ай бұрын

I miss seeing Olivia on Sci Show 😢

@miketheburns 18 күн бұрын

his eyebrows tell me he's a narcissist ;-)

@madbrowndog4887 Ай бұрын

That last one - what a lost opportunity. In my teens (50+ years ago), friends and I thought it was hilarious to stage a "look up", and see how many uplookers we could catch, before quietly slipping away one by one. If only I had kept notes, that ig-noble could have been mine.

@stephen1r2 Ай бұрын

That's what science is. The difference between "Hold my Beer..." and science is writing it down

@Adventurealliancekerala Ай бұрын

The Ig Nobel proves that even bizarre curiosity can lead to breakthroughs… or at least a great story!

@tremkl Ай бұрын

10:10 I know it's accidental, but this moment looked hilariously savage. The guy on the right looks like he goes in for a kiss at the exact same time the guy on the left looks down at his phone.

@reijiriffic Ай бұрын

1:30 i have confusing feelings with this pillow fights of two tatooed smiling men now thanks

@dakotakelley-vinton4742 Ай бұрын

I just now realized I clicked on this video without even reading the title I just seen sci show and knew it would be interesting so its up next to watch

@LightBlueVans Ай бұрын

same! half the time i just click knowing whatever they’re going to teach me about is so worth it

@michaeldamolsen Ай бұрын

Same here. Pavlov would be proud of us.

@CWorgen5732 Ай бұрын

Click

@philipb2134 Ай бұрын

V.S Ramachandran had successfully used a mirror reflecting the intact arm of an amputee to suppress pain felt in the phantom limb. Also, the click method was found to improve training of surgeons as this reflects a pass/fail binary, where's commentary from the instructor can carry the baggage of the instructor's (often negative) biases. The click has been applied to more training regimens since.

@ylimeasil Ай бұрын

Ramachandran’s book is a pretty interesting read!

@lindacondray7918 Ай бұрын

I was looking through comments to see if anyone else mentioned them using mirrors to help treat phantom pain for amputees. I always find that effect fascinating.

@JillKnapp Ай бұрын

8:20 Please tell me you used the phrase "this wasn't *as silly of* an investigation as it sounds" on purpose, because the silly/cilia pun is glorious.

@pssurvivor Ай бұрын

i totally believe the second one. when i was trying to cut down on smoking i discovered that my resolve not to smoke was strongest if i needed to pee

@razberrie27 Ай бұрын

that’s super interesting!

@Outdoors49Man Ай бұрын

Similarly, if I had to drive late at night and not get drowsy, I would drink lots of water. Fighting the urge to pee really kept me alert.

@MDuarte-vp7bm Ай бұрын

@@Outdoors49Manexactly how it's so easy to sleep when dehydrated, but impossible when needing to go.

@harshzhoshi Ай бұрын

I'm going to try this!

@AnnoyingNewsletters Ай бұрын

Definitely worked for each of my cross country drives.

@CurlyCurly52 Ай бұрын

Host needs a raise, terrific job

@itskdog Ай бұрын

His name is Tom Lum, he also has his own channel that he recently started, and is one third of the Let's Learn Everything podcast.

@susanduarte6888 Ай бұрын

When you selected the avocados as stand - ins for testicles, were you aware that the Nahuatl word “ahuacatl” means “testicle” and that from there we get our word for the tasty fruit😂🥑😂🥑😂🥑

@JiveDadson Ай бұрын

Tasty fruit?

@qwerty81808 Ай бұрын

@@JiveDadsonavocado is a fruit

@JiveDadson Ай бұрын

@qwerty81808 Double your entendres.

@qwerty81808 Ай бұрын

@@JiveDadson you’re a fruit?

@ostremnomer Ай бұрын

This is a fun fact that they included in a sci show video around 8 years ago actually!

@SaiyanHeretic Ай бұрын

So the old saw about "two hearts beating as one" is a scientific fact? Damn, that's actually romantic.

@chayarchy Ай бұрын

3:51 isn't this also used for amputees to combat phantom limb pain?

@faceoctopus4571 Ай бұрын

Yep. It's called "Mirror therapy".

@tealkerberus748 Ай бұрын

@@faceoctopus4571 I wonder when they'll develop treatment for phantom pain in parts we can't usually see? I had root canal work over 15 years ago and I still have sensitivity in that tooth. There is literally no nerve in it to feel pain any more!

@moseskingofteabrews2021 Ай бұрын

I saw that episode of House, yeah.

@alexhurst3986 Ай бұрын

On #10. When my dad was younger, in the 1940's, he and some friends would walk in downtown San Antonio. One would stop and stare up then another would until they had amassed a huge crowd. Then they would step back and watch the people trying to figure out what was up there. Ah, the fun kids had before smart phones and the internet.

@apathyguy8338 Ай бұрын

Looking up reminds me of the old commuter trick. Whenever I went through Grand Central Station when it was crowded I would look up in order to convince the people I was walking towards I didn't see them that way they would get out of my way rather than me having to get out of theirs.

@NotSoMuchFrankly Ай бұрын

The little rascals proved this theory 90 yrs ago. A guy has a doctor put a bandage on his neck while the guy's head is tilted back and the doctor tells him to keep his head in that position. He goes outside to wait for a taxi and draws a crowd looking up that allows the Little Rascals to sneak into a movie theater. Ah, delinquency.

@MDuarte-vp7bm Ай бұрын

@@NotSoMuchFranklyIt works with phones, too. Walking while staring down at phone will have others go around. Inevitably, someone else will do the same and you will get food or drink spilled on you. It's the walking version of not waiting your turn at a stop sign. It's fine until it's not.

@NotSoMuchFrankly Ай бұрын

@@MDuarte-vp7bm Hijinks ensue.

@simonsaysism Ай бұрын

I heard recently that a long-standing decongestant drug was found upon systematic review to not actually be effective. I wondered if the congestion study was testing against that one - looked it up and turns out they used a different kind.

@poultryinmotion5721 Ай бұрын

It's only ineffective if taken orally. Still very effective if used as a nasal spray.

@hanifarroisimukhlis5989 Ай бұрын

Yeah, phenylephrine is already known to be ineffective since the beginning. Now the only currently known working oral decongestant is pseudoephedrine. Which sucks because it's extremely hard to obtain those.

@tinlizziedl001 Ай бұрын

The Ig Nobels are terrific! They're often absolutely hilarious and expose some of our deepest "secrets" in some rather unconventional ways.

@andreas3858a Ай бұрын

that "controlling the urge to pee" is similar to don't go shopping on empty stomach.

@maoman4855 Ай бұрын

A lesson I still have not learned, apparently.

@spindash64 21 күн бұрын

It feels more like the mirror image, actually: the bathroom urge has your brain sending constant signals to "stay on target", while hunger has your brain sending constant signals to be less picky, and grab whatever you can carry

@__init__ Ай бұрын

Meeting your partner on a blind date for a research project with eye trackers and heart rate monitors attached would be the most incredible how we met story.

@Andrew-Crust Ай бұрын

Tom Lum is killing it....

@mezu-e Ай бұрын

The Clickers show the importance of good quality feedback. Shoutout to my old manager who complained in front of me about an anonymous complaint of how we never got any feedback from them. (It was my complaint.)

@ARabidPie Ай бұрын

The clicker probably enhances memory by adding an additional sensory association with success, even without a treat. More connections equals stronger memory.

@CritterKeeper01 Ай бұрын

There was a study using clickers on humans which used kids taking ballet. You're not supposed to look down at your feet when you go into the various positions, but that can make it hard for beginners to know when they've got it right. This paired up the students, having the one with the clicker watch the other's feet and click when they got the position right. Then they'd swap. It worked really well! It gave immediate feedback, telling them the *moment* they got it correctly, allowing them to learn how it felt without having to ruin their posture by looking down, directly at their feet or into a mirror. And the click is much more precise than saying "That's it!" or "Excellent!"

@SallyAnderson30 Ай бұрын

My mom used to joke that you should stare at the ceiling, just to mess with people. 🤣 I'm delighted her joke has a scientific backing

@Nmethyltransferase Ай бұрын

10:09 Aww... How adorable! They must be such good friends/roommates.

@chair547 Ай бұрын

oh my GOD they were ROOMMATES

@MDuarte-vp7bm Ай бұрын

Brothers, even!

@dafttool Ай бұрын

On the orgasm effects to decongest your sinuses, I used to work in the horse industry. At the breeding shed, the stallion’s nose will often run while breeding. 😮

@tgeliot Ай бұрын

Hey, don't kink shame.

@catatonicbug7522 Ай бұрын

How big are kleenexes for horses??

@dafttool Ай бұрын

@ However big the back of your shirt is when they wipe their nose on you. True story

@bland9876 Ай бұрын

When I'm sick I feel somewhat better after I "have fun".

@dafttool Ай бұрын

@ yes. Probably an endorphin release.

@theunintelligentlydesigned4931 Ай бұрын

"When your nose feels a little stuffy, maybe you need an orgasm." is certainly a sentence I never, ever, ever expected to hear.

@DG69GOD Ай бұрын

I love hearing the IG Nobel special on NPR radio around Thanksgiving time!

@elizamccroskey1708 Ай бұрын

"I'm bored, please stop" LOL

@katiekorell9776 Ай бұрын

I love this episode!!!!😊 Science doesn't always need to be about great break throughs. Super cool to learn more about ourselves! SCIENCE!!!

@Royce16727 Ай бұрын

Those are some top-tier segues, Tom exclamation point lol, from listening to Let's Learn Everything!, I can be pretty confident when I say that you wrote a good portion of the script.

@GabeCoolwater 18 күн бұрын

1:31 That's the sweetest fight ever! 😄 You guys are awesome! Really cool video! 👍

@thecakeredux Ай бұрын

Great script, really smooth transitions.

@tellur808 Ай бұрын

That last one reminds me of that chimp experiment: A goup of chimps is hanging around. There is a ladder with a treat waiting at the top. However, if they were to try to climb the lader past a certain point, the entire group would be hosed down with water. I don't remember if the treat was snatched away or if they at least got to keep that. This is done until all chimps have learned to keep of the ladder. Then a chimp is switched for a different one who doesn't know about the danger if the ladder. He will try to climb the ladder but the other chimps will prevent him, by beating him up. New chimps will be rotated in one at a time until all the chimps that witnessed the punishment will be gone. None of the chimps in there at the end ever experienced the actual punishment for trying to get the treat. They just experienced the punishment by by the other chimps and maybe whatever they communicated to them. I wonder what would happen in the staring up experiment if once a large enough crowd formed, the original person just left. How long would people stay standing there until they realize they have no good reason to stand there?

@MDuarte-vp7bm Ай бұрын

Entirely variable, especially since someone probably works/lives there, and will not leave for many months or years.

@mehere8038 Ай бұрын

There was an interesting study on animals in the neutral zone along the soviet border, even decades after the wall/fence was removed, the animals still wouldn't cross that line

@MDuarte-vp7bm Ай бұрын

@mehere8038 they probably wouldn't cross it because that specific border was in some way natural(e.g. a river, or mountain range). Usually, areas made uninhabitable by humans are areas where animals thrive(like chernobyl). Human militarized borders are usually only on paper, or only by threat. Physical barriers are expensive, and the USSR did not have them. Nobody that big did.

@mehere8038 Ай бұрын

@@MDuarte-vp7bm ever heard of the Berlin wall? Well that barrier wasn't limited to Berlin, it covered the entire border & was called the "iron curtain". It is now called the "European green belt" & follows that former fence. Animals will go to the former fence line in the middle of an open field, but refuse to cross the former fenceline. & a patrolled fence is hardly expensive compared to a space program! Of course there was a physical barrier there! Geez it amazes me what people say

@mehere8038 Ай бұрын

@@MDuarte-vp7bm trying again ever heard of the Berlin wall? Well that barrier wasn't limited to Berlin, it covered the entire border & was called the "iron curtain". It is now called the "European green belt" & follows that former fence. Animals will go to the former fence line in the middle of an open field, but refuse to cross the former fenceline.

@willmendoza8498 Ай бұрын

This was great. Fun topic, good presenter

@mcdade7489 Ай бұрын

Love Tom Lum💚

@sierraveree Ай бұрын

Both SciShow and your podcast, Tom, have gotten me really interested in science communication. I may just have to try it out..

@lyledal Ай бұрын

"...surgeons, who you hope are pretty smart people." *Recalls Dr. Ben Carson*

@travcollier Ай бұрын

Hair as protection from impacts and abrasions is an old (and still pretty good) theory. Though the "fighting" part is a speculative stretch IMO... Guys run into stuff and fall down plenty ;) On the clicker training... You can literally train yourself using that sort of basic reinforcement training! Seriously, you're basically using the our conscious mind to condition/train your subconscious mind. We are animals after all.

@saveoursquirrels4241 Ай бұрын

I assume the fighting idea is to partially explain why having a beard is so closely related to testosterone

@tanyaharris7924 Ай бұрын

i love to play with the idea irl behind the last nobel prize “ones a crowd”, and regularly look intently at nothing just for someone to also look and be either concerned or disappointed

@Bia_R_4 Ай бұрын

The ig nobel is the best: huge inspiration that sometimes weird research actually helps!

@rickseiden1 Ай бұрын

What percentage of people will look up when they see a cat sitting next to the wall staring up at the ceiling?

@Im_Just_A_Dreamer Ай бұрын

13:49 Audio glitch: “People join the crowd, more people join the crowd”

@mrjoe5292 Ай бұрын

I have 99 nose hairs, and always one *NOSE HAIR*

@rainydaylady6596 Ай бұрын

Huh?

@MDuarte-vp7bm Ай бұрын

@@rainydaylady6596i think it's a super dry word joke, or he was trying to describe how he always has one nose hair that bothers him(probably by sticking out of his nose and making him sneeze).

@MouthyMerc42 Ай бұрын

Number 10 also applies to getting ppl to stand in a line and do a wave in a crowd.

@EthanDoores Ай бұрын

3:05 Really gives a new meaning to pissing away your money.

@sonjaya37 19 күн бұрын

I’ve watched hundreds of sci show videos over the years and I think this is one of my favorites! Thanks for continuing to fuel curiosity and bring joy to so many of us 😊

@Tugatitatoxica69 Ай бұрын

5:01 so we are golden retrievers?

@albertoserrano67 Ай бұрын

Good boy, did your yt alarm remind you to watch this video?

@perryboyette3196 Ай бұрын

Not really. We're basically house plants with complex emotions.

@rachmadsuhartono 21 күн бұрын

The clicker experiment sounds like jim's prank to dwight on the office

@TheGreatHole Ай бұрын

Humans: Yeah humans are the weirdest animals to exist and pretty much everyone agrees! Platypus: Hear me out guys.

@MDuarte-vp7bm Ай бұрын

He said weirdest animal, not weirdest mammal.

@mehere8038 Ай бұрын

I would say just birds are also incredibly weird, but birds aren't real, so I guess the platypus wins

@doujinflip Ай бұрын

In terms of behavior, humans are still the weirdest. We're the only species that deliberately seeks experiences of fear (thrill rides, horror stories, etc) and pain (spicy peppers, athletics, tattoos, etc). Apparently it works as a defense against traumatization from actually bad experiences.

@mehere8038 Ай бұрын

@@doujinflip um dolphins are proven to do that too, others no doubt also do but haven't been confirmed/observed doing so

@blazebluebass Ай бұрын

1:29 well that pillow fight definitely did something to me 😆

@DMTrance87 Ай бұрын

This episode was fascinating and hilarious! I don't know if it was the subject matter, the host... Or both... But either way.... MORE PLEASE!🥰

@MaxFerney Ай бұрын

This honestly was a great episode, id love to hear more of the ig nobel prizes now, as the wierd and random things are still valuable to research. like that synchronized heart rates one was super interesting to hear about.

@ODISeth Ай бұрын

The left testicle is warmer than the right, the left breast is larger than the right, I wonder what causes the left/right imbalance of paired organs? I know the right lung is generally larger than the left since the heart generally occupies some of the same space that the left lung would occupy, I wonder if the heart’s positioning in the body also contributes to those other effects. Or perhaps it’s something that can vary from person to person, like handedness?

@mehere8038 Ай бұрын

in the case of breasts, it's probably directly linked to handedness & muscle use on that side of the body

@sierraveree Ай бұрын

YESSS i was so hoping you'd do an episode on the ignobels tom

@Hydrogen101 Ай бұрын

My absolute favorite Ig Nobel is “placebos that cause side affects are more effective than placebos that do NOT cause side affects.” What this tells us is that it is entirely possible that current medication that causes side affects may not actually be effective and only perceived as effective. Think about it!!!

@TheRealTimMeredith Ай бұрын

It doesn't really tell you that, because most medications go through studies with placebo controls before getting approved, so we would know about it if they weren't any more effective than a placebo.

@tgeliot Ай бұрын

Not to mention the "nocebo" effect -- people experiencing negative side effects from placebos.

@normanwolfe7639 Ай бұрын

I’m addicted to placebos. I’d quit but it wouldn’t matter. Steven Wright.

@catatonicbug7522 Ай бұрын

This is how I feel about most cold medicines. I don't generally believe they do anything, and when I take them for a cold, my belief is generally reinforced.

@MDuarte-vp7bm Ай бұрын

@@TheRealTimMeredith you misunderstood his supposition. He was saying that some side effects are welcome or distracting enough to reduce the perception of the symptoms. Or perhaps that we are more willing to trust a medication is working if there are distracting side effects. I think one example of this is phenylephrine compared to pseudoephedrine. Phenylephrine is a measurable effective decongestant... that doesn't work. Some combination of side effects is causing pseudoephedrine to functionally reduce the perception of symptoms, even if phenylephrine is "just as effective."

@xchurricane Ай бұрын

A+ transitions!

@Acidlib Ай бұрын

7:15 ngl, that corona tattoo is pretty rad. Not really a period of time I’d like to permanently commemorate on my own skin, but to each their own

@dandilollo Ай бұрын

Good eye, I totally missed the meta-illustration there. However, bc you lured me in for a close look, it seems to me that the nurses sleeve is sewing themed. So, what you/we initially assumed was an image of a coronavirus is in fact one of those tomato pin cushions. Am i wrong?

@S85B50Engine Ай бұрын

The last one sounds like a great idea for a prank

@sunflower-seeds Ай бұрын

11:25 yeah I don't know about this one, sounds uncomfortably reminiscent of phrenology 🤔

@flightographist Ай бұрын

I can say this: the algo knows I hunt ideas for content...and you/it/they/whatever just gave me a mother load.

@hummingmostbird Ай бұрын

You're forgetting my personal favorite, and the favorite of everyone whose parents ever yelled at them for cracking their knuckles. It was 2009 or 2010, a man spent 50 years cracking the knuckles of only one hand to prove that cracking your knuckles does not, in fact, cause arthritis

@ivytarablair Ай бұрын

this. was. AMAZING!!! and Tom, your glee and yet also enthusiasm were perfect for this video 😂😁

@1217BC Ай бұрын

The writer for this one should get an award for most contiguous silly segues

@winterbird4069 Ай бұрын

Even if these vids don’t get that many views or interactions, as long as you had fun making them, I see that as a win. Also, I enjoyed them. So thanks for making this lmao

@moolikethecow1172 Ай бұрын

these segues were incredible. well done!

@anniejuan1817 Ай бұрын

I love SciShow!!

@adnankaisarkhan Ай бұрын

9:15 I checked, it is on the left.

@evan7642 Ай бұрын

I’m right rn

@THE-X-Force Ай бұрын

lol .. pretty sure we ALL checked.

@akingofdashit Ай бұрын

We need to conduct our own experiment, peer review if you will. Mine was on the right

@Lolibeth Ай бұрын

Narcissistic eyebrows sounds like phrenology for the 21st century

@kellydalstok8900 Ай бұрын

Especially at a time when so many people groom their eyebrows. And if it’s so easy to recognise a narcissist, why do so many people still fall for them? Also, I don’t see anything special about Donald Trump’s eyebrows, and he’s one of the worst narcissists ever. It’s his smirk that gives it away.

@tealkerberus748 Ай бұрын

Plus a side of racism, when you consider the whole "strong contrast" thing.

@twinsgardening896 Ай бұрын

That's because it is. This is the kind of thing that gets touted around in books from the 1920s. It's absolutely shameful and disgustiong for SCISHOW to be spreading it in 2024.

@Lolibeth Ай бұрын

@@twinsgardening896 yep. I was trying to be gentle about it, but it’s just straight up bigotry. I’m guessing someone decided to do the study because of the same cultural trends like “face reading” on TikTok. Which is again, just phrenology, sexism, classism, and racism

@kateapple1 Ай бұрын

Your narrator was great! Loved the funny transitions 😅

@existenceisillusion6528 Ай бұрын

This is one of the funniest things I've seen this year! 🤣

@mehere8038 Ай бұрын

look up the actual results then, they're even funnier!

@birte5675 Ай бұрын

Seeing tom at the start to talk about the ig nobel is such a delight after listening to the episode of the podcast about it

@tomadams2319 Ай бұрын

Really great transitions between winners! Very clever and well written and organized!

@loganusher591 Ай бұрын

Excellent job Tom! I've been a fan of yours for a while and its great to see you join Sci Show! You fit in perfect! For the 7th one, I wonder if they had any participants with a vericocele? Its like a vericose vein in your testicle that about 15% of men have that is most typically on the left that would also increase left testicular temperature!

@tatotato85 7 күн бұрын

Love you guys, im glad to still have you

@BadNaturalist Ай бұрын

The Science Friday radio highlights of the Ig Nobel ceremony is always the highlight of my year

@blackrose4289 Ай бұрын

So proud of you Tom!!!

@laura5425 18 күн бұрын

Tom Lum is so entertaining! Great to watch

@fullstackphoenix Ай бұрын

I like how they connect into each other

@CptnPushy 21 күн бұрын

I love this episode and the narrator!

@markedis5902 Ай бұрын

I used to do the look up trick in Waterloo station. It was fascinating to see how many other people looked up purely because I was

@alberton.1601 Ай бұрын

Somehow I can tell you were no expecting a Nobel Price in October...

@tantzer6113 Ай бұрын

These studies need to be redone and reproduced. Maybe the publicity generated by the prize makes that more likely.

@EcoGearhead Ай бұрын

These transitions were perfect!

@shayelea 29 күн бұрын

Mirror therapy can be useful for amputees dealing with phantom pain. It doesn’t always work, but if you have an itch in a leg that no longer exists, trying to trick your brain into thinking you’re scratching that itch on your remaining leg can’t hurt.

@100thfail Ай бұрын

I didn't expect human clicker training on Sci Show of all things. Glad to know my interest could legitimately help improve skills

@nicstroud Ай бұрын

"Should you go around judging people on their eyebrows? No." Too bad, I am going to from now on. 🤨🥺😯😫😤 🤣

@twinsgardening896 Ай бұрын

you should maybe research "phrenology" and why it's considered horrifically bad.

@nicstroud Ай бұрын

@@twinsgardening896 I know all about phrenology, thankyou. May I suggest you look into irony, sarcasm and humour. In the meantime keep your very odd selective outrage to yourself rather than overreacting to posts that are obviously meant in jest.