Unstumped Hank & A Chinese Water Dragon: SciShow Talk Show #14

Today on the SciShow talk show, Emily fails to stump Hank with a new animal skull, and then Jessi from Animal Wonders shares Lokita the Chinese water dragon.
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[@WingmanSR]

Emily is just the right amount of dork + attractive

[@adamwhitehead4677]

YES!

[@LaineyBug2020]

The term is adorkable

[@Endur101]

I've been subscribed to scishow (and Brain Scoop) for awhile and just now realized there's a talk show. You guys are awesome!

[@coolkid564100]

Honey Badge don't care

[@lisatheferret]

I love Emily

[@elsalolz]

This is so fascinating! I love scishow! :))

[@Daniela9800]

Is it just me or do Emily and Hank look like siblings? Well I loove you guys!!!! XOXOxXXXO

[@rei_cirith]

omg, she's gorgeous... and so well behaved.

[@JackOfAllTrades0404]

...."well behaved"??

[@rei_cirith]

Cheesus I don't really expect lizards to just kind of sit there and let people turn her around and touch her and stuff. Though, I guess that's kind of what they do... sorry, did it sound like I was talking about one of the girls?@_@

[@JackOfAllTrades0404]

+reicirith yeah no I thought you meant Emily and I was like "shit did we just get transported to the 1600s 😳" 😂

[@rei_cirith]

Cheesus LOL Sorry, I've been told I tend to speak without context. I'm working on it. =P

[@KingsleyIII]

Are we talking about the lizard, Emily, or Jessi?

[@fallensaintkm]

Emily is back and such a cutie :3

[@supersammy00]

first time i watched this it was like 5 minutes

[@enta_nae_mere7590]

Well most siblings aren't like John and Hank and Emily and Hank act like the sister brother version of Hank and John.

[@adFC]

i know that they have addressed this issue before but i swear that Emily is related to Hank and John. how can anyone see these two sitting next to each other and not see the resemblance. Emily is the sister of John and Hank like John Snow is the brother of Rob and Sansa

[@GregGBM7]

oooh! ahhhh! nom nom nom nom nom

[@flatplant]

I possess a bone Emily should examine

[@SethKhoury]

+Uncle Ben Don't make the obvious joke.

[@charlesmills797]

Emily episodes are always cool

[@themarvelousblackcanary8362]

God I love hank and Emily together it's hilarious

[@sbrox101]

I love how at the end, Hank is almost talking in a baby voice and it's to a Water Dragon :')

[@mjpcccutie]

Emily has freaky good posture like seriously

[@kwyper6805]

You got this from last episode?

[@ThatAnnoyingBird]

That's one freaking adorable lizard!

[@puddingball]

yay, having breakfast with scishow and emily. day couldn't start off a better way

[@barnyardhouse]

Indicator Indicator sounds like a friggin Ian Fleming character.

[@View-sc8wf]

I have a Chinese water dragon, and when I heard that they technically have 3 EYES, I was like... there’s an alien in my roooooom!!!!!

[@loryndabenson5840]

Bro saaaame. These little lizards are so cool

[@Qambar44]

"is it a honeybadger" i laughed soo hard

[@jjtattooist]

Chinese water dragon: " These trees really love me!"

[@visionplant]

4:55 Dragon: What the hell are those Humans doing!?

[@matthewfarrelly186]

It looks like a small iguana, and iguanas have that third eye too(pretty sure), is that a coincidence? Or are they related

[@bsinger182]

Emily's awesomeness has been firmly established. She is just the best. Can we all give a shout out to Jessi? I mean like, she's on every episode, and is so smart and delightful. How about a big group WOOO! in on honor of Jessi? WOOOO!

[@HASHlRAMA]

5:55 "Oh, yep that's his hand on my bottom"

[@horsyluva24]

Remember when we first saw Emily and everyone was freaking out because "OH MY GOD FEMALE HANK!!!"?

[@thecutebutevil]

When you were talking to Lokita and said thank you to her you looked so FREAKEN adorable

[@Dyslexic-Artist-Theory-on-Time]

This is a suggestion why don’t you make a video about the other theories on KZbin? There are many theories on KZbin that are not part of the mainstream of science it would be interesting to know what you think of them as part of mainstream science!

[@jakedelenger8102]

leave it to the soulless ginger to ignore Hanks question...jk. probably just didn't know the answer or was a editing error.

[@jakedelenger8102]

Lol. Yes, why would such a beautiful creature, such as yourself, be spending it's time reading old ass youtube comments?

[@razzar508]

from experience I can say that being whipped by a water dragons tail SUCKS

[@View-sc8wf]

razzar508 me to

[@darkcerabrate]

i was a little surprised by how draconic the lizard looked

[@voyagerabove4034]

What do you think myths are based on?

[@ben_yeates]

7:24 Emily says: "om nom nom nom"

[@karennitchman4284]

Emily- yay!

[@DoctorRandomercam]

"Bison (African Buffalo)" I just swung my palm at my face and missed.

[@xm377Moyocoyatzin]

Lokita has GOT to be among the top 3 most popular Chicana nicknames. So where are Shygurl and La Giggles? By the way, Loquita, or Lokita, means "crazy little girl" in Spanish.

[@DeltaGhostSquad]

LOL.. "Would you like to hold Lokita?" "OK."

[@CarbonDoggie]

Emily is my favorite Sci Show guest ever. :)

[@Julie1588]

love this show best when Emily is on it!

[@kurtilein3]

i sense a certain affinity to reptiles here ^^ I guess you should diversify, or otherwise you will soon end up with a green anaconda or reticulated python :) But seriously, since you are already so deep into the reptile-thing, i see a giant snake on the horizon. Burmese pythons can be really puppy-dog tame and can be quite big.

[@hellshippy4]

"feel how hard it gets at the tip"

[@GringatTheRepugnant]

What's amazing about the honey guides is that they'll call humans out to a beehive as well. They're a creature that evolved along with us in our native habitat.

[@ShadeSlayer1911]

American Badger is Gulo gulo, literally meaning glutenous or something similar. As a comment to how voracious of an eater they are.

[@winneythepooh1717]

That's actually the name for the wolverine. The badger is Taxidea taxus

[@ShadeSlayer1911]

Katie Schulze God dammit, I always mix those two up.

[@HotelPapa100]

Katie Schulze That's probably derived from the name of the wolverine in varios European languages, which basically means "voracious eater".

[@KiddsockTV]

Shake it like a Shaker. LOVE IT! You have to make it to the Naples, FL Zoo to see the Honey Badgers!

[@SaveTheFuture]

A bit off topic, but is fast petrification (or partial petrification) possible? Because I have not heard of a chemical which can rapidly encase something in stone or replace its molecules with minerals, despite that it seems to be scientifically possible. The Mother Shipton petrifying well encases objects with stone in a few months, but is there a chemical which is much faster?!?

[@benjaminhuntermason]

First they hit it with an RBS-15 missile to stun it, then they shot it with a fast-hardening ferrous liquid so they could suspend it in the air with high-powered magnets to prevent it from killing everything in a 5-mile radius. They then proceeded to dismember it with a high-powered diamond-tipped saw blade, putting each body part into separate specialized containers that bathed them with heavy doses of radiation for 8 years to prevent them from regenerating.

[@noelhutchins7767]

parietal eye, like spiders, we're all evolving something awesome, I've seen some strange human evolution, too, some people seem to have engorged like a tick, others have become as thin as a walking stick... I've seen hypnotic eyes, & repulsion eyes... Human Voices which could lead a man over a precipice, & human voices that would drive a man over the same edge... Evolving to be too cute to deny, seems more successfull than evolving so revolting as to overwhelm with shock & disgust... whatever...

[@Sanulay]

Let me give you examples of language change where an "incorrect" expression becomes correct. People used to use the word "gay" to mean "light-hearted". The Estonian "linn" means "town" and the Finnish "linna" means "castle". The two languages used to be one and the same and there's still some mutual intelligibility left between them. That means that at some point, people changed the way they used the word and the new usage became correct

[@themongoosedog]

You gotta pick your battles. I don't think it's defeatist, I think it's just realistic. You gotta know when you're up against something you just can't change, or you're gonna waste a lot of energy that could have been put to good use elsewhere. But if you think that's out of the question, then enjoy your one-man Sisyphean crusade against the reality of human language. :P Best of luck.

[@themongoosedog]

And I'm saying that's just how it works. Disagreeing with it won't change anything. And resisting any and all change is a battle you're doomed to fail. Making particular arguments for why particular things should or shouldn't change from a practical standpoint might be a little more successful. Ultimately, though, it's not in the hands of any one of us. Language can and will change, for better and for worse. You really just have to accept it.

[@themongoosedog]

Well, I don't know how to break this to you, but it is. Language is an arbitrary, ever-changing democracy--whether you want it to be or not. French tries to fight it with its Académie, but that stifles the language and limits its usefulness if you ask me, and it's really fighting a losing battle. Just remember that "democracy" doesn't mean one person can suddenly change things on a whim. It has to be agreed on by a majority.

[@Starchface]

Strictly speaking, you are always falling unless a force is applied by or to you which modifies your motion. For someone standing on the ground, the bulk of the Earth applies a force against them which counteracts gravity. Someone standing aboard a spacecraft without artificial gravity is falling, along with the spacecraft-until the engines are started. If the ship is equipped with fictional Star Trek-type artificial gravity, producing its own inertial reference frame, he is always falling.

[@themongoosedog]

"Then" -could- eventually mean "than" if enough people use it that way. Language is always changing, and what was incorrect a hundred years ago could be perfectly acceptable now. As far as then/than goes, that sort of change isn't one I'd be particularly happy to see happen, since I think it decreases the usefulness of the language. The singular "they" on the other hand I do think is useful and so I welcome the change. You can't stop change, but you can try to push it in a useful direction. :)

[@Teiz83]

The only way for that to happen would be to be in a universe with no matter in it. The enterprise, when in interstellar space, would fall/accelerate towards the center of mass of the galaxy. If you were between galaxies, you'd still fall towards the center of mass of the local group. Outside the local group, you'd still fall toward the center of mass of the Virgo supercluster. If there was no other mass in the universe other than you and a pebble, you would still fall towards each other.

[@Uejji]

It's a good question. The sensation we know as "weightiness" is the feeling of the Earth pushing up into us, and it is the feeling that is missing when in freefall. Being in a gravity well does exhibit a certain tidal force on your body, but in Earth orbit the tidal force on the human body is practically negligible. In deep space, weightlessness would feel the same, as you are still lacking the sensation of any massive object pushing up into your feet with considerable force.

[@chrissypoo90]

They are the same mass regardless of where they are. There is no such thing as zero gravity. Even if they were in an alternate universe with nothing except for them their mass would create gravity which would result in a nonzero weight. Weightlessness isn't a technical thing, it is a word to describe a feeling of your body relative to the absence of stresses such as gravity and g-force.

[@jacobgolden9482]

Incorrect usage is incorrect usage no matter how many people do it. An awful lot of people confuse "then" and "than" but "then" does not suddenly mean "than". Also, the word "literally" is misused incessantly, it is still wrong to use the word to mean something it does not. The fact of the matter is, it is still incorrect. Okay, NOW you may call me a pedant. I feel pedantic after that one. (I think my knife is bigger. Te he. =] )

[@Dragonblazer316]

my theory is that sence nomatter wich way you look the will me some kind of large mass eventually so from the combined gravity from all directions technicly you would be getting pulled from all directions. so technicly not weightlessness. pretty much the same effect as tose "antigravity" tops, where both the top and the platform are magnets but gravity keeps the top from going up into space.

[@jacobgolden9482]

It's completely ridiculous to think that people will actually begin to use proper grammar, especially in the case of "his/her" vs. "their". That said, I think that if someone is going to correct another's grammar that someone might use proper grammar to do it. My grasp of the English language is tenuous at best, but my little primate brain valiantly attempts to struggle toward the correct grammar and usage of this, my native tongue. I cannot fault honest incorrect usage by others.

[@angelLopez-ue7ld]

Mine is actually sleeping next to my bed right now I dont think that third eye crap is real I just tried it and hes still sleeping his name is machete becuz wen I got him his tail was short like it got cut off and it looks like hes growing it back ive had him for a year and a half also got one two days ago another male

[@MelodiesCureMaladies]

One knows that one has a certain tendency towards nerdiness when one finds oneself romantically inclined towards another during another's description of removing the brains of a dead organism in the name of science. Her smile afterward really sealed the deal, and the fact that she's totally gorgeous helped. So gorgeous!!

[@Donaragh]

I understand why this would be a top comment. Kind of confused why they left that in after editing. Pretty sure she was not aware of an exact speeds they travel though. Does anyone here know how fast they actually go though? I am interested but a quick Google search didn't give me the results I wanted just care on Chinese Water Dragons and that they do swim -.-

[@jacobgolden9482]

I'm certainly not claiming to be smarter than the rest of humanity (I've seen my test scores, you haven't so I have you at a disadvantage on that one). Rather, I'm saying that there are things in life which do not come down to majority rule. I happen to think language is one of those things (unfortunately for me, the majority does not agree).

[@quitte92]

They aren't falling, but they'd be moving at a constant velocity. And since the ship wouldn't have enough gravitational pull to keep you grounded to the floor you'd still be floating around :P. Unless the ship started accelerating then you'd just be stuck to the wall of the ship opposite where it's travelling to. Hope this answers your question :)

[@nacasius]

Whether its the center of our galaxy or the center of another galaxy the center of our mega-cluster, it wouldn't matter, there would always be a gravity at work. It might be small, it might take millions of years of drift to bring you into orbit of what is attracting you, but you will always be in somethings gravity field while in space.

[@Qermaq]

Well that's not quite it. If you were in outer space with no sizable mass nearby to have a strong gravitational pull, then you would not be weightless, but it would be extremely hard to measure your attraction to a distant mass. I wonder, if you were in the middle of empty space with a baseball, would the baseball cling to you as you are the dominant mass?

[@SaveTheFuture]

***Hey Hank: could you do a strange places episode about Mother Shipton petrifying well which encases objects in stone if they are left there for several weeks? I'm not sure if it would fill an episode, but fast petrification is something which would seem possible, yet it's not mentioned much in chemistry. Or how about the scientific perspective on shrinking?***

[@edpolice]

I feel like this is going to be a bum question but here is goes. astronauts are weightless because they are falling at the same rate as everything around them in an orbit, but what about if they were not around anything no large bodies just on lets say the USS enterprise with out artificial gravity, they are not technically falling so no weightlessness right?

[@themongoosedog]

If English were a perfect language your prescriptivism might be justified. But in fact it has a gaping hole in its lack of a gender-neutral singular third-person pronoun, and people have taken it upon themselves to fill that gap. Accept that or supply us with a more appealing alternative; pedantic whining isn't helpful.

[@oisiaa]

So....how fast can it run?

[@AsTheStormRises]

I had a CWD growing up. They're one of the most docile lizards ever. EVER. My boy put up with some serious crazy. Sweet little things, they.

[@BenEscoville]

After double checking, this "rule" was created in the 18th century, only after centuries of use otherwise. But there's no English standard, so the use continued despite the "rule." Shakespeare's grammar was not improper; it failed to meet an arbitrary standard imposed by a few long after his death.

[@lithiumdeuteride]

Weight is given by: W = m * (g - a) where W is weight, m is mass, g is gravity, and a is acceleration. In free fall, acceleration is equal to gravity, so weight is zero. In deep space, far from any massive objects, g is negligible, but a is also negligible.

[@jacobgolden9482]

I refer you to my reply to toasty. If you look closely, I'm sure you can find mistakes in my grammar and usage as well. I was merely attempting to correct an incorrect correction. (Try saying that three times fast) I didn't intend to come of as a pedant/prat, but I did. So it goes.

[@dannykeat]

Love Emily's "YAY" at the end.

[@bubblepopper9336]

uhhh Crazy coincidence here... My name is Jesika (Jesi for short) and I used to have a water dragon that I actually named Lokita. (it was supposed to be like a girl version of Loki :P ) my dad showed me this vid because he thought it was funny...

[@UnCreativeChannel]

$179 at my local pet store. Even cheaper from petsmart. Water Dragons are a fairly comon pet. They freak people out because they buy them not know how long they can stay under water and when the do they think that they're trying to drowning themselves.

[@jacobgolden9482]

You know what? Grammar is stupid and I hate it. Incorrect usage of speech ought not dictate the direction in which it evolves. Black becomes white, up is down, north is south and right is wrong. Language should not be a democracy.

[@TheOnlyAlchimous]

No, actually. basically "weightlessness" when in orbit comes from when you are falling towards the planet at the same speed you are falling perpendicularly to it. So, in effect you end up falling around the object you were falling towards.

[@themongoosedog]

My point is that the third-person singular "they" is -becoming- correct, by simply virtue of use and the fact that it fills a lamentable gap in the language. And any discussion of grammar in KZbin comments is automatically a knife fight. :P

[@toasty4000000]

We live in a world where everyone tries to get offended, so we cant say "his eyes" or "her eyes", and no one wants to say "his or her eyes", so we use "their". Language is created by humans. Its ok if we modify it from time to time.

[@ltericdavis2237]

There are several reptiles that are called dragon. Obviously the water dragon, and komodo dragon. There's also things like bearded dragons and my personal fav, the draco lizards. They have wings made out of there ribs and can practically fly, well glide.

[@Lex20Luthor10]

At the 2:00 mark all I could think of was the scene in Jurassic Park between John Hammond, Alan Grant, and Ellie Sattler. Sattler: "You said you have a T-Rex?" Grant: "Say it again." Hammond: "We've got a T-Rex."

[@Leroset]

They don't kill animals. If a dead one is found in the wild or one dies in captivity, its body is usually donated to science so that we can learn more about these amazing creatures in death, as well as in life.

[@safir263]

I remember seeing a water dragon at the zoo, They have such curious and friendly personalities. He was actively following me as I moved around by the glass and made an effort to keep eye contact. it was so cute!!

[@Uejji]

The attraction between a typical adult male (82kg) and a baseball (145g) at a distance of 1 foot is 8.5x10^-9 Newtons. The baseball would accelerate towards you at a rate of 5.9x10^-8 m/s^2. Hardly clinging.

[@Hugh.Manatee]

I bet you never tried them Emily! Mealworms are actually delicious. Roast them, sprinkle them over ice cream and add a little honey. They're also good in salads, the taste is a little like walnut.

[@sirnoob1]

i cant remember which TED video it is but this honeyguide theory is actually wrong, it's a misconception where something else is the guide, i cant remember so it'd be handy to look it up :)

[@jacobgolden9482]

Aye, but that's the problem with democracy, isn't it? If a majority of people vote away freedom of speech it becomes the law, and there's nothing to be done. I blame the self-esteem movement.

[@noticemegenki6049]

RIP Lolita. Sweet girl passed away recently.

[@JFShaggy]

They have one of those lizards at the pet, shop, although they think it can run on water, like a basilisk Lizard. Yet the same workers have never heard of the basilisk Lizard. ...?

[@thecheechoftheages]

talk of the chinese water dragons third eye makes me want to know more of what the pineal gland in us is about seeing as how some cultures call that our third eye. would make a good video

[@Dowhatsrightnoteasy]

I always find my self wondering if these animals are naturally passive with humans. They think your hand is the ground. Or it's just because its bread and grown up with humans

[@insulinator]

I'd like to know the evolutionary background of the chinese water dragon--how/when did it end up with a parietal eye? I don't know of any other animals that have an adaptation like that!

[@TheRubberWolf]

Animals are so damn awesome. Third eye, underwater for 25 minutes... Honeybadgers trying to take down bison, which are easily 15 times it's size with nothing but tooth and claw.. fuuuuuck.

[@Hoverbot1TV]

When people stop promoting exotic pets like water dragons and chameleons they will stop being thrown out or ignored to literal death by kids that "have" to have them then lose intrest. Jeffrey Dahlmer had a fascination with animal skulls etc as well not that positive a topic today.

[@BeroKyandi]

Hank's married to The Katherine and they are absolutely adorableeeee together! She's been on the Sci Show Talk Show a few times and she plays games with him on Hank Games.

[@danjenkinsdesign]

Was Emily grossed out by the meal worm? Emily gets grossed out by a little worm but can do, well, any of the things we've see on The Brain Scoop? That strikes me as odd.

[@JaspertheDragon]

I'm just waiting for them to bring a bearded dragon on the show. there's a lot of misinformed people on the internet that needs to be told about them on something like this