Memory | SciShow Tangents Podcast

[@lonlon58]

Its so beautiful to see hank learning the final poo fact here, after watching Mentopolis

[@sawace1]

** Petition for a video of Hank singing The Night Night Songs **

[@KOKO-uu7yd]

Petition signed by me!!

[@SciShowTangents]

me too!

[@silliepixie]

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[@womanbei]

Hell yeah!

[@jebus456]

yes

[@rhov-anion]

At least for me, I began to have memory issues after many years of uncontrolled seizures, so I took pictures of anything interesting that I did. It's now like a journal, and I look through my photos on my phone pretty often. I still have no idea when things happened during those years, which causes problems in my life. In one instance, I was positive that I had joined an organization in 2008, but they had not even formed until 2011 and I joined in 2014. I had to look up a photo I took on my first day because I didn't believe my coworkers.

[@makaioh]

Since I heard this, I have been unable to poop without wondering "Is this the one?"

[@iriandia]

Right? Like I need to take my ID with me whenever I poop, just in case.

[@BuriedErect]

Always a pleasure to see Deboki (: a favorite recurring guest of mine

[@melanieroy2157]

I really like the title 'Tiny Matters' for your podcast. I always viewed it as having the double meaning of both beings about tiny matters, while re-enforcing the idea that those tiny things matter

[@AthAthanasius]

I think we can say that the clean sweep in Truth or Fail counts as 2 points to Ceri ...

[@DasDuken]

Seeing the photo memory article make the rounds floating around pop science sites last year was interesting because nearly every user comment was about how *they're* the outlier.

[@IceMetalPunk]

When I first heard the lateral eye imprinting fact, I also instinctively thought it would be terrible for evolution. But if you think about it... it's a situation that would basically never happen in the wild. Either the duck imprints with both eyes, or it can only see out of one forever anyway. The idea of only seeing from one eye during imprinting, but then only seeing from the *other* eye from then on, is super contrived. So it's one of those things that isn't really a problem, so it wasn't selected out by natural selection, even though it's not ideal design.

[@ShaneSemler]

Love the podcast! It feels very QI inspired.

[@chippercorgi2247]

Start of the video: "It's so creepy watching a video of yourself that you can't remember making" Sam's fact: "Recording an event makes you less likely to remember it..."

[@ponyote]

Rebel Sam just sounds like such a rebel.

[@crepusculeXstargazer]

Ah, you got me Ceri! I knew about the condors but I didn't think they had funerals... But I was like eh maybe I just didn't remember that part. I was wrong

[@patrickdaly1088]

Grandmaster Timur Gareyev currently holds the World Blindfold Simultaneous Chess exhibition record. How many chess boards did he simultaneously remember without seeing once during the over 19 hour world record setting event in 2017? 48, of which he won 35, drew 7, and lost 6, for a total score of 38.5 points out of 48 where a draw is half a point, meaning he took about 80% of the available points. Great episode, my memory's one of the things I've spent the most time working on and I still learned stuff!

[@decibel333]

3:00 "ex-spearmints" 😂

[@MurphysEveryWhim]

I love SST!

[@BadGirlFan]

I'm good at remembering song lyrics, but can't remember a poem to save my life. The rhyme is helpful and present in both, but melody makes a huge difference for me. And I firmly believe that muscle memory is a part of this. I suppose singing a melody makes for a more exact repetition each time rather than simply reading something where you can change the pitch, the speed, pauses etc between repetitions. But the main reason I think muscle memory is a part of it is because I have from time to time entertained myself by learning songs in languages I don't understand. They obviously takes longer to learn than lyrics I do understand, but it also stays with me MUCH longer and come back to me much faster after I've forgotten them than lyrics I do understand.

[@ficmatagaea7813]

Actually here's something funny! You actually remember stuff more if you put in the effort to process them! It's a thing in the psychology field where we talk about shallow and deep processing, where the more we put effort into understanding something, the deeper it goes and we end up remembering it for longer! That's called the levels of processing view! So the more time you put into it, you actually are understanding it better and so it sticks for longer. It's interesting how you think it's muscle memory, because facts are, we actually process music better than we think! Oftentimes parents are told to sing to their babies to build that connection, music has a very interesting affect on our brain!

[@strandedtimetraveler8435]

Taking a photo so I'll remember to watch this episode 🤞

[@bleep8048]

Its coming, don't forget it :)

[@dracrichards5785]

Memories are stored chemically. Such as if you're under the influence or something and you do something and then you're not later on and you're trying to remember it you have trouble remembering but when you're under the circumstances again you can remember it because you're under the exact same circumstances

[@ficmatagaea7813]

Actually that's something called state dependent memory! The mechanism behind it is that we oftentimes process not just the info but also the surrounding context and state! So in this case you' remember something in the exact same context cause you've made this connection in your mind for it!

[@bleep8048]

Love the auld lang synn reference in the description for this episode in the Google podcast app, thanks for turning me on to the song as well Hank - B

[@Kerbezena]

22:25 "Well, 1.022 is closer to 284 than it is to 10.000." I take issue with this, and I don't, but still I do … hear (read) me out. When we humans compare numbers, I think it feels far more natural to compare them by their geometric difference, the factor between them. 284 is 3.6 times smaller than 1.022 and 10.000 is 9.8 times bigger. So, Deboki was still way closer, but only three times closer as I "feel" it, not 12 times closer (1.022-284)/(10.000-1.022).

[@georgeb.wolffsohn30]

Cats definitely will leave you for what they perceive to be greener pastures.

[@yaboyJJJJJ]

I was curious about what you said about mourn and remember having similar etymological paths and... they don't? remember is old french from latin and mourn is proto-germanic,.

[@vumulostratus]

18:46 how to take a screenshot on a duck

[@RonaldSheely]

Tiny things matter

[@niqilarch6782]

Geese sleep with one eye open or keep half their brain alert so they are harder to sneak up on. So I answered the separate eye imprinting one.

[@Paitriot21]

That's a memorable butt fact

[@codydwyerify]

They're talkin a bunch about earworms without mentioning the SciShow jingle. You just heard it in your head, didn't you?

[@arthursamuel301]

Is Ceri coming back?

[@soth1sol]

don't bother looking it up. "piper's maggot" is not an available band name.

[@lisanorwoodtreefarm]

OK, but will the episode about butts include legs?

[@markedis5902]

Unfortunately the national ignition facility used over 100 times the energy produced to power the lasers

[@shadebug]

But the question is, how does that extra energy scale? Because if it scales less than the ignition energy then we just need to achieve break even

[@jebus456]

Amnesia poop, yet Another reason to keep regular down there

[@twosquids]

Sam totally still smokes sometimes

[@OneBentMonkey]

New SST cannon: Sam is a furry

[@the_christian_show]

Sam is so cute

[@northernspike7434]

Fusion will produce power from steam? Is that how it's done this time?

[@cass8353]

wait who won the last year/season,,? are you still doing that? who is the title of the bucks this year

[@SciShowTangents]

We did a reset when Stefan left, but this season is almost over so we'll start announcing the score more often and then announce the season winner soon!

[@Alice_Walker]

🧠✨

[@WhiteSpatula]

Slightly off topics, but, what is up with the jungle gym surrounding all these podcast mics? Please, someday, segue and convey ..and I’m outta rhymes. Please enlighten us. Cheers! -Phill

[@peterprime2140]

It's a shock mount, it helps stop the mic from picking up vibrations.

[@empichel5690]

Yeah! Game master is a better, more accurate title

[@JonPITBZN]

I guess I'm just old fashioned. I don't take pictures, and I don't like taking pictures. The only pictures on my phone are either from work, or things that other people sent me That said, you will never get me to use the phrase "okay boomer, you might be right." Never!

[@mairimacfarlane7198]

I e ne. Yeenv i e can ea🎉ej g

[@terranovarubacha5473]

What is the trophy on Sam's shelf (to our left) for? Has he won at that Hogwarts game that people play with brooms between their legs?

[@terranovarubacha5473]

Butt fact involving amnesia and vagus nerve