What Makes a Home...A Home? | SciShow Compilation

Living spaces vary greatly across the planet-for humans on Earth, a roof and walls usually make a home, but what about for animals? Or people in space? Today, we're welcoming SciShow videos from across our different channels into this collection of episodes that explore some of the different ways we think about home. Let's go!
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Original Episodes:
Skylab: The First Americans Living in Space
• Skylab: The First Amer...
Houseplants Can (Probably) Make You Happier
• Houseplants Can (Proba...
How Close Are We to the Perfect Smart Home?
• How Close Are We to th...
Cities | SciShow Tangents Podcast
• Cities | SciShow Tange...

[@KitsukiiPlays]

Home is where the cat is

[@Kansoi-07]

Fun fact: ur first

[@KitsukiiPlays]

@@Kansoi-07 oh? Nice! Tks for the heads up, lol

[@megatronjenkins2473]

Feline Overlord FIFY

[@tristandaries1129]

Guess I live in a box then

[@theperfectbotsteve4916]

@@romanumeralz but he fluffy

[@Cliffdog01]

In New Zealand, the legal definition of a City is 30,000. Which I know is tiny to most people, but we have a tiny population. There are census budgeting implications for whether a place is a city or not. I lived near a place called Masterton, which has always been right at the line between Large Town and City. It was considered a big deal when it crossed 20,000, the previous standard, but when they did, the metric was lifted to the current standard, and everyone there will tell you they increased the standard just so Masterton would continue to be excluded.

[@leonlee8524]

I'm homeless and this is keeping me educated & inspired- home is where the heart is and I love science!

[@irri4662]

Do you have a tent ?

[@Hecarim420]

The future is now old man :v ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@glenngriffon8032]

Homeless here as well, been living in a tent in the California desert for the past year. While it's "home" for the most part my heart and soul will always call Texas home.

[@DrachenGothik666]

I've been in that situation. Sucks crusty goat's bawlz. First time, I was six years old, along with my family. Here's hoping things get better for you in the New Year, man.

[@ginnyjollykidd]

May your circumstances become better. May the Blessings Be.

[@janetf23]

This extra 👍 is for Hank's 'City Poem' 👏

[@silver3660]

Home is where your heart is.

[@domomitsune5920]

A place where you fill your most comfortable. And for a cat that usually means under a bed, and a closet, or in a box. Any kind of confined space basically. Assuming that your cat doesn't like sleeping on top of your kitchen cabinets. But usually home is where the heart is, and where you keep your stuff.

[@domomitsune5920]

I would say home is where you feel most comfortable and keep your stuff, but let's face it there are many places that you normally wouldn't call home like the space station, a ship, etc. So I would basically say home is where you keep your stuff, and were you feel you can come back to.

[@bdidbwvolume2.230]

As someone who lived on a ship in port for almost 8 months, I can confirm it feels similar to when I used to be homeless. Even when I was in my apartment sleeping on the floor with no furniture, it felt more at home than the ship

[@suhrim6666]

Home. I wish I had one.

[@scarletletter4900]

Been there (hugs)

[@theperfectbotsteve4916]

make one make one dammit homes don't exist naturally you can do it make one out of your brain

[@bloopbloop9687]

I wish I could afford one

[@DrachenGothik666]

Here's hoping things get better for you in the coming year, bud. I've been there, more than once. First time, I was six years old, along with the rest of my immediate family.

[@ginnyjollykidd]

Wishing you better circumstances. May the Blessings Be

[@Mello_me]

No offense to Bill Nye, but Hank Green is in so many places talking about so many things I wonder when hes going to surpass Bill in popularity. I love them both but I've learned a lot more from Hank and I appreciate him. I appreciate everyone on SciShow.

[@PlutosAsleep]

i honestly mostly watch hanks videos here 😂 but if i see one i’m interested in it doesn’t matter who’s narrating, this channel is so helpful for me as a grade 11 student, and i have to do two science courses this year 😅 but i love science now!

[@natashiastubblefield2130]

I feel like this was way more of what a home could be versus what a home actually is

[@ratsssssssssss]

home is where your pets are :]

[@irri4662]

Some go with us

[@sloopy5191]

Smart home? OMG, I really hope I never have to live in something so invasive!

[@gerardtrigo380]

From a section of a High school Geography textbook missing the front section does have this definition of various groups. From some other references in the book, it appears to have been written sometime in the 1930's. It gives no source for these definitions. Homestead -- one or more isolated buildings with single family with 10 or more members. Settlement -- A group of buildings with 15 to 50 people of three or more families. Village -- Group of buildings with several families and a population between 30 and 250 people with some type of governing structure. Town -- a collection of residences and businesses with a population between 200 and 2500 people and a governing structure. City -- A town with a population between 2500 and one million people. Metropolis -- a city with a population between one million and 10 million people. Megalopolis -- a city with a population over 10 million people.

[@OniDragonSan]

I wasn’t expecting to hear Rhett and Link mentioned in this.

[@mego8838]

LOVE the city poem Hank.

[@EyeLean5280]

So NASA learned it made mistakes in the way it treated the Skylab crew but it punished the astronauts anyway? Makes sense.

[@DasDuken]

We got almost a whole Tangents episode as a bonus! What a treat.

[@beratnabodhi]

"An Emense World" is a book by author Ed Yong that takes a deep look at how the light and noise pollution by humans affects the other creatures in the world around us.

[@ginnyjollykidd]

Still, I did like the parakeet who learned to order farts on Alexa, and it was put on the birb's shopping list.

[@michaelmcchesney6645]

I grew up in a tiny village in north of NJ called New York City. But I went to a law school in the major metropolis that is the City of Lexington, VA. Lexington has a total population of 5,000 people (presumably excluding Washington & Lee University and the Virginia Military Institute). But I also worked for a time in the Town of Colonie, NY that was larger than certain counties I've been in. Of course, most counties contain multiple towns, cities, and/or villages. LA County comes to mind. But New York City has 5 counties within its borders. But those counties are usually referred to as "boroughs." Manhattan is officially New York County, while Queens County and Bronx County are self explanatory. Richmond County is also known as Staten Island, while Kings County is also known as Brooklyn.

[@cathipalmer8217]

'Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in.’ ‘I should have called it Something you somehow haven’t to deserve.’ -Robert Frost, The Death of the Hired Man

[@elin_]

Home is a place where you can escape most of society's pressures. And also of course my home is not a home without my dog.

[@epluribusunum1460]

Home is where we can have the illusion of control over life.

[@bigchimpin4215]

Home is where I disrobe, wander around, and eat cheesecake concurrently.

[@houseplantnerd2872]

🥰 houseplants🥰 I'll call it a passion, obsession, driving force.

[@ashleycross7593]

Home is any place with a moggo or a doggo 😍❤️

[@sophierobinson2738]

Home is where I stack my books.

[@TheBlibo]

Hi On plants for destressing, compare how you feel after a walk through your city center against a walk through the forest or along a river bank Keep up the good work

[@sophierobinson2738]

I keep forgetting to water mine, and I have been known to kill unkillable houseplants.

[@robertgraybeard3750]

at 2:29 the Hubble Space Telescope's primary mirror had a perfect curve but it was perfect against a test jig that had a washer out of sequence, not perfect against the perfectly curved secondary mirror. The program was over budget so they were not tested as a system. Once that mistake was discovered a corrective lens could be fabricated and put in the light stream.

[@SevCaswell]

On cities: In the UK there are specific rules on what you can call areas of habitation. Doesn't matter what the population is though. We have officially designated Towns that have more people in them than Officially designated cities. The more difficult definition is between Villages and Towns here.

[@cassieoz1702]

It used to be that you needed to have a cathedral to be called a city (often the 'capital' of a county or shire). A town was governed by a council and a village was just everything smaller

[@SevCaswell]

@@cassieoz1702 Cathedral or University, or a charter from the King.

[@kellydalstok8900]

What about hamlet? The settlement, not the play.

[@michaelmayhem350]

The UK also jails people for being homeless

[@SevCaswell]

@@michaelmayhem350 What tf does that have to do with anything? Also the UK repealed the Vagrancy laws some time ago. Homeless people are only charged under either anti-social behaviour or drunk and disorderly laws.

[@FlameLegend100]

Very nice to know.

[@nariu7times328]

Love me some science videos!

[@MrAnonymousme10]

As a homeless, my home is what my eyes can see

[@boxyboxe]

I am loving plant indoors, particularly the Cannabis flower bud and the ritual act of smoking through a glass spoon

[@LibraBlue1962]

Sometimes you want to go Where everybody knows your name And they're always glad you came. You want to be where you can see Our troubles are all the same, you want to be where everybody knows your name.

[@erics4150]

Maybe plants are relaxing because they are edible and our survival part of the mind likes that

[@empichel5690]

Home is where I pay rent... This video is just in time to cheer me up from holiday blues.

[@ravertaking6343]

I'll stick with my "dumb" home thank you very much.

[@paulluna8099]

A word of advice it's a good idea to have the family filter on. Although the bird is the first to appear on Google. A couple pages later you do see the melons.

[@sep27061985]

home is where Wi-Fi automatically connects

[@elliottchrist]

Home is where I want to be, but I guess I’m already there.

[@kraneiathedancingdryad6333]

@ 5:30 : I'm a plant nerd, and I approve this message 👉🪴👍😁

[@lexhdz5803]

this video is the scimultiverse of madness

[@lysandermorgensonne9850]

Home is where the wifi connects automatically

[@LordSlag]

I think, first, we need to make sure everyone HAS a home.

[@voice-less]

How do you do that when you don't even know what a home is.

[@dany_fg]

Home is where the Wi-Fi is

[@IanBLacy]

“The best way to make a smart home is to send all the data about you and your home to someone else” Careful, Hank, you’re starting to sound like Mark

[@AndreasRavnestad]

0:41 I guess this guy must have heard this a few times, but there's no way that's not a voiceover by Penn Jillette.

[@fatman80000]

I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that. - HAL9000

[@balesjo]

BTW, I googled Gray Tit and got photos of the bird, so that's safe. And if you misheard and typed in Great Tit, it took you to breast cancer sites, so family friendly and informative. Great show guys!

[@shank2733]

the bird is called a great tit! there are other tit birds though lol

[@valharla]

home is where you're most comfortable going potty

[@irri4662]

Free poo

[@shank2733]

i heard "home is where you're from" as "home is where you poop" LOL

[@KingOfGamesss]

It's where the Heart is...

[@brianward7550]

25:57 hi, on the other hand can't wait to Google it! I mean it's the perfect excuse, no, I'm not being gross, I'm doing scientific research!

[@Dogtroll]

I'm going to say 2 on the scishow tangent question just because I am pretty sure I saw a documentary on that topic.

[@fluffybbpeachhun6768]

I be surprised how messed up hanky be,I did the spa and I guess it is part of my home being also at a spa PURRR

[@petevenuti7355]

Meteoroid!!! That's the first time in decades I've heard someone use the term correctly!!!

[@anthonycade9034]

Plants being relaxing is also probably connected to being in the forest as doing the same…I’m guessing

[@anthonybeers]

I am curious, plants need sunlight or something similar to live, I wonder if the lighting was the same in all the different studies.

[@dac554]

A home is a castle

[@DragoniteSpam]

"Pizza-mouse" Hank, please.

[@ericf9479]

i suggest calling smart homes sherlock homes

[@irri4662]

Home is where I ware any t shirt

[@sircharlesmormont9300]

I absolutely was going to guess the lizard, but the pavement thing didn't ring true. San Juan is one of the oldest cities in the U.S., so I thought that IF an animal was going to adapt to city life, it would make sense for it to be in such an old city. That said, the "pavement" in Old San Juan is still mostly comprised of cobblestones. In the oldest parts of the city, the roads are largely not comprised of the baking hot blacktop that burns your feet. Still surprised that pizza rat won, though.

[@kassywilson7292]

Re the plant studies: A living plant versus an empty planter is guaranteed to cause stress in a many people who have issues with the incomplete planter. That's not a neutral comparison. Should be no planter at all to be unbiased.

[@borttorbbq2556]

That's a good question I don't have one

[@MarcosRodriguesCarvalho]

"Aurora, what is home?" "Somewhere you have truly grown." - Child of Light

[@flows69]

Home is where you trust the toilet seat

[@Anuchan]

If the residents all know each other by first name, it's not a city.

[@lark613]

I hope astronauts unionize, so that NASA can't exploit and punish them for pushing back ever again.

[@matthewsander5887]

The plant one is common sense. It's all in the mood of the room and environment. Adding plants to a barren sterile colored room gives a sense of life to the room. The typical areas are stressful because the sights and smells are bleak and drab. It's why montessouri schools have added more natural colors to their schools and utilize color theory. Our surroundings affect us cognitively. The plants act as a source of familiarity in an otherwise heartless environment. An empty white room without plants is a solitary confinement cell. A white room with plants is a nursery. It changes the context of the room

[@mysteriousshadow395]

Homeless rates have risen significantly in America

[@capt.bart.roberts4975]

Nope, I'm not connecting my house to t'interwebs!

[@joshiiiiiiiiiiii]

ok i'm bad with names but dude in the blue shirt always looks like he's about to lay a fire track in his studio and the young lady is low kew a stand up comic 😂😂😂 i love y'all! this channel (out of the few factual science channels i follow) actually keep it factual..ya'll trim the "fat" even in your banter! 🙏🏾

[@Yashuop]

Claim your “here within an hour” ticket right here🏆

[@KSL042]

Here within 2 minutes crew

[@ViktorHJ]

No 👎

[@Mot0193]

No thanks

[@God_Yeeter]

I think that I shouldn’t, I have too many. The corner of my room if full of those tickets

[@megatronjenkins2473]

Home is where the best place to poop is.

[@irri4662]

Recycling compost

[@samventi8160]

so ancient Greeks considered a polis (city) as anything having 10 to 30 k citizens. But none citizens tended to have a ten to one ration with citizens. So 100k to 300k people. First time I heard the term metropolis applied to Ancient Rome was when it got a million People living in it.

[@Tom-pc7lb]

Maybe that there is something alive in the room 24 hours a day. IDK.

[@militantpacifist4087]

Your body is your home.

[@irri4662]

Her body was my home

[@markmuller7962]

A human right

[@kaitlynoddie9649]

personally i disagree that houseplants are stress reducing but maybe i should stop buying calatheas

[@God-ld6ll]

here

[@Hi_Im_Akward]

Don't get me wrong, I love science and the things it can find and accomplish. But you don't need science to understand why plants are good for us. It's part of nature and we are animals. Animals that live in very artificial environments. Theres a lot of evidence that our artificial environments make us more stressed. So bring some life and nature into an artificial environments is going to have positive effects.

[@csmith5876]

Metropolis

[@dvdavid4677]

Sham on you

[@dvdavid4677]

You think all this wonder could be there without electricity

[@annieseaside]

Why was there nearly nothing about what a “home” is?

[@skleedleplotchnu3713]

Wrong title: "Can we live in space" is only tangentially about defining home. The whole section on plants had almost no reference to "home" and in no way answered the question "what is a home" The section on "smart" home may have answered the question "what do you need to have a smart home" but not "what is a home" Then you tried to answer the question, "what is a city" and "how did cities affect animals"; again, not "what is a home"

[@holeshothunter5544]

It is not in thee city, or part of it if that agglomeration crosses any mountains. LA and the san fernensi vally are NOT in the same city. Now you have an answer.

[@atenkalcoatl6581]

primer comentario

[@LudvigIndestrucable]

And why did Hubble need repairs? Incompatibility of metric and imperial work of EU and US

[@jackmason5278]

DARN! I thought you were about to indicate that plants improve the oxygen level in the ambient air. It sure looked like you were headed there. But NO. You didn't provide any answer.

[@SevCaswell]

I believe that recent studies have shown that this is not the case, plants have a negligible impact on oxygen levels. To produce a statistically significant change you would need to fill the entire space with plant matter, and there would be no room for furniture etc.

[@lark613]

they've made a Scishow answering that question as well! I think the most relevant study showed that you need hundreds of plants to notice improvement in air quality.

[@Dramn_]

KZbin Algorithm

[@colez1597]

First

[@kaseybarrow269]

First?

[@Kansoi-07]

Claim your “Here within an hour” ticket here! 🏆

[@ogcurly6256]

Imma be honest, Sam dont seem smart enough to be on the show

[@fuccyahhat1229]

They have this effect on someone who is having a bad mushroom trip. It is common knowledge that going outside in nature will calm you

[@ac9206]

Home is where you can be lazy.... And splice compilations together, instead of making new content....

[@MrMegaPussyPlayer]

7:39 Tell that to all the plants that died because I didn't pay enough attention to them.