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Weekly Roundup (4/20/19-4/26/19)
🕑 Added 2019-04-26 23:35:46 +0000 UTCSciShow
Fighter Pilots Seem to Have More Daughters — Why?
Are fighter pilots really more likely to have daughters?
5 Animals That Sleep Too Much (and One That Might Not Need To)
These animals sleep way too much by our standards, but they have good reasons.
The Strange, Frictionless World of Superfluids
Superfluids are a super weird substance that might hold the key to understanding the nature of spacetime itself.
What's Better for Wounds: Scabs or Bandages?
Are you better off covering your wound with a bandage or letting a scab do the trick?
Insect Filth and Bloody Messes with Evelyn From The Internets!
Evelyn from the Internets of Crash Course Business takes on Hank Green in this particularly slimy Quiz Show!
Where's My Bloodless Blood Sugar Monitor?
What if we could measure blood sugar without requiring patients to stab themselves?
What That Pig Brain Study Really Tells Us
Scientists restored some processes in the brains of dead pigs, raising a lot of questions about ethics and how we think about death.
SciShow Space
Maybe Life Doesn't Need Water, After All
On Earth, life requires water. But we're not looking for alien life on Earth.
How Scientists Found the First Type of Molecule in the Universe | SciShow News
After decades of searching, scientists had found no definitive evidence of the universe's first molecule, helium hydride. Until now.
SciShow Psych
When Everything Feels Like a Dream | Depersonalization-Derealization Disorder
Do you ever feel like you're dreaming when you're not?
Why Depression Isn't Just a Chemical Imbalance
If you have depression, something is not functioning correctly in your brain. The question is: What?
Comments
I often wonder why you confer an almost deistic reverence to scientists in the presentation of Sci-Show videos. Sometimes it seems like you're suggesting non-scientists were ambivalent. I agree that science - as a research discipline - takes a level of abuse from conspiracy theorists, religions, politicians and those journalists who feed them than some other lines of work (eg. nursing, fire-fighting, refuse recycling and factory work). But on the other hand, it does sometimes seem a little patronising; a little divisive in the sense that a lot of people are more-or-less excluded from your definition who have much to do with the process (eg. teachers, medical practitioners, airlines pilots, engineers, beta-testers and science communicators like yourselves, just to take a few disparate examples). I can see some motivation in your approach, but on the other hand I think that taken to excess it has a potential to divide more than unite; and that's why I'm interested to hear your rationale.
