6 Incredible Discoveries Made on Accident
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Күн бұрынSome of science's most interesting discoveries happened totally on accident! From insects to infections, and polymers to pacemakers, we've accidentally discovered some pretty cool stuff. Watch this new episode of SciShow, hosted by Stefan Chin, to learn more!
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CRISPR
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Pacemaker
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Polymer
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@Anthonyist 6 жыл бұрын
When it said wasps recognize faces, I was afraid that they meant HUMAN faces. That wasp from 6 years ago lives on in my nightmares.
@AgentDRJ 6 жыл бұрын
It might recognize human faces if it can recognize wasp faces. But who knows? That being said, the wasp from 6 years ago probably died of old age, or due to predation.
@adammartinelli8274 6 жыл бұрын
Do ya like jazz?
@robbyhenton8038 6 жыл бұрын
Anthonyist hmh likely they can same way we can recognise different trees, another way to put it is if you have a dog and run into 6 other dogs the exact same breed and look the exact same way you can still tell which is yours though they seem near identical. Just because it's not their spieces doesn't mean they can recognise it.
@robbyhenton8038 6 жыл бұрын
Anthonyist though soldiers die after about I think 3 weeks from old age...so won't worry
@Needformadness2 5 жыл бұрын
The Protagonist wasp are hundreds of times smaller than humans, it would be like a hamster sized human being able to recognize a whale. It’s simple not possible.
@TheRawrnstuff 6 жыл бұрын
I feel like if I were a scientist and accidentally invented a new type of plastic or some such, I'm sure I'd be like "well, surely people with more experience know about this already".
@codename9824 6 жыл бұрын
Tim Smithen Aristocratic and wealthy Europeans were having ether huffing parties to get high for decades before a dentist connected the dots and discovered the first anesthesia.
@noahwilliams8996 4 жыл бұрын
I can't begin to tell you the number of times I've thought that.
@freedapeeple4049 3 жыл бұрын
I'm sure many discoveries have been lost and/or delayed for exactly that reason. Always check it out!
@emilypresleysee 3 жыл бұрын
I've often had the same thought. Followed by something like... well, if I were an actual scientist with degrees, I would have probably read a ton on the subject, including but not limited to published articles about new or recent discoveries so I would hope I would know if else I wouldn't be a very good scientist if I have no knowledge of current events and past events in my field. 😕
@TheRawrnstuff 3 жыл бұрын
@@emilypresleysee The key here being "my field". In my example from 3 years ago, I said "accidentally invented". I feel that implies 'my field' being something reasonably different from the field of the invention. If I was a "plastic scientist" of some sort, inventing a new plastic would probably be the goal. But what if I were, say, a "cat food scientist"? I probably wouldn't be following the latest trends in plastic manufacturing. Not for work, anyway.
@krealyesitisbeta5642 4 жыл бұрын
Wasp: *gets a makeover* “So... what do you think?” Other wasps: “Seek and destroy!” Wasp: 😩
@Lopal12 3 жыл бұрын
103 likes no comments?
@ThatSoddingGamer 6 жыл бұрын
Makes one wonder how many 'almost discoveries' that have occurred over the years. Potential groundbreaking discoveries like these, missed because they weren't questioned, noticed, or preserved (say, an assistant disposed of it before anyone could examine it and they couldn't replicate the result).
@shadowpod13 6 жыл бұрын
Yep. It's the accidents and the observations.
@maattthhhh 6 жыл бұрын
Poor wasps. Just when they thought they escaped their captor, and could return to their family, the are no longer recognized as one. Sad life :/
@Luca-gc6pz 6 жыл бұрын
maattthhhh it's strange for me to feel bad for a wasp, hell spawn that they are, but I agree... Poor wasps.
@randyjohnson9772 4 жыл бұрын
Wtf niga its me.. The kkk painted me white!!!
@milesarcher8502 4 жыл бұрын
Mom told you! NO MAKE-UP!!!
@siyacer 4 жыл бұрын
Damn they so aggressive they would even attack their own kind if they don't recognize them
@StrawBerry-yn6fm 4 жыл бұрын
Not that different from humans
@gibranhenriquedesouza2843 6 жыл бұрын
During my PhD research I read many articles about crustal oscillations in neutron stars with dipole magnetic fields, but I realized that no one made studies using more complex magnetic fields, then I decided to do it in my PhD and now I have a PhD title in astrophysics.
@andreasimon2752 4 жыл бұрын
Nice!! Congrats
@derekskop1997 4 жыл бұрын
People look at me (soon to be physician) funny when I say “my passion is physics but I’m not that kind of smart” and this is just another example of that lol I think astrophysics requires a certain kind of imagination that I just lack
@garyventure8442 4 жыл бұрын
Gibran - 1. Are you able to study the more complex magnetic fields that are around earth? 2. Are they moving? 3. If so, Do they always move? 4. Are they moving faster or more erratic than in the past? 5. Are lay, or ley line energy fields on earth real or just new age hyped up happy hippy horseshit? 6. If real, can you explain exactly what they are? I know. Astrophysics. Astronomy physics. Not geomagnetic earth physics. But it's not everyday that I have the opportunity to ask questions of an astrophysicist, a genuine educated professional person of science. I numbered my questions to make it easier for you to reply with brief answers, should you choose to do so.
@MerkhVision Жыл бұрын
@@garyventure8442 Aw, I wish they would’ve answered you, those are some good questions!
@orisphera Жыл бұрын
@@derekskop1997 This reminds me of a time when I wrote “physician” instead of “physicist” when experimenting with Google search images and only realized that way later
@jaschabull2365 5 жыл бұрын
"Even when you make a mistake, stay curious." When I don't get the expected results in college lab, the lab assistants will usually just tell me I must've messed something up, even if I ask what could've caused things to turn out differently. It seems schools don't exactly foster that type of curiosity. Kudos to the scientists who didn't retain that lesson not to be curious.
@anonymous.youtuber 4 жыл бұрын
Jascha Bull That happened to me once, and not finding any way where I could have made the “mistake” , I asked If they would agree if I spent some time in the lab proving the experimental procedure wrong. They liked the challenge and I was able to prove that the result of the experiment was a function of the time one would spend in the queue to the spectrophotometer. They never had done the experiment themselves, just applied statistics to the results to calculate the grading. So the lesson learned was, if you are absolutely sure of what you did, you might have a shot at discrediting the whole experiment. To your own peril of course -if you can’t prove where the flaw in the experiment lies.
@noblefir9106 4 жыл бұрын
Jascha, well said! Thank you for being brilliantly curious. If we look at the world through the wholistic lens of complexity and interconnectivity then we always want to know why something happened and maybe why something else did not. The journeys of inquiry that sprout from, and are maintained by, these happy accidents are a crucial part of being human. I totally agree most schools do not foster this kind of curiosity and this needs to change for betterment of all.
@tinglin6121 2 жыл бұрын
@@anonymous.youtuber The real lesson is this: no one is responsible for your curiosity but yourself. Others may be able to assist from time to time, but they are busy on their own.
@0mn1vore 6 жыл бұрын
"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not `Eureka!' (I've found it!) but `That's funny...'" -- Isaac Asimov
@skywise001 6 жыл бұрын
A lot of science starts with that or "That's weird..."
@dan_loup 6 жыл бұрын
Sometimes could start with an "oh no! everything is ruined!.. but this thing"
@defaultmesh 6 жыл бұрын
"well that escalated quickly"
@legalizze.420.gaming6 6 жыл бұрын
"Wtf is going onn!!!"
@skagerstrom 6 жыл бұрын
What about "Oops!"? ;)
@icantfinkofname 6 жыл бұрын
So when your parents say you were a mistake you can show them this video and thank them for being so clever
@MagnakayViolet 6 жыл бұрын
If your parents ever say that you were a mistake, you can say that they were mistaken.
@SnowblindOtter 6 жыл бұрын
Cyanoacrylate. Accidentlaly discovered in 1942 by Harry Coover Jr. while trying to manufacture optical-quality acrylic rifle sights. They mixed something wrong and sound up with a formulation that stuck to everything that came in contact with it. Finding rejected. Re-discovered in 1951 by accident while Coover was working for Eastmen Kodak. This time, he realized that there _was_ some use to it and the first Cyanoacrylate superglue was born: Eastemen #910.
@user-xu2lj2ip6q 6 жыл бұрын
That is Sir Alexander Fleming thank you. Few truly deserve the title though he is one, he legitimately done everything he could to help save lives. The child he lost because of lack of penicillin at the start was truly heartbreaking to him
@sterobinson561 Жыл бұрын
French dude discovered penicillin first testing for chicken collera Fleming just followed his work
@benjaminvroman5553 6 жыл бұрын
We also learned that wasps can be really mean sometimes
@scalpingsnake 6 жыл бұрын
Benjamin Vroman it's scary to think your peers attacking you becuase they don't recognise you...
@KittyBoom360 6 жыл бұрын
They prolly thought the wasps were sick and infected (imagine seeing a clown or zombie before comprehending fake makeup). The makeup looked real, so they attacked. It doesn't actually mean the wasps recognized their faces or not; inconclusive evidence.
@Zeldarw104 6 жыл бұрын
Your telling me. Run...zelda run....run....😱 I have a terrible phobia.
@DownWithBureaucracy 6 жыл бұрын
Or it could be seen as invaders because they're territorial creatures. Paper wasps and yellow jackets won't build nests near existing ones. People even buy fake nests to deter new, real ones from moving in. So think of it more as a home invader, though I also like the zombie-clown wasp idea
@katiekat4457 6 жыл бұрын
Benjamin Vroman Yep and also crickets get STDs.
@gustavgnoettgen 4 жыл бұрын
The history of penicillin is amazing and worth a movie. When they developed the process to harvest it, it was very inefficient so they searched for a better fungus that at least produces more of the wanted stuff. They worked together with the air force to collect random mould samples from all over the world - and found the best strain in a bin right outside of the institute. That's Spielberg material.
@wunderdoggy 4 жыл бұрын
Please be specific when speaking scientifically. I read air force as in the force of air not Air Force as in the military organization. If you are not going to be serious....
@dooterscoots2901 4 жыл бұрын
@wunderduggy that's on you almost no one reads "the air Force" and thinks the force of air. That's just really weird and nitpicky to blame them for you being oblivious and not contextualizing the sentence properly. Nobody says "the air Force" to describe wind.
@gustavgnoettgen 4 жыл бұрын
@@dooterscoots2901 thanks. I haven't seen the other reply yet.
@gustavgnoettgen 4 жыл бұрын
@@wunderdoggy say, is your dad soldier?
@wunderdoggy 4 жыл бұрын
@@gustavgnoettgen A scientist for the military
@zodayn4767 6 жыл бұрын
Poor wasp in discovery number 5. It got murdered by its own family and friends because it wasn't recognized.
@loicdeniel8361 5 жыл бұрын
@@John-ir4id I'm not sure, but you might be refering to "lady betty", an irish female executioner: *_"Lady Betty is probably one of Ireland’s most infamous of women. Born in 1750, she married a poor farmer and had three children with him. After her husband’s death, Lady Betty left County Kerry to go to Roscommon. On the way, she lost her two youngest children to starvation._* *_With only her son left, the two reached Roscommon only to find themselves in the same situation as before. Her son could no longer stand being so destitute and left for America. Lady Betty stayed behind and years passed by. She rented out space in her room to travelers for extra pennies._* *_One night a young, wealthy man came to stay. Lady Betty saw the man had a lot of cash on him and in a mad desire to go see her son, she killed the man for his money. Sadly enough, the young man had been her son and Lady Betty turned herself in. She was sentenced to hanging._* *_Lady Betty’s background, a mother who lost three children, one by her own hand, was surely what formed her into the woman she would become. On the day of her hanging, there were 25 other people who were also to be hung and no hangman could be found to do the job._* *_No doubt, out of desperation, Lady Betty volunteered to do the job. She killed all the prisoners that day and the next day she executed some more._* *_Horrible stories surrounded the frightful Lady Betty who showed no reserve when it came to executing prisoners. For her own safety, she lived inside the Roscommon Jail and was buried there in 1807."_*
@hmax1591 4 жыл бұрын
That's what happens when you wear the wrong colors in the hood.
@ritzkola2302 4 жыл бұрын
H Max or when you wear blue to your hillbilly reunion
@user-svqmbiv 2 жыл бұрын
That wasp got straight up abducted by aliens and he went home to tell all his friends about it but they didn't recognize him and killed him. All as part of an alien experiment.
@reeseseater12 2 жыл бұрын
If I’m not mistaken stainless steel was also an accidental discovery too. The inventor was working on steel alloys and put them in a closet, forgot about them for like a year and came back to see that one wasn’t rusted. Because he took notes he was able to trace back exactly the composition of the alloy and we got stainless steel now
@Magneticlaw Жыл бұрын
It's great for knives, not so much for any blade length longer than a foot, as it becomes somewhat brittle (so no stainless steel swords), but stainless is certainly one of those "miracle inventions."
@occamsrazor1285 2 жыл бұрын
Funny, item number 4 (RNA "cutting") seemed like such an inconsequential footnote. Now it's definitely the most important discovery on this list
@amberblyledge7859 4 жыл бұрын
Wasps can recognise human faces too. There was an infertile wasp queen that lived in the van (horse tackroom). She got really used to seeing me and even tolerated me getting within inches of her. Bonus tip. Wasps get more agitated when you look at them. Also, in fall, when fruits start dropping because they got old, the wasps get drunk and that's what makes them mean. Now that I have learned about wasps, I no longer get stung unless I can't see the nest, like yellow jackets. But individual yellow jackets are somewhat peaceful. I've chilled out with some sitting on the arm of the swing. I think hornets are different though. I haven't seen enough of them to know what their triggers are. Also, Carpenter bees are super sweet and curious. They can't sting, and I've never had one bite. They mainly like to look at you and get in your face. Don't be afraid of them. If you don't like them burrowing into your wood siding, buy carpenter bee houses. Or make some! It would be a great project for kids, and they would learn about nature. If they built several, they could give them as gifts, or even sell them for some extra toy money.
@BriarConnor 6 жыл бұрын
I have a question about the wasp study How do they know that it was facial recognition, as opposed to the other wasps reacting to the altered smell of the painted wasps?
@IceMetalPunk 5 жыл бұрын
Because all the wasps already had paint on them, remember? The behavior towards paint-on-face wasps was different than their behavior towards paint-on-back wasps.
@orchdork775 4 жыл бұрын
@@IceMetalPunk It might be interesting to paint over the wasp's marks again, but replicate the same shape/pattern so the marks would just be a different color. I wonder if the wasps could tell the difference between something covering the marking versus the markings being painted over. Would a smudge of blood or dirt be enough to hide the wasp's identity?? What if in the wild some wasps end up getting attacked or cast out because they get something on their face that covers their markings?? And what happens if a wasp gets a facial injury???? So many questions!
@stevenhunt6271 4 жыл бұрын
I have an answer about wasps, it's called a fly swatter!!
@General12th 6 жыл бұрын
"Parasitic Aphrodisiac" brb registering trademark and domain name
@PhillipAmthor 4 жыл бұрын
Haha true
@cosmodewit 6 жыл бұрын
I don't like wasps that much, but i feel bad for the wasps that weren't recognized by their colony anymore.
@LowOfSolipsism 2 жыл бұрын
TOP 10 ANIME BETRAYLES
@Nhoj31neirbo47 6 жыл бұрын
Colorful plants protect people. Eat your greens.......reds.......oranges........purples and yellows too!
@LordDice1 6 жыл бұрын
LOVE OF PLANTS 🌻 🌱🍅🍊🍆🍋😆
@biancasylee 6 жыл бұрын
So poison ivy and night shade berries
@orlendatube 6 жыл бұрын
What, no love for blue plants?
@XxZigiixX 5 жыл бұрын
I prefer to smoke greens, eat reds, slice oranges and drink purples but I piss yellow 😐
@maranscandy9350 4 жыл бұрын
Some of those veggie colors can damage DNA. Plants are built on a different operating system.
@tim40gabby25 2 жыл бұрын
In '76, as my first ever Uni essay, I noticed the regular microstructure of cellular tubules, wondered if they might encode information - then went out for a beer. How many serendipitous near discoveries are slipping us by? :)
@jessicalee333 6 жыл бұрын
Penicillin is usually credited to Fleming, but doctors had been working with penicillium to treat infections (experimentally) since the 1800s, and the ancient Egyptians used moldy bread on wounds (as well as honey which is antimicrobial). Fleming wasn't making a discovery from absolute darkness, he was prepared for his discovery by the work of others preceding him.
@prjndigo 6 жыл бұрын
It wasn't Flemming who discovered it, it was Flemming who owned the petri dishes and it was brought to his attention by his lab assistant instead of just washing the dishes out.
@leebarnes655 4 жыл бұрын
Interesting. The guy who first vulcanized rubber put his toys from home on top of the cold wood stove and went to yell at the lacky who was supposed to run around loading said stoves and starting fires in them to warm up the lab very early in the morning one winter. After a good long while Goodyear returned to his lab to find all the materials he had brought in that morning melted down on top of the now lit stove. Rubber and sulfur were among those items.
@Pain-rl9ll 4 жыл бұрын
Accidentally dropped my phone and this video started playing. The irony was too great not to share 😅
@lifeincolour09 6 жыл бұрын
"Chance favors the prepared mind" - Louis Pasteur.
@shadowpod13 6 жыл бұрын
Is it odd that the first thing I think about when you say that quote is Under Siege 2 (starring Steven Seagull) and it being a favorite line of one of the villains. ... now I need to go watch that again...
@FlorenciaVM1 5 жыл бұрын
It's like "may the inspiration finds you working"
@tarnishedknight730 3 жыл бұрын
"Luck favors the prepared, Darling." -Edna Mode That's almost plagiarism, isn't it?
@jacobscott8624 6 жыл бұрын
I was hoping that plastic was in there. I had an essay exam on accidental discoveries, and an article on the plastic was one of the sources given.
@alejandromorales9532 6 жыл бұрын
Jacob Scott florida 10th grade writing fsa?
@ennenoire 6 жыл бұрын
Alejandro Morales ye, they had pennicilian, plastic and some other thing omg this video came out just a month too late
@summerbrooks9922 3 жыл бұрын
I liked this presentation best so far. The willingness to be open minded helped. I worked as a salad preparer. I asked my son to tear up spinach be leaves for a home salad. He squeezed the leaves and crushed them with his hands. Actually, it improved the taste and texture. So, topped with my homemade sauce, it was my new type of spinach salad. Purely accidental, but from a genius son!!
@micahphilson 6 жыл бұрын
"a Parasitic Aphrodisiac, which could be a great band name." Oh my God, if that doesn't become a band soon, I'll be so sad! That'd be a perfect song or album name, too!
@ginnyjollykidd 5 жыл бұрын
Could be both! You organize it. You could be great!
@thejackalope2622 5 жыл бұрын
I'm on it
@Dzeroed 5 жыл бұрын
I thought song/album name too. I think it would fit an album name rather than a band name
@hustlehank6855 6 жыл бұрын
I've discovered how to evade the cops
@sebastianelytron8450 6 жыл бұрын
Liking this.... you obviously play second fiddle to Muscle Hank but keep being witty and your popularity will rise
@pierrecurie 6 жыл бұрын
+Sebastian Elytron He's going to steal that fiddle...
@starwarfan8342 6 жыл бұрын
Hustle Hank can you steal Muscle Hank's muscles???
@ethanliu6059 6 жыл бұрын
wait a minute, why would you tell us this on the internet? aren't you a robber of some sort?
@HTYM 6 жыл бұрын
Hustle Hank 😐
@Master_Therion 6 жыл бұрын
Hipster scientist, "I made an Accidental Discovery. Yeah you've probably never heard of it."
@apple54345 6 жыл бұрын
im heavily sedated with alcohol atm. anyone care to explain this pun for me?
@Master_Therion 6 жыл бұрын
apple54345 The title of the video is "6 Accidental Discoveries You've Probably Never Heard Of" Hipsters are known to say "Yeah, you've probably never heard of it." I worded my comment poorly, so the joke I was trying to make is not very obvious.
@disappointmentjuice8676 6 жыл бұрын
Master Therion lol
@disappointmentjuice8676 6 жыл бұрын
apple54345 um no one knew it existed because it was an accident
@craigyates1664 6 жыл бұрын
Makes you wonder how much we miss
@starshot5172 6 жыл бұрын
That made me think
@thekaxmax 6 жыл бұрын
Craig yates this is why basic research needs to be funded
@jayw6034 6 жыл бұрын
Craig yates especially when you see inventions of the ancient world, like the Baghdad battery, that little spinning sphere made in Rome (powered by heating water), and probably a lot of other inventions that made use of highly useful principles that no one at the time was able to see for what they were. And now that new things are being discovered pretty much daily the sheer number of useful things or even combinations of things to be made more useful is probably staggering. Future us will see this all in hindsight and want to scream about how all the answers to some unknown question that made their lives so much better were all around us and we will look like oblivious Neanderthals starring at a computer and ultimately using it to hit someone in the head with because we don't have a clue what it could do.
@wh4tnow 6 жыл бұрын
tons i’m sure
@siervodedios5952 5 жыл бұрын
It's a lot to think about.
@musclehank6067 6 жыл бұрын
I accidentally discovered that I can bench press 936 pounds.
@stevenblackford8379 6 жыл бұрын
Muscle Hank weak ass
@angelhines6999 6 жыл бұрын
Muscle Hank wow
@Blazin_Tundra 6 жыл бұрын
Muscle Hank I bet this host smells like sour cream and onion sweat
@captainrobots1 6 жыл бұрын
Liar
@starshot5172 6 жыл бұрын
Still, again, not funny at all
@ottebya 3 жыл бұрын
am I the only one that feels really bad for those wasps that got attacked by their friends who didnt recognize them cuz of the experimental face paint? :(
@catatonicbug7522 2 жыл бұрын
The definition of a scientist is someone who grew up but never lost the curiosity of early childhood.
@juxizoza2270 2 жыл бұрын
On the list of "Searching for one thing and accidentally finding something else" you must include Nylon. A major game changer.
@GuiSmith 6 жыл бұрын
It’s been a while since I watched Scishow so now that these Hanks are here im wondering what the heck I’ve missed
@myrojyn 5 жыл бұрын
Fun fact that 1960 pacemaker patient was my grandfather
@dougstemke8351 2 жыл бұрын
I think one of the greatest chance findings was RNAi. A researcher who intended to overexpress a blue protein in a flower actually found it actually knocked down the expression of the normal Gene. Most people would have pitched the results, but a follow-up found RNA was being expressed, it was just knocking down the normal RNA through a new mechanism now known as RNAi
@feralbluee 4 жыл бұрын
i love this guy. he speaks fast, but calmly. hope to see lots more of him. :) 🌷
@dshe8637 4 жыл бұрын
Wasp: I swear, it's not Capgras syndrome; since my sister was abducted by aliens and returned, she's just not the same...
@JodFantasy 6 жыл бұрын
What's with all the Hanks???
@IANF126 6 жыл бұрын
this is one of my favorite parts about science. sometimes the most amazing things happen by accident.
@AfiOyeTheNurse 3 жыл бұрын
Honestly these scientists are smart as hell because everytime i make a mistake, I throw everything away and start over. Cudos to the scientists. Yall the real MVPs! 🙏🏽
@stormRed 6 жыл бұрын
I feel like scientists are often just naturally curious people
@-Devy- 5 жыл бұрын
Wow, really? I feel like chefs are often just people who enjoy cooking.
@noahwilliams8996 4 жыл бұрын
Often?
@crazycatlady39 3 жыл бұрын
Well going "What if.....?" is awesome fun.
@mr_ekshun 4 жыл бұрын
Just watched the SciShow episode on "discoveries made by licking things" and had to keep reminding myself that the "cricket sex" bit of this video was *NOT* related to the licking video... o.o
@SignifiCat 4 жыл бұрын
It's decided... This is truly the best channel on youtube
@shelleynobleart 4 жыл бұрын
Genius is always inspiring. This was fantastic!
@JustinY. 6 жыл бұрын
Well I accidentally discovered anime, look at me now
@Blazin_Tundra 6 жыл бұрын
Justin Y. You’ve lost your touch
@starshot5172 6 жыл бұрын
Justin Y. You're a failure. That's what you have become
@cameoshadowness7757 6 жыл бұрын
Your a ninja now.
@dontknowdontcare1934 6 жыл бұрын
Wow that comment was so bad it was kinda decent
@Aubsydinklegirl 6 жыл бұрын
Anime was a mistake
@AgentDRJ 6 жыл бұрын
What if they painted the faces of all the wasps? Would it be a battle royale, or would the wasps avoid each other until they decided to form new social bonds?
@fernandoleamshake7031 6 жыл бұрын
battle royale, because the wasp only sees other stranger wasp
@scottmantooth8785 5 жыл бұрын
tiny masks would also work but they would be tricky to put on them
@HiltTilt 5 жыл бұрын
Tippets gave some of the wasps a makeover painting on different features with a toothpick and when she reintroduced the doled up ones to the colony, *Friends and Family lashed out and attacked them. This put the painted wasps into a deep depression.*
@entropiCCycles 5 жыл бұрын
It is nice to hear that the whole "Wasps recognize faces" was referring more to wasp faces than human faces, though I won't completely write off the possibility that a wasp could potentially remember me.
@PaulSutherlandnow 6 жыл бұрын
This whole video is worth it for the band name
@maddiblackford5181 6 жыл бұрын
I love how you just go "which could be a good band name" in the exact same tone as everything else
@magicofthestone 6 жыл бұрын
SO NICE TO SEE A VIDEO WITHOUT A SKILLSHARE PLUG, THANK YOU
@theserpentinewarrior7142 4 жыл бұрын
In science the biggest and best question when studying something is not "How to do something" or "How does it do what it does" but instead "Why did this item/creature do what it did instead of that?" It's not always the how, but also the why.
@gabriellashimone6546 4 жыл бұрын
Alright, I have degrees in both nursing and biology but I never knew how the pacemaker came into being (which is shameful since I was an ICU nurse [n s, i c u]). Thank you for that!
@teamSKYE 6 жыл бұрын
Omg I feel famous lol Dr. Adamo is a professor in the Psych and Neuro department at my university. Hello from a (hopefully) future Animal Behaviourist at Dalhousie!! :)
@ranimeRAT 6 жыл бұрын
Nicole Pickett Good luck!
@playc.holder6432 5 жыл бұрын
Hello
@FoxDragon 4 жыл бұрын
Lol, I know the feeling, I know Jeanette Garcia through her brother. It's always amusing to us when she gets mentioned in videos like this especially since she doesnt really go by that name.
@peterstell3184 5 жыл бұрын
I am curious for the Wasp facial recognition, have scientists tried looking at the facial markings under ultraviolet? wasps, bees, flies all have complex eyes, other experiments show bees can see ultraviolet. could wasps maybe utilize the same patterns that flowers do, or such as scorpions?
@emma70707 6 жыл бұрын
There's a Cas (really two, Rx and 12) that binds only RNA. This is huge because it can make certain types of "genetic engineering" (not editing DNA so it's not really quite genetic) much safer. DNA breaks are super stressful on cells and even rare off-target mutations can lead to cancer. Modifying transient molecules that the cell already cuts on its own via splicing will be the way to go for many diseases, imo.
@TS1336 6 жыл бұрын
Serendipity.
@Tonatsi 6 жыл бұрын
Do things carefully: find what you want Don’t be careful: Find other random discoveries that will prove to be very useful.
@shadowpod13 6 жыл бұрын
But you have to be observant to the mistakes and ask go "Huh, why is this happening?"
@MrPenetroso 5 жыл бұрын
I created a zombie virus by accident. Is it good or bad?
@truedepthaquaponics7118 5 жыл бұрын
Wow, this left my feeling grateful. Thanks SciShow!
@crazycatlady39 3 жыл бұрын
The ability to recognize that although that isn’t what you wanted, what did you get is something novel in itself. And continuing to experiment with that.
@serginhonojowintono3501 6 жыл бұрын
Is it me or the 3rd dicovery could have been the scent of the make over that made the wasp attack or something like that..sorry for my bad english, i speak dutch.
@shadowpod13 6 жыл бұрын
EPIC GAMER Good question. Hope they check for it. And MaxPower, maybe they haven't yet. Though we don't know what type of "makeover" they got.
@brantwedel 6 жыл бұрын
Main takeaway lesson: Be more in tune with the sexual activity of your crickets ...
@chcodog1357 6 жыл бұрын
wow, I actually love this. I will definitely spend more time thinking about why my experiments go wrong :o
@IntegralKing 4 жыл бұрын
The discovery of superconductivity was an undergrad tasked with measuring the resistance of metals down to absolute 0. Then the undergrad found that in many materials, that resistance suddenly drops to 0 below a certain point.
@GenJotsu 6 жыл бұрын
Gawd I'm such a nerd, I get chills when I hear about these advancements to human kind. We might just have a chance...
@KingBongHogger 6 жыл бұрын
My grandma has a pacemaker and she almost died from strep 20 years ago. So basically my grandma is held together by mistakes. Neat!
@chrisnemec5644 5 жыл бұрын
A story I once heard: a guy was making special signal lenses and had a hot date on a Friday night. that afternoon, he put the lens material in molds, quickly shoved it into a device to set things and walked off (it would take all weekend to cure.) On Monday he came back and found the lenses to be slanted due to his haste in putting them in the machine. strangely enough, when tested, these slanted lenses did better than the normal ones.
@aizenreeve9435 5 жыл бұрын
RIP to those dolled up wasps who got lashed out by the entire colony for science.
@BlackCat_2 6 жыл бұрын
I discovered a wasp can recognize faces more than 2 decades ago. I went to swat a red wasp in the house but I missed. It turned and looked at me so long it made me gulp nervously. That same wasp came after me (and only me) when I came back into the room after that... until I finally got it.
@kme 6 жыл бұрын
BlackCat2 we had a giant wasp in our old house in the bathroom and I am terrified of the things at the best of times (allergic too), but as the only adult in the house at the time, I had no choice but to try and whap the thing out of existence. Bad move. It kept coming after me, even though I left a few times (it got waaaay too close) so eventually I had to call a family friend to come and deal with it. Even then, it came after me while I was showing him where it was. Took hours to get the thing, but we got the sucker. *shudders at the memory* And people wonder why I am absolutely scared shitless by them. 😣
@JustinY. 6 жыл бұрын
Number 15: Burger king foot lettuce
@Blazin_Tundra 6 жыл бұрын
Justin Y. Mocha mocha :3
@randomnessx3597 6 жыл бұрын
Justin Y. How the hell are you here too
@starshot5172 6 жыл бұрын
EXTREMELY hilarious. Couldn't stop laughing for 15 minutes straight !
@ausintune9014 6 жыл бұрын
Go away
@dontknowdontcare1934 6 жыл бұрын
Space duck I5! Ha it was so funny I had to go to the hospital to replace my throat from constantly laughing
@darrellcole6311 4 жыл бұрын
Love that "T" shirt. that is hank's theme...I think it is Hank, could be his brother John..."Don't forget to be AWESOME",scishow!!!
@noblefir9106 4 жыл бұрын
Great stuff as always SciShow! As a complexity based educator I love your examples of highly curious humans uncovering ever more complexity in the workings of life in unexpected and unanticipated ways. If we look at the world through the wholistic lens of complexity and interconnectivity then we always want to know why something happened and maybe why something else did not. The journeys of curiosity driven inquiry that sprout from and are maintained by these happy accidents are a crucial part of being human and are essential to our survival and the survival of a great deal of the rest of the complexity of life on Earth, which is of course in turn crucial to our survival.
@burnyizland 3 жыл бұрын
Great message. When I was in middle school a teacher told me everything had been invented and discovered already, there was no point going into science. I thankfully can't remember her stupid face but her ignorance inspired me both to become a scientist and raise another scientist. I'm raising my kid to know our world is so complex and we are always learning more about it. Take that, bad-teacher-lady!
@sathy7285 6 жыл бұрын
Masturbation is also a accidental discovery that revolutionized the world
@patricksanders858 5 жыл бұрын
Im curious about the wavelengths that wasps see in. Does it extend into uv or ir? What else might they be clueing in on, when seeing other wasps, that we dont see?
@williamdelaporte2341 5 жыл бұрын
Crazy to think how many discoveries we may have missed out on just because scientists were stuck focusing on something else
@allentremper8243 5 жыл бұрын
My favorite accidental scientific discovery is by far LSD 25. Thanks for the video!!!
@andreasimon2752 4 жыл бұрын
"Scientist who was in tune w the sexual habits of her crickets" Smh
@birdsdaword 6 жыл бұрын
Love your t-shirt, Stefan. I won't forget!
@christigmc 2 жыл бұрын
A series of happy accidents helped me perfect my BBQ sauce. Now it’s all the rage amongst my friends around Christmas time. I can it and give it away as presents.
@Lugmillord 6 жыл бұрын
That's our advantage over our future AI overlords. We have the power of the imperfection!
@IceMetalPunk 5 жыл бұрын
If you've ever done any work with machine learning, you'll know that AI is often quite imperfect XD
@davidxu6877 6 жыл бұрын
Ya Canadian scientists
@pogophobic Жыл бұрын
5:57 omg this is rlly cool, but did the wasps need therapy? 😭 are they okay their friend is gone
@SirFloofy001 Жыл бұрын
0:44 my favorite example is the guy who tried to engineer the perfect bubble mixture to create long lasting hard to pop bubbles. Finally got it right only to realize he didnt write it down. He started taking serious notes and tried to rediscover what he did and instead acciently created Wubble's, tough long lasting bubbles except they didn't float.
@richarddeese1991 4 жыл бұрын
Thanks! As Louis Pasteur himself said, "In the fields of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind." You have to be willing to look deeply into mistakes, accidents, or other unexpected occurrences, and try to see *_why_* they happened the way they did. It's no good just scrapping the whole thing and starting over; that's the one sure way to learn *_nothing._* There should be a science of accidents. We need to study why things happen the way they do. Not on some chemical or molecular level - no. We need to understand why *_we as humans_* make certain types of mistakes more often than others, and learn what that can teach us about both human behavior *_and_* the kinds of 'oops!' moments that can actually be useful. A science of serendipity. I have no doubt that this would also help us avoid procedural mistakes that may lead to anything from oops! to disaster. 𝓡𝓲𝓴𝓴𝓲 𝓣𝓲𝓴𝓴𝓲.
@stevenblackford8379 6 жыл бұрын
IN BEFORE MUSCLE HANK!!! I'm stronger than him!!!!
@musclehank6067 6 жыл бұрын
no
@stevenblackford8379 6 жыл бұрын
Muscle Hank yes
@shadowthetwisted 6 жыл бұрын
Nope, he posted his comment 22 minutes ago, while you posted yours 24 minutes ago. Close, but no cigar.
@willowoahh 6 жыл бұрын
shadowthetwisted yes the longer ago the comments was posted the closer the person was to being first in other words
@stevenblackford8379 6 жыл бұрын
Nicole Lifliand EXACTLY!!😂😂😂😂
@brucerogermorgan2388 2 жыл бұрын
Great video, thanks guys. Clear and easy to understand and very interesting.
@istvansipos9940 5 жыл бұрын
some ancient dudes accidentally discovered that if a pig is slaughtered, the minced and grinded pork fits super nicely into the cleaned intestines of the late pig. an incredible scientific breakthrough which has given us sausage. I'm wondering what those guys were trying to do...
@nicholascopsey4807 6 жыл бұрын
Hi comment section
@willowoahh 6 жыл бұрын
Nicholas Copsey hello😸
@gabrielgarcia9822 6 жыл бұрын
Hi, good night
@FusionDeveloper 6 жыл бұрын
Was assuming all wasps looked the same, a racist comment?
@HTYM 6 жыл бұрын
Jay H Wasp lives (or at least their faces) matter.
@playc.holder6432 5 жыл бұрын
Jay H no.
@IceMetalPunk 5 жыл бұрын
Waspist.
@kasperjrgensen3761 6 жыл бұрын
Wonderful video! thanks
@bro.okeddd 3 жыл бұрын
Love the message of this vid. Don’t just go “oh I screwed up” and throw something in the trash. Ask WHY the unexpected thing happened and learn from there. 😩👍🏻👏🏻
@stevenblackford8379 6 жыл бұрын
Looks like that weak muscle Hank is too slow for me, weak ass...
@musclehank6067 6 жыл бұрын
Hey, no swearing.
@stevenblackford8379 6 жыл бұрын
Muscle Hank I'm too strong I can do whatever I want... Ass ass ass
@windhelmguard5295 6 жыл бұрын
watch yo pwofaneteh
@TFenton95 6 жыл бұрын
Steven Blackford, you should have gone the opposite route and said "weak, weak, weak" since that is a swear to the Muscle Hank
@stevenblackford8379 6 жыл бұрын
Ha
@raginplayer2665 4 жыл бұрын
You can retake a class, but you can never relive a party
@SnoopCatts 5 жыл бұрын
The reason the Wasps attacked the painted face wasps was likely because of the smell of the paint as wasps are extremely sensitive to smells and scents which are chemically based, much like ants and bees.
@mattoymtm 5 жыл бұрын
out of all your video's. This one, I found very informative.