But *why* would I bother remembering anything when I can find the information online?! Thanks for your views, comments, eyeballs & attention over the past 7 years 👁🧠❤️

2:40 "You'll have to Google it" Oh, the irony.

For me personally, I’m googling things I wouldn’t have known in then first place so I don’t know how it could affect my memory

Nice retrospective, the arts and crafts visuals are why I liked the channel in the beginning... other than the cool topics and that sweet accent.

Her voice sounds so different in the other video compared to now

1:22 - You might want to fact-check that statement; you're mis-remembering Malcolm Gladwell's oft-repeated and even more oft-disputed 10,000-hour "rule" to "master" a skill. - Consider the context, I wonder if that mistake was intentional. 🤔

As a software developer, I'm googling stuff all the time and remember little. But there is so much stuff that it would be nearly impossible to write code without a search engine.

You were still very creative back then.

Interesting. Having worked in aviation as a technician I've learned there are two types of technicians. Those that use reference material, such as technical publications, and the ones that go off memory. Going off memory tends to lead to problems as references can be updated and changed.

WoW, I think I can remember watching the original video 7 years ago. That could just be my memory that Google broke playing up though.

That was a very creative first video! I can tell you had a lot of creativity and talent then!

MOREEEE. I really love the classic videos. I love seeing braincraft's reaction to the old videos. Oh, and let's not forget the fact that science (especially older science/researches) needs to be reviewed as newer researches pop out.

Dear Google, where are my car keys?

I think that publicly fact checking yourself like that is very brave of you. I wish other medias could be able to be as self checking and auto-improving as your channel.

I love your videos. Keep it up. Love from Melbourne xo

I remember watching that video a few years ago when I had first subscribed to you, but I had a hard time understanding the information. Now that I'm watching it again, I now realize that I don't understand the connection between the plane pilot failing basic training and "technology is making us forget things". That lack of connection is even more prevalent in my mind when you said in this video that the pilot didn't forget his basic training because he had never got it.

As a child I was a beast at the library card catalog just like I am with Google

happy 7th anniversary! 🎈 i'm very grateful to you for taking the time to make these videos. 💕 as for this video, i find that i don't retain the knowledge learned in youtube videos, which irritates me. i find that i need to literally take notes as i watch, if i want to remember the information. i'd much rather KNOW something than simply know where to find out about it. but that's just me. p.s. your first video was fine. you teach well, and that's what matters. 🌻

I love that the Goggle doodle that is in your first video is the 50th anniversary Dr Who doodle! I recognized it as Dr Who right away!! I know... Nerd! 🤓 I'm not ashamed of that in the least! But I also think it's cool how we can see how far you've come. We all improve with practice. And as we progress with new tasks, we work out things we like and don't like. Things that work, and things that don't. That's not to say it's not a good video. I liked it. Especially as far as first KZfaq videos go, it's a pretty good one!

I think a good place to look to understand this topic is history. How did writing change the way our species learns, thinks, and remembers? Scribes making records and accounting more reliable? The printing press making production of higher quality published material available? The industrial revolution making books, magazines, and newspapers cheaper and readily available to the masses? The public library systems making such materials available freely?

I've thought of doing this to my videos! Seeing you do it means it must be a good idea haha

I appreciate all the work you put into this channel. The algorithms haven't been kind to your views but what do they know anyways?

I'm pretty sure I've been subscribed since around the time that video came out. And the quality and utility -both entertainment and information- still far out does even some of the top classes in University.

For a first video posted on KZfaq, that was amazing, srsly! Keep up the good work! :)

Wow, I tend to forget how long I've watched channels like yours (and many other fun and informative ones). Watching them evolve, along with their creators, has been an enjoyable journey. BTW, I'm glad you were laughing at your efforts, so I can honestly say I was laughing with you, not at you. Or maybe I was laughing at you laughing..... Either way, thanks, Vanessa!

There are never enough jokes, so please do make them. I am firmly convinced that people will remember something more readily when they've had a laugh, a positive learning experience. As a teacher, I make sure to give funny example sentences, make silly jokes about the subject matter and generally entertain, so pupils will want to listen and won't feel it's a chore. Puns might be groaners, but they're still effective.

The fact-checker was correct. Unconscious actions/memory are automatic. Subconscious means you're completely unaware of the thought. So you could use the unconscious to ride a bike, by thinking I want to ride the bike, without thinking of all of the muscles and balance corrections needed to do that action... if you used the subconscious, which I think is probably not possible, you'd be unaware of riding the bike!

Your first video is still fantastic. I am amazed by the change in your voice!

I kinda like that you're looking at your old work and giving a bit of fact checking on it. Funny I didn't realize how long I've been subscribed to your channel and it feels like that first video was not too long ago

Wow, it's honestly great to see one of your old videos (I started watching your vids back in ~2015 - or am I misremembering?) which puts into perspective how far you've come since. That first video would've got me subbed anyhow, but your latest stuff is just so amazing and uniquely insightful! Here's to many years more success - *virtual High 5*

Looked for "most popular scientific youtube channels": several Top5 charts popped up, mostly the same. I was missing one channel only and now you have a new subscriber :) I'm 7 years late, but hello!

How to find information is always a stronger skill than remembering the information itself. Especially in the age where the information is updated, expanded, and changed every few years with new technologies.

Very good! Thank you BrainCraft. I think you did a good job sorting out a complex process. Realignment and reevaluating is always beneficial. Stay safe.

Your videos have come a long way! :) Even the old paper cutouts are cute though! I know the air crash wasn't the point of your video, but since you're fact checking: Based on your description of the accident, there is a good chance the pilot did not "forget" his training--at least not in the way you suggest. From your description, I would say that there is a reasonable possibility the pilot pulled back on the stick because of what is known as a "somatogravic illusion". I can't say for sure without reading the crash report, but vestibular illusions are a common cause of accidents. Basically, your inner ear can't tell the difference between certain types of accelerations and pitch cues. In the wrong circumstances, pilots can become spatially disoriented and cause a crash. It's still a training issue, but it's more about trusting the training than it is about remembering it. A similar illusion happens when pilots are learning to take off from an aircraft carrier. The strong acceleration causes the pilot to feel like the nose of the plane is pitched up, so the pilot pushes on the stick to "level" the aircraft. The problem is the aircraft was already level, and now the plane is nose down. Ooops. Pilots are trained to recognize when these types of illusions occur and how to compensate, but it can be really, really difficult when your body is telling you one thing and your training another. Most of us want to trust our bodies. When a pilot is tired or frightened, it can be even more difficult to ignore what their body is telling them and trust the instruments instead. It's not an excuse, but it's a more common cause of accidents than people realize--especially among small aircraft. Again, I can't say for sure that's what happened in this instance without reading the crash report, but your description makes it sound awfully plausible. If it was a vestibular illusion, then it's not likely the pilot forgot his training so much as failed to trust his training over the signals he was getting from his own body. Incidentally, the psychology of disorientation would probably be a really fun video! :) There are so many things in this modern world that trip us up just because our bodies weren't designed for it. Even when we know the answer cognitively, it's hard not to be overwhelmed by our instincts.

Awesome video as always

Your first video seriously wasn't bad. It's really cool that you've kept your "brand" so consistent through all these years. Also- Redfern? Did you live in Redfern??

Leaving a comment to feed the algorithm, because I love your videos and you're the best!

I finally get to see a KZfaqr correcting its own information. You did what I thought science (of every area) KZfaqrs should do sometimes, check their facts. re-watch the video and make corrections so us the viewers don't stick with an information that is updated it years ago. Obviously, we the viewers should not stick with the info., but to search more of it.

I had completely forgotten about that video.

Your Dog videos are some of my favourites.

I have always liked your simple animation style 😃

I think there is a dilemma in science communication. "It's complicated"is often more accurate, but (relatively) simple explanations reach more people. Managing to express the two together is a skill on its own and the irony is that even if one can do that, many viewers will walk away with the simple explanation rather than the understanding that the issue is more complicated.

I like the old manual animations - they feel like ripped right out of kids tv programmes from my youth.

Awesome first video, girl!

Terms make us smarter by helping us associate information. The more we hear a term, the more likely we are to retain it. However, the more esoteric terms we hear in a video, the less likely we are to retain it because of our tendency to ignore overstimulation.

Love the patterns on the outfit by the way.

Congrats on your growth. Thumbs up 👍

It bothers the hell out of I cannot find again sometime I have read or heard previously on the internet. I feel like I can remember where I can find it again if I read it in a book (or at least in the old days), also when I find something again on the internet and something is not as I recalled, then I don’t know if it is because I found a different article, or it has been changed, but if I refer back to a book I can really check whether it was my mistake or not

I'm old enough to remember when floppy disks where still a thing

very interesting ! thank you for the fact-checking

Probably already mentioned here, but it's 10,000 hours to master a skill. I wish it was only 1,000!

My math teacher used to say "You don't have to remember everything. You just need to remember where it's written down."

Actually, I think the Internet is having a far greater impact on people socially and psychologically. Our memory and how we remember and organize facts has been evolving possibly since the development of spoken language, probably since the development of writing, and definitely since the invention of the printing press...

I remember learning about the Google Effect but not where I learned it from. It might have been this very video 7 years ago.

We love you and your content!

November 23rd is my birthday! Same as your first video!

Loved you cringing at your first video! lol but it was great!

What is your fact checker's process? Is it googling?

I find it hard to believe that any professional pilot 'forgot' that when you plane is stalling, you point the plane down, not up. It would be like if they turned the stick left when they wanted to go right. Far more likely, in my mind, that they didn't think the plane was stalling.

Am I fact checking my fact checker? Love it.

Has your accent thickened over the years or were you just trying to sound more "neutral" back then? 😂 It's always interesting to look at oneself from some time back and identity all these things we do differently and how much we've changed, I really liked this video!

"Most of you have not seen this video". Really? I can't possibly be the only person who does this: when finding a fascinating channel, I go back to the first video and binge watch everything they made.

There are people who always know which way is north because their language doesn't have relative directions (they refer to things as "on my east side" instead of "on my left side") Our brains adapt to our environment and culture

To be honest I actually remember watching that video and for me the best way to remember is through association

posibility the fact checker was dutch went up a lot at 03:01 literal translation onbewust = unconscious true translation onbewust = subconcious

Love your old video. Simple is good. 😊

@braincraft Hi Vanessa! Love the channel. Can you do a video on whether people actually think better while they're on the toilet? 😄 Is that a thing? 😳

I indeed don't think that, if, the effect is real, it matters. In that sense I simply lack a good memory unfortunately, but I make up for that in ways to get good at something else. In this case computers and finding of information. I notice I actually know more things than someone who doesn't do that, but for shorter periods of time. :) Also; we simply don't understand the brain well enough to make good science of it, some of it for sure, but when we get into the complex things... I don't think so. This unfortunately results in a lot of studies that may be right, but as equally can be wrong yet schools and others take those studies and run with it to apply to a lot of people. I'm noticing this IRL with my studies on gifted children, it's a pretty sad story unfortunately.

Thanks for the video. I do believe in science. I do believe that science changes too. Having said that, my position will remain that science is a real, changing (as more facts are revealed) force for knowledge in the world, unlike opinions which are unfortunately given too much credence as we are currently experiencing. Thanks, and keep on evolving.

when the old video says new video every other week 👁👄👁

nice video thx for your work.

Nice minute physics style video 🤩😅🤣😂 But still it's better then my educational videos, because I too make so KZfaq videos🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

On this note i know when i have access to, for example a calculator, ill use it on equations i know. Like 2+2, i dont trust myself and jave the means to check so i do

Hahahah I remember filming my first video (not hard to remember since it was three months ago) and I did it 4 f`n times until I was kiiinda okay with it First videos suck 🤣

Hey, Vanessa, I have an idea. Can you make a video giving some info, but not completing it so we motivate to search it our self?

Hail algorithm, our overlord!

The special effects are simply mind blowing... that storm and the airplane shacking everywhere... I was afraid!!! I challenge Hollywood directors to do better! 🤪🌩✈

Don't be so hard on yourself! It was a really sweet first time video. Are you going to look at 'milestone' videos to see how you've changed progressively?

Aside of the great retrospective in terms of video quality, It was interesting to hear how much your voice has changed too.

where did you find a floppy disk?

great video. thanks for fact checking yourself and your fact checker

Here you go algorithm

I miss the arts & craft style videos!

I thought it was a 10,000 hour rule ETA: 10,000 is to be an expert, perhaps 1000 is for competent ?

Regarding more parts of the brain being active while on the internet possibly this is a sign that you are more distracted and the quality of learning could actually be worse as a result.

Cool dress, Vanessa! Is that a dress? Anyway, I think the original still holds well, at least for its sheer cuteness!

Commenting for algorithm purposes.

I remember this video...

The Sticker on your laptop is so cool, where can we get it.

Thanks to Tom Scott as well

my memory is fucked up already so, thanks google.

When you want to react on a video but don't have any idea which video should I react

Oh wow, accidentally clicked now I’m early

have I really followed this channel for 7 years?

Soon are brains will be directly connected to the internet. Ready Player One

Hmm, but if you say 'parahippocampal gyrus', the context makes it clear that its 'another area of your memory center in your brain', while simultaneously giving me something to (I guess, appropriately) Google for far more detail. So Im not really sure about the benefit of dumbing it down for us.

That was super cute!

The old-school arts and crafts were kinda cute, though...

10k hours, not 1k hours :)

3:13 don't remember it