Draw CuriosityMost of us understand the basic concepts of randomness, but we are no good at generating or detecting it. Learn how to build your own pseudo-random number generator and where to access true randomness in this episode of Draw Curiosity!
What is Randomness?Draw Curiosity2016-05-19 | Most of us understand the basic concepts of randomness, but we are no good at generating or detecting it. Learn how to build your own pseudo-random number generator and where to access true randomness in this episode of Draw Curiosity!
If you ever wondered how little of your brain you could live with, look no further as we explore the limits of the human brain without a cerebrum, brain hemispheres, cerebellums... and a crash course to epilepsy and excitatory and inhibitory pathways in the brain!
00:00 Introduction 01:20 A wild theory 02:40 The man who only had 10% of his brain 04:20 Brain atrophy 05:50 Hemispherectomy 08:14 The woman with no cerebellum 09:33 Anencephaly 11:06 Epilepsy, excitation and inhibition
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Find out why reds look bad on camera, why certain patterns tend to Moiré as well as my own thoughts on a few other TV guidelines!
Index: 00:00 Introduction 01:36 Logos 02:18 Jewelry 03:41 Distraction 04:56 White, black & red - CFAs and camera science 08:19 Patterns - the science of Moiré 12:31 Don't do these (but also maybe do) - the ones I disagree with 18:54 What you SHOULD wear on TV
This is a common TV Dress Code briefing - but what are the reasons behind all of these stipulations? Here is the list - but the video covers the science and the whys: 1. Don’t wear white, black or red. White glows and becomes the most noticeable thing on the TV screen. Black is too harsh and can suck up all the light. Reds bleed on camera and are distracting. 2. Pastel shirts work well on TV. 3. The safest color on TV is blue. 4. Don’t wear dangly earrings. They distract. 5. Remove jewelry that moves, makes noise, or could hit your microphone. 6. Be wrinkle-free. 7. Don’t wear stripes, herringbone, small intricate designs, or flashy jewelry. They are hard for a TV camera to pick up on. 8. Don’t wear checks. 9. Dress in a simple, boring manner, unless you are a fashion designer. 10. TV viewers should focus on your face and what you say, not your clothes. 11. Men should have about an inch of their shirt cuff showing. 12. Avoid light colored pants. 13. Wear over-the-calf socks so your skin doesn’t show if you cross your legs. 14. Don’t wear more than one ring per hand. 15. Women shouldn’t wear short skirts if you want people to focus on your message. 16. If you wear a dark shirt, dark suit, and dark tie, you will look like you are auditioning to be a hit man on the Sopranos. 17. Vests look stuffy on TV 18. Don’t wear stripes. They dance around on the screen and are distracting. 19. Avoid hair products that add shine. 20. No visible logos or companies or brands, except for your own company logo. 21. People shouldn’t judge you by your appearance, but they will. 22. If you do or wear anything distracting on TV, people will remember that and nothing you say.
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Video index with timecodes. 00:00 introduction
02:51 Facemasks 03:18 How do and don't facemasks protect us? 04:54 Addressing mask shortages - when to wear facemasks? 05:32 How to PROPERLY put on a facemask 07:34 Hand sanitisation 08:12 Hand washing 08:58 How to wash your hands (video) 10:13 Hand sanitising gels 11:24 Other measures you can adopt 12:30 Curiosity Stream sponsor - 1 month free! As you know, videos about this topic are demonetised on YouTube. Thanks to Draw Curiosity’s sponsors + patreon supporters, I am able to afford the time to produce videos like these and research all the sources in depth.
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00:00 Introduction
02:08 Where did the coronavirus come from?
03:58 Does the origin of the virus matter?
04:27 Could it be a bioweapon? Why/why not?
06:28 Addressing the uncertainty of the wet market epicentre
07:34 How does it infect humans? Molecular level
09:06 How does it infect humans? Modes of transmission
09:46 Who is affected by the coronavirus? Death rate by age
10:32 Who is affected by the coronavirus? Death rate by sex
11:07 Who is affected by the coronavirus? Death rate by comorbidity
11:35 Who is affected by the coronavirus? Are Asian people more susceptible?
12:48 Is the death rate accurate?
13:50 How healthcare affects the death rate
16:03 How does the novel coronavirus cause disease? Respiratory symptoms
16:45 ARDS in COVID-19
17:15 Detailed explanation of ARDS treatment
19:20 COVID-19 disease outside of respiratory system
20:58 When will there be a cure?
21:36 Why do vaccines take so long?
23:51 What are the symptoms of COVID-19?
24:54 How can I protect myself and others?
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Primary literature read for this video - follow the links to the Google Docs - also beware that a number of these papers are pre-prints and have not yet undergone the full peer-review process when consulting emerging papers on the coronavirus topic. Normally science papers take ~3 months to peer review, however, given nothing is known about the coronavirus and it is the interest of scientists to share knowledge as fast as possible, pre-prints are being made available faster (but there may be flaws in their analysis that would be picked up in normal peer review). Some papers listed were pre-prints when I consulted them, and have now since been peer-reviewed:
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If today's episode on snail vision made you wonder how other animals see the world, look no further:
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References, credits and further reading: References and image/footage credit Some of the lovely stock footage present in this video came from BigStock - http://bit.ly/bigstock-videofreetrial (you can try them for free here)
A large number of images also came from Pixabay, Wikimedia commons (credited onscreen) and yours truly, as well as from scientific papers - cited below.
Scientific papers directly featured in this video (and some further reading): Automated monitoring and analysis of social behaviour in Drosophila Dankert et al. 2009 ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2679418 Courtship song sound - my own recording
Ormia parasitoid fly reacting to Teleogryllus call The cost of assuming the life history of a host: acoustic startle in the parasitoid fly Ormia ochracea Rosen et al 2009 ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2784737
Wing folding Investigation of hindwing folding in ladybird beetles by artificial elytron transplantation and microcomputed tomography Saito et al. 2017 pnas.org/content/114/22/5624
How Micro/Nanoarchitecture Facilitates Anti-Wetting: An Elegant Hierarchical Design on the Termite Wing Watson et al. 2010 pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nn900869b
Effect of microtrichia on the interlocking mechanism in the Asian ladybeetle, Harmonia axyridis (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) Sun et al. 2018 ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5852455
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Reconstructing dead and ancient languages is not an easy task when there are no scriptures or recordings available in the present day. In today's video, I show how some comparative methods across different Indo-European languages reveal the relationships between them, and how they can be used to deduced what the cognate in the Proto-Language PIE (Proto-Indo-European) may have looked like. Thank you to everyone who helped me illustrate Grimm's law and other sound shifts amongst Indo-European languages, and to Dr. Andrew Byrd himself who translated and voiced a sentence in PIE just for this video!
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This video was sponsored by Airbus (content and video idea my own, cleared by Airbus)
Animations where not made by myself come from: Image credits:
ESA/ATG medialab by CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/igo) Rover animation - adapted Trace Gas Orbiter Ismenia Patera - Copyright ESA/DLR/FU Berlin, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO HiRise - for maps of Mars surface Pixabay - stock images
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Studies: People learnt the positions of objects in locations on day 1 and were asked to recall them on day 1, 2 and 3. Recalls from day 3 were more likely to be closer to the incorrect locations remembered on day 2 than the correct location on day 1: http://www.jneurosci.org/content/32/35/12144
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Places visited: - Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens - Muizenberg Drive - Kalk's Bay - Simon's Town - Cape of Good Hope - Table Mountain - Mzoli's township - Groot Constantia
Cape of Good Tours webpage: http://www.capeofgoodhope.co.za/
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Plenty of things happened last year that I am very grateful for, and wanted to share with you! Also good news: I am back!
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Today, I'm exploring the not-so-wide-range of adaptations the human eye has to adapt to darkness, compared to the options available in cameras.
From long exposure (and long exposure noise reduction) to other techniques to improve your camera's performance when taking astrophotography pictures, I cover how these techniques compare to the ones our own eye provides. So, which do you think - eyes or cameras?
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I've been wanting to make another video on maths for ages, so boom, here you go, recreational maths at its primest. 937 is a happy, good, lucky, fortunate and star prime number, and the only one out of the first 5233 fortunate primes calculated! What on Earth does that mean? Find out in today's video!
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Feel free to ask questions in the sidebar. The livestream will be in English.
The topic is Evolutionary Explanations for Cooperation, which draws upon Stuart West's work, linked below:
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It was made in a very short amount of time (around 8 hours to film and edit, when I usually spend 20-40 hours...), so it isn't as good as how I would have liked - I hope you enjoy nonetheless :)
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Measuring visual acuity in animals is not as straightforward as it is for humans, you can't just sit them in front of a Snellen eyechart and hope they'll tell you what they see. In today's episode I tell you about three alternative ways for estimating acuity.
Special thanks to: ┬►Yuk Fai Leung from Purdue University for his zebrafish footage ├─● Zebrafish eyes: youtu.be/mfstlvsW1IY ├─● Optokinetic motor: youtu.be/Mtb4zY7-zq4 ├─● Lab: https://www.bio.purdue.edu/lab/leung/ └─● Research: https://www.bio.purdue.edu/lab/leung/publications.html
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Clapperboards, clapboards, movie slates etc. Have you ever wondered what clapperboards are used for? They are the hallmark of any behind the scenes production - but what exactly do they do? Personally, I've found them to be useful in saving time in at least 3 different ways!
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-- I hid a little thing like this in the year in review vid ;) 365 days 30 videos (32 made total) ~20 live talks 346858 views 20657 subscribers 21233 engagements
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We take you through the famous studies by Loftus on the formation of false memories, as well as more recent studies by Susumu Tonegawa into optogenetics.
Loftus, E. F., & Palmer, J. C. (1974). Reconstruction of auto-mobile destruction: An example of the interaction between language and memory. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 13, 585-589. https://webfiles.uci.edu/eloftus/LoftusPalmer74.pdf
Yuille, J. C., & Cutshall, J. L. (1986). A case study of eyewitness memory of a crime. Journal of Applied Psychology, 71(2), 291.
Optogenetic stimulation of a hippocampal engram activates fear memory recall http://tonegawalab.mit.edu/wp-content/uplo ads/2014/06/289_liu-ramirez-pang-puryear-govindarajan-2012.pdf
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With regards to VidCon Europe - I will be attending over the weekend and am looking forward to it very much!
Y si no lo habéis visto, tengo un canal complementario a Draw Curiosity - se llama Inés-table, y espero que os guste mucho. http://youtube.com/Inestable
Many thanks to Cinta, Javi and Judith who all took videos and photos and gave me permission to use them in this video. :)
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RULE TRANSLATIONS 1. Who can take part? Students in secondary school who have the permission of their parents or guardians can enter. People from any country can enter, but if the winners are outside of the Iberian Peninsula, the Balearic islands or the Canaries, the organization won't be able to cover the cost of the trip. In this case, the names of the winners would be made public at the Naukas event in Bilbao, but there wouldn't be a prize associated with it (NOTE - I'm sorry about that :s My understanding from the organisers is that trips can't be covered because the budget won't reach to cover international flights to CERN/Bilbao - but you should be able to receive the other prizes on offer).
2. How can you take part? There are two ways, individually, or in a team. Teams may not have more than three members. Each contestant may participate with a single video.
3. What characteristics must the videos have? Format and theme are free, and they must be 3-5 minutes in length. You can record in either an official language of the Spanish state or in English. Keep in mind that if you appear in your video you will need to include in your contest inscription a written permission from your parents or guardians so that your face can appear in the video.
If your video violates the law or is distasteful in nature it will be disqualified.
4. How do you enter? It's very simple - you must film and edit the video, upload to YouTube or Vimeo and then, sign up to the competition: http://cienciaclip.naukas.com/inscripcion (pick the number of people in your team and fill in the form).
5. When's the deadline? 16th April
6. What are the categories and modalities? There are three categories: 1 S - 13 - 14 yrs (approx - 1st two years of secondary) 2. M - 15-16 yrs (approx - last two years of obligatory secondary school) 3. L - anything above that (A Levels and above until the age of 18) and two modalities: 1. YouTuber 2. Animation
7. How are the winners chosen? The videos which don't break the rules will be displayed on the webpage and opened to public voting. The number of votes on the videos will form a third of the criteria of the judge's evaluation.
8. Who are the judges? The judge will be formed by members of Cátedra de Cultura Científica de la UPV/EHU, Naukas members, Big Van y Scenio.
9. What will the judges be looking for? In addition to the public votes, they will also be looking for creativity, originality, clarity and the rhythm of the exposition, as well as the difficulty and quality of the presented scientific content.
10. How many prizes are there? There will be a total of 8 prizes. The six first, one per category (S, M and L) and per modality (YouTuber and Animation) to the best videos of each category in each modality. The judges will also give two special prizes - the best evaluated video, and a second special prize to the best work made by foreign students.
11. What are the prizes? Those winners in either of the two modalities (youtuber or animation) who present the video individually will receive a complete kit for the construction and manouevre of a robot-dron Erle Spider, as well as a trip and stay at a hotel to attend the Saturday Naukas session in Bilbao 2017 for the winner and two adult companions (parents or teachers)
The winners of either modality (YouTuber or Animation) who present a team video will receive a complete kit for the construction and manouevre of a robot-dron Erle Spider, as well as a trip and stay at a hotel to attend the Saturday Naukas session in Bilbao 2017 for the winners and for four adult companions (parents or teachers)
The first special prize from the jury to the best video is a visit to CERN in Ginebra to up to four people, amongst which one of them, if applicable, will be the teacher.
The second special prize for the best work to foreign students will be an accreditative diploma, a loot of books and naukas t-shirts.
NOTE - the Latin American edition has different prizes, a trip to CERN, a GoPro session and a T6 Canon Rebel depending on the prize.
Inés Dawson is a PhD student and animal flight scientist at the University of Oxford.Are Bats REALLY The Fastest Flying Animals?Draw Curiosity2017-03-14 | Do you know which is the fastest flying animal? A recent scientific paper claims that it could be the Mexican free-tailed bat, who can fly at up to 160km/h, faster than the accepted record for the swift Apus apus. And my honest opinion? I think the methods are flawed and the result is unlikely - but I invite you to watch the video and read the paper to decide for yourself! :) Welcome to an unsuspecting episode of Journal Club!
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The news about TRAPPIST-1 and its exoplanets, and whether it is indeed habitable or not, is very exciting news for the scientific community, as it is the first time so many Earth-like planets have been discovered, and they could provide insight into what these planets and early life may look like - so today, we simulated a trip over there for that reason.
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The video is structured to cover: - A simplistic hypothesis for the evolution of the sexes - The hypothesis I believe to explain the origin of the sexes - Addressing two of its main criticisms
Alongside answering the question as to why there are male and females, this video is also part of a wider evolution themed collaboration - you can enjoy the whole playlist here! http://bit.ly/EvolutionVideos
Also, my apologies for each time I say "theory" instead of "hypothesis" - a rookie error!
Special thanks to Asher Leeks and Alan Grafen for resolving some key doubts in this video.
Inés Dawson is a PhD student and animal flight scientist at the University of Oxford.
If you’re on mobile, or annotations aren’t working, refer to the letter codes that appear in the video to click on the time-code for the next part of the video. :)
Special thanks to 12tone from http://youtube.com/12tonevideos for his help in organising this video! If the time codes don’t work in the description, please check out the pinned comment. Full playlist: http://bit.ly/EducationalYouTubers Part 1 - Time codes for Questions Part 2 - Letter codes for Educational YouTubers Part 1: Time codes for questions Start of the Quiz: 2:21 A: 2:45 AC: 2:57 ACE: 3:13 ACF: 3:33 AD: 3:56 ADE: 4:12 ADF: 4:21 ADEG: 4:32 ADEH: 4:52 ADFG: 5:10 ADFH: 5:39 B: 5:56 BI: 6:10 BIK: 6:50 BIL: 7:16 BIM: 7:48 BJ: 8:19 BJK: 8:42 BJKN: 8:57 BJKO: 9:15 BJL: 9:39 BJLN: 9:56 BJLO: 10:14
Part 2: Links to the video Find the YouTuber you selected by finding their 3-letter code here
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Special thanks to the YouTube Space in London, where this episode was shot.
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Making new habits isn't quite as hard as breaking a habit, and it turns out that making new ones is a better strategy. There are five bits of advice I would give to make you keep your resolutions - but you'll have to watch the video to find out ;)
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Inés Dawson is a PhD student and animal flight scientist at the University of Oxford.
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This video is quite self-indulgent, but I wanted to give a short history of the origin of this project, a summary of 2016 for Draw Curiosity, lots and lots and lots of thank yous and what is to come in 2017!
Apologies for the audio quality - on the one hand, I don't have the best set up at home (no lights and depending on where you are, it can be noisier), but I also had a dreadful cold which had me bedridden for a few days, so I didn't get a chance to find a better location to shoot either because I was too ill.
2017 - to reiterate: The plan is to front load as much work as possible. I'll be handing in my PhD at the end of the year, so I'll be inactive from around August onwards - but if I have prepared episodes, those will go up every couple of weeks to keep me covered.
At the front of the year I've got: ➢ 3-5 episodes shot at the YouTube Space at the end of last year ➢ 5 science travel vlogs still unedited ➢ 1 sponsored video ➢ Other content and collaborations I'm planning ➢ A trip to CERN I'm potentially embarking on ➢ VidCon Amsterdam in April ➢ Potentially a few other unconfirmed things ➢ 12-15 episodes to be created over Summer to cover me whilst writing up ➢ Dec 2017 - hopefully, PhD handed in to become Dr. in early 2018!! :)
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Inés Dawson is a PhD student and animal flight scientist at the University of Oxford.
As it might be interesting to look back on, as of today: ➢ 241 days ➢ 19 videos (21 made total) ➢ 14 live talks ➢ 129,500 views ➢ 12887 subscribers ➢ 10550 video engagements
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Obligate eusociality evolved four times, in the Hymenoptera (bees, wasps and ants), and in the higher termites, but facultative eusociality is a lot more common. What makes the transition from solitary bees to superorganism evolve?
Today's video is a collaboration with Stated Clearly, who made a fantastic video all about the other evolutionary transitions: http://youtube.com/StatedClearly
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Inés Dawson is a PhD student and animal flight scientist at the University of Oxford.
------Acknowledgements and other links: ------ Special thanks to Professor Jacobus Boomsma for agreeing to be interviewed and sharing his knowledge in this video.
Naukas is a science communication and science popularization which is 100% free and open to the public held every year in Bilbao. I had such a lovely time that I wanted to share it all with you and finally kick off one of the new series I've been wanting to launch on Draw Curiosity.
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Inés Dawson is a PhD student and animal flight scientist at the University of Oxford.
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Main sources (11 total): ➢Core Study: Plate Size and Color Suggestibility: The Delboeuf Illusion’s Bias on Serving and Eating Behavior They tested different hypotheses with a decent sample size for a psychology study (approx. 100 per experimental treatment (200 per hypothesis)). http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/662615
➢ Assimilation and contrast illusions: differences in plasticity Neural basis of assimilation and contrast ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7167354
➢ The interrelationship between the Ebbinghaus and Delboeuf illusions Are the Ebbinghaus and Delbouef illusion equivalent? ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/5071920
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Inés Dawson is a PhD student and animal flight scientist at the University of Oxford.
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Hopefully if you were wondering how to take a good picture of a sunset, this video will clear it up - or at least, take your mind off the elections. ;)
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-- ERROR CORRECTION -- Quick note to mention I made a mistake from 1:39 - 1:47 (unless I'm forgiven for saying "which I think is the largest beetle..."). Mecynorrhina torquata and mecynorrhina torquata ugandensis are not the largest beetles in the world, but rather, amongst the largest flower beetles (which are the ones that have a habit of flying). Beetle sellers and suppliers love mislabelling them and calling them Goliath beetles, which I think is where my confusion arose from.
The rest of the information in the video should be correct - but please always let me know if you spot any mistakes. I always do my best to fact-check my videos, and in this case I got so enveloped in the science and the mechanics that I forget to verify the simplest parts of the video.
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Video Clips ➢ Research clips of the beetles were from Prof. Michel Maharbiz and Hirotaka Sato ➢ 3D flight animation + leg animation are my own creation
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In today's episode, I explore these ideas in combination with receiver psychology - which looks at the thought processes in the predator's mind when choosing what insect to eat -or ignore-.
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