Before responsive, voice-controlled assistants like Alexa and Siri, we had the “Butler in a Box” -- which its maker Mastervoice and its creator Gus Searcy described as “The world’s first artificial intelligent environmental control system for the home.”
It… wasn’t very intelligent, despite claiming it could control all your devices, call 16 people, speak 4 languages, and provide home security.
1983 was the beginning of the era of the personal computer, and the Commodore64 was a bestseller. Video games and electronics of all kinds were fascinating. If we could digitize work and fun, why couldn’t we have a futuristic helper to at least turn on the lights for us?
It really was the stuff of science fiction: a little bit HAL-9000, a little bit Star Trek, and some of a horror movie called “Demon Seed” that you’ve probably never even heard of. How do we get the best out of that technology while avoiding the bad parts? That is, if it works at all.
The story of the Butler in a Box is more interesting than the technology itself. It’s the story of a teen financier who became a magician, a man who owned a 7-11 and invented a cannon to feed fish -- until he was involved in a murder trial.
It’s the story of having a great idea and then finding out that the real cost is about 20 times higher than you thought it would be.
It’s the story of the promise of being first… and all the problems that come with it.
And it’s the story of Kevin trying to turn a lamp on 40 years later (nearly impossible).
Before responsive, voice-controlled assistants like Alexa and Siri, we had the “Butler in a Box” -- which its maker Mastervoice and its creator Gus Searcy described as “The world’s first artificial intelligent environmental control system for the home.”
It… wasn’t very intelligent, despite claiming it could control all your devices, call 16 people, speak 4 languages, and provide home security.
1983 was the beginning of the era of the personal computer, and the Commodore64 was a bestseller. Video games and electronics of all kinds were fascinating. If we could digitize work and fun, why couldn’t we have a futuristic helper to at least turn on the lights for us?
It really was the stuff of science fiction: a little bit HAL-9000, a little bit Star Trek, and some of a horror movie called “Demon Seed” that you’ve probably never even heard of. How do we get the best out of that technology while avoiding the bad parts? That is, if it works at all.
The story of the Butler in a Box is more interesting than the technology itself. It’s the story of a teen financier who became a magician, a man who owned a 7-11 and invented a cannon to feed fish -- until he was involved in a murder trial.
It’s the story of having a great idea and then finding out that the real cost is about 20 times higher than you thought it would be.
It’s the story of the promise of being first… and all the problems that come with it.
And it’s the story of Kevin trying to turn a lamp on 40 years later (nearly impossible).
CelGenStudios, “Reverse-Engineering the Security Module in a Mastervoice Butler in a Box”: youtu.be/4LGx4QsDprY
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#ai #artificialintelligence #technology #science #innovationWhat if you CANT BURP?!Popular Science2024-10-08 | Some people can't burp... at all. It's called Retrograde Cricopharyngeus Dysfunction, and RCD makes life seriously uncomfortable -- both physically and socially.
There's an easy, increasingly popular medical fix that unlocks the power of the belch, and it's actually changing lives.
#medical #sciencefacts #science #scienceandtechnologyThe Most Famous Mystery Well NEVER SolvePopular Science2024-10-03 | [YouTube Age-Restricted the previous upload. This is a new censored version.]
Nearly 200 years ago, a mysterious teen boy arrived in Nuremberg. The event ignited the Kaspar Hauser story: a tale of weird history, an unsolved mystery that endures today, and a battle between the ancient lore of a feral child and the power of modern forensics.
When Kaspar Hauser arrived, he could barely speak at all, but he eventually was able to say that he had been kept in a dungeon for his entire life until he was dropped off in the city. How did he get there? How could a boy who had never walked in his life make the journey? How could he write his own name?
The details of Kaspar’s origins were compelling… to a degree. He was surrounded by both a city of devoted supporters and a growing cadre of skeptics. And his arrival kicked off a saga including a series of assassination attempts, hidden genius, and a total inability to tell what’s actually true and what’s a lie.
It’s why Kaspar Hauser’s mystery continues today, and even with modern forensic breakthroughs and DNA testing improving by the decade, we know only a portion of the truth. And it seems as though the more capable we are at arriving at the real Kaspar Hauser story, the less we actually know.
#weirdhistory #History #psychology #popularscience #unsolvedmysteryWhy is this fish so ANGRY?Popular Science2024-09-30 | A newly-discovered fish in the Red Sea has menacing teeth and a sinister face, hiding in coral to strike at unsuspecting prey.
But the grumpy dwarfgoby -- nicknamed 'The Grumpy Cat of the Sea -- is just 2 centimeters long!
#weirdscience #sciencefacts #science #weirdAre Tesla Cybertruck Tires TRASH?Popular Science2024-09-26 | Some Cybertruck owners are complaining that their tires are wearing out quickly -- like very, very quickly. One user reported that he's nearing the end of his tread after just 6,000 miles of summer street and highway driving.
The Cybertruck weighs nearly 7,000lbs / 3,000kg, so its tires are going to grind down faster than a normal car. But really, new tires every 6 months?!
#tesla #cybertruck #automotive #automobile #carsWe Dug Up a CHILD VAMPIRE?!Popular Science2024-09-19 | Archaeologists in Chelm, Poland have unearthed the remains of a 13th century child who was suspected of becoming a vampire after burial -- including a torso weighed down by rocks and a severed head.
#vampire #science #weirdscience #weird #archaelogyWorlds Rarest Lobster?! (Cotton Candy)Popular Science2024-09-12 | A lobster found off the coast of New Hampshire has a "cotton candy" coloring so rare that it's estimated to exist at a rate of just 1 in 100 million.
#science #sciencefacts #weird #lobster #amazingDoritos Dye Makes Mice TRANSPARENT?!Popular Science2024-09-10 | Tartrazine, commonly called Yellow 5, is a dye that was discovered in the 1880s. It's been used for food and cosmetics for generations... but it turns out that it can change the refractive index of water to allow us to see through mice and to expose their internal organs.
#science #sciencefacts #weird #animals #animalshortsThe VR Backpack Gamers HATED (Interactor)Popular Science2024-08-21 | The 1980s cemented the role of the home video game console. By the early 1990s, gamers wanted to take their experience to the next level by harnessing physics and haptic feedback into a wearable gaming vest called the Aura Interactor… or did they?!
The lure of cymatics and the excitement of 90s tech experimentation generated a haptic vest that supposedly let you feel all the action of your favorite games, but the reality of the Aura Interactor was on a spectrum of kinda-sorta-cool to annoying. What started out as a premium, expensive product that would fully immerse gamers into the fantastic worlds of legendary video games would turn into a clearance rack staple.
What went so wrong with such a unique idea? How did pieces of the 1980s Star Wars Missile Defense program wind up in the annals of retro technology and retro gaming? And why does it feel like I keep getting kicked in the back?!
#retrotech #gaming #popularscience #technology #hapticsFirst rocks recovered from Earths mantle!Popular Science2024-08-19 | For the first time, geologists have taken a sample of Earth's mantle rock -- and it not only contains some surprises, but may offer a glimpse into how life developed.
#science #sciencefacts #geology #earthLiquid water on Mars!Popular Science2024-08-15 | The InSight lander has used seismic wave analysis to discover a massive reservoir of liquid water miles under the surface of Mars. We can't drill down yet, but when we can, it may be critical to sustaining life on the Red Planet.
#mars #space #science #spaceexplorationThe Tech That Changed Democracy ForeverPopular Science2024-08-13 | One of the most consequential leaps in science and technology etched itself in the annals of military history before changing politics and elections forever. The ‘Walkie-Talkie-Lookie’ combined the power of radio waves with film. The result? Real-time audio-visuals beamed to home televisions, and doing it all with portability – in a way that helped people choose or avoid potential leaders.
Before the infamous close-ups of the first televised Nixon-Kennedy presidential debate, wireless transmitters made their mark at the 1952 Republican and Democratic political conventions. It was a technological marvel: 50-pound Walkie-Lookie backpacks running around a giant convention hall broadcasting through cables and radio waves on a network of 104 stations nationwide.
We’re in the era of every great soundbite and embarrassing gaffe making its way to the internet within seconds. Now we take that for granted. But generations ago, the Walkie-Talkie-Lookie revolutionized our access to politics – for the first time we weren’t just reading secondhand, cultivated news reports. We were seeing and hearing ourselves.
For better and for worse.
#Radio #Science #RetroTech #InventionsBio-Hybrid Robots ARE HERE.Popular Science2024-07-29 | Bio-hybrid Robots that contain living tissue for locomotion and sensing are already here -- but are we paying enough attention to the ethics?
#science #technology #roboticsSonic the Hedgehog is INSIDE YOUPopular Science2024-07-26 | The Sonic Hedgehog protein (SHH) is an integral part of making your body what it is... seriously.
Sonic Hedgehog plays a role in forming your brain, central nervous system, lungs, digits, and limbs -- because you need limbs when you gotta go fast.
And the inhibitor to the Sonic Hedgehog protein? Robotnikinin.
#science #sonicthehedgehog #genetics #sciencefactsThe Trash Computer That Became Your PhonePopular Science2024-07-25 | Popular Science Store: store.popsci.com Popular Science Prints: popularscienceprints.com Use code YOUTUBE for 10% off.
Journeying down the path of vintage tech and retro computers is a good time even when it’s full of twists and turns… which it always is. But what happens when you’ve got a proto-portable computer that fits in your pocket, that struggles to function, that runs into incompatibility issues at every stage, and that was made by a leather company who decided to get into the home electronics business?
That’s the Tandy TRS-80 Pocket Computer, sold exclusively through Radio Shack. And there’s a reason why the portable TRS-80 and its desktop companion were dubbed the ‘Trash-80.’
Charles Tandy built an empire so sprawling that the federal government had to break it up, and the TRS-80 line was one of his crowning achievements before his death. Everything was looking great for both Tandy and Radio Shack – but the TRS-80 Pocket Computer revealed the vulnerabilities of both businesses, the volatility of the hyper-evolving personal computer market, and the risks of market leadership in one of the most uncertain, unstable technological eras humanity has ever seen.
The TRS-80 Pocket Computer was one of the earliest forerunners to Apple’s iPhone and to smartphones in pockets around the world. But it was also a cautionary tale for the entire tech industry… and it continues to serve as a warning for anyone interested in vintage computer restoration.
#Computers #retrotech #ScienceDo Animals Have Consciousness?Popular Science2024-07-24 | We know that many different animals have shockingly high levels of intelligence -- but how many truly have consciousness?
A group of scientists and academics thinks that it just might be... all of them.
#science #sciencefacts #animalshorts #animalsAir Taxi To Taco Bell?Popular Science2024-07-22 | Joby Aviation just completed a 535 Mile test flight with their electric vertical landing and takeoff vehicle or eVTOL modified with hydrogen fuel cells to extend its range.
#science #hydrogen #airtaxi #aviationCats Want FAP.Popular Science2024-07-20 | It turns out adult cats make pies or biscuits with their front paws as a behavior directly linked to feeding as kittens. The kneading motion stimulates their mother’s mammary glands to produce milk.
As the kittens suckle, the mother releases the Feline Appeasing Pheromone also known as FAP which relaxes her kittens and helps them bond with their mother.
#cat #science #cats #kittenAn Asteroid Is Coming. Now What!?Popular Science2024-07-19 | Here's the scenario: NASA astronomers have confirmed an asteroid with a diameter ranging from 80 to 800 meters has a 72% chance of impacting Earth on July 12, 2038. Now what!?
#space #science #asteroid #nasaThe Sand That (almost) Killed MillionsPopular Science2024-07-13 | As the Cold War raged in the wake of humanity's increasing understanding of nuclear science -- and history's very first use of an atomic bomb -- both the United States and Russia started the search for a kinder, gentler form of nuclear warfare. It was a combination of traditional, familiar weaponry with emerging scientific capabilities, and it's how we got "Death Sand."
Radiological weaponry came straight from the pages of early 20th century science fiction, with visionaries like HG Wells and Robert Heinlein both being frighteningly accurate about our future. But despite their warnings, the prospect of harnessing less-lethal versions of "The Bomb" tantalized militaries struggling to keep up in the post-World War II global climate.
The strange science of Death Sand is a fascinating chapter in the epic story of our species' oldest question: How do we deal with violence?
#coldwar #History #Nuclear #radiationRubiks Cube Solved in .305 SecondsPopular Science2024-07-03 | The fastest recorded human time to solve a Rubik's Cube is Max Park's 3.15 seconds -- but Mitsubishi's TOKUFASTbot has solved one in about 1/10th as much time. That's about 200 times faster than a robot could 15 years ago.
#rubikscube #technology #science #robot #roboticsEarths Gateway to Hell is Getting BiggerPopular Science2024-07-01 | Siberia's Batagaika Crater is about 215 acres in area, and local residents refer to it as the 'Gateway to Hell.' It's a retrogressive thaw slump so large it's considered a 'megaslump,' and its size is increasing by the day.
#sciencefacts #science #sciencefiction #scienceandtechnology #geologyThe Lies of Radioactive MedicinePopular Science2024-06-19 | Miracle cures and quack medicine crashed into a new era of science during the dawn of Radionics. While history is rife with fake medicine and medical fraud, the introduction of unseen waves and radiation into the public zeitgeist led to the floodgates opening for wacky quack devices from hucksters like the Atomotrone, the Electro-Metabograph and the Rado-Pad which was literally a bag of dirt.
Popular Science decided the people who fell prey to the lies from these grifters were fools but the truth is, when people are desperate for a cure to their medical problems, even the stupidest quack medicine is worth a shot.
Even if its radioactive gas.
#FakeMedicine #Popularscience #history #science #alternative medicineThe Animal Utopia DIDNT HappenPopular Science2024-06-10 | If you expected that a global pandemic would give animals an opportunity to thrive, well... we did, too. But a sophisticated tracking study showed that animal behavior patterns during COVID lockdowns yielded surprising results -- for both animals *and* humans.
#science #sciencefacts #animals #animalshortsThe ONLY Snowmobile Allowed in YellowstonePopular Science2024-06-08 | Only one brand of snowmobile is currently allowed in Yellowstone National Park, and it's not because the park service or government picked a winner. Ski-Doo is the only brand of snowmobile that meets strict standards on emissions and noise -- for now.
#snowmobile #technology #motorsport #offroad #skidooThe $580 Million Vinyl Movie Disaster (Selectavision)Popular Science2024-06-07 | You've probably got a ton of VHS tapes in a box somewhere -- but why *don't* you have any Capacitance Electronic Discs (CED)?. Despite being an incredible and unique technology that basically used records as home video discs, the RCA Selectavision had... a whole lot of problems.
The history of technology is filled with great ideas that had fatal, and often unknowable, flaws. And although the RCA Selectavision underappreciated its core audience, arrived much too late, and spelled doom for one of the century's most important tech companies, it did give us the first FMV games.
Did the RCA Selectavision earn its place in the annals of retro technology by being innovative, or by being a $580 million mistake?
#retrotech #popularscience #history #retroFarming SNAKES for Food?!?Popular Science2024-06-04 | Imagine a Slim Jim that's 20 feet long and weighs 200 pounds -- that's basically a python. And in Thailand and Vietnam, python farming is yielding sustainable lean protein. Would YOU eat a python burger?
#science #sciencefacts #biology #farmingThese Future Predictions were WRONGPopular Science2024-05-29 | What happens when scientists and futurists predict the year 2000… in the 1960s? In Popular Science, Walter Cronkite chronicled the state of science and technology in 1967 to project what life might be like in the 21st century. Cronkite and the prognosticators actually got a lot of it right… and some of it they got very, very wrong.
Everyone knew the moon landing was imminent, but why didn’t we ever get networks of road magnets interfacing with our cars? And although Cronkite and Popular Science were eerily accurate on GPS and car navigation systems, why were we so misguided on the future of robots?
It turns out that the future we need isn’t necessarily the one we seem to want.
#science #Predictions #Innovation #popularscience #historyThe $2,000 Video Phone From 1987Popular Science2024-05-09 | Do you know about VisiTel? Video calling technology is such a mundane feature of smartphones now that it would be weird if a device *didn't* have it. But the idea for the first FaceTime is buried deep in vintage tech history, all the way back in the 70's... the 1870's. And most people hated the idea of it.
By the time Mitsubishi's VisiTel videophone graced the cover of Popular Science in 1988, video calling had already gone through generations of inventions, advances, and serious setbacks. When we finally acquired a pair of brand new VisiTel phones to make one single video phone call, humanity had already been through billions of dollars of failures, misguided promises, and losing gambles -- including by Bell Labs, likely the most innovative company of the 20th century.
It's been 150 years since we started thinking about and criticizing live video communication. And we still haven't fully answered the technology's most basic question: does anyone really want to be seen?
#technology #science #innovation #retro #VisitelThe Day We Made Frankensteins MonsterPopular Science2024-04-22 | When Everett Knowles hitched a ride on a Boston train, he expected to make it home in a few minutes. But the result was the final leg of a medical history journey more than 30,000 years in the making when Eddy Knowles' doctors turned tragedy into a medical miracle.
Eddy's impromptu arm transplant -- humanity's first successful limb re-attachment -- became one of the 20th century's great surgery stories. The path from accident to surgery required an almost impossible set of conditions to line up perfectly, and then it actually had to work. On the day of the accident, the wild scramble to harness expertise and to weigh calculated risks make for an engaging story of science and human ingenuity -- but the truth is that the same exact process of discovery and daring is what forged the centuries of scientific knowledge that Eddy's doctors used to save his arm.
Scientific triumphs and medical miracles happen every day. They just take thousands of generations to be born.
#medical #history #science #popularscienceThe Astronaut Who Crashed In The BathroomPopular Science2024-04-12 | When a 40-year old Ohio man named John fell in the bathroom and hit his head on the tub, no one expected it to change how the entire world approached space exploration. But John Glenn wasn't just a business traveler in a hotel room, and the medical mystery that followed changed NASA and the space program of the USSR.
Was John Glenn's vertigo the result of his orbit of the Earth during his Mercury Atlas 6 mission? Was it all just an accident, or did it come from his intense World War II and Korean War pilot service? And could the balance, dizziness, and nausea be prevented for future astronauts?
The resulting research into what went wrong with John Glenn, Alan Shepard, and other astronauts and cosmonauts who experienced debilitating illnesses after spaceflight pioneered the spaceflight to the Moon and beyond -- and it all started when a man slipped on a rug.
#space #spaceexploration #nasa #scienceThe Futuristic Toy Moms HATED (Captain Power)Popular Science2024-04-04 | The 80s may have been the golden age for both toys and kids' TV. He Man, Thundercats, GI Joe... it was the best time in history for action and action figures. Mattel had a grand idea to combine the two into one experience: Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future would not only present a futuristic drama, but also allow the kids watching the show to participate in real-time with interactive toys.
At least... that was the idea.
The reality of Captain Power was a disastrous mismatch of concepts for the Captain Power toys and the show itself. Was the show made for kids or adults? Yes! Was it CGI or live action? Yes! Were the toys awesome, interfacing seamlessly with a television show that would be the next big thing for giant toy-maker Mattel?
No -- a resounding no.
Our Captain Power documentary enters the worlds of retro gaming, 80's toys, and television lore to find out what went so wrong... and what ended up going very, very right.
Special thanks to Captain Disillusion, German Banda, Tom Lieber and Peter Paltridge.
#RetroGaming #80s #Science #technologyPokémon vs. Same-Weight Animals - 3D ComparisonPopular Science2024-03-29 | If Pokémon existed in the wild, which animals would be in their weight class? We used the Pokédex to find the exact weights of 11 of our favorite Pokémon, and then we matched them up in a 3D comparison with animals that share the same weights.
Pokémon size doesn't factor in to the calculations -- it's all about their weights and how the animals would match up to them in nature. What would happen to a Pokemon in real life if it came across its counterpart? Would Pikachu and a Sphynx cat be friends, and if not... who would win in battle?
#Pokemon #science #3dcomparison #AnimalsThe Secret Mine That Took Us To SpacePopular Science2024-03-22 | The Space Race, the Cold War, and the Moon Landing all have an origin story connected to a small, obscure silver iron mining operation in the mountains of Lower Saxony in Germany – and it’s such a complex, unbelievable tale that it exposes our most dangerous intersections of science and morality.
14 tons of buried paper determined the fate of the world and kicked off humanity’s exploration of space.
We already know the end of the story: we know about Sputnik and Apollo 11, we know about Werner von Braun, and we know about Operation Paperclip. But pulling the threads of NASA and the Soviet Union’s Vostok program unravels an unknown World War II race between trucks and time, a struggle of secrets and survival, and a twist-filled tale of man, mind, and morality.
What you need to know is that story’s beginning – and if you don’t know it already, that’s because they never told you.
#spacerace #coldwar #science #historyPlanets As Animals - To Scale 3D Mass ComparisonPopular Science2024-03-13 | If Earth is a labrador dog and Venus is a human child, then gas giants like Saturn and Jupiter must also match masses with their own animals… like an African forest elephant and a herd of 7 giraffes.
You can understand the real scale of vast celestial bodies by comparing their relative sizes to animals on Earth that we’re familiar with -- and then you can see them all in 360-degree 3D animation. We’ve paired the real scale of all the planets in our solar system to a range of small and large animals worldwide, like Pluto as a tiny black rat and Mercury as a kitten -- and of course, the Sun, which by comparison to the planets has a scaled mass of 78 blue whales.
The cosmos is everywhere, all around us, all the time… it just depends on your perspective.
See you in the future!
#nasa #space #comparison #solarsystemWhy Do We Put Holes In Our Head?Popular Science2024-03-06 | The $15,000 A.I. from 1983: youtu.be/Ra9ov-ud_Q0
Scraping, grinding, or drilling a hole through the thick, hard skull that evolution developed to protect our most sensitive contents might be one of humanity’s worst ideas -- and also one of our best.
We have no idea how it started, or why the first trepanner thought it would fix anything. We just know that nearly every civilization worldwide has been drilling holes in heads for at least 7,000 years. Sometimes it actually worked. Sometimes it… didn’t.
Unraveling the impossibly-complex story of trepanning exposes a deep conceptual understanding of the relationship between the brain and behavior. It reveals our desire to take drastic measures to preserve the lives of people who are important to us, whether their value is practical or emotional. And the development of trepanning from Neolithic peoples to the Greeks and Incas and modern trauma surgeons takes a winding road through horrors and genius.
Trepanning evolved alongside our understanding of biology, physics, and even consciousness, with both its tools and practices reflecting our increasing knowledge and our changing attitudes toward health and human life.
Love stories. Skull jewelry. Headache cures. Experimental psychosurgery. A few people who just wanted to chill. It’s all trepanning.
And the most remarkable thing about this seemingly-crude phenomenon is how it not only persists, but that it might actually be an important part of our plan for tomorrow.
So sharpen an old rock, measure your brainbloodvolume, and grab a watermelon to practice on.
Advisor, History of Medicine: Dr. John Dickey, UMass Chan Medical School
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#science #technology #documentary #historySee You In The Future...Popular Science2024-03-05 | Edward Youmans founded The Popular Science Monthly in 1872, and the first issue contained articles on "Science and Immortality and "The Causes of Dyspepsia."
He had no way to know that the next 152 years of his publication would cover general relativity and the atom bomb.
He couldn't have predicted the discovery of DNA or debates over the science and ethics of cloning.
He would've thought that moon landings and space travel and Mars colonization were good topics for science fiction stories, not part of our modern scientific reality.
What started as a niche monthly journal for a few hundred scientifically-inclined minds is now a YouTube channel that can reach millions, globally, instantly... and all for free.
We've been overthinking since 1872 -- and we want you to join us.
#science #technology #popularscienceEV Batteries: They’re Not All The SamePopular Science2023-06-30 | Underneath the hood of an electric vehicle is the car’s battery pack. That lithium-ion battery is where the car stores all its energy. In this video, Popular Science explores the most common battery types used today by automakers: NMC, NCA and LFP. While they might all look the same, there are some big differences between them. We explain how building batteries made from more abundant materials like iron, allows batteries to be more cost effective, more sustainable and more durable than batteries that rely on critical materials like nickel and cobalt.
We partnered with @ournextenergy to show how lithium iron phosphate (LFP) is making a big difference in the future of electrification. Learn more at https://one.ai.
Video presented by Our Next Energy.
#electricvehicles #battery101 #EVBatteries #LithiumIronPhosphate #SustainableEnergy #EVTechnology #BatteryChemistries #EnergyDensity #CostEffective #Durability #PopularScience #GreenTransportation #CleanEnergy #Innovation #TechExplained #RenewableEnergy #OurNextEnergy #FutureOfMobility #Electrification #GreenRevolution #lfp #batterytechnology #futureofmobility #onebattery #arieslfp -- GET MORE POPULAR SCIENCE
Podcasts: popsci.com/popular-science-podcastsThe Love Life of the Horseshoe Crab | A mating ritual 450 million years old || Wild Lives ep. 3Popular Science2022-05-26 | A MATING RITUAL 450 MILLION YEARS OLD. When you first see a horseshoe crab, it’s impossible to tell if it’s even alive. But as the tide eats away at the coastline along the eastern seaboard each spring, and the sun sets over the horizon, these seemingly-dead creatures come to life with one singular purpose: to mate.
Horrific creature? Maybe—but only if you look at its underbelly. From above, it’s really just a bicycle helmet looking for love. Learn all about the wild mating rituals and weird reproductive cycle of the horseshoe crab.
► THIS IS THE MOST INTERESTING LION IN THE WORLD. After all, how many lions have movies and songs made about them because of never before seen animal behavior? Just one lion—Frasier, the Sensuous Lion... I mean, how is fathering 35 cubs when you're 20 lion years old even possible?!: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLypxfyD4KH9kz-VkE2iGbfik935mZRXO1
► LIKE, THIS REALLY HAPPENED. Alfred Hitchcock’s classic THE BIRDS is, in part, inspired by a very real phenomenon that occurred in Santa Cruz, California in 1961. One night, inexplicably, thousands of sooty shearwater birds lost their minds, dive-bombing into homes and even biting people. But, for 50 years, no one knew why… That is, until now. This is a Hitchcockian mystery wrapped in a scientific paper—a biological whodunnit: youtu.be/UF_Y3zgSGJE
► HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED about what makes an animal hibernate? PopSci formed an orchestra of hibernating animals to tell you about their winter's sleep: youtu.be/QYmNACCeeYg
► DID YOU KNOW the first underwater film ever recorded was lost to history until PopSci found it mislabeled in a Dutch archive? It's a story too strange to be fiction (and, yes, it involves a shark and a horse). Also, it's the first footage of a shark ever recorded: youtu.be/QPW9z7XNGBM
► DO YOU LOVE DOGS? WHAT ABOUT SPACE? Watch our video about Laika, our hero: youtu.be/77b7965hx8Y
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* * * ABOUT WILD LIVES Popular Science’s WILD LIVES is a series that dives like an Emperor penguin into some of the wildest stories and weirdest facts about, of course, wild animals (sometimes botanical wonders, too!). In their own words. Well, approximately their own words—they are wild animals after all.
CREDITS Video by: Tom McNamara & Eleanor Cummins Animation: Beth Wexler Narrator: Elizabeth Ollier Executive Producer: Amy Schellenbaum Editor-in-Chief: Corinne Iozzio
Media “A Trip to the Moon” (1902, Georges Méliès), Pond5, “The Astronomer’s Dream” (1898, Georges Méliès), The Birth of Venus (1485-1486, Sandro Botticelli)
Music APM Music
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Facebook: http://fb.com/popsci Twitter: http://twitter.com/popsci Instagram: http://instagram.com/popsciDriving with Coyote Biologists on Continental TerrainContact™ A/T tiresPopular Science2021-11-01 | Biologists Chris Mowry and Larry Wilson rumble through urban, rural, and forest terrains all over Georgia collecting data for the Atlanta Coyote Project. In this video they’re outfitted with Continental TerrainContact™ A/T tires as they search dens for coyotes and explain how changes in our environment have brought humans and coyotes closer together than ever before.
-- #Continental #TerrainContactAT #highperformance #science #engineering #tire #ContinentalTire #howtireswork #cars #trucks #suv #gripperformance #trackingstability #traction #breaking #howtireswork #howstuffworks #Sponsored #ContinentalTire #wetroad #newtire #gripperformance #trackingstability #traction #breaking #steering #ultrahighperformance #allseasontires #optimumgrip #sportplustechnology #xsipes #forcevectoring #brakingdistance #tirerubber #performance #tiretechnologyDriving with a Firefly Researcher on Continental CrossContact™ LX25 tiresPopular Science2021-11-01 | Ecology graduate researcher Kelly Ridenhour drives all over the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in Georgia at dusk in search of the eastern firefly known as the “Big Dipper.” In this video she’s outfitted with Continental CrossContact™ LX25 tires as she crosses country roads, highways, and city streets. Kelly founded the Atlanta Firefly Project, one of the first ever censuses of fireflies. She’s utilizing community science data to better understand the glowing creatures—all with the purpose of increasing their populations in urban areas so cities can sparkle with fireflies at night again.
-- #Continental #CrossContactLX25 #highperformance #science #engineering #tire #ContinentalTire #howtireswork #cars #trucks #suv #gripperformance #trackingstability #traction #breaking #howtireswork #howstuffworks #Sponsored #ContinentalTire #wetroad #newtire #gripperformance #trackingstability #traction #breaking #steering #ultrahighperformance #allseasontires #optimumgrip #sportplustechnology #xsipes #forcevectoring #brakingdistance #tirerubber #performance #tiretechnologyDriving with an Environmental Landscape Designer on Continental TerrainContact™ H/T tiresPopular Science2021-11-01 | Environmental landscape designer Travys Harper installs rain gardens as well as plants and monitors trees throughout Atlanta for the non-profit Trees Atlanta. In this video he’s outfitted with Continental TerrainContact™ H/T tires as he hauls gear, dirt, and plants all to set-up a rain garden in an area front yard.
-- #Continental #TerrainContactAT #highperformance #science #engineering #tire #ContinentalTire #howtireswork #cars #trucks #suv #gripperformance #trackingstability #traction #breaking #howtireswork #howstuffworks #Sponsored #ContinentalTire #wetroad #newtire #gripperformance #trackingstability #traction #breaking #steering #ultrahighperformance #allseasontires #optimumgrip #sportplustechnology #xsipes #forcevectoring #brakingdistance #tirerubber #performance #tiretechnologyWhat happens to your body when you die in space?Popular Science2021-04-13 | NASA isn't sure what to do with corpses in space, but they may need to figure it out soon.
Of the more than 550 people we've sent into the cosmos, just 21 have died—and only 3 actually above the boundary between Earth and space—since humankind first took to strapping ourselves to rockets. When there have been fatalities, the entire crew has been lost, leaving no one to rescue. But as we move closer to a human mission to Mars, there's a higher likelihood that individuals could be stranded or even perish—whether that's on the way, while living in harsh environments, or at some other point of the mission.
**Correction: April 15, 2021 The video misstates the distance from Earth to the Moon. It is 250,000 miles, not 250 miles.**
► DO YOU LOVE DOGS? WHAT ABOUT SPACE? Watch our video about Laika, our hero youtu.be/77b7965hx8Y
*** About Ask Us Anything Popular Science answers your most outlandish, mind-burning questions—from what the universe is made of to why not everyone can touch their toes.
Media Assignment: Outer Space (1960), Canadian Space Agency, Destination Earth (1956), European Space Agency, Galaxy Science Fiction, NASA/JPL, Prelinger Archives, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, U.S. National Archives
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#AskUsAnything #whathappenstoyourbodyifyoudieinspace #PopularScience #space #PopSci #science #space #spacex #nasa #nasaperseverance #nasaspaceflight #spacehistory #spacevideos #whathappenstoyourbodyifyoudieinspace #whathappenstoyourbodywhenyoudie #askusanything #astronaut #spacewalk #apollo11 #moonlanding #apollo11launch #elonmusk #cosmos #vintagespace #spacearchive #mars #marsroverlanding #marsrover #curiosityrover #perseverancerover #spacetravel #deepspace #shuttlelaunch #buzzaldrin #neilarmstrong #chrishadfieldWhat Makes an ‘Ultra High Performance’ Tire? These 3 ThingsPopular Science2021-02-15 | What makes an ‘Ultra High Performance’ tire? Popular Science finds out by testing Continental's new ExtremeContact DWS06 Plus.
#Continental #ExtremeContactDWS06Plus #highperformance #science #engineering #tire #ContinentalTire #howtireswork #cars #trucks #suv #gripperformance #trackingstability #traction #breaking #howtireswork #howstuffworks #Sponsored #ContinentalTire #wetroad #newtire #gripperformance #trackingstability #traction #breaking #steering #ultrahighperformance #allseasontires #optimumgrip #sportplustechnology #xsipes #forcevectoring #brakingdistance #tirerubber #performance #tiretechnologyGet a grip: the science of how tires work in winterPopular Science2020-11-30 | What keeps the tire’s rubber on the road when the weather becomes most foul, the temperature drops, and rain turns to sleet and then snow? A good winter tire requires these three things.
#Continental #VikingContact7 #wintertire #science #engineering #tire #ContinentalTire #howtireswork #cars #trucks #suv #gripperformance #trackingstability #traction #breakingThe TRUE STORY of Hitchcock’s The Birds | Science Stranger than Fiction || Wild Lives Ep. 2Popular Science2020-11-19 | LIKE, THIS REALLY HAPPENED. Alfred Hitchcock’s classic THE BIRDS is, in part, inspired by a very real phenomenon that occurred in Santa Cruz, California in 1961. One night, inexplicably, thousands of sooty shearwater birds lost their minds, dive-bombing into homes and even biting people. But, for 50 years, no one knew why… That is, until Dr. Sibel Bargu Ates connected dots throughout history through meticulous (and rather imaginative) archive specimen research. This is a Hitchcockian mystery wrapped in a scientific paper—a biological whodunnit.
Also, in this video: we uncover a horrifying first hand account of the true-life bird invasion (which overlaps in a way with another Hitchcock film, PSYCHO). And, learn how birds flock and move together. In fact, a 1986 computer program helped solve the puzzle of how they actually fly so close without every bird in a flock ricocheting off each other like pinballs.
Said another way, this is a story all about bird brains.
► THIS IS THE MOST INTERESTING LION IN THE WORLD. After all, how many lions have movies and songs made about them because of never before seen animal behavior? Just one lion—Frasier, the Sensuous Lion... I mean, how is fathering 35 cubs when you're 20 lion years old even possible?!: youtu.be/eK_zmYWHxxo
► HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED about what makes an animal hibernate? PopSci formed an orchestra of hibernating animals to tell you about their winter's sleep: youtu.be/QYmNACCeeYg
► DID YOU KNOW the first underwater film ever recorded was lost to history until PopSci found it mislabeled in a Dutch archive? It's a story too strange to be fiction (and, yes, it involves a shark and a horse). Also, it's the first footage of a shark ever recorded: youtu.be/QPW9z7XNGBM
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* * * ABOUT WILD LIVES Popular Science’s WILD LIVES is a monthly series that dives like an Emperor penguin into some of the wildest stories and weirdest facts about, of course, wild animals. In their own words. Well, approximately their own words—they are wild animals after all.
CREDITS Video by: Tom McNamara Animation: Beth Wexler Narrator: Elizabeth Ollier Executive Producer: Amy Schellenbaum Editor-in-Chief: Corinne Iozzio
Media 1961 Santa Cruz Sentinel bird invasion photos (courtesy Covello & Covello Photography), Archival gut contents image (2012, Nature Geoscience), “Birds of America” (1917, The University Society), Boids program (1986, courtesy Craig Reynolds), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920, Paramount film), Dr. Sibel Bargu Ates, “Gull Island” and “Inishvickillane, Blasket Islands” footage (1942, 1925, Chicago Academy of Sciences), Internet Archives, Mixed zooplankton sample (2019, Adriana Zingone, Domenico D'Alelio, Maria Grazia Mazzocchi, Marina Montresor, Diana Sarno, LTER-MC team), Oral history by Edna Messini (courtesy Capitola Historical Museum, Frank Perry), Pond5, Prelinger Archives, Pseudo-Nitzschia specimen images (NOAA/NWFSC), Santa Cruz Sentinel, “The Birds” (1963, Universal Pictures), “The Vanishing Lady” (1896, Georges Méliès)
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Thank You Dr. Sibel Bargu Ates (Louisiana State University, College of the Coast & Environment, Department of Oceanography & Coastal Sciences), Shmuel Thaler (Staff Photographer, Santa Cruz Sentinel), Dr. Cheryl Baduini (Claremont), Frank Perry (Curator, Capitola Historical Museum), Georgia Chronopoulos (Covello & Covello Photography), Wyatt Young (Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History), Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Frank Gravier (Reference Librarian, Special Collections & Archives, McHenry Library, UC Santa Cruz), Erin Chapman, Josh Engel (Red Hill Birding), Jack Furtado
#AlfredHitchcock #TheBirds #SootyShearwaters #science #biology #ornithology #computerscience #computerprogramming #boids #math #naturalhistory #SantaCruz #1961 #movie #moviehistory #hitchcock #birds #mystery #edu #education #educational #sci #popularscience #FrasiertheSensuousLion #animalbehavior #popsci #science #zoo #zoos #curious #wildlives #wildlife #animal #animals #birdvideo #animalvideo #education #learning #edu #educational #biology #naturalhistory #alfred #allabout #birdfacts #craigreynolds #Ardennagrisea #birdflock #flock #starling #Murmuration #geese #whydobirdsflock #Canadagoose #Brantacanadensis #Sturnusvulgaris #frasier #santacruz #california #montereybay #history #californiahistory #moviehistory #bodegabay #birdsattack #kidscienceThis lion defied the laws of nature—and became an icon | L.A.‘s Lion King || Wild Lives Ep. 1Popular Science2020-08-27 | LION. KING. How a 19 year old lion fathered 35 cubs… in a year and a half. This is the wild story of a lion named Frasier—Frasier the Sensuous Lion—who became a science wonder the world over in 1972. After all, how many lions have movies and songs made about them because of never before seen animal behavior?
You see, Frasier defied what was previously known about lion breeding habits—any animal’s really. Did you say 35 cubs? In just 18 months? And, wait, how old?
Also, in this video: learn a math equation about how just one lion can take over Los Angeles and find out how zoos manage breeding programs today with their menagerie of creatures great and small.
► HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED about what makes an animal hibernate? PopSci formed an orchestra of hibernating animals to tell you about their winter's sleep: youtu.be/QYmNACCeeYg
► DID YOU KNOW the first underwater film ever recorded was lost to history until PopSci found it mislabeled in a Dutch archive? It's a story too strange to be fiction (and, yes, it involves a shark and a horse). Also, it's the first footage of a shark ever recorded: youtu.be/QPW9z7XNGBM
► DO YOU LOVE DOGS? WHAT ABOUT SPACE? Watch our video about Laika, our hero: youtu.be/77b7965hx8Y
* * * ABOUT WILD LIVES Popular Science’s WILD LIVES is a monthly series that dives like an Emperor penguin into some of the wildest stories and weirdest facts about, of course, wild animals (sometimes botanical wonders, too!). In their own words. Well, approximately their own words—they are wild animals after all.
CREDITS Video by: Tom McNamara Animation: Beth Wexler Narrator: Dave Pettitt Group Digital Director: Amy Schellenbaum Editor-in-Chief: Corinne Iozzio
Media 8mm home video of Lion Country Safari (Scott Stodard), “Frasier the Lovable Lion” (Frasier Productions, Inc., Sandler Films, Inc., Four Star International, Inc.), “Frasier (The Sensuous Lion)” (Sarah Vaughn and The Jimmy Rowles Quintet; 1974 Mainstream Records), Getty, “Here Comes the Circus” (1942), “I Love A Parade” (Looney Tunes, 1932), LIFE Magazine, Los Angeles Times, Orange County Archives, Prelinger Archive, Pixabay, “Who’s Who In The Zoo” (Federal Writers Project, 1937)
Music APM, Vik Sharma
Thank You Mary Ellen Amodeo, AZA Reproductive Management Center, Katie Belloff, Jess Boddy, Erin Chapman, Digitize NY, Sonia Epstein, Meg Lampert, Jason Lederman, Lion Center at the University of Minnesota, Lion Country Safari (Palm Beach County, Florida), Steve Oftelie, Dr. Craig Packer, Dr. David Powell, Pat, Donna and Todd Quinn, Saint Louis Zoo, Russ Smith, Scott Stodard, Species360, Zoological Association Of America
Facebook: http://fb.com/popsci Twitter: http://twitter.com/popsci Instagram: http://instagram.com/popsciA caffeine detox destroyed me || Test Dummy Ep. 3 || Popular Science (#stayhome and #learn #withme)Popular Science2020-04-14 | Caffeine is the most widely used psychoactive drug on the planet. Like all good things in this world, it should be consumed in moderation—but PopSci editors Jess Boddy and Claire Maldarelli were definitely not following that unwritten rule, guzzling between six and ten cups of coffee per day. That put them at risk for disrupted sleep, heart palpitations, unusual nervousness, and more. So they decided to detox. Will their torturous 14-day cut regulate their sleep patterns and teach them to respect caffeine for the powerful drug that it is? Find out on this week's episode of Test Dummy.
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#Popular Science (Magazine) #PopSci #popularscience #magazine #science #caffeine #coffee #blacktea #endorphins #detox #14daydetox #cleanse #sleep #insomnia #addiction #brainfog #memory #productivity #seltzer #anxiety #depression #neurotransmitters #beverages #wellness #blakelively #naomicampbell #tombrady #psychology #exercise #blackcoffee #yerbamate #kombucha #neuroscience #thebrain #fatigue #theflu #muscleaches #headache #migraine #withdrawal #caffeinewithdrawal #caffeinewithdrawalsymptomsMeditation apps: Do they work? || Test Dummy Ep. 2 || Popular Science (#stayhome and #learn #withme)Popular Science2020-04-07 | This week on Test Dummy, Jess attempts to lower her stress and chill out using the meditation app Headspace. Eleanor Cummins, a freelance science and technology writer (and meditation app expert), joins in to answer Jess' questions and try sleep meditation for the first time using Calm. Meditating every day—on Headspace or Calm, for instance—is supposed to help Jess and Eleanor become more mindful, improve their sleep, lower their blood pressure, and ultimately de-stress them. Together, the duo dive into peer-reviewed research and interview experts to find the truth: Will they be able to reach a new level of calm by meditating with the same iPhones that stress them out?
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#PopularScience(Magazine) #PopSci #popularscience #magazine #science #meditation #meditationsleep, #stress #calm #headspace #app #iphone #buddhism #meditate #relaxation #work #matthewmcconaughey #oprah #jenniferaniston #halleberry #moby #paulmccartney #richardgere #chill #mindfulness #workstress #brain #neuroscience #wellnessTheragun G3PRO: Does it work? || Test Dummy Ep. 1 || Popular Science (#stayhome and #learn #withme)Popular Science2020-03-31 | This week on Test Dummy, Jess takes the Theragun G3PRO for a spin. The percussive therapy device claims to improve muscle strength, flexibility and performance—but does it deliver? Teaming up with Associate Editor Claire Maldarelli—a seasoned marathon runner in training season—Jess digs into peer-reviewed research and speaks with experts to find the truth. Does the Theragun actually help muscles recover, or are Jess and Claire just experiencing the placebo effect? (This weird, wild, and wondrous video is a part of YouTube's #stayhome and #learn #withme initiative.)