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 When Will We Run Out Of Names?
by Vsauce 10:53 - 8,457,822 views Vsauce is nominated for a Webby in Science & Education! You can support learning online by voting for Vsauce or any of the FANTASTIC nominees here: http://pv.webbyawards.com/2015/online-film-video/video-channels-and-networks/science-education THANKS!! SOURCES: Name frequency in US: http://howmanyofme.com/ US Census data: http://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2000_surnames.html Band name frequency: http://gothamist.com/2010/02/17/a_tale_of_two_discoverys.php Books using same title: http://www.theguardian.com/global/2014/jun/27/are-authors-running-out-of-book-titles-kate-atkinson-stephen-king-muriel-spark-jk-rowling http://www.writersdigest.com/online-editor/can-you-use-a-book-title-thats-been-used-before Is choosing a band name becoming more difficult? http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/feb/17/fka-twigs-slaves-deers-band-name-shortage http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB20001424052748703357104575045584007339958 How many famous people are there? http://www.wired.com/2013/01/the-fraction-of-famous-people-in-the-world/ World population counter: http://www.census.gov/popclock/ What If? naming stars calculation: https://what-if.xkcd.com/23/ Online Disinhibition effect: http://users.rider.edu/~suler/psycyber/disinhibit.html http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10000872396390444592404578030351784405148 On the internet, nobody know’s you’re a dog: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_you%27re_a_dog [image] http://michaelmaslin.com/inkspill/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/dog-on-the-internet-by-peter-steiner.jpg Karma Court: http://www.reddit.com/r/KarmaCourt Proteus Effect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proteus_effect Proteus effect studies: https://vhil.stanford.edu/pubs/2013/fox-chb-sexualized-virtual-selves.pdf http://faculty.smu.edu/chrisl/courses/psyc5351/articles/blackuniforms.pdf When will we run out of social security numbers? http://www.mathiseasy.net/WillTheUSeverRunOutOfSocialSecurityNumbers.php Article about running out of usernames: http://kotaku.com/5924570/are-we-screwing-over-future-generations-by-taking-all-of-the-best-domain-names-and-gamertags music by http://www.youtube.com/JakeChudnow and http://www.audionetwork.com |
 Why Are Bad Words Bad?
by Vsauce 10:46 - 14,234,967 views Follow Michael Stevens for more: http://www.twitter.com/tweetsauce EXTRA INFO & LINKS BELOW! Music by http://www.youtube.com/JakeChudnow Marchex Institute study: http://blog.marchex.com/2013/05/15/marchex-data-reveals-ohioans-curse-the-most-in-the-country-washingtonians-the-least/ Canada's most vulgar city: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/01/23/canadas-most-vulgar-city_n_1224323.html "Bad" etymology: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=bad "Grawlixes": http://www.fastcodesign.com/1673017/quimps-plewds-and-grawlixes-the-secret-language-of-comic-strips Mort Walker - The Lexicon of Comicana: http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Lexicon-Comicana-Mort-Walker/dp/059508902X First use of grawlixes: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2457 Slate's Lexicon Valley: "A Brief History of Swearing": http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/lexicon_valley/2013/06/lexicon_valley_on_profanity_and_obscenity_with_holy_shit_a_brief_history.html 1 Kilohertz censor beep: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleep_censor Steven Pinker lecture: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S1d3cNge24 Swearing history: http://www.salon.com/2013/05/11/the_modern_history_of_swearing_where_all_the_dirtiest_words_come_from/ remembering taboo words: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?rep=rep1&type=pdf&doi=10.1.1.217.220 Swearing in the brain: http://blog.scienceinsociety.northwestern.edu/2013/02/a-special-place-in-the-brain-for-swearing/ http://www.howstuffworks.com/swearing4.htm no words should be banned? http://bigthink.com/against-the-new-taboo/no-words-should-be-banned Mythbusters' Swearing Test: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp5hNhHp3Ew Coprolalia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coprolalia Lalochezia: http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/lalochezia 7 dirty words: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_dirty_words Swearing is changing: http://www.thetakeaway.org/story/305603-swearing-changing-and-s-good-thing/ http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_good_word/2013/07/swear_words_old_and_new_sexual_and_religious_profanity_giving_way_to_sociological.html Swearing in the future: http://io9.com/http-0-media-cdn-foolz-us-ffuuka-board-tg-image-1374-1463056139 Swearing behaviour on Twitter: http://www.business2community.com/infographics/swearing-behavior-twitter-comedic-value-big-data-infographic-0616586 McKay Hatch - The No Cussing Club: http://nocussing.com/ N.W.A. F*ck Tha Police: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2YgZX9Thm0 |
 This Is Not Yellow
by Vsauce 7:9 - 19,127,035 views Click this link to subscribe to Vsauce for more! It's FREE! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=vsauce Michael Stevens on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/Tweetsauce Jake's channel: http://www.youtube.com/jakechudnow Pizza trails: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2161488/Secret-corpse-flights-pizza-boy-delivery-routes-daily-commute-Stunning-aerial-images-reveal-seen-America.html and frog horse: http://educ.jmu.edu/~johns2ja/illusion/froghorse.gif Food patterns: http://www.ignant.de/2012/05/11/cookie-connection/ Cool submission on color visio and real vs. "fake" color: http://www.reddit.com/r/woahdude/comments/ygmi4/lasers_exploding_rocks_on_mars_to_look_at_their/ How LCD screens show color: http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/lcd5.htm Best LCD explanation video on YouTube (sub to this guy ftw): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiejNAUwcQ8 Electric vs Process yellow: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow#Electric_yellow_vs._process_yellow Cone cells: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cone_cell Lemon battery: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_battery Electricity from apples ART: http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2012/08/photographer-caleb-charland-wires-apple-trees-fruit-baskets-and-stacked-coins-to-create-alternative-batteries/ Apple LED VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcNKtjCA3Jc Steven Shaheen light bulb people: http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/stephen-shaheen-headlight Merve Kahraman's revitalizer wax lamp: http://www.ignant.de/2012/08/22/revitalizer/ Fukusada wodden light bulb: http://hypenotice.com/design/wooden-light-bulb-by-fukusada/10/ Tang Yau Hoong: http://tangyauhoong.tumblr.com Frame climbing wall: http://www.ignant.de/2012/08/23/alice-climbing-wall/ Minimal LEGO art: http://wildammo.com/2012/03/19/when-lego-meets-minimalistic-cartoon-characters/#7 couple and hidden baby: http://educ.jmu.edu/~johns2ja/illusion/baby.jpg Zebras and lions: http://educ.jmu.edu/~johns2ja/illusion/illusions0908/rust_hiddenlion.jpg clever billboard ad: http://wildammo.com/2011/07/08/creative-and-amusing-ads-on-buildings/ xkcd "When Will We Forget?" http://laughingsquid.com/charting-the-years-that-young-people-will-start-to-forget-things/ Year book face: http://theclearlydope.tumblr.com/post/28452072426/this-school-is-beautiful tesselation: http://educ.jmu.edu/~johns2ja/illusion/catbird.gif *BONUS* crayon pixel art: http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/thousands-of-crayons-form-pixelated-portraits |
 What Color Is A Mirror?
by Vsauce 5:2 - 15,282,997 views Follow Michael Stevens: https://twitter.com/tweetsauce LEARN MORE and, in order of appearence: Watch Molly dance! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jljYAXLaus Javier: http://www.youtube.com/user/werevertumorro Loka: http://www.youtube.com/user/LeMondedeLoka Great web exhibit on the causes of color: http://www.webexhibits.org/causesofcolor/ "color" vs "colour": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_spelling_differences#-our.2C_-or Study on mirror color: http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA523782 Bad Astronomy on Mirror-color: http://www.badastronomy.com/mad/1996/mirror.html Great series of mirror tunnels: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikedefiant/452440663/in/photostream/ Origins of color terms: http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/colour.htm Origin of "black": http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=black&allowed_in_frame=0 xkcd's color survey: http://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/ Tyndall Effect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyndall_effect More on scattering: http://www.itp.uni-hannover.de/~zawischa/ITP/scattering.html A CRAZY bird that uses interference on its feathers to look awesome: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS1tEnfkk6M Peacocks also use interference: http://www.webexhibits.org/causesofcolor/15C.html Fantastic Radio Lab about color terms: http://www.radiolab.org/2012/may/21/sky-isnt-blue/ Straight Dope on the history of color terms: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/449/could-early-man-only-see-three-colors Mirror GIF: http://gifninja.com/animatedgifs/104659/where-is-everybody.gif my favorite color illusion: http://www.archimedes-lab.org/color_illusory_motion.html *************** http://www.Twitter.com/Tweetsauce http://www.Facebook./com/VsauceGaming Vsauce Tshirts: http://www.districtlines.com/vsauce music by: http://www.Soundcloud.com/JakeChudnow |
 Is Your Red The Same as My Red?
by Vsauce 9:35 - 21,914,098 views Subscribe to Vsauce: http://bit.ly/POIaN7 Follow Michael Stevens: http://www.twitter.com/tweetsauce http://facebook.com/VsauceGaming All music by Jake Chudnow: http://www.youtube.com/jakechudnow Tommy Edison (Blind guy on YouTube): http://bit.ly/rjyX7q Color Blindness: http://www.colourblindawareness.org/colour-blindness/ and http://colorvisiontesting.com/what%20colorblind%20people%20see.htm Qualia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia We experiences are subjective: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjective_character_of_experience Explanatory Gap: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explanatory_gap Mary's Room and the Knowledge Argument: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_argument Who Asked the First Question? [PDF]: http://www.polyphony.ge/uploads/whoaskthefirst.pdf Theory of Mind and Sally-Anne Task: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_mind Koko the talking gorilla [VIDEO]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pmuu8UEi2ko Questioning Behaviour: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Question Synesthesia coupled with color blindness: http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Synesthesia#A_color_blind_synesthete.3B_.22Martian_colors.22 Do blind people DREAM images? http://www2.ucsc.edu/dreams/Library/kerr_2004.html |
 8 Surprising Facts
by Vsauce 3:16 - 4,732,428 views START the Leanback HERE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMGnVqQx-aw&list=PL1ED3DD7FFE1BA7B1&feature=plpp_play_all TWITTER: http://www.twitter.com/tweetsauce FACEBOOK: http://www.Facebook.com/VsauceGaming Halo Infographic: http://www.bungie.net/stats/reach/online.aspx Mass Murderer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_murder Serial Killer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_killer Other facts from this great book: http://www.amazon.com/Your-Pinkie-More-Powerful-Thumb/dp/0062008358 |
 EPIC LEAPS.
by Vsauce 8:8 - 2,140,075 views follow @tweetsauce NEW extreme sports channels with special messages for Vsauce: RIDEchannel (Tony Hawk): http://bit.ly/xxao37 AlliSports: http://bit.ly/wwdKqB NetworkA: http://bit.ly/A8vwRc ALL MUSIC COURTESY http://www.soundcloud.com/JakeChudnow History of the Motorcycle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorcycle First FMX back flip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUAt5WwtaX0 First motocross TRIPLE back flip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eTMDkbS0fc Back flips limit calculation: http://extremesportsphysics.blogspot.com/2007/07/fmx-backflips-limit-14.html Swing Physics: http://www.exploratorium.edu/skateboarding/trick04.html Center of mass Magic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgANeYMT8X8 Outrun avalanche: http://extremesportsphysics.blogspot.com/2007/10/popscis-extreme-sports-error.html snowboard with avalanche video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P_kza7pJFM gees felt by snowboarder: http://extremesportsphysics.blogspot.com/2007/10/anatomy-of-monster-aerial.html shuttle launch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FROxZ5i67k 400,000g bacteria: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/04/110425-gravity-extreme-bacteria-e-coli-alien-life-space-science/ gees snowboard pic: http://www.flickr.com/photos/glennybig/470051575/sizes/z/in/photostream/ Euthanasia Coaster: http://www.julijonasurbonas.lt/p/euthanasia-coaster/ Kittenger SPACE JUMP: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90Y0_iJrRl0 REDBULL Space Jump: http://www.redbullstratos.com/ |
 What is Cool?
by Vsauce 5:30 - 3,516,069 views Secret Skrillex Show: http://bit.ly/ySRFRu MIA Bad Girls Music Video: http://bit.ly/yJA94B MIA comment response: http://bit.ly/ADLydA "Fat people shouldn't make music": http://bit.ly/x2u2XK music by http://www.soundcloud.com/JakeChudnow Learn Links: Timeline of cool: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f5/Cool_Timeline2.png Mona Lisa and Sprezzatura: http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/samples/har051/2001024956.html Mona Lisa's copy: http://www.iheartchaos.com/post/16950614461/it-turns-out-that-the-mona-lisa-has-a-twin-sister Cool as rebellion: http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/p/pountain-cool.html Lester Young: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lester_Young Cool and social acceptance in the brain: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070412115231.htm cool-hunting: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cool/etc/hunting.html swag: http://theinvisibleagent.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/chicago1941.jpg |
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