Taxonomy, a method for naming living things and sorting them into groups, is a powerful tool and one that modern biology wouldn’t be able to function without. But trying to shoehorn the messy, complicated web of interrelationships that is biology into neat boxes has resulted in a pretty messy tree of life. And straightening it out is going to take a lot of time and effort. SciShow host Olivia Gordon explains.
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Based on what we know about physics, the universe as we know it should not exist. Scientists posit that it should of been destroyed not long after it was formed. As to why it wasn’t, stands as one of the biggest unsolved mysteries in science. Host Hank Green of SciShow explains.
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Since the early 1990s, scientists manned with powerful telescopes have discovered close to 3,500 exoplanets and research suggests that every star has at least one planet. So it appears that our solar system is not that special. Or are we?
It seems that mysteries abound in our solar system and out of thousands of other systems, none look quite like ours. For starters, the size of planets don’t vary in size in one system. From tiny Mercury to monstrous Jupiter, the planets in our system vary wildly.
In addition, other system have at least one Super Earth–an Earthlike planet with slightly more mass. There is no such object in our solar system. So our solar system has left us with an abundance of mysteries. Fortunately, we are starting to get to the bottom of them thanks to computer simulations. SciShow Space host Reid Reimers helps unravel the mystery.
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The DNA in our cells have a finely tuned sense of aesthetics, so much so that they are almost exclusively right-handed. This biological preference in the DNA helix is strict and oddly holds in all lifeforms. Science has determined that the phenomenon is due to the DNA building blocks, or nucleotides. But the more conclusive answer may have come from space. SciShow host Michael Aranda explains.
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Today marks a milestone in the history of Call Me Stormy. We have now published 10,000 posts.
Actually 9,998 posts as of today, while hitting 10,000 tomorrow.
To celebrate, we present the five most popular posts in the history of our blog, which we launched back in 2012. We always present hard-hitting political posts, but guess what? None of the most popular pieces we have run involve politics. Instead, they cover a stranger melange of topics: sex, pets, an anal examination, bizarre creatures and subway gangs.
Without further ado, here are the top five.
No. 1 from Sep. 2, 2012
Women Press to Go Topless
Reason.TV offers coverage of a topless protest in Washington, DC. The video has nearly 500,000 views and Stormy readers have supplied 1,613 of those.
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No. 2 from March 9, 2015
Man’s Best Friend a Mystery
This video came from the SciShow and explores three weird things that domestication did to dogs. It has received about 1.2 million views overall and Stormy readers accounted for about 1,000 of those views.
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No. 3 from Sep. 3, 2013
Jeff Foxworthy’s 1st Colonoscopy
The comedian gets laughs with a tale of his first colonoscopy. This video has been seen nearly 850,000 times and, again, our readers account for roughly 1,000 of those views.
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No. 4 from Sep. 8, 2014
Bizarre Creatures Still Abound
This video originated with the Hybrid Librarian, identifying 10 mysterious lifeforms that baffle scientists. It’s generated more than one million views, and just shy of 1,000 on Stormy.
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No. 5 from Aug. 3, 2015
Mexico City’s Subway Gangs
Vice produced this look at youth gangs that ride the subway system in Mexico City. It’s been a popular video for Vice — nearly 2 million views — and equally popular for our readers.
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That’s it — for now! We promise to return with an update once we’ve run 20,000 videos. That will be a few years, though, so don’t sit around waiting for it!
While science still struggles to explain strange lights in the sky, the UFO phenomenon and frequent sightings of mythical creatures, it appears there is some headway being made in other areas. SciShow’s Hank Green tells us of six previous mysteries that science has solved, including the Kentucky meat shower and Easter Island statues.
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Have you ever wondered what dinosaur meat might have tasted like? Chances are you’ve eaten dinosaur more recently than you might expect. More from the SciShow.
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Although humans have done a decent job of exploring, discovering and mapping every inch of our planet above water, we still don’t have a clue about our massive oceans, which cover 70 percent of Earth. In this episode of SciShow, host Hank Green discusses seven topics about the oceans that remain a total mystery.
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With the proliferation of nuclear weapons on the planet, do we have the ability to destroy ourselves? SciShow host Hank Green says that the entire nuclear arsenal on Earth, mostly concentrated in the United States and Russia, is about 7,000 megatons, which is puny on a universal scale and when compared to natural forces. Granted, if all these weapons were detonated, there would be severe damange to deal with. “But the Earth is pretty sturdy and people are pretty good at surviving,” Green says.
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In a stunning discovery, NASA announced there is sometimes flowing water on Mars, or at least liquid, hydrated perchlorate salts. While NASA welcomes the surprise news, there are many questions to be answered, such as where did the water come from? Is it salty like saltwater? And what exactly does this discovery mean? Hank Green attacks these questions in this edition of SciShow.
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