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[nofatclips-home]

BrainCraft discussing Max Richter’s Sleep

[nofatclips]

The curse of knowledge or: why people send terrible emails

[scishow]

We collaborated with BrainCraft to discuss how well people know themselves! It turns out how we assess ourselves doesn't often line up with how we objectively perform

[braincraft]

NEW VIDEO – A New Dizziness Experiment To Try At Home!

This episode looks at some biology of why we feel dizzy (hi there, inner ears!) and and how you can spin in three different ways to experience three distinct feelings of dizziness. Through an experiment, we explore which type of dizziness would allow you to still complete a very important task, i.e. hitting a piñata. What's the best way to hit a piñata? We uncover some scientific party skills in this very important episode.

[thylacine-dreams]

How Evolution Turned A Possum Into A Wolf

Special thanks to Vanessa from BrainCraft for help with this video! Check out her channel: https://www.youtube.com/braincraft ↓↓↓ More info and sources below...

Here’s a bit of a silly video about thylacines and convergent evolution, featuring the beautiful AMNH female thylacine mount.

[pbsdigitalstudios]

In Psychology there’s this bias called the IKEA Effect – where people place a higher value on items they build themselves compared to items they did not construct.

[4-your-brain]

These Tiny Cells Shape Your Life | BrainCraft

Like an octopus at a buffet, the branches of microglia are constantly surveying your brain looking for bits of synapses to nibble on.

For more follow | 4 your brain |

[satnpifi]

One day the women behind CRISPR CAS9 will get the Nobel prize

One of the codiscovers of CRISPR CAS9, Emmanuelle Charpentier, was a guest professor at my old university: Umeå University. Everyone thinks she and her colleges should have a bottle of Champagne ready every fall when the Nobel prize is adnuns.

Interesting it’s not the only CRISPR CAS9 related reason my university has been in the news. A plant scientist on the university,  Stefan Jansson, got some attention when he eat some CRISPR edit cabbage. That’s fun. Look here if you want to hear english with both his Swedish accent and the australian accent of Braincrafts Vanessa Hill.