There is some seriously GORGEOUS photography in this episode. I especially like how sometimes you can see the entire reflection of a flower inside just one dewdrop. Wow.
We evolved to see the "visible" range because that happens to be what the atmosphere lets through (plus a little UV and IR, but not much). If there was different light coming in, we'd probably have evolved different eyes. And it's impossible to imagine what that would look like. Just like to see what a blind person sees is to see what we see out of our elbow.
I almost heard: "as always, thanks for watching"
I'm not kidding, I actually heard as always, thanks for watching. I didn't even notice it until I read this comment.
Michael is not nearly religious as the Hanson Bros are ... I despise their smug attitude when facing religious ideologies head on . There is no god and the non-overlapping magisteria Bullshit is just that ... Bullshit . Respect is owed to human beings, not the ideas that pollute their brains .
The Hansons have extended respect to religious ideologies too many times . Evolution is an unguided process and purpose non-existent . Good clip today, though .
Yeah, I knew we couldn't imagine it ourselves but I maybe thought we had developed special cameras or cool filters that allowed us to see in different wavelengths. Thank you for getting back to me! Keep the videos coming, man.
This video was amazing. The shots of the flowers and bees were beyond beautiful, they almost looked like out of a pixar movie.
I love to learn, although I tend to resist the effort sometimes. Well done. I'm going to watch again. Didn't fully understand how they see the plants differently.
I'll double-check with my parents, but I am prettttty sure that's a no. Although they would make very cool brothers.
We can build devices to convert just about any wavelength to something we can see. But if we do that, are we really "seeing" the world that way? Or just seeing the world as we do now, only with a representation of the invisible?
Very interesting point about the electric charges between bees and flowers!
Exceptional upclose video of bees. I was amazed!
Dude, I love the fact that unlike many people from other channels, you're not talking in a super fast speed, don't use jumpcuts every three seconds and most importantly: you're not trying to be deliberately super cool and totally funny too hard. Screw the SciShow and Crash Course, I am subscribing to YOU!
what flower is that at 0:44 it grew by my old house in south oxnard and has the greatest sweetest smell of all flowers ive came across. ,
So when are the videos explaining how bees do the impossible, touch the untouchable, and break the unbreakable?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seta
Most of that can be explained by their hair, actually. It's easily of the more fascinating parts about them. Check out the article on synthetic setae too, there is some amazing stuff in there about Van Der Waals forces. It mainly applies to Geckos, but it shows that just because something is just tiny hairs doesn't mean it doesn't have some amazingly powerful function.
CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR PHD!
(I'm in the middle of mine, in MSE, so I can only imagine how awesome it feels to be done!)
You know you've reached beekeeper status when you can see mites on the bees in a PBS video. Hint it's at 55 seconds in.
Thank you Dr Joe. We're beekeepers. 2 questions: I'm wondering how many ways light pollution affects pollinators in general and migration of some pollinators like the monarch butterfly.
I don't think light pollution would affect pollinators since the sun would simply outshine all of it and as you probably know, bees don't like going out at night 😆
I loved this!!!! Thank you for teaching this. I loved watching it.
thank you so much, makes so much sense ..... big chunk of my puzzle your presentations are really good keep up the good work xx cheers
Awesome love this. Feel like we are just touching the surface to the hidden language of the word 👏👏👏
Excellent, I was doing a presentation v my students about bee vision.
so if bees see more than humans can, maybe that's why they never ever fly in a straight line; they're trying to fly around something so they don't run into it
Shush, Joe is awesome. =D He's not just the "host", It's Okay to be Smart is his blog name and has been for years.
Bee googles - see the world through the eyes of a bee, next beer googles - see...
Congrats on your Ph.D.! Keep these videos coming :D
Beautiful and informative as always.
It would be really cool to develop bee goggles so that we could see the world as a bee does!
So if sweat glows in uv, this is why bees Chase me when running
cool thing is that you can have a lens removed from your eye that allows your eye to see UV light, however it often is only done to protect vision and isn't something like plastic surgery
Never seen Joe this less energetic
The Last part was funny.lol.
The speed Hank talks, I wonder how horrendous a ScieShow outtake would be :o
Apparently, bees are also attracted to the symmetry of flowers, as that often means sweeter necter
Thank you for your good work and informations, I notice honey bees stop forage about 11 oclock , is that depend on UVA ?, its is about 10 at that times. thank you again.
thanks for teaching me
My best friend just finished her PhD in molecular biology as well! Congrats. Do you have any postdoc plans?
I know how mega useful bees are, but my question is what the hell is the point of wasps? They pretty much do the same thing, only wasps are nastier and don't produce honey, so what's the deal with wasps?
+ANIME-SITY Wasps have a job to do - and that's insect control !. Without them we'd be overrun by flies, spiders, and garden pests. Think of them as our insect predators - as valuable as our raptors, wolves, and lions are to keeping our ecosystems in balance.
So, the question I have, which I am having trouble finding an answer for, is does this make the flower more neutral? Or does it flip the charge completely? My students keep wanting it to be positive, but I don't think that sounds right.
Bees are wonderful species.
The bad language rating on that might be a little extreme. But I'd love to do that!
Good presentation.
Bees are amazing!
Congrats Dr!
Thanks for this one! Any chance you can do one on why it takes so long for our eyes to become adjusted to the dark?
CONGRADULATIONS!! YOU HAVE REACHED LEVEL FIVE BLUE WIZARD!
I rather thank GOD the creator for designing such wonderful creatures!
Can we get an "Outtakes of 'It's okay to be smart" video?
How incredible, I barely BEElieve 🐝😆 him
Dang, I didn't know about the electrostatics part. Thanks for teaching me something!
You like Carl Sagan AND He-Man. You Sir, have all the ingredients to be an awesome person!
Great Question, and Great answer Thankyou.
Very interesting, glad I subscribed when I did.
Huh. I have a bee that can't fly for 2 weeks now. I was wondering how she sees me. Thanks for this video. :-)
Congrats on the Doctorate!
Please ... their is definitely a creator behind this ... it could not be otherwise ...
Great information. Thanks
You said we would need the right pair of eyes to see the rest of the world. What would the world look like under different types of light aside visible light and UV light?
Congratulations Doctor !
100 i never see the unseen, but it is nice to get a taste....
No mention of the residence time of given molecules or atoms in the atmosphere. Some carbon dioxide molecules are taken up by plants and fixed into glucose molecules, later to by eaten by an animal (perhaps), then incorporated into a muscle cell, and later respired back into carbon dioxide by a bacterium decomposing the dead animal. And so on. Biogeochemical cycling occurs for all elements that are found in living organisms, and so each molecule in the atmosphere has a distinct average residence time in the atmosphere (and all of the other reservoirs for molecules in the biosphere).
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This is really getting me wanting to make uv photography!! Turns out its quite expensive with lots of technical jargen im not to familier with :/
does anyone know the name of that flower that blooms in this video?
wwwwwwwwooooowwwwww!!!!!
that's truly magnificent , Thanks a lot for the info.
Great Videos , Thanku for that. can please make video on Albert Einstein Statement on bees "If the Bee Disappeared Off the Face of the Earth, Man Would Only Have Four Years Left To Live "
That was beautiful.
Congratulations!!
~Fascinating! :) ~Thanks!
Holy hell 10 years ago!? Lol I need another update
Some make a bee simulator w/ jetpack & fuzzy costumes plz KthxBai :3
If bees and other insects see flowers differently than what they appear to humans, then why do orchids mimic the appearance of pollinator insects in a way that closely resembles those insects as humans see them?
I cannot find representations of, say, bees as they see themselves compared to how they see mimic orchids. I think that would be interesting to explore.
Because nature isn't perfect, and our eyes are amazing pattern recognition systems. They don't mimic the appearance in a way that closely resembles the way humans see, rather, humans see in a way that closely resembles other animals... except we have an extra color sensor that most mammals don't. Ever heard that Dogs are color blind? Well, that's half true. They're bichromatic. They only see Blue and Yellow. We see an extra color, which explains why flowers look just like their pollinators to our eyes.
So weird, nottinghamscience just had a mention of the same thing.
Also, subscribed
0:26 is that a giant microbe
What is the horn-like sound at 0:17?
How do we say that bees see in UV light when the ozone layer blocks most of it?
Can you use a household vacuum in a space vacuum
Mite @ 0:55
Poor thing.
great vid!!
make me wish i had a UV camera or something ,i would love to see just one flower from the prospective of the apis mellifera .
During the daytime when the bees 🐝 are out, I’ll be outside smoking 🚬 next to my hot tub. There’s a cover on and the air leaks out from inside. I can’t see it other than colder nights when it looks like smoke 💨 is leaking out.
I wonder what the bees 🌈 🐝 are seeing.?.
😇😁😁😁thank you so much for this video i need to stude on sicence his helped me a lot😀😇
My question is can an atom be both an ion and an irregular isotope at the same time? (I bet there's a cool explanation behind the answer.) (P.S., He MAN!)
Bees really like me for some reason
beautiful images :D
congrats!
Do bees ignore black because wasp are like where i go and they fly away so i wondering
Can you do video about lucid dreaming and or astral projection? I am really interested in that stuff
like your channel thanks a lot for sharing
Now I want a bee tattoo
Glory be to God all Mighty
Mustapha Berkani now, why would you say that on a science video?
Are you the long-lost brother of John and Hank Green?
nice :) tnx
How so? I think he's very likeable.
"Electric Velcro". That should be a band,
2 things 1 y did u not use the animation in claude mone haf honeybee? 2 would bees get killed when they got back to the hive, i mean, they r covred in food
it's ok to bee smart
I hope it's FSC-certified mahogany ;)
this video likes me because y my science class we learnd of living beings and we are in the part of insects =)
"think about how much of nature remains invisible, unless seen through the right eyes" is a very nice quote. makes me want to see from all creatures perspective, to truly experience life from all points of view.