There was a "joke paper" regarding informatics: IP over Avian Carriers (IPoAC). Some bored guys made a protocol for transferring data with homing pigeons. It actually worked, they tested it in the real world.
@@philipoakley5498 Actually, the original RFC was RFC 1149, RFC 2549 was an update with QoS added, though unfortunately the highest level QoS are no longer available after the Concorde airplanes were taken out of service.
Internet RFCs have a long history of April 1 publications. One dear to my own addictions is RFC 2324, "Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol". It and other friends like RFC 1149 are not fake, though their actual value in application may be considered dubious by some.
My cat cannot agree with me on anything. The little narcissist ignores every point I try to make. I will never attempt another co-authorship with that damn ignorant pussy.
YES - Sabine didn't chicken out on the chicken joke and chickened it all the way through. So many others are "too cool" to do something like that, you're the best.
Funny how Sabine didn't mention a biggy like 'Global Cooling' though.. Serotonin levels affecting depression is another huge one that should be on the list, improved metastudies are showing. It's just amazing how many scientists, doctors and intellectuals fall for these MASS SCI-HOAXES...... The effectiveness of the Covid vax is certainly up there too... Soon The Majority will stop believing Science as it is so full of HOAXERS, Globally Warmed Neo Peeps... and don't get me started on the FUSION POWER HOAXERS...
I’m just glad that there are 500,000 people that wanna know how to follow the science and not just use the evening news as their source for their science
Sabin's paper on the expansionof the universe was rejected because it didnt state how the research would effect BIPOC and trans people. This really happened. She deleted the tweet and never spoke of it again or else she would be fired.
As we can see the "science" is full of papers with erroneous, factually incorrect, and agenda driven conclusions. Science is only as good as the honesty with which it is written .
This woman is a certified specialist on deadpan humor. I swear I've heard her utter the funniest fucking lines ever without as much as flinching. Love her.
I love her smile and sense of humor. She is so stoic in emotion, when she smiles it looks like she has to try really hard to force her face muscles to smile. Lol. Makes her jokes subtle and wonderful.
I'm happy to be a subscriber Sabine. You're one of the main science channels I enjoy watching in the quieter moments of the week, along with Anton Petrov and a few others.
Brilliant! Well-deserved and hard-won milestone for Sabine's channel. Godspeed to 1 million. Illuminating the ease by which junk science can find its way into the public dialogue (typically, in the daily "news") is a job well done, much thanks to Sabine for that aspect of this edition. Cheers.
13:25 It seems as if you should REMOVE the graphene and INCREASE the QoC (Quantity of Crap), resulting in an INFINITE ratio of Crap to Graphene. This is probably GUARANTEED to result in a new and creative vein of thought.
My favourites were the room temperature one and the “Will Any Crap We Put into Graphene” made me belly laugh out loud. Congrats on the subscriber numbers.
Cold-fusion is the old classic. It doesn't bother me that Sabine didn't go into it, there's enough out there already. Also, a video on it would probably attract a parade of nutjobs calling her a hater and completely hijacking the comments section. It doesn't bother them that it's been around for 35 years and hasn't convincingly powered so much as a desk lamp.
Your talks are often beyond me. I'm abysmally bad at maths and at any subject that needs mathematical ability. But I keep on looking at your talks since some are understandable even to me. This one for instance is a scream: your deadpan delivery when listing those gems adds to the fun!
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I really like watching your channel. I also really appreciate that the closed captioning on this channel doesn't censor what you actually said, at least in this video. I have an auditory processing disorder, so I can hear, but don't always process the information quickly/correctly and so have closed captioning on. Usually TH-cam censors any curse words which sometimes has me missing the meaning. Once again, I really enjoy and appreciate your content... 😊
I hear you on that one. 😏 If I can't read lips and body language, or captions, I keep having to back up a bit every few minutes to listen again. My hearing is very sharp, but listening and interpreting without a visual component can be slow. I never understood it 🤷🏽♂️
I too appreciate the closed captioning because of my auditory processing disorder. It's called old age, or "Reduction in acuity of processing of auditory information due to advanced chronological status of the listening subject."
Reminds me of papers presented at the Ignoble, thought-provoking but funny titles or sometimes outright silly work. Congrats on the half a million subscribers Sabine.
The worst fake papers in physics, I believe, were: 1) Jan Hendrik Schon, more than 20 years ago, which kept publishing paper after paper about some extraordinary findings regarding semiconductor properties. It went on for years before somebody discovered he had faked the data to fit the expectations. 2) Pons and Fleischmann in 1989. I recall I was so excited all night, until in the morning I run some back-of-the-envelope calculations about nucleus sizes, the reach of the residual strong force outside the protons, and the spacing of the hydride lattice - the numbers weren't not even remotely compatible. It took weeks before their "cold fusion" experiment was deemed an hoax...
Congratulations Sabine on a well deserved achievement. You're a wonderful science educator and what you do DOES matter in this age of misinformation and overall haziness around scientific accuracy.
I remember presenting and proving the Trapezoidal Theorem for integration for my High School Calculus class. I had no idea I could have written a paper on it and had it published in a journal. Major mistake on my part. Oh well...
You should live here and go to the "altsdadt" in the weekend, or to some "kneippe". Then you would change idea about Germans. As I did when I moved here in Germany.
She is so funny that one can get addicted to her brilliant videos in which she explains whatever she wants to be understood by her viewers in a excellent way.
I was already laughing when Dr H started in on "chicken-chicken-chicken" and thought I was losing my mind. One day later, 519K subscribers, looks like acceleration... Congratulations Sabine!!!
I mean postmodernist approach gets you places among supporters, if subtle enough. Look at the Kremlin black-propaganda machine under control of Roskomnadzor. Pure postmodern info-hell..
This has been SO fun to watch, Sabine! Thank you for helping me smile through a really, really rough time in my life. It means a whole _~bleeping~_ lot! ❤️❤️
OK, OK, I kept a straight face right up until the 'reduce room temperature to enable superconductivity at room temps' bit, very funny. But I could have told you all this back in 1981 from studying psychology. I occasionally had to go the the library to do real research just to disprove the most stupid of my lectures on things like the apes that were allegedly taught to speak using American Sign Language, and 'memory' lectures that literally meant nothing, and could be safely and instantly forgotten.
@@Brucebod - no, but I learnt my lesson early by refuting my (only supplementary subject) sociology lecturers in the most flagrant grand style in my first year exams. They failed me and was told 'one retake only, and if you do not pass you are out'. So, I was super-cautious in my psych finals and got top marks on those papers by presenting 'both sides of the case'. Live and learn boyo, live and learn
For many years I believed that apes could learn to speak ASL. It was taught as fact from my childhood to very recently; I saw video and everything. I think it was only within the last year that I heard someone express serious doubt about it, and that was all it took to get me to _really think_ about it and conclude that they almost certainly can't. This is a good example of a failure to be rational and listen to nagging doubts, because it had always seemed strange to me that apes had the ability to learn sign language but didn't have a sign language of their own in the wild. My best guess was that language wasn't very useful to them in the wild -- ah, but then why have the ability? My best guess was that the ability was a side effect of some other mental ability which _was_ vital in the wild. And I had read about Clever Hans. And I _still_ didn't take that last step and realize that Koko the Gorilla was a latter-day Clever Hans. The only thing I can say to my own credit is that once I saw that what I had believed wasn't true and that I'd been a fool, I accepted that news easily and didn't blow a lot of smoke.
The room temperature superconductor paper reminded me of a lecture series I used to give about the advisability of patriarchal dominated HVAC systems. I only wish they had followed up with a paper on the fallacy of applying small scale thermodynamic results in open world situations.
Half a million subscribers? No more than you deserve. Early, pleasant experiences left me predisposed to listening to very smart women telling me new things, and you are an early (and continued) favorite. Thank you; please continue.
Congratulations on reaching this milestone! I just want to mention George Gamov's paper with his student Alpher In the category of nerd jokes. Being ever the practical joker, Gamov asked his friend Hans Bethe to agree to be listed as a co-author (which he agreed, being a good sport, even though he hadn't contributed) so the paper came out as being authored by Alpher, Bethe, Gamov (like alpha, beta, gamma). Alpher wasn't thrilled to be reduced to 1/3 contributor, which is totally understandable.
Worth mentioning also is that a famous PhD student of Gamov is Vera Rubin, well known nowadays for her work on galaxy rotation rates that led to the dark matter hypothesis.
Thank you for the laughs!!!!! I am going through a journey with pancreatic cancer and came across your TH-cam channel. Now, I find myself binge watching your channel. I understand some of what you "teach", as for roughly 50 years I have worked as a Surgical Technician, and am a retired Army Combat Medic. So, my background helps me to follow along. Thanks
Thanks so much, Sabine! I'm enjoying your new book, and I heard your interview in NPR last week. This video was very funny, and of course, we all love your sense of humor!
Congratulations, well done. Sometimes the fun aspect in stem areas works differently. I submitted a paper to a journal proposing the use of non contact ultrasound to avoid using large quantities of ultrasound gel. It was rejected as one reviewer was concerned about how much gel we were using. The review process can be a source of comedy, but I wonder if this will affect the view of the general public. STEM has taken a reputational hit during these times.
Congrats on reaching 500K, have another one. I recommend a book called A Random Walk In Science, compiled by Robert L. Weber, originally published in 1973 with numerous reprints since then. It contains, among many other interesting things, articles on mathematical and scientific approaches to big game hunting, theoretical zipperdynamics, and a proof that heaven is hotter than hell.
I just subscribed like 3 days ago so I'm glad to have been able to take part in you reaching this milestone congratulations this is a great channel and I really love how you present things
@@SabineHossenfelder I wasn't sure how else to ask you this, so I am doing it here: Do you think you can do a video regarding the stories currently going around the internet about the "big bang not happening", due to recent papers on the JWST images? I am curious to hear your perspective on this. Thanks!
OMG the room temperature superconductor joke got me laughing so hard I had to stop the video for a couple minutes! I was laughing even before you said the punchline as soon as I saw the photo! Who said science doesn't have a sense of humor? Sure, the jokes are few and far between. And some of them require a deep understanding of the science. Most are technically inside jokes. But still, they are so funny! Thank you for making my morning! Congratulations on the sub milestone!
0:22 I think the real accomplishment is that you were genuinely smiling before you said "and that's what we'll talk about today" (I mean that in good faith)
Absolutely brilliant, madam! I stumbled across your channel some months ago and have enjoyed many, many videos since. This one was a real gem, and a worthy celebration of your channel's milestone. See you at the million mark!
You are such a perfect teacher. People like you make learning on TH-cam a joyful experience, in contrast with regular study methods. And one has to wonder, how much waste of time are most school compared to this nowadays.
Even though she has some difficulty in speaking English clearly , she has an incredible sexiness to add to her obvious intelligence and common sense That makes her slightly higher in my estimation than Jordan Peterson but it is a close run thing. Some clever scientist should be able to calculate the difference in a thousand years or so. What amazes me is that only I have actually noticed this when there is such obvious evidence and it is far clearer that climate change could ever be! Has the world gone mad,? Or should I ask , Madder?
Congratulations on 500k subscribers! May there be many more. One of my favorite papers is "On the Rheology of Cats" by M. A. Fardin, _Rheology Bulletin,_ 83(2) July 2014.
Firstly, of course congrats on the 500k+! Secondly, your video caused me to set a reminder to go back and double check the dates on various papers I've downloaded from arXiv... Tend to look at categories and download stuff that might be interesting to read later, now worried some of them may have been published 31/3-1/4. 😅
I have heard about the medical paper about the integration before. It still blows my mind today seeing it get so many citations xD Apparently, this is what happen when human first discover fire. Also, the last one is my fav one. It's so ingenious putting your cat as the co author, as to reiterate your paper line by line till you went crazy 🤣 And finally, happy 500k subscribers Dr. Hossenfelder! Totally deserve it 🔥
There has been a text generator for post modern literature of the Sokal style for a long time. You can now use it to seed GPT-3 and generate your non sense essays.
I'd much be interested in videos on Ignobel prize papers - My favourites being 'On the Rheology of Cats' and 'On the Reception and Detection of Pseudo-profound Bullshit'.
There was a kid in the pacific north west of the US that won a high school science fair project about the dangerous chemical "di hydro monoxide " .This caused a big panic ,laws passed against it ,etc . He then pointed out it is WATER .
The Question is: Who is running these BS papers and more importantly: How do we get rid of them? PS: Congrats Sabine. Keep this channel up and honest, and you'll grow to 5 mil.
I took part in a brain study by an international group of psychiatrists using MRI back in 2009. By "part of" I mean replaced a lab monkey since the university no longer allowed experiments on animals. Yes, it's a bit embarrassing but you should have seen what the lab rat replacement had to do.
Congratulations on your milestone! My old favorites were Isaac Asmiov's Thiotimeoline (Wiki has an article), and the Turbo Encabulator - both terribly silly for their intended audiences.
Sabine you are one of the most respected scientists a life, to my knowledge cause I love honesty and your honesty and wisdom are equally respected by me.
Even if you never get to read this, I absolutely love this channel! I love the way you talk, your sense of humour and delivery on jokes and most of all, not just the quality of video and science you bring, but also how interesting you make the topics (even if the title alone doesn't always grab me) I hope you keep making wonderful videos!
An other favorite is the inclusion of Lorito's Steinlaus in the Pschyrembel Medical Dictionary in Germany many years ago. The follow up edition removed the entry, leading to much protest. It has been included ever since.
2:36..."she actually wasn't the first to have the idea"🤣🤣🤣🤣 i love this kind of subtle irony, let's call it british style humour understatement. i remember a fellow student of mathematics coming to me, being very desperate. i asked her, what's wrong. she showed me some of her work, applying math in medicine, using some sigma-letters as sum signs. i told her that i consider her work to be very clever. but her mentor, a doctor of medicine asked her: "what kind of signs are that?" she told him about mathematical sum signs. he didn't understand it immediately, didn't want to understand it either and said: "we have no sum signs in medicine. try it using the normal plus sign" 🤣🤣🤣.
Congratulations on half a million subs, a well-deserved result of your brilliantly educational efforts. It's more than a bit sad that in the 21st century I still feel an urge to underline the following: the world needs to get rid of all superstitions, prejudices and nonsense that keep women away from science. I'm saying this because I am absolutely convinced you are very positively contributing to this end and am truly happy for it. Now on to a million and beyond!
Yeah, but the whole thing about how "this proves woke culture has gone too far!" is complete horse crap. They submitted far more papers that were NOT published before getting a few published, and even then only after toning down their language and obfuscating the point. And then a year before they were even done with their "experiment" and had intended to reveal the hoax, someone in the field immediately recognized that something wasn't right about these papers, and they were outed. So it seems like the system KIND of WORKS: the submission process filtered out most of the crap, and then the rest was caught within months and retracted. Compare that to computer science, where three MIT kids got tons of hoax papers published that were written by an algorithm that were FAR more spurious, and yet they weren't caught out for years. Or the physicist who published a fraudulent paper in semiconductors and could have been up for a Nobel Prize before being finally caught years later. Can we really say this is a problem specific to "woke" social science publications? It's not hard to publish a fraudulent paper if you're trying hard enough, and that's not great. And it's fun to have it pointed out again. But it has nothing to do with "woke" culture and isn't specific to gender critical studies or whatever Boghossian's team was trying to imply. And the proof there is that they didn't even TRY to use a control group. They only submitted woke-leaning papers. They didn't try submitting anti-SJW gobbledygook papers, much less neutral papers or papers in other fields, to see if they TOO would have been accepted at a similar rate (I bet they would have!). If they were truly concerned with making sure studies about race and gender "get it right" then they would have looked at it from all sides.
Congratulations on 500K! Thanks for your amusing and cautionary video. It sent me on a search through storage boxes and book shelves until I found my 7 original past copies of the Journal of Polymorphous Perversity, printed by Wry-Bred Press, which "is devoted to the publication of humorous and satirical works in the fields of Psychology, Psychiatry, and the closely allied disciplines." I got these from my father who was not a scientist but was very interested in and read about most branches of science, and also had a great sense of humor, both of which I inherited from him. I have one issue from 1986, Spring, (giving away my age here), with a REAL ad for Stelazine injectable "controls psychotic symptoms fast" (!) on the inside and outside back cover , one from 1988, 1989 and both from 1990 and 1991. The Spring 1989 edition reprints an article from the New York Times, Jan. 22, 1989, "A Freudian Spoof is Slipped Past Many Scholars" by Daniel Goleman. A historian at Yale University wrote a spoof article about Freud that was published in 1981 in Harper's magazine, (for the general public) that was supposed to have been a contemporary review of "The Interpretation of Dreams". It was quoted in one scholarly article and pored over by Freud scholars until the hoax was uncovered. So you Ph.D.s have been messing each other and the literature at least since 1981, but I always enjoy seeing a scientist or professor with a sense of humor, it goes so much against the stereotype. I enjoy your videos, what I understand of them (not a physicist here), and seeing your sense of humor. Best of luck as you go for one million! I've got some reading to do. (edit for spelling)
I think amusing science titles are the way forward. At two recent work presentations for my specialism on odours in wastewater treatment, they have been titled "In the air tonight" and "Recognising odours: I'll be your sommelier". If anyone else can think of a good presentation title on wastewater odours that is more subtle than "the smell of shite", I may use your idea in the next one
Laugh out loud hilarious !! What an excellent way to celebrate a well deserved milestone !! Please consider monetizing your reading of the "chicken" paper as a ringtone !! I couldn't stop laughing at your narration !!
Congratulations on 500k. You have earned it. Science with the gobbledygook hahaha! You're probably a really good physicist ( I'm assuming. I am not qualified to tell.) You're an amazing science communicator. I always feel like I understand things better after watching your videos. With a true understanding. Not one where there is any woo woo mysticism. I finally understood electron orbitals for what they truly represent and what that means after one of your videos (Or was that Matt over on Space Time?) Any way you're awesome. Thanks for your no nonsense videos. Thanks for your funny videos. Thanks for doing what you do you educate and make a difference. I'll be watching and expecting something super special when you hit 1 mill!
I noticed that not so long ago Matt from SpaceTime mentioned her and in one of his videos and even referred/linked to watch it! That was so cool to see.
@@Michael-kp4bd Yeah it was the episode about super determinism. Sabina is a big fan. There is presentation she did on TH-cam as well as her own video she did not long ago. I've actually seen her mentioned in a few places recently. It's about time they recognize in my opinion.
I have a cat and I am a writer and I am now convinced that this is a whole new field of opportunity for my kind of mischief making! PS: I find you to be very attractive also.
Sabine Hossenfelder, you are brilliant! Your videos are very informative and straigh to the point without unneccesary distraction. It seems you also assume a certain level of general intelligence in your viewers, covering advanced topics without needing to baby explain everything to an insulting level as some do. I look foreward to seeing more of your content. SUBSCRIBED.
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There was a "joke paper" regarding informatics: IP over Avian Carriers (IPoAC). Some bored guys made a protocol for transferring data with homing pigeons. It actually worked, they tested it in the real world.
RFC 2549 !
That's not a scientific paper I would think but an IETF RFC? Joke RFC have a massive tradition behind them.
@@SianaGearz I stand corrected.
@@philipoakley5498 Actually, the original RFC was RFC 1149, RFC 2549 was an update with QoS added, though unfortunately the highest level QoS are no longer available after the Concorde airplanes were taken out of service.
Internet RFCs have a long history of April 1 publications. One dear to my own addictions is RFC 2324, "Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol". It and other friends like RFC 1149 are not fake, though their actual value in application may be considered dubious by some.
My cat laughed as much as I did at this video. My cat has also published twice as many papers as I have. Thanks for this.
My cat cannot agree with me on anything. The little narcissist ignores every point I try to make. I will never attempt another co-authorship with that damn ignorant pussy.
Both of my cats, too. It makes me feel like I should be doing more with my life.
YES - Sabine didn't chicken out on the chicken joke and chickened it all the way through. So many others are "too cool" to do something like that, you're the best.
She also went full throttle with the, "get me off your fucking mailing list" bit. You rock, Sabine.
How Sabine got through this without cracking a smile is beyond me.
I believe she's German.
She hasn't. She's smiling on a thumbnail.
You should see the outtakes!
@@waynemarvin5661 yes. Those Germans know science is a serious business. Even when it isn't.
@@waynemarvin5661 - *This was my EXACT thought! Well done!*
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Brilliant! I just shared with a friend in SE Asia. Humour is absolutely essential to navigate life. And science.
Congrats on half a mega sub Sabine. Well deserved!
@@nas8318 isn't that what they said?
I regret that I have but one subscription to give. I love this channel! Always interesting subject matter, with a level headed approach.
@@alphagt62 Don't worry, I'm sure there are many bots that subbed multiple times.
Funny how Sabine didn't mention a biggy like 'Global Cooling' though.. Serotonin levels affecting depression is another huge one that should be on the list, improved metastudies are showing. It's just amazing how many scientists, doctors and intellectuals fall for these MASS SCI-HOAXES...... The effectiveness of the Covid vax is certainly up there too... Soon The Majority will stop believing Science as it is so full of HOAXERS, Globally Warmed Neo Peeps... and don't get me started on the FUSION POWER HOAXERS...
I had to read that twice.
My brain instantly went to "half a mega submarine" for some reason.
I’m just glad that there are 500,000 people that wanna know how to follow the science and not just use the evening news as their source for their science
325.5 million American subscribers to go! Education is severely needed here.
@@jeremystone7709 Very true.
Sabin's paper on the expansionof the universe was rejected because it didnt state how the research would effect BIPOC and trans people.
This really happened. She deleted the tweet and never spoke of it again or else she would be fired.
As we can see the "science" is full of papers with erroneous, factually incorrect, and agenda driven conclusions. Science is only as good as the honesty with which it is written .
I'm unvaccinated
The most remarkable thing is how she managed to keep a straight face through all this madness. How many dozens of times did you have to reshoot this??
This is a German sense of humour.
No lasers were involved. 🤷♂
This woman is a certified specialist on deadpan humor. I swear I've heard her utter the funniest fucking lines ever without as much as flinching. Love her.
Yeah from fu***ng list to chicken, I was cracked 🤣
I love her smile and sense of humor. She is so stoic in emotion, when she smiles it looks like she has to try really hard to force her face muscles to smile. Lol. Makes her jokes subtle and wonderful.
Same
German humor
This is what we're going to talk about todayee [Awkward Smile]
That's rude. Not sure why it's being stated as if it's a cute compliment.
Face muscles of germans aren't just trained as US-american
I'm happy to be a subscriber Sabine. You're one of the main science channels I enjoy watching in the quieter moments of the week, along with Anton Petrov and a few others.
Brilliant! Well-deserved and hard-won milestone for Sabine's channel. Godspeed to 1 million. Illuminating the ease by which junk science can find its way into the public dialogue (typically, in the daily "news") is a job well done, much thanks to Sabine for that aspect of this edition. Cheers.
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13:25 It seems as if you should REMOVE the graphene and INCREASE the QoC (Quantity of Crap), resulting in an INFINITE ratio of Crap to Graphene. This is probably GUARANTEED to result in a new and creative vein of thought.
Kochs IIT should be added to that "Best Hoxes Ever" Lists. Lol. You are marvelous Sabina!
She's pulling your chain. Had me going for most of it.
I really wasn’t expecting the “chicken chicken chicken” paper 🤣. Congrats on the new milestone. Cheers to more and beyond!
Here's the TH-cam link- very much a "how many times around will it be funny?" th-cam.com/video/yL_-1d9OSdk/w-d-xo.html
The author of the paper also held a highly praised talk about chicken.
th-cam.com/video/yL_-1d9OSdk/w-d-xo.html
There’s a bunch of videos of people presenting “The Chicken Paper” at conferences and every single one of them is amazing
Someone should create another similar paper, except instead of "chicken" it should use "radda".
Then follow it up with an "I am Groot" paper.
@@jamesheartney9546 egg, egg, egg and cite the chicken paper...
My favourites were the room temperature one and the “Will Any Crap We Put into Graphene” made me belly laugh out loud.
Congrats on the subscriber numbers.
Mine also.
Read the papers for number 4, had me laughing my socks off.
Well, its a video full of mind action.
No mention of 'Global Cooling' though.... Global Warming is the same but with even more corrupt backers.
Cold-fusion is the old classic. It doesn't bother me that Sabine didn't go into it, there's enough out there already. Also, a video on it would probably attract a parade of nutjobs calling her a hater and completely hijacking the comments section. It doesn't bother them that it's been around for 35 years and hasn't convincingly powered so much as a desk lamp.
My favorite nerd joke: There are 10 types of people - those who understand binary, and those who don't.
Your talks are often beyond me. I'm abysmally bad at maths and at any subject that needs mathematical ability.
But I keep on looking at your talks since some are understandable even to me. This one for instance is a scream: your deadpan delivery when listing those gems adds to the fun!
Wow the last 40k have come overnight! Amazing! Huge congratulations on 500k🎉 Very well deserved
'Cardiology and Tea - A British Perspective'
well, you're nearly there yourself. Love both of you.
It's always cool seeing you here in the wild Dr.
you too babe.
Does anyone alse feel validated when a content creator you like posts under another one you love?
It's Saturday evening and i should be watching mindless action flicks. But no, Sabine is way more entertaining. 😂 Congrats, Sabine 🥂
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I already read it, it should be taken a lengthy hoax.
Would you make an episode on rotating wormholes please? Thanks.
What??!!?? Where's the tea??!!
"We have done that ourselves" -- please stay as honest and special as you you are. Looking forward the celebration of the millionth subscriber 😊
I really like watching your channel. I also really appreciate that the closed captioning on this channel doesn't censor what you actually said, at least in this video. I have an auditory processing disorder, so I can hear, but don't always process the information quickly/correctly and so have closed captioning on. Usually TH-cam censors any curse words which sometimes has me missing the meaning. Once again, I really enjoy and appreciate your content... 😊
I hear you on that one. 😏 If I can't read lips and body language, or captions, I keep having to back up a bit every few minutes to listen again. My hearing is very sharp, but listening and interpreting without a visual component can be slow. I never understood it 🤷🏽♂️
I too appreciate the closed captioning because of my auditory processing disorder. It's called old age, or "Reduction in acuity of processing of auditory information due to advanced chronological status of the listening subject."
I’m glad you kept this mostly light and fun, and recent. There are classic hoaxes like N-rays, and the cold fusion debacle.
Working on a cold fusion vid as we speak...
@@SabineHossenfelder Great!! Can't wait for that one
Was expecting cold fusion to get a mention too.
@@SabineHossenfelder
Looking forward to your cold take on that!
These were not really hoaxes--they were just very wrong. Langmuir used N-rays as an example of pathological science.
Reminds me of papers presented at the Ignoble, thought-provoking but funny titles or sometimes outright silly work. Congrats on the half a million subscribers Sabine.
Ig Nobel.
The salmon won an Ig Nobel.
@@kensho123456 Exactly.
The worst fake papers in physics, I believe, were:
1) Jan Hendrik Schon, more than 20 years ago, which kept publishing paper after paper about some extraordinary findings regarding semiconductor properties. It went on for years before somebody discovered he had faked the data to fit the expectations.
2) Pons and Fleischmann in 1989. I recall I was so excited all night, until in the morning I run some back-of-the-envelope calculations about nucleus sizes, the reach of the residual strong force outside the protons, and the spacing of the hydride lattice - the numbers weren't not even remotely compatible.
It took weeks before their "cold fusion" experiment was deemed an hoax...
Congratulations Sabine on a well deserved achievement. You're a wonderful science educator and what you do DOES matter in this age of misinformation and overall haziness around scientific accuracy.
I enjoyed your light hearted yet concerning episode. I myself am a retired medical scientist and found and find exactly the issue you are discussing.
I remember presenting and proving the Trapezoidal Theorem for integration for my High School Calculus class. I had no idea I could have written a paper on it and had it published in a journal. Major mistake on my part. Oh well...
Ladies and gentlemen, this is the happiest Sabine, or indeed any German will ever be 🥺
You should live here and go to the "altsdadt" in the weekend, or to some "kneippe". Then you would change idea about Germans. As I did when I moved here in Germany.
Germans are extremely funny - very good sense of humour. (lived there for 11 years)
@@user_375a82 I agree. Played a golf course where the toilets had separate urinals for high and low handicappers.
She is so funny that one can get addicted to her brilliant videos in which she explains whatever she wants to be understood by her viewers in a excellent way.
@@user_375a82 Sure, but they are pretty bad at showing it.
Considering how often my cat helps me type, I think it's only fair to cite her as a co-author.
TH-cam adverts, watching this channel is HIGLY addictive!
Thanks Sabine and everyone involved in the channel!
You Merit Much, Much more. Here's to 1 Million.
Sabine, you are such a breath of fresh air. Thank you for what you do.
I was already laughing when Dr H started in on "chicken-chicken-chicken" and thought I was losing my mind.
One day later, 519K subscribers, looks like acceleration... Congratulations Sabine!!!
Thank you, Sabine, these stories where laugh out loud hilirious. You made my day! More nerd humor, pls! 😂😭
Please have your cat check your word usage, ("where"), and your spelling, ("hilirious").
@@Alex_Mitchell And you better learn some social skills. 🙄
@@perpetualbystander4516 Calm down, Sunshine. It was a joke. (Perhaps you should work on some humour skills.)
M'am, you are genius! I enjoy, totally, your revelations! Thank you so much!
As a physics prof I definitely had a chuckle at the quantum gravity story :)
I mean postmodernist approach gets you places among supporters, if subtle enough. Look at the Kremlin black-propaganda machine under control of Roskomnadzor. Pure postmodern info-hell..
Yes, I too observed the quantum gravity story. I just hope I didn't ruin it.
This has been SO fun to watch, Sabine! Thank you for helping me smile through a really, really rough time in my life. It means a whole _~bleeping~_ lot! ❤️❤️
OK, OK, I kept a straight face right up until the 'reduce room temperature to enable superconductivity at room temps' bit, very funny. But I could have told you all this back in 1981 from studying psychology. I occasionally had to go the the library to do real research just to disprove the most stupid of my lectures on things like the apes that were allegedly taught to speak using American Sign Language, and 'memory' lectures that literally meant nothing, and could be safely and instantly forgotten.
And were your profs' pleased, when you did that? Just curious. :)
@@Brucebod - no, but I learnt my lesson early by refuting my (only supplementary subject) sociology lecturers in the most flagrant grand style in my first year exams. They failed me and was told 'one retake only, and if you do not pass you are out'. So, I was super-cautious in my psych finals and got top marks on those papers by presenting 'both sides of the case'. Live and learn boyo, live and learn
For many years I believed that apes could learn to speak ASL. It was taught as fact from my childhood to very recently; I saw video and everything. I think it was only within the last year that I heard someone express serious doubt about it, and that was all it took to get me to _really think_ about it and conclude that they almost certainly can't.
This is a good example of a failure to be rational and listen to nagging doubts, because it had always seemed strange to me that apes had the ability to learn sign language but didn't have a sign language of their own in the wild. My best guess was that language wasn't very useful to them in the wild -- ah, but then why have the ability? My best guess was that the ability was a side effect of some other mental ability which _was_ vital in the wild. And I had read about Clever Hans. And I _still_ didn't take that last step and realize that Koko the Gorilla was a latter-day Clever Hans.
The only thing I can say to my own credit is that once I saw that what I had believed wasn't true and that I'd been a fool, I accepted that news easily and didn't blow a lot of smoke.
The room temperature superconductor paper reminded me of a lecture series I used to give about the advisability of patriarchal dominated HVAC systems. I only wish they had followed up with a paper on the fallacy of applying small scale thermodynamic results in open world situations.
Ok, now I am curious.
Are you referring to the fact that in most homes the Dad is the only one who can touch the thermostat? That’s brilliant!
Half a million subscribers? No more than you deserve. Early, pleasant experiences left me predisposed to listening to very smart women telling me new things, and you are an early (and continued) favorite. Thank you; please continue.
"A Pawfect CV" - fantastic. Congratulations to the first half million, Sabine!
Ich komm, wie so oft, nicht ausm Lachen raus. Herzlichen Glückwunsch, Sabine!
Congratulations on reaching this milestone! I just want to mention George Gamov's paper with his student Alpher In the category of nerd jokes. Being ever the practical joker, Gamov asked his friend Hans Bethe to agree to be listed as a co-author (which he agreed, being a good sport, even though he hadn't contributed) so the paper came out as being authored by Alpher, Bethe, Gamov (like alpha, beta, gamma). Alpher wasn't thrilled to be reduced to 1/3 contributor, which is totally understandable.
My favourite too!
The best, ever.
Bethe got the nobel prize in 1967.
Worth mentioning also is that a famous PhD student of Gamov is Vera Rubin, well known nowadays for her work on galaxy rotation rates that led to the dark matter hypothesis.
Makes me think of the psychic dwarf escaping prison, leading to the newspaper headline "Small medium at large".
I lol'ed at chicken chicken. It's been a long time since I could laugh this genuinely at something. Thank you Sabine.
Thank you for the laughs!!!!! I am going through a journey with pancreatic cancer and came across your TH-cam channel. Now, I find myself binge watching your channel. I understand some of what you "teach", as for roughly 50 years I have worked as a Surgical Technician, and am a retired Army Combat Medic. So, my background helps me to follow along. Thanks
Thanks so much, Sabine! I'm enjoying your new book, and I heard your interview in NPR last week. This video was very funny, and of course, we all love your sense of humor!
500,000 congratulations! Everybody please comment and share because quality content needs to be promoted
Well done on the 500k. Love your work and your great sense of humour! This video was a real eye opener 🤣
Congratulations Sabine! I love your channel and your dry German humor! Thank you for your work!
"Safe and Effective" longest running April Fools joke EVER!!!
8:15 - Ooooh! Narrowly missed an opportunity to be the first to earn the imaginary unit as your Erdős number.
Congratulations, well done.
Sometimes the fun aspect in stem areas works differently. I submitted a paper to a journal proposing the use of non contact ultrasound to avoid using large quantities of ultrasound gel. It was rejected as one reviewer was concerned about how much gel we were using.
The review process can be a source of comedy, but I wonder if this will affect the view of the general public. STEM has taken a reputational hit during these times.
Congrats on half a million subs, loved the spoof topic.
As an engineer the IETF has a long history of April 1st internet papers.
Thanks for pointing out, I didn't know that!
Thanks Sabine, I loved this episode. I think my favorite has to be room temp superconductivity.
I am seriously addicted to your videos.They have it all: sarcasm,information and the list goes on
LOL! I love it! Thanks, Sabine.
Oh, yeah... congrats on the 500k milestone. 😃
Congrats on reaching 500K, have another one.
I recommend a book called A Random Walk In Science, compiled by Robert L. Weber, originally published in 1973 with numerous reprints since then. It contains, among many other interesting things, articles on mathematical and scientific approaches to big game hunting, theoretical zipperdynamics, and a proof that heaven is hotter than hell.
I just subscribed like 3 days ago so I'm glad to have been able to take part in you reaching this milestone congratulations this is a great channel and I really love how you present things
Hello and welcome!
@@SabineHossenfelder I wasn't sure how else to ask you this, so I am doing it here: Do you think you can do a video regarding the stories currently going around the internet about the "big bang not happening", due to recent papers on the JWST images? I am curious to hear your perspective on this. Thanks!
It's criminal that you only have 500k. It should be at least a factor of 10 larger.
This is a scientific channel so please use the common way of displaying numbers: Instead of 10 use 1.00 × 10^(1)
@@B_u_L_i And if you are mathematically inclined then 1x 10^(10^(0)) may be better.
@@janami-dharmam (10^0)*(10^(10^0))
CONGRATS Sabine on reaching 500K subs! Well deserved! BTW, I am part way through reading your new book & find it very fascinating & enjoyable! 👍👍😉😉
This is priceless. You are rapidly becoming my favorite science communicator.
Love you, Sabine! And congrats! 💜
OMG the room temperature superconductor joke got me laughing so hard I had to stop the video for a couple minutes! I was laughing even before you said the punchline as soon as I saw the photo! Who said science doesn't have a sense of humor? Sure, the jokes are few and far between. And some of them require a deep understanding of the science. Most are technically inside jokes. But still, they are so funny!
Thank you for making my morning! Congratulations on the sub milestone!
0:22 I think the real accomplishment is that you were genuinely smiling before you said "and that's what we'll talk about today" (I mean that in good faith)
I'm doing what I can 😅
'Thanks for watching, see you next week!' 😀
Absolutely brilliant, madam! I stumbled across your channel some months ago and have enjoyed many, many videos since.
This one was a real gem, and a worthy celebration of your channel's milestone. See you at the million mark!
You are such a perfect teacher. People like you make learning on TH-cam a joyful experience, in contrast with regular study methods. And one has to wonder, how much waste of time are most school compared to this nowadays.
Even though she has some difficulty in speaking English clearly , she has an incredible sexiness to add to her obvious intelligence and common sense That makes her slightly higher in my estimation than Jordan Peterson but it is a close run thing. Some clever scientist should be able to calculate the difference in a thousand years or so.
What amazes me is that only I have actually noticed this when there is such obvious evidence and it is far clearer that climate change could ever be!
Has the world gone mad,? Or should I ask , Madder?
Brilliant indeed! 😂
Fantastic video, Sabine!!!
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
Congratulations on 500k subscribers! May there be many more.
One of my favorite papers is "On the Rheology of Cats" by M. A. Fardin, _Rheology Bulletin,_ 83(2) July 2014.
Firstly, of course congrats on the 500k+!
Secondly, your video caused me to set a reminder to go back and double check the dates on various papers I've downloaded from arXiv... Tend to look at categories and download stuff that might be interesting to read later, now worried some of them may have been published 31/3-1/4. 😅
Sabine is amazing...and she does it backwards, in high heels...while speaking English.
Brilliant! One of the most interesting and original voices on science on TH-cam, and also one of the wittiest. Every sub deserved, congratulations.
I have heard about the medical paper about the integration before. It still blows my mind today seeing it get so many citations xD
Apparently, this is what happen when human first discover fire. Also, the last one is my fav one. It's so ingenious putting your cat as the co author, as to reiterate your paper line by line till you went crazy 🤣
And finally, happy 500k subscribers Dr. Hossenfelder! Totally deserve it 🔥
There has been a text generator for post modern literature of the Sokal style for a long time. You can now use it to seed GPT-3 and generate your non sense essays.
I'd much be interested in videos on Ignobel prize papers - My favourites being 'On the Rheology of Cats' and 'On the Reception and Detection of Pseudo-profound Bullshit'.
Thanks for the suggestion, will keep it in mind!
My favourites are those liquid cats, and the scientist who proved ulcers were bacterial in origin, by drinking them.
For me the winner is the Grievance Studies paper -that was juicy.
There was a kid in the pacific north west of the US that won a high school science fair project about the dangerous chemical "di hydro monoxide " .This caused a big panic ,laws passed against it ,etc . He then pointed out it is WATER .
The Question is: Who is running these BS papers and more importantly: How do we get rid of them?
PS: Congrats Sabine. Keep this channel up and honest, and you'll grow to 5 mil.
I took part in a brain study by an international group of psychiatrists using MRI back in 2009. By "part of" I mean replaced a lab monkey since the university no longer allowed experiments on animals. Yes, it's a bit embarrassing but you should have seen what the lab rat replacement had to do.
Just be happy you aren't there to fill the spot for the dead fish.
Aren't rats animals though?
Congratulations on your milestone! My old favorites were Isaac Asmiov's Thiotimeoline (Wiki has an article), and the Turbo Encabulator - both terribly silly for their intended audiences.
Issac Asimov! Should be required reading in highschools.
Sabine you are one of the most respected scientists a life, to my knowledge cause I love honesty and your honesty and wisdom are equally respected by me.
Even if you never get to read this, I absolutely love this channel! I love the way you talk, your sense of humour and delivery on jokes and most of all, not just the quality of video and science you bring, but also how interesting you make the topics (even if the title alone doesn't always grab me)
I hope you keep making wonderful videos!
Congrats on 500K subs! This topic should be an annual feature, maybe on 4/1?
Congratulations on 500k subs 🎉 and thanks for a good laugh.
An other favorite is the inclusion of Lorito's Steinlaus in the Pschyrembel Medical Dictionary in Germany many years ago. The follow up edition removed the entry, leading to much protest. It has been included ever since.
This episode reminds me of The Journal of Irreproducible Results of a couple decades back. Very nice.
Reminiscent of the 2004 PubMed article entitled "New evidence for the theory of the stork".
That salmon study lachs credibility :)
Gongrats on 500k subs Sabine 🤗 ♥ 😍
Congratulations Sabine ❤️
And now over 1 million subscribers! You are a treasure to us all.
2:36..."she actually wasn't the first to have the idea"🤣🤣🤣🤣
i love this kind of subtle irony, let's call it british style humour understatement.
i remember a fellow student of mathematics coming to me, being very desperate.
i asked her, what's wrong. she showed me some of her work, applying math in medicine, using some sigma-letters as sum signs. i told her that i consider her work to be very clever.
but her mentor, a doctor of medicine asked her: "what kind of signs are that?"
she told him about mathematical sum signs. he didn't understand it immediately, didn't want to understand it either and said: "we have no sum signs in medicine. try it using the normal plus sign" 🤣🤣🤣.
Congratulations on half a million subs, a well-deserved result of your brilliantly educational efforts. It's more than a bit sad that in the 21st century I still feel an urge to underline the following: the world needs to get rid of all superstitions, prejudices and nonsense that keep women away from science. I'm saying this because I am absolutely convinced you are very positively contributing to this end and am truly happy for it. Now on to a million and beyond!
James Lindsay and the grievance studies were hilarious :D
I really enjoyed reading some off the papers generated by Peter Boghossian’s team. Scary that the reviewers published them.
Yeah, but the whole thing about how "this proves woke culture has gone too far!" is complete horse crap. They submitted far more papers that were NOT published before getting a few published, and even then only after toning down their language and obfuscating the point. And then a year before they were even done with their "experiment" and had intended to reveal the hoax, someone in the field immediately recognized that something wasn't right about these papers, and they were outed. So it seems like the system KIND of WORKS: the submission process filtered out most of the crap, and then the rest was caught within months and retracted.
Compare that to computer science, where three MIT kids got tons of hoax papers published that were written by an algorithm that were FAR more spurious, and yet they weren't caught out for years. Or the physicist who published a fraudulent paper in semiconductors and could have been up for a Nobel Prize before being finally caught years later. Can we really say this is a problem specific to "woke" social science publications?
It's not hard to publish a fraudulent paper if you're trying hard enough, and that's not great. And it's fun to have it pointed out again. But it has nothing to do with "woke" culture and isn't specific to gender critical studies or whatever Boghossian's team was trying to imply.
And the proof there is that they didn't even TRY to use a control group. They only submitted woke-leaning papers. They didn't try submitting anti-SJW gobbledygook papers, much less neutral papers or papers in other fields, to see if they TOO would have been accepted at a similar rate (I bet they would have!). If they were truly concerned with making sure studies about race and gender "get it right" then they would have looked at it from all sides.
This video is a good way to celebrate 500K subscribers! Very characteristic of the channel and what it stands for.
Congratulations on 500K!
Thanks for your amusing and cautionary video. It sent me on a search through storage boxes and book shelves until I found my 7 original past copies of the Journal of Polymorphous Perversity, printed by Wry-Bred Press, which "is devoted to the publication of humorous and satirical works in the fields of Psychology, Psychiatry, and the closely allied disciplines." I got these from my father who was not a scientist but was very interested in and read about most branches of science, and also had a great sense of humor, both of which I inherited from him. I have one issue from 1986, Spring, (giving away my age here), with a REAL ad for Stelazine injectable "controls psychotic symptoms fast" (!) on the inside and outside back cover , one from 1988, 1989 and both from 1990 and 1991. The Spring 1989 edition reprints an article from the New York Times, Jan. 22, 1989, "A Freudian Spoof is Slipped Past Many Scholars" by Daniel Goleman. A historian at Yale University wrote a spoof article about Freud that was published in 1981 in Harper's magazine, (for the general public) that was supposed to have been a contemporary review of "The Interpretation of Dreams". It was quoted in one scholarly article and pored over by Freud scholars until the hoax was uncovered. So you Ph.D.s have been messing each other and the literature at least since 1981, but I always enjoy seeing a scientist or professor with a sense of humor, it goes so much against the stereotype. I enjoy your videos, what I understand of them (not a physicist here), and seeing your sense of humor. Best of luck as you go for one million! I've got some reading to do.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Irreproducible_Results
Dad also had a few copies of The Journal Of Irreproducible Results..
I think amusing science titles are the way forward. At two recent work presentations for my specialism on odours in wastewater treatment, they have been titled "In the air tonight" and "Recognising odours: I'll be your sommelier". If anyone else can think of a good presentation title on wastewater odours that is more subtle than "the smell of shite", I may use your idea in the next one
"He who smelt it: A guide on wastewater odours"
Deep breath and immediate regret
Yes I smell but dam you stink.
Long term effects of accidental wastewater discharges in a public reservoir.
I know what you had for dinner 2 days ago...
Another one XD...
"The proof is in the pudding"
Laugh out loud hilarious !! What an excellent way to celebrate a well deserved milestone !!
Please consider monetizing your reading of the "chicken" paper as a ringtone !! I couldn't stop laughing at your narration !!
Congratulations on 500k. You have earned it. Science with the gobbledygook hahaha! You're probably a really good physicist ( I'm assuming. I am not qualified to tell.) You're an amazing science communicator. I always feel like I understand things better after watching your videos. With a true understanding. Not one where there is any woo woo mysticism. I finally understood electron orbitals for what they truly represent and what that means after one of your videos (Or was that Matt over on Space Time?) Any way you're awesome. Thanks for your no nonsense videos. Thanks for your funny videos. Thanks for doing what you do you educate and make a difference. I'll be watching and expecting something super special when you hit 1 mill!
OMG You liked my comment! I've never had the creator of the channel like my comment. You're my first Sabina! I'm going to tell people about this!
I noticed that not so long ago Matt from SpaceTime mentioned her and in one of his videos and even referred/linked to watch it! That was so cool to see.
@@Michael-kp4bd Yeah it was the episode about super determinism. Sabina is a big fan. There is presentation she did on TH-cam as well as her own video she did not long ago. I've actually seen her mentioned in a few places recently. It's about time they recognize in my opinion.
I have a cat and I am a writer and I am now convinced that this is a whole new field of opportunity for my kind of mischief making! PS: I find you to be very attractive also.
Sabine Hossenfelder, you are brilliant! Your videos are very informative and straigh to the point without unneccesary distraction. It seems you also assume a certain level of general intelligence in your viewers, covering advanced topics without needing to baby explain everything to an insulting level as some do. I look foreward to seeing more of your content.
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