Leonardo DiCaprio played the plantation owner of candy land and had the skull of the slave that used to shave his father's beard. He claimed the evidence of the "dimples" on the inside of the skull indicated that the slave was submissive and subservient. It ends with him threatening to bash open Django's wife's head and "see where her dimples lie"
Maybe you didn't listen when Hank said that Phrenology was considered bogus by actual scientists? And coming up with something isn't the hard part. Toddlers and Children can make up things. Proving your Hypothesis is the hard part.
Lan.J I'm not saying I agree, I just like the movie cause how Tarantino made the story of a "slave" turning the tables and it's very empowering in all honesty
Francisco Ramirez Django Unchained is one of the best anti-slavery and anti-racist flicks in my opinion, largely because it's so damn entertaining. As opposed to the usual documentary or indie film.
BJ Vynz Lan.J Yes, it most definitely is. I can't and won't ever understand the hardships of the life as a slave, but it's just depressing and it angers me when I watch movies where the slaves are mistreated, beaten, and even killed. And Django Unchained is just an amazing change to what someone taking matters into their own hands and just serving justice (maybe a little revenge haha)
In the Discworld books by Terry Pratchett, there is a 'Retrophrenologist' who claimed to be able to change your personality by whacking lumps into your head with a mallet.
I don't understand the sentence "there wasn't enough evidence to debunk the theory". It is the burden of the side suggesting a theory to prove it, not the other way around.
IT means that progressives labeled it a racist science because so and so's particular race doesn't come out on top. They couldn't debunk it because its real science, science that hurts feelings, but it is fixed, unmovable.
@@christopherschneider2968 Truthers often come equipped with much more evidence than anyone else, unfortunately. People who worship their television will take anything someone "official" says without questioning it. By not questioning, the assumption is the official is correct, and that's a wild assumption. And it's wrong. 9/11 was an attack on Americans from inside, and resulted in permanent loss of freedoms like privacy and movement. If you think the earth is a spinning ball moving at unimaginable speeds with ocean's superglued to it's surface, you've successfully been bamboozled. I know that's what we were taught in school, but that isn't good enough. It may not be flat but it sure as hell isn't moving, it's fixed in place, period. The whole official theory falls apart after that realization. Where is the observable and repeatable evidence from AssA? So yeah. You worship your tv. You probably have been triple vaxxed and still got the rona didn't you? Just make sure the next time you walk by your television that you properly genuflect it, so that your viewpoint make some modicum of sense.
Did you know that at the end of the scene, when Leonardo DiCaprio smashes a glass, he actually did cut his hand and actually smeared his own blood all over the actress playing Brunhilda? Yeah, Tarantino liked it so much he kept it and went back to film later scenes requiring Leonardo DiCaprio having bandages.
James A Clouder from what I remember he did cut himself, and was actually bleeding everywhere, but the blood he put on her face was fake. It would have been too much of a biohazard to put actual real blood on her. Still as i said before, really well done scene. :)
Year: 2216 "Back in the 20th and 21st century, our beliefs on how our bodies worked were pretty skewed, and even funny. Nothing being more funny than our thought on the structure of the brain. In the 19th century, we thought the brain was like a muscle which grew and shrunk with knowledge, they also believed that our brains were broken up into different categories. This theory moved into the 20th, to as late as the mid 21st century. People of this era believed that tiny electrical impulses were the cause of all of our brain's "powers". They also believed that certain parts of the brains contributed to certain personalities. Of course today, we know the brain is a collaboration of microscopic scientists who are constantly at work listening for new information and storing it in massive libraries. When one loses a memory, or cannot remember what they were just taught, our brain scientists were too busy storing our overwhelming amount of files to be paying attention at that moment. We also have a driver scientist, who drives our body with foot peddles and a steering wheel, and even a "conscious" scientist who got a doctorate in Psychology before being stationed to your brain, and he talks to you via a microphone and is literally your "inner voice". Although silly that "electronic pulses" was once believed to be the reason why our brains did what it does, through extensive research, we now know the real truth behind it all."
Drummer_Zay94 It's supposed to be pretty bad, as you can easily get an eye infection or scratch your eye. I'm not positive, but I would hazard that a daily lens and a monthly lens probably gather bacteria at the same rate, but I think the composition of the lenses would make it very uncomfortable/dangerous to try to wear a daily contact for a month, for instance. But you're right, this would be a cool episode!!! Also just one about how contact lenses work in general would be interesting.
i didn’t know how bad it was but i got bacterial conjunctivitis or something of the sorts from that because something got under the lense and scratched my eye, and i could have gone blind from it😳 luckily i went to the eye doctor and it’s healed but it will leave a scar forever, i think i’ve learned my lesson now😅
It surprises me that Hank didn't mention patient H.M. He's a case study in psychology. A man who's hippocampus was removed in an attempt to stop his epileptic attacks. But this damaged his ability to form new memories to such a point that he basically no longer had the ability to make new explicit memories (ones you can put into words). The world to him became transient, he would forget a task as soon as he had completed it. He could still learn new skills though, despite the fact that he'd forget ever learning them. A more modern person with a similar affliction is Clive Wearing videos of whom exist on youtube. I'd also like to note for those interested, while specialization like this is no doubt true, in more recent years psychologists have begun moving away from more strict specialization, where functions really are isolated to specific areas.
I've watched a doco on Clive Wearing, and what's so amazing is that wife has remained so loyal to him as she helps him deal every day with this disability!
Notice the Irish at 2:18. It wasn't just dark skinned people who were the targets of racism back in the day. That fact kinda blew my mind. From history class I thought it was just dark skinned people who were on the receiving end of racism.
Your teachers never showed you any racist propaganda aside from that of black people? Or those signs on stores that said "Help Wanted, Irish Need Not Apply" or the same for the Chinese?
+Matt T Yeah, I just listed some examples. Seems weird a history class wouldn't show it. Then again, a lot of what you're taught in history are lies or half-truths until you get to high school or college.
The school system does this to manipulate students by making white students feel responsible and make african american students feel like victims. There was never any mention of Irish, Italians, French, or Chinese being lynched or segregated because that's not this nation's agenda, We want blacks to feel inferior and oppressed, even though they initially aren't, so that they become insecure and stupid. That way, whites can stay on top and not have to share the wealth with "Them".
That's because evolution's only goal is successful reproduction. It selects out the horrible non functioning manifestations of biology and only changes things at random.
They had a lot of misplaced theories, but a scientist was awarded a Nobel prize in 2020 for linking bushy eyebrows to narcissism. ...So maybe there is something to be said for studying blood pressure and other things related to the forehead area.
If you want to maximise that juicy revenue, could you remove the red bar from the bottom of the thumbnail? People may confuse it for the new "watched" bar
Very good observation :) i don't have those bars and i can barely see the red bar in the thumbnails(cuz old mobile version) but you have a very very good point:)
This was mentioned in Margaret atwood's alias grace! The first time in the book she has a "fit" (panic attaxk, seizure, flashback, it could have been anything) it's because she was triggered by a doctor, who was there to measure her skull to see if there was a brain-shape that was common amongst the inmates of the Kingston pen, so they could imprison those with that brain shape while they were still innocent, because Victorian Canada was all about segregating people based on physical aspects. I don't know if this was an actual study that was conducted, but quite possibly.
Well, if previous videos' comments are any indication, some people believe that anything is a science if it has been tested and can produce the same results. Even if the data was specifically nitpicked and other data was ignored, producing artificial results. Some people don't care. As the video says, people will believe it if it makes them feel good (or ahem... superior) and will not take kindly to their beliefs being called a pseudo anything.
If you've read Terry Pratchett's discworld (comic fantasy) books you will have met the "retrophrenologist" who built on the ideas of phrenology to alter peoples personalities by adding bumps to their head with small hammers! Well it makes as much sense as the original phrenology ideas!
Hank Green, I love you, no homo. Thanks to your channel I am able to learn in a way that I couldn't when I was in school. You see I was a very awkward kid in middle school and high school, with severe social anxiety, and as a result, I dropped out in 9th grade. Many things were destroying my mind during that period. I always found knowledge and learning something valuable, but my mind fell short to the control of nasty evil thought parasites. Fast forward 3 years of torture and agony by my mind , I ended up attempting against my life. I have the scars of that endeavor, yet I stand here typing about it. Long story short, when all my will to live had disappeared, I ended up rising from the ashes like a Phenix. Even if it came about from my encounter with death. I found that now that I've returned from the dead, I can now experience life in a different state of mind, and learning has been reinvigorated. I guess my message with all of this is, that even though all hope is gone: in the end you can make your way back to the light. Don't give up! Thank you for reading a part of me. NAMASTE!
One point is wrong though. It has now been proven that the brain DOES change shape to a certain extent due to its plasticity. For instance, taxi drivers in London have a larger than normal hippocampus.
I think it was a one-off study which demonstrated that since they had to memorize the complicated London street network to get around (without using maps or technology), over the years their brain region dedicated to spatial reasoning grew or something.
It does grow to a certain degree, but the majority of it is the brain just getting more densely packed. It would interfere to much with other parts of the brain for it to physically swell, so for the most part it increases in density. For example, there was a case study on a little girl who had an entire hemisphere removed, and after a while the remaining hemisphere became much denser, but it didn't really grow to fill the empty half of the skull left from the hemispherectomy.
A Strange Tree There's also the famous experiment done by the Italian scientist Michele Vincenzo Malacame in the 18th century who took pairs of birds from the same clutch of eggs. He raised and trained intensively half of the birds and not the other one. The trained half had larger brains than the other one
Vaultboy2287 they don't really make a shit ton of money unless they are getting hundreds of thousands of views a week. I don't think SciShow is getting enough to pay for 5+ people to be financially stable
It also varies drastically by the type of content. I know from my own channel that tech videos seem to make drastically more than what a lot of content in the DFTBA network does. I suspect beauty videos might also be big earners. Maybe gaming.
The length of the vids makes the biggest difference since you get paid per ad shown and it not only takes longer to produce a long video but less people watch all the way to the post-roll ads.
You don't come off as a smart ass at all! It's a great question. TH-cam videos do get money from adsense and TH-cam Red if they have enough views, but it's not enough to pay for the cost of the production and research that goes into each episode. It's also inconsistent. That's why you'll see a lot of channels that have multiple sources of funding. It also keeps the videos honest . If you're only funded by what gets the most views, or what is advertising for a big company, content gets one-sided and shallow. Our Patreon Patrons help pay for the show, but even more than that, they're intellectually invested in our content so we owe it to them to produce high-quality well-researched non-biased videos. For us and for many channels, it helps to keep the channel based in the community that it's part of, instead of having to be bought out by interests outside the community and mission of the show. Hope that answers your question!
+SciShow And I think that's really great! I appreciate all the content you put out, Unfortunately, I can't help but feel like, at least sometimes, you are biased towards the correctness of what the scientific community produces, or sometimes leave out info that would put things in a different, more differentiated perspective. This video here, for example, seems to only expose phrenology as false and its proponents as frauds or simply racists. This may put people in the pillory who may not actually have intended to discriminate against anyone, just like the brilliant people working on the Manhattan Project may not have wanted their work to be used for military weaponry. Hank said that P. *_started_*_ being used_ by upper class people to validate their racism (see 1:45 - 2:05). What I was missing in this video were the findings that _brain areas in fact _*_do_*_ increase in size_ when used more frequently. Our neural networks are malleable. Otherwise, people wouldn't be able to learn anything new with a mature brain, right? So the belief by the phrenologists in this regard actually has merit (see 0:45). I hope you will try, even harder than already, to refrain from quick and simple explanations in the future. Even if I were not really right in my "accusation" here specifically, I think this point is still to be made in general. Please don't forget that _science is not_ (or at least shouldn't be) _moral or immoral_. Thank you for all you do, I hope you will continue.
Grant Lauzon and that is why it's called pseudoscience and not actual science, since people tended to ignore pieces of evidence that didn't fit with their theories.
I am pretty sure that the brain both grows and shrinks... you know grows during childhood and shrinks because of certain deceases and sometimes old age. Am I wrong?
Yeah, I just got a Robo-Telemarketing call saying they were with a Phrenology Clinic - please don't hang up., blah-blah-blah. It's a bull-sh*t nothing, like reading palms or counting bunyons on your feet. Okay, the bunyons thing isn't a thing.., yet, but give it time. LoL
How about a current example of American pseudoscience that hasn't been properly discredited yet and needs to be, like the Briggs-Meyers personality inventory?
If you're interested, you can check out something about Cesare Lombroso. museolombroso.unito.it/index.php/en en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesare_Lombroso He essentialy believed (wrongly) that criminal traits are inherited.
Actually babies born by caesarian section will usually have rounder skulls than those born naturally due to pliability of their bones, and in some cultures there existed the practice of manipulation by the grandmothers to produce skulls that were more conical or bulbous!
REPOST FROM Vaultboy2287's THREAD I appreciate all the content you put out, Unfortunately, I can't help but feel like, at least sometimes, you are biased towards the correctness of what the scientific community produces, or sometimes leave out info that would put things in a different, more differentiated perspective. This video here, for example, seems to only expose phrenology as false and its proponents as frauds or simply racists. This may put people in the pillory who may not actually have intended to discriminate against anyone, just like the brilliant people working on the Manhattan Project may not have wanted their work to be used for military weaponry. Hank said that P. *_started_*_ being used_ by upper class people to validate their racism (see 1:45 - 2:05). What I was missing in this video were the findings that _brain areas in fact _*_do_*_ increase in size_ when used more frequently. Our neural networks are malleable. Otherwise, people wouldn't be able to learn anything new with a mature brain, right? So the belief by the phrenologists in this regard actually has merit (see 0:45). I hope you will try, even harder than already, to refrain from quick and simple explanations in the future. Even if I were not really right in my "accusation" here specifically, I think this point is still to be made in general. Please don't forget that _science is not_ (or at least shouldn't be) _moral or immoral_. Thank you for all you do, I hope you will continue.
This has nothing to do with this video, but have you seen any videos from the Crushit channel? In a video of theirs that I watched recently they crushed a standard deck of cards and it exploded. I was just wondering why...
NOt really important, but i'm reminded of Leonado Dicaprio's big speech in Django Unchained, where his character justifies his racism in this way, saying that Black people have a larger part of the brain where 'submissiveness' comes from :p
The same thing is done to animals in current times. The worth of living beings is decided by arbitrary, anthropocentric ideas of intelligence and emotions that seem to be backed by science. It's called speciecism. I hope that in 50 years, we'll talk about this like we talk about racism today.
Art Of Warring I find that the problem ISN'T the shape of people's skulls, it's the Biases in those who *judge others* by their skulls. It has nothing to do with Biology, and everything to do with Cultural Bigotry, Misinformation, Ignorance, and Petty Self-Righteousness. To see with eyes unclouded by hate, That is the one and only personal goal worth achieving.
BlankPicketSign I just said it had an affect, I didn't say it ways negative. New age philosophy looks at every observation of another as an attack. Judgement is a pattern of thinking separate from morality, the goodness or badness of something has no dependency on what a person or group may think of that thing. But the way things, people, or groups are compared to others is a real deviance which therefore gets perceived by people and therefore has an affect on behavior and personality.
(This Comment comes to you in Two Parts) ---------------------------------------------- mattxXx13 I believe that one should never make judgments based on someone's physical appearance (Such as skin color or shape of their face). And instead judge them on that Individual's actions and behavior. No One can control what their skull is shaped like, Thus it is worthless to judge others this way. If someone is being judged by their face shape, then the problem is with the people Making such judgement. ---------------------------------------------- Art Of Warring I like your name =^_^= Indeed I agree with you, and it's really sad that people have to live in such a situation in the modern world. Someone becoming their own walking Stereotype based on the judgments, biases, and prejudice of their environment is a tragedy... And I see such such a person as more of a Victim of the cruel machinations of the world around them. Their actions are not excuse (whether glorious or malicious) but I still feel sympathy for them. Small side note: I've watched Zootopia recently, and this reminds me a lot of the character Nick Wilde. _"If the world is only going to see me as a sneaking, conniving fox... then there is no point trying to being anything else"_ Obviously a large part of his character arch is Overcoming that Stereotype... and that is an important thing to look at... But I still feel that Nick (and Humans in the real world) have an understandable, and Human reaction to a world that refuses to see them as anything but bad. What else CAN you be when the world can only see a Monster?
after watching so much SciShow videos i started to notice that most of the time when someone assumes something to be true, usually it is wrong. Conclusion, assuming some thing to be true, tends to bad results. Still, it is really hard to let go of some assumptions. Would I be an idiot if I let go all assumptions?
More like "why religion exist as it currently does". Without Subjective Validation's influence religion would look very different. Probably more respectful of the discoveries of science.
Alex Payne biologically there are two genders, but there are many different societal "genders". Society has given distinctive stereotypes to genders so I do believe that becoming a new "gender" is valid so long as it is just a sort of sexuality. People need to split sexuality and societal ideas from actual biology.
Jordan Harb The problem I have with people claiming to be a gender other than their biological gender is that the person often isn't actually transgendered. Gender Dysphoria is an actual condition that can be diagnosed, so when someone thinks they can just "choose" what gender they want to be, it's often offensive to those who actually have Gender Dysphoria
and a fraction of conspiracies are true* - slight correction for accuracy. Y'know if i were the paranoid type i would asume that all these false conspiracy's are a form of Smoke Mirror to hide the real threats.
Vienna and Austria-Hungary in general really was a world center (one among several) of science in the 19th and the first 3 years of the 20th century. Even if some in psychology and psychiatry were utmost racist. But especially in medicine and physics they were brilliant. Are again now in physics.
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I'll never use or hear the terms "well-rounded", "highbrow" or "lowbrow" the same ever again knowing their origin... Thanks Scishow :)
This reminded me of the dimples scene in Django Unchained.
Leonardo DiCaprio played the plantation owner of candy land and had the skull of the slave that used to shave his father's beard. He claimed the evidence of the "dimples" on the inside of the skull indicated that the slave was submissive and subservient.
It ends with him threatening to bash open Django's wife's head and "see where her dimples lie"
Analysing Evil: Calvin Candy brought me here.
@@ratbatnufftime2861 Same man!👍
He believed in phrenology apparently. There are many facts to back up its claims as well
Let me change your personality *graps a hammer*
graps? .... I hope this was a spelling error and you dont also say it like that.
I mean, it might work, just...not in the way they want. lol
Retrophrenology! It's very popular in Ahnk-Morpork.
Well it might change your personality 😂😂
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Whoever came up with phrenology suffered from a nasty bump to the head.
Phineas Gage?
This stuff is still going on and being researched today. Look up Poverty and brain size.
That, or their skull must've been enlarged in the wrong place ;D
yep. you still some people think like that
Maybe you didn't listen when Hank said that Phrenology was considered bogus by actual scientists? And coming up with something isn't the hard part.
Toddlers and Children can make up things. Proving your Hypothesis is the hard part.
Did anyone else think of the movie Django, where Leo break the skull to show Jamie the three dots claiming that's why black people are "submissive"?
Francisco Ramirez nobody wants to remember that racist shit
Lan.J I'm not saying I agree, I just like the movie cause how Tarantino made the story of a "slave" turning the tables and it's very empowering in all honesty
Francisco Ramirez 👍
Francisco Ramirez Django Unchained is one of the best anti-slavery and anti-racist flicks in my opinion, largely because it's so damn entertaining. As opposed to the usual documentary or indie film.
BJ Vynz Lan.J Yes, it most definitely is. I can't and won't ever understand the hardships of the life as a slave, but it's just depressing and it angers me when I watch movies where the slaves are mistreated, beaten, and even killed. And Django Unchained is just an amazing change to what someone taking matters into their own hands and just serving justice (maybe a little revenge haha)
Paul Broca had some fuckin *INTENSE* mutton chops 3:08
Slivertrust a real man
A very well rounded show, completely highbrow.
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Those terms were specifically deprecated in the video, despite being in common use.
Ross Parlette I believe you're headed in the right direction here.
In the Discworld books by Terry Pratchett, there is a 'Retrophrenologist' who claimed to be able to change your personality by whacking lumps into your head with a mallet.
I mean, they weren't *wrong*...
"What does Patreon do? We ask you for money so we don't have to charge you." Hank Ruins Patreon.
I don't understand the sentence "there wasn't enough evidence to debunk the theory". It is the burden of the side suggesting a theory to prove it, not the other way around.
True. But consider 9/11 Truthers and Flat Earthers. Their "Proof" is Bullshit and you can proof that. Scientist couldn't do that back then.
@@christopherschneider2968 it works for religion too
IT means that progressives labeled it a racist science because so and so's particular race doesn't come out on top. They couldn't debunk it because its real science, science that hurts feelings, but it is fixed, unmovable.
@@christopherschneider2968 Truthers often come equipped with much more evidence than anyone else, unfortunately. People who worship their television will take anything someone "official" says without questioning it. By not questioning, the assumption is the official is correct, and that's a wild assumption. And it's wrong. 9/11 was an attack on Americans from inside, and resulted in permanent loss of freedoms like privacy and movement. If you think the earth is a spinning ball moving at unimaginable speeds with ocean's superglued to it's surface, you've successfully been bamboozled. I know that's what we were taught in school, but that isn't good enough. It may not be flat but it sure as hell isn't moving, it's fixed in place, period. The whole official theory falls apart after that realization. Where is the observable and repeatable evidence from AssA? So yeah. You worship your tv. You probably have been triple vaxxed and still got the rona didn't you? Just make sure the next time you walk by your television that you properly genuflect it, so that your viewpoint make some modicum of sense.
A very early "Stargate SG-1" episode was named "The Broca Divide." I now see the connection.
Of course you’d say that, you have the brainpan of stage coach tilter.
I was just about to say the same thing.
I was going to be really disappointed if no one said this.
I love this. I remember you covered a little bit of this in crash course. Im glad you expanded on it, it was interesting.
I absolutely loved Terry Pratchett's concept of retrophrenology in Men at Arms!
i dont know why, but i like this guy
reminds me of that scene from Django Unchained. The one at the dinner table. That was so BS, but a good scene.
Did you know that at the end of the scene, when Leonardo DiCaprio smashes a glass, he actually did cut his hand and actually smeared his own blood all over the actress playing Brunhilda? Yeah, Tarantino liked it so much he kept it and went back to film later scenes requiring Leonardo DiCaprio having bandages.
James A Clouder
from what I remember he did cut himself, and was actually bleeding everywhere, but the blood he put on her face was fake. It would have been too much of a biohazard to put actual real blood on her. Still as i said before, really well done scene. :)
@@Tytoalba777did you know Christoph waltz actually shot and killed Leonardo decaprio? Tarantino liked it so much he kept it in.
I learnt about this from a Doctor Who fanfic... nice to know the author was incredibly accurate!
MAKE A VIDEO ON THE PILOT WAVE THEORY !!!
I suspect that you watched PBS Spacetime's episode on that
Yanni Visci yup i did but i dont usually understand their host much..so i was hoping for a different host to understand better
Yeah for real it can be difficult to follow what they're talking about most of the time, but Hank has a knack of making it make sense.
The gist is that current ideas about how quantum physics works are super weird, and the pilot-wave theory removes the weirdness
Society is super weird.
Year: 2216
"Back in the 20th and 21st century, our beliefs on how our bodies worked were pretty skewed, and even funny. Nothing being more funny than our thought on the structure of the brain. In the 19th century, we thought the brain was like a muscle which grew and shrunk with knowledge, they also believed that our brains were broken up into different categories. This theory moved into the 20th, to as late as the mid 21st century. People of this era believed that tiny electrical impulses were the cause of all of our brain's "powers". They also believed that certain parts of the brains contributed to certain personalities. Of course today, we know the brain is a collaboration of microscopic scientists who are constantly at work listening for new information and storing it in massive libraries. When one loses a memory, or cannot remember what they were just taught, our brain scientists were too busy storing our overwhelming amount of files to be paying attention at that moment. We also have a driver scientist, who drives our body with foot peddles and a steering wheel, and even a "conscious" scientist who got a doctorate in Psychology before being stationed to your brain, and he talks to you via a microphone and is literally your "inner voice". Although silly that "electronic pulses" was once believed to be the reason why our brains did what it does, through extensive research, we now know the real truth behind it all."
Hey +SciShow: How bad is it to overextend the wear of soft contact lenses?
+lumipaint I'm talking about going over the monthly, bi-weekly, or dailies.
Drummer_Zay94 It's supposed to be pretty bad, as you can easily get an eye infection or scratch your eye. I'm not positive, but I would hazard that a daily lens and a monthly lens probably gather bacteria at the same rate, but I think the composition of the lenses would make it very uncomfortable/dangerous to try to wear a daily contact for a month, for instance. But you're right, this would be a cool episode!!! Also just one about how contact lenses work in general would be interesting.
i didn’t know how bad it was but i got bacterial conjunctivitis or something of the sorts from that because something got under the lense and scratched my eye, and i could have gone blind from it😳 luckily i went to the eye doctor and it’s healed but it will leave a scar forever, i think i’ve learned my lesson now😅
It surprises me that Hank didn't mention patient H.M. He's a case study in psychology. A man who's hippocampus was removed in an attempt to stop his epileptic attacks. But this damaged his ability to form new memories to such a point that he basically no longer had the ability to make new explicit memories (ones you can put into words). The world to him became transient, he would forget a task as soon as he had completed it. He could still learn new skills though, despite the fact that he'd forget ever learning them. A more modern person with a similar affliction is Clive Wearing videos of whom exist on youtube.
I'd also like to note for those interested, while specialization like this is no doubt true, in more recent years psychologists have begun moving away from more strict specialization, where functions really are isolated to specific areas.
I've watched a doco on Clive Wearing, and what's so amazing is that wife has remained so loyal to him as she helps him deal every day with this disability!
Notice the Irish at 2:18. It wasn't just dark skinned people who were the targets of racism back in the day. That fact kinda blew my mind. From history class I thought it was just dark skinned people who were on the receiving end of racism.
Your teachers never showed you any racist propaganda aside from that of black people? Or those signs on stores that said "Help Wanted, Irish Need Not Apply" or the same for the Chinese?
BJ Vynz
Not just black, but Indian, Chinese, native American, basically anything but Anglo-Saxon whites.
+Matt T Yeah, I just listed some examples. Seems weird a history class wouldn't show it.
Then again, a lot of what you're taught in history are lies or half-truths until you get to high school or college.
Daniel Bagang bruh....
The school system does this to manipulate students by making white students feel responsible and make african american students feel like victims. There was never any mention of Irish, Italians, French, or Chinese being lynched or segregated because that's not this nation's agenda, We want blacks to feel inferior and oppressed, even though they initially aren't, so that they become insecure and stupid. That way, whites can stay on top and not have to share the wealth with "Them".
A Victorian Pseudasciences series is a great idea and I hope you guys make more! Very interesting to me both scientifically and historically!
Thank you Hank Green for your informative videos. 👍🏽
i find it interesting that we know so much about how the brain functions. and yet so little about how to use it.
That's because evolution's only goal is successful reproduction. It selects out the horrible non functioning manifestations of biology and only changes things at random.
They had a lot of misplaced theories, but a scientist was awarded a Nobel prize in 2020 for linking bushy eyebrows to narcissism. ...So maybe there is something to be said for studying blood pressure and other things related to the forehead area.
If you want to maximise that juicy revenue, could you remove the red bar from the bottom of the thumbnail? People may confuse it for the new "watched" bar
Very good observation :) i don't have those bars and i can barely see the red bar in the thumbnails(cuz old mobile version) but you have a very very good point:)
This was mentioned in Margaret atwood's alias grace! The first time in the book she has a "fit" (panic attaxk, seizure, flashback, it could have been anything) it's because she was triggered by a doctor, who was there to measure her skull to see if there was a brain-shape that was common amongst the inmates of the Kingston pen, so they could imprison those with that brain shape while they were still innocent, because Victorian Canada was all about segregating people based on physical aspects. I don't know if this was an actual study that was conducted, but quite possibly.
I love how henry is holding up cursing to keep it professional, love you henry c:
can someone explain to me why some people rate this video negatively?
Well, if previous videos' comments are any indication, some people believe that anything is a science if it has been tested and can produce the same results. Even if the data was specifically nitpicked and other data was ignored, producing artificial results. Some people don't care.
As the video says, people will believe it if it makes them feel good (or ahem... superior) and will not take kindly to their beliefs being called a pseudo anything.
Maybe they want the youtube algorithm to stop suggesting science video? I do not know it the algorithm works that way though.
And why to give negative to the video itself? Lol it's so strange to me really...
I really don't think it has anything to do with the content of the video. Most videos from large channels just get a negligible amount of dislikes.
If you've read Terry Pratchett's discworld (comic fantasy) books you will have met the "retrophrenologist" who built on the ideas of phrenology to alter peoples personalities by adding bumps to their head with small hammers! Well it makes as much sense as the original phrenology ideas!
Ironic - the people who thought they had the best brains were the most small-minded
Hank Green, I love you, no homo. Thanks to your channel I am able to learn in a way that I couldn't when I was in school. You see I was a very awkward kid in middle school and high school, with severe social anxiety, and as a result, I dropped out in 9th grade. Many things were destroying my mind during that period. I always found knowledge and learning something valuable, but my mind fell short to the control of nasty evil thought parasites. Fast forward 3 years of torture and agony by my mind , I ended up attempting against my life. I have the scars of that endeavor, yet I stand here typing about it.
Long story short, when all my will to live had disappeared, I ended up rising from the ashes like a Phenix. Even if it came about from my encounter with death. I found that now that I've returned from the dead, I can now experience life in a different state of mind, and learning has been reinvigorated.
I guess my message with all of this is, that even though all hope is gone: in the end you can make your way back to the light.
Don't give up!
Thank you for reading a part of me. NAMASTE!
Like the show. there's a new TH-cam algorithm
Great video keep the psy vids coming
2:20 Yup. Definitely a 100% consistent pattern with people of those races. Not exaggerated conveniently at all.
The phrase "well rounded" comes from phrenology? Who'd a thunk?
What about eugenics? You should do a video on that.
It's weird to hear you say this and being taught this in school
Commenting to game the youtube algorithms because I really like scishow.
Your brain actually shrinks as you become more elderly.
Probably the public perception of phrenology made the politicians more willing to fund it. Yay stupidity.
I could not stop thinking, of Findtheeswing from Nightwatch... thisentire video.
One point is wrong though. It has now been proven that the brain DOES change shape to a certain extent due to its plasticity. For instance, taxi drivers in London have a larger than normal hippocampus.
Frederic S what?!?
I think it was a one-off study which demonstrated that since they had to memorize the complicated London street network to get around (without using maps or technology), over the years their brain region dedicated to spatial reasoning grew or something.
It does grow to a certain degree, but the majority of it is the brain just getting more densely packed. It would interfere to much with other parts of the brain for it to physically swell, so for the most part it increases in density.
For example, there was a case study on a little girl who had an entire hemisphere removed, and after a while the remaining hemisphere became much denser, but it didn't really grow to fill the empty half of the skull left from the hemispherectomy.
A Strange Tree There's also the famous experiment done by the Italian scientist Michele Vincenzo Malacame in the 18th century who took pairs of birds from the same clutch of eggs. He raised and trained intensively half of the birds and not the other one. The trained half had larger brains than the other one
Not trying to be a smart ass here but, I know a lot of youtube channels that use patreon. Doesn't youtube pay many of its content creators though?
Vaultboy2287 they don't really make a shit ton of money unless they are getting hundreds of thousands of views a week. I don't think SciShow is getting enough to pay for 5+ people to be financially stable
It also varies drastically by the type of content. I know from my own channel that tech videos seem to make drastically more than what a lot of content in the DFTBA network does. I suspect beauty videos might also be big earners. Maybe gaming.
The length of the vids makes the biggest difference since you get paid per ad shown and it not only takes longer to produce a long video but less people watch all the way to the post-roll ads.
You don't come off as a smart ass at all! It's a great question. TH-cam videos do get money from adsense and TH-cam Red if they have enough views, but it's not enough to pay for the cost of the production and research that goes into each episode. It's also inconsistent. That's why you'll see a lot of channels that have multiple sources of funding. It also keeps the videos honest . If you're only funded by what gets the most views, or what is advertising for a big company, content gets one-sided and shallow. Our Patreon Patrons help pay for the show, but even more than that, they're intellectually invested in our content so we owe it to them to produce high-quality well-researched non-biased videos. For us and for many channels, it helps to keep the channel based in the community that it's part of, instead of having to be bought out by interests outside the community and mission of the show. Hope that answers your question!
+SciShow
And I think that's really great! I appreciate all the content you put out, Unfortunately, I can't help but feel like, at least sometimes, you are biased towards the correctness of what the scientific community produces, or sometimes leave out info that would put things in a different, more differentiated perspective.
This video here, for example, seems to only expose phrenology as false and its proponents as frauds or simply racists. This may put people in the pillory who may not actually have intended to discriminate against anyone, just like the brilliant people working on the Manhattan Project may not have wanted their work to be used for military weaponry. Hank said that P. *_started_*_ being used_ by upper class people to validate their racism (see 1:45 - 2:05).
What I was missing in this video were the findings that _brain areas in fact _*_do_*_ increase in size_ when used more frequently. Our neural networks are malleable. Otherwise, people wouldn't be able to learn anything new with a mature brain, right? So the belief by the phrenologists in this regard actually has merit (see 0:45).
I hope you will try, even harder than already, to refrain from quick and simple explanations in the future. Even if I were not really right in my "accusation" here specifically, I think this point is still to be made in general. Please don't forget that _science is not_ (or at least shouldn't be) _moral or immoral_. Thank you for all you do, I hope you will continue.
This is what DiCaprio's character Calvin Candie believed in Django
But what about twins? If twins act differently but have the same head shape that would debunk it.
Grant Lauzon and that is why it's called pseudoscience and not actual science, since people tended to ignore pieces of evidence that didn't fit with their theories.
ASMRRequests has an awesome video on this!
Leonardo Di caprio tought the best phrenology in Django unchained.
If there was scientific evidence that showed or explained 1 race to be inferior or superior, would we reveal it?
The thumbnail looks just like the TED-Ed logo. I bet that's where TED-Ed got it from.
You have forgotten to add the annotation to the Learn more about decomposing bodies thingy.
Vital info. Thanks.
I am pretty sure that the brain both grows and shrinks... you know grows during childhood and shrinks because of certain deceases and sometimes old age. Am I wrong?
SciShow, may you do an episode about Briggs and Myers?
Yeah, I just got a Robo-Telemarketing call saying they were with a Phrenology Clinic - please don't hang up., blah-blah-blah. It's a bull-sh*t nothing, like reading palms or counting bunyons on your feet. Okay, the bunyons thing isn't a thing.., yet, but give it time. LoL
Physiognomy is quite real. A good way to judge a person for the first time, 20% physiognomy 80% conversation is the way to go.
The popularity of phrenology in Victorian England also had a lot to do with the fact that it provided opportunities for socially acceptable touching.
You guys should do a show on savants.
How about a current example of American pseudoscience that hasn't been properly discredited yet and needs to be, like the Briggs-Meyers personality inventory?
Watching this for school.
I'm surprised that Phineas Gage wasn't mentioned...
If you're not familiar with the prefix psudo, psudoscience sounds like some futuristic stuff.
Kevin Sakovich If you did guess so, you'd be correct. I'm 9.
Oh yeah. This is an interesting topic... But I know it already so I'm moving on
So that fashion program I've been following is phrenology? Well, I never. How do I explain this to my mom without upsetting her?
If you're interested, you can check out something about Cesare Lombroso.
museolombroso.unito.it/index.php/en
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesare_Lombroso
He essentialy believed (wrongly) that criminal traits are inherited.
Addiction is inherited because of epigenetics, I don't see how criminality couldn't.
His story reads like that of a typical Eugenicist.
Actually babies born by caesarian section will usually have rounder skulls than those born naturally due to pliability of their bones, and in some cultures there existed the practice of manipulation by the grandmothers to produce skulls that were more conical or bulbous!
Also the Chinook flat forehead was caused by strapping a board against an infants head so they wouldn't move around while being carried
do the different types of ice. 2,3,4,5,est!
man certain people love the word debunk its a little crass.
haha I'm so glad you are "free".. if I could pay I would!
I'm surprised he didn't mention how Mark Twain sort of debunked it (with an anecdote, but still).
Phrenology...also the title of a Roots album
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I appreciate all the content you put out, Unfortunately, I can't help
but feel like, at least sometimes, you are biased towards the
correctness of what the scientific community produces, or sometimes
leave out info that would put things in a different, more differentiated
perspective.
This video here, for example, seems to only expose phrenology as false and its proponents as frauds or simply racists. This may put people in the pillory who may not actually have intended to discriminate against anyone, just like the brilliant people working on the Manhattan Project may not have wanted their work to be used for military weaponry. Hank said that P. *_started_*_ being used_ by upper class people to validate their racism (see 1:45 - 2:05).
What I was missing in this video were the findings that _brain areas in fact _*_do_*_ increase in size_ when used more frequently. Our neural networks are malleable. Otherwise, people wouldn't be able to learn anything new with a mature brain, right? So the belief by the phrenologists in this regard actually has merit (see 0:45).
I hope you will try, even harder than already, to refrain from quick and simple explanations in the future. Even if I were not really right in my "accusation" here specifically, I think this point is still to be made in general. Please don't forget that _science is not_ (or at least shouldn't be) _moral or immoral_. Thank you for all you do, I hope you will continue.
This has nothing to do with this video, but have you seen any videos from the Crushit channel? In a video of theirs that I watched recently they crushed a standard deck of cards and it exploded. I was just wondering why...
NOt really important, but i'm reminded of Leonado Dicaprio's big speech in Django Unchained, where his character justifies his racism in this way, saying that Black people have a larger part of the brain where 'submissiveness' comes from :p
And at the same time suggesting that IQ is some sort of natural intelligence that can't be trained.
spindash64 I do believe it's [Current Year]
Why is the map/projection of the universe oval? Isn't it round?
Agent Rudie , It's spherical.
How exactly would *you* draw that on 2D paper ?
I didn't know that it's spherical.
This is made for kids and it's simplistic
So my dog has covid
What about the kids with zika, are you ganna tell them their head size doesn't matter? :(
The same thing is done to animals in current times. The worth of living beings is decided by arbitrary, anthropocentric ideas of intelligence and emotions that seem to be backed by science. It's called speciecism. I hope that in 50 years, we'll talk about this like we talk about racism today.
My brain hurts
Pseudoscience?......Sounds like Climatology.
I’m here from analyzing evil - the villain from django unchained who used phrenology
Ah the victorian era.
The way your head is shaped affects the way people look at you which affects the way you perceive other people which affects your personality.
Very indirect
Ridiculously Indirect....
Art Of Warring
I find that the problem ISN'T the shape of people's skulls, it's the Biases in those who *judge others* by their skulls.
It has nothing to do with Biology, and everything to do with Cultural Bigotry, Misinformation, Ignorance, and Petty Self-Righteousness.
To see with eyes unclouded by hate, That is the one and only personal goal worth achieving.
BlankPicketSign I just said it had an affect, I didn't say it ways negative. New age philosophy looks at every observation of another as an attack. Judgement is a pattern of thinking separate from morality, the goodness or badness of something has no dependency on what a person or group may think of that thing. But the way things, people, or groups are compared to others is a real deviance which therefore gets perceived by people and therefore has an affect on behavior and personality.
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I believe that one should never make judgments based on someone's physical appearance (Such as skin color or shape of their face). And instead judge them on that Individual's actions and behavior.
No One can control what their skull is shaped like, Thus it is worthless to judge others this way. If someone is being judged by their face shape, then the problem is with the people Making such judgement.
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I like your name =^_^=
Indeed I agree with you, and it's really sad that people have to live in such a situation in the modern world.
Someone becoming their own walking Stereotype based on the judgments, biases, and prejudice of their environment is a tragedy... And I see such such a person as more of a Victim of the cruel machinations of the world around them. Their actions are not excuse (whether glorious or malicious) but I still feel sympathy for them.
Small side note: I've watched Zootopia recently, and this reminds me a lot of the character Nick Wilde.
_"If the world is only going to see me as a sneaking, conniving fox... then there is no point trying to being anything else"_
Obviously a large part of his character arch is Overcoming that Stereotype... and that is an important thing to look at...
But I still feel that Nick (and Humans in the real world) have an understandable, and Human reaction to a world that refuses to see them as anything but bad.
What else CAN you be when the world can only see a Monster?
My head is terribly misshapen so i'm lucky i live in the 21st century or people would say i was, well i don't know.. about phneology tbh so yh.
accurate
after watching so much SciShow videos i started to notice that most of the time when someone assumes something to be true, usually it is wrong. Conclusion, assuming some thing to be true, tends to bad results. Still, it is really hard to let go of some assumptions. Would I be an idiot if I let go all assumptions?
To let go of all assumptions is to let go of all information possessed.
You know you never hear about modern phrenology like you do with flat earthers or astrology
So embarrassed about their ‘5 heads’ that they started slandering people lol
Subjective validation: the reason why religion still exists
More like "why religion exist as it currently does". Without Subjective Validation's influence religion would look very different. Probably more respectful of the discoveries of science.
Also the reason why many pseudosciences still exist, such as homeopathy.
I think you should do modern pseudoscience too
Wait a minute. Horoscopes aren't real!?
We can look forward to Millennial pseudoscience in 10 years: There are more than 2 genders. XD
oh wow subjective validation, how about that
Of course. There's only 4. Male, Female, Yes, and No.
Alex Payne biologically there are two genders, but there are many different societal "genders". Society has given distinctive stereotypes to genders so I do believe that becoming a new "gender" is valid so long as it is just a sort of sexuality. People need to split sexuality and societal ideas from actual biology.
It is because of the confusion between the two common definitions of gender, biological gender, and common usage gender.
Jordan Harb The problem I have with people claiming to be a gender other than their biological gender is that the person often isn't actually transgendered. Gender Dysphoria is an actual condition that can be diagnosed, so when someone thinks they can just "choose" what gender they want to be, it's often offensive to those who actually have Gender Dysphoria
this was in django wasn't it
Lol. Some people still believe this shit.
and a fraction of conspiracies are true* - slight correction for accuracy. Y'know if i were the paranoid type i would asume that all these false conspiracy's are a form of Smoke Mirror to hide the real threats.
Vienna and Austria-Hungary in general really was a world center (one among several) of science in the 19th and the first 3 years of the 20th century. Even if some in psychology and psychiatry were utmost racist. But especially in medicine and physics they were brilliant. Are again now in physics.
Wow I'm early. Pleas love me Hank
Today that pseudoscience is called cognitive therapy.
right on poes!
Hank Green?!?!?!?
what is the shortest period of time possible in the universe?
Jack 'o Bong time is relative
Google "Planck time"
It’s hank!