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MinuteEarth Basic Research: Here's something that may be worth a lot. Restoring people's lost hearing. It's definitely worth a video. Please fact check the links. If you are looking for interesting topics to make videos about, you may want to focus on some recent research on curing hear loss. This is a problem that affects millions of people, and there are prospects on the way. I hope you take the time to look at the following websites that are reporting on this. www.karplab.net/team/jeff-karp www.futurity.org/hearing-loss-cochlear-regeneration-1888982/
Minute earth Godzilla characters were real the biggest one steal the title of biggest creature on earth from the blue whale and that’s when you don’t count Godzilla
So, can you do a video explaining that jump from levitating frogs to the invention of graphene? I feel like a little bit of information was missed here.
There used to be a great show on the History channel called "Connections^2" and it was basically these stories. It would start out with: Levitating Frogs, and then wander around some chains, then end up at Graphene Chains, and you'd see this cool connecting thread.
It was research on diamagnetism and the properties of diamagnetic materials. Somewhere along the way they built this rig with a supermagnet that could levitate diamagnetic materials and started throwing all sorts of stuff into the rig. The frogs were there to investigate the effects on living animals. They were never the focus of the research, just researchers having fun.
Reminds me of this video: "and one thing led to another... thats such a lazy thing to use, you're an author, you're supposed to tell me how one thing led to another: "an Austrian boy was rejected from art school, one thing led to another and The USA threw two atomic bombs on the sovereign nation of Japan"
This video reminds of a great quote by Michael Faraday "what good is electricity? " “What good is a newborn baby?” - -Michael Faraday “Soon you will be able to tax it.”
@@manchest_hair_united1161 taxes involve governaments interventions, so, no capitalism, becausa taxes are acts off the governament, so no free market and complete State intervation, which it actually is the contrary, as countries with more welfare progams have more taxes.
Correct, i think electrticity is a useless as computers. I barely know anyone who owns more then 5 computers, so the prediction was right! "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers,"
Thank you!! I am one of the "stupid guys" who does the basic research.. Unfortunately, the people in my country only glorify the ones that can apply the result of basic research and earn huge money. Even the government keeps asking how a certain research benefits the community in 2 years.
Are we factoring in the cost of tax avoidance, tax collecting, bureaucracy? Even if the rate of return came out high, is that an excuse for taxation? Who else can take wealth by threat of violence if it returns societal benefit? Clearly nobody, which makes this is a fine piece of pro state propaganda. Thanks minute earth!
Yep, even though scientists generally work hard doing science and that's all they want to do, I get the impression that they spend a lot of time on grant proposals--basically on justifying why they should continue to get paid. But if it was easy, everyone would be doing it.
This short little video is SO important. Thank you, MinuteEarth for talking about the importance of research, and how corporations profit from it without compensating the researchers.
Corporations pay taxes, and tax money is used to fund research. Goverment research benefits all corporations in the whole country(or the whole world) so people pool money together to do things that benefit everybody, which is the entire concept of goverments and taxation.
There’s research that shows that if we had people hug and socialize more even if by a few times a day. Their quality and outlook on life is more likely to be optimistic and actually boost productivity indirectly. And is also know to reduce suicidal tendencies. The same also happens if you keep the streets clean and force people to walk an extra 20 minutes a day exposed to the sun. Or if you own a pet that suites your personality. All those things boost your life’s quality by a bit. This all of course depends on the individual but it usually works.
@@rageraptor7127 Yeah, but the chemical your body fills up with when you are touched, also makes you gossip more, judge outsiders more, and sometimes makes your behavior in a more racist way. You're talking about Oxytocin right?
Count me among those slapping my head at ridiculous amounts of taxpayer money being spent on ridiculous-sounding research projects … until I watched this video. Rarely have I ever hand my mind diametrically changed in such a short amount of time. It's like a perfect video.
@@intrepidca80 How many examples do I need to give of private firms like Monsanto, 3M, and Exxon using their own funded research to back their products that end up being carcinogenic or harmful to the environment?
@@PityMe And State-funded research gave us such wonders as the atomic bomb. I'm not sure exactly what your point is, though. I have not said anything to imply that one ought to trust a firm's own statements regarding the safety of its products.
So, you really believe that private investors will fund levitating frogs, or Fermat's weird prime number ramblings? BTW, actual numbers show that what you describe is not true - in countries that perform very limited basic science research, private companies never pick up the slack. I wonder why that is? And then we have funding bias, which is enough of a problem with research as-is - the worst that could happen is to have even more of it in fundamental studies.
The problem with basic research is that there's no guarantee that the people who do the investing will be the ones to benefit, and thus like any public good, nobody wants to pay for it but everyone wants to benefit from it.
@Michael Enquist I don't think individuals will be persuaded by the offer of prestige, I think it will be governments and large institutions who want to raise their reputation. My university has gone from a purely teaching university to a fairly significant research institute in 30 years, and largely I think it was to compete with the older, established neighbouring university (and to develop an international reputation to attract foreign students). Our current government seems to have little understanding of the value of science, but previous governments obviously did and established funding bodies for medical and fundamental research. The previous push was probably borne out of a need for medical innovation, food security and defence concerns after the first world war. With no impending world wars to force innovation and no huge bags of excess cash lying around, how can you convince a modern government to fund basic research? I think the best argument is that good fundamental research, based on curiosity and passion, not only provides leads to potential future breakthroughs and products, but it creates a pool of highly-skilled labour. That highly-skilled labour network attracts more high-skilled labour and that's where you start to see innovative products developing and the birth of new industries.
Michael Enquist, the answer is there isn’t a way. It’s about money and keeping investors happy. Could perhaps pass new research grants from the govt to help a few out but again, unless it’s a charity they can’t risk blowing money (in the public eye).
@@awesomelyshorticles I've always agreed with Plato that what we really need is a philosopher-king. One wise man or woman with absolute power at the top. Unfortunately, good people who are willing to take that power and that can handle it are hard to find. This is why we fall back on a system like democracy, which attempts to prevent any one person from gaining too much power. Term limits are important for preventing a democratic system from spawning a tyrant. It's not 100% successful, but it is telling of its effect that this term limit is one of the first things dictators in the making get out of the way. Think of Julius Caesar, Adolf Hitler and Darth Sidious...
Paradox It probably was the cost of the lab and buying the rats and rat food and water and other gear you need to take care of rats. Also they need to pay scientist so they can survive and keep doing research. They need to pay bills somehow.
@@melonetta depends on the degree/major and the actual institution. With only a few exceptions, the school doesn't matter so go to the inexpensive state school; and if you wan to study art, take your money and go live in Paris for a couple years...
Much of our economy has a hard time taking in to account externalities. Be it positive externalities or negative ones. If we do not try to somehow factor in externalities then we will have a lot of inefficiencies in the system. Those 20-60% return on investment as mentioned in the video would be simply gone. And that is just what relates to basic research. Now add that to all other activities we do that have little to no effect on our selves but impacts others greatly. This I see as one of the greatest challenge we have towards making a productive economy. Luckily we do a fair amount of instruments to actually offset this issue. So it not a problem we can not tackle or haven't tackle before.
At 0:50, In India it is common knowledge that you massage a baby everyday to strengthen the babies bones and muscles. Let's wait till the end of the video to see what this video says.
Most basic research NEVER pays off. However, we have no clue in advance what will pay off and what will not. It's a lottery. We can't not pay to research "silly things" because those "silly things" could turn out to be gold mines.
Very true, but if we are more money efficient we could do more of those things. I do not see why in the world it took the price of a nice house in the suburbs to figure out that animals and humans enjoy massages.
This is why college (tertiary education) should be free worth the investment community college and vocational for all if you get good enough grades 4+ universities bachelors and masters. Just redirect a tiny percentage of the defense budget or better yet find the wasted and fraudulent spent money from DOD and use that
It's not quite as bad as you make it sound, but it's very close indeed. I mean the people who use (publicly funded) research still put some work into actually *making* the product that we pay for - apart from that tiny bit I fully agree though.
Even research with specific application in mind often unexpected results. Fourier analysis was originally used to study heat transfer but became the foundation of system engineering and arguably enabled the development of a majority of modern technology.
@@chingizzhylkybayev8575 they haven't had too for a long while because the government covers it. In countries and industries where the government doesn't fund basic research companies do it themselves.
I am a research tech and I love these types of videos that explain why it’s important to invest in science! It’s not a business, it’s a method of knowing!
I remember in Iran we always where told Zakaria Razi wanted to make metal into gold and that's how he discovered alcohol, my point is that science can be discovered in many different ways
What's interesting is at the hospital?And that my son was born at didn't really do the massage but I had read about it.And had watch videos on it.I ended up doing it for him.He's now 3 foot tall.Two years old and he was born six weeks premature
#1, I do love this channel, so hopefully this is taken in the spirit with which it is intended. I am 100% on board with the conclusion that funding is needed for basic research, provided that the funding is individually voluntary. As soon as you make it a tax payer funded issue, then someone has to make decisions about whether or not something is a good use of those funds, which as was addressed here, is seldom clear. Ultimately there's no moral argument you could make that justifies taking, through threat of imprisonment, from one person and then using it for discretionary research. This whole channel, and many like it, operate on a model of community support. If you can't get people to voluntarily offer their financial support then it just doesn't get done.
@@emmastrange5557 okay, so ignoring the ridiculous ultimatum, who then should decide what research is worthy of the public $? Is it Trump + McConnell, or maybe it was Obama + Schumer, depending on your political affiliation?? Or maybe the two should have nothing to do with one another.
@Toat Burner "Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all.” ~ Frederic Bastiat
@@CameronGo democratically elected leaders, yes. Although simplifying that to just the president is pretty dishonest and you know it. The president doesn't personally assign the budget for every thing.
Not all Science needs to have a purpose! Fundamental research for its own sake is extremely important for the future progress of humanity. It's just a harder sell to funding agencies compared with more applied research (cancer, etc.).
I'm amazed this hasn't been mass down voted. I'm thankful of course, and it bolsters my trust in humanity, but when you mentioned taxes I was expecting the usual nonsense you see everywhere else on the internet. Minute Physics have done a grand job of community management!
My culture always said that new born babies need massage, my sibling and I were massaged every night and morning while growing up until we reached puberty.
As a grad student in science, thank you for making this video. Although I don't do science for the economic benefits, this really validates my curiosity about the world.
Never Knows Best Companies? May I ask which ‘companies’ are benefitting from patients being discharged faster and needing less paid medical care? I feel like you missed the word ‘government’ when she explained who is saving. You clearly don’t know much about healthcare, American or free nationalised healthcare in other countries.
Also, are you saying babies staying in hospital for less time, medicine evolving and making economic, social and environmental improvements to our society is a bad thing because you pay taxes for those national improvements??? The selfishness and narrow-mindedness here is unbelievable
@@allseriousness what medical product? The idea behind basic research is it reveals truth about the world that can be used by any number of industries and therefore impossible to patent. It's also very long term, the example given in the video took hundreds of years to become a valuable asset. Libertarianism is an objectively terrible ideology.
James Cockerham While I don't completely agree with Toast Burner about his judgement on libertarianism, I think you're wrongly assuming that there's an immediate economic incentive behind basic research. Also, since now many bugs are resistant to antibiotics, let's look at phages, the viruses that kill superbugs: a nice video about this topic shows that both the FDA, (libertarians might like this), and private enterprises, (democratic socialists might like this) create problems about this topic, because there's not much to patent with a phage. th-cam.com/video/aVTOr7Nq2SM/w-d-xo.html Actually, now it makes sense that phages survived only in a handful of former communist countries: there's much more money to be made with antibiotics that can easily be patented than with phages that you can find pretty much in any filthy sewage. There are always stories like these, stories that challenge what we think and suggest us to see things in a different perspective.
It's crazy for a german with free health-care and many goverment subsidized research, that americans need to know that a program on health improvment actual saves money for the tax payer :/
or we can incentivize businesses to fund public research through Social Good ranking systems. Environmental business buildings are rated up to platinum tier for how efficiently they use energy and affect the environment; if this was done with research, businesses could gain prestige and marketing power without costing taxpayers directly or using taxpayer money to fund grants.
My favourite example is actually Quantum Tunneling. Sounds like a pretty useless information, right? Well, unless you have ever used a USB stick, SSD or that memory in a Smartphone. Because all non-volatie flash memory *depends* on it. Pretty far out there Physics stuff. And you literally have the results in your pocket.
In every strategy game, research is a ressource around which the game revolves. They guy or gal with the best tech is wrecking their opponents. So, invest more in science!
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Basic Research:
Here's something that may be worth a lot. Restoring people's lost hearing. It's definitely worth a video. Please fact check the links.
If you are looking for interesting topics to make videos about, you may want to focus on some recent research on curing hear loss. This is a problem that affects millions of people, and there are prospects on the way. I hope you take the time to look at the following websites that are reporting on this.
www.karplab.net/team/jeff-karp
www.futurity.org/hearing-loss-cochlear-regeneration-1888982/
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So practically if you’re going to become a scientist or researcher it’s best to be the weird kid in school?
So, can you do a video explaining that jump from levitating frogs to the invention of graphene? I feel like a little bit of information was missed here.
There used to be a great show on the History channel called "Connections^2" and it was basically these stories. It would start out with: Levitating Frogs, and then wander around some chains, then end up at Graphene Chains, and you'd see this cool connecting thread.
It was research on diamagnetism and the properties of diamagnetic materials. Somewhere along the way they built this rig with a supermagnet that could levitate diamagnetic materials and started throwing all sorts of stuff into the rig. The frogs were there to investigate the effects on living animals. They were never the focus of the research, just researchers having fun.
It was the same guy: Andre Geim
. There isn't much else connecting the two.
Reminds me of this video: "and one thing led to another... thats such a lazy thing to use, you're an author, you're supposed to tell me how one thing led to another: "an Austrian boy was rejected from art school, one thing led to another and The USA threw two atomic bombs on the sovereign nation of Japan"
r/restofthefuckingowl
This video reminds of a great quote by Michael Faraday
"what good is electricity? "
“What good is a newborn baby?” -
-Michael Faraday
“Soon you will be able to tax it.”
That’s dark.
@@JamesTheFoxeArt that's capitalism
@@manchest_hair_united1161 taxes involve governaments interventions, so, no capitalism, becausa taxes are acts off the governament, so no free market and complete State intervation, which it actually is the contrary, as countries with more welfare progams have more taxes.
@@JoaoPedro-lu5kl I don't think they specified government taxes, unless we're talking about the babies.
Correct, i think electrticity is a useless as computers. I barely know anyone who owns more then 5 computers, so the prediction was right!
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers,"
Thank you!! I am one of the "stupid guys" who does the basic research.. Unfortunately, the people in my country only glorify the ones that can apply the result of basic research and earn huge money. Even the government keeps asking how a certain research benefits the community in 2 years.
At least you dont live un México, were the president himself mocks the cientific research
@@Tadeo_Rodrigo_Composer that sounds better than south Africa -- but one third worlder to another, that sounds terrible!
Are we factoring in the cost of tax avoidance, tax collecting, bureaucracy? Even if the rate of return came out high, is that an excuse for taxation? Who else can take wealth by threat of violence if it returns societal benefit? Clearly nobody, which makes this is a fine piece of pro state propaganda. Thanks minute earth!
Yep, firms don’t invest in basic research cuz there’s no immediate payout (ie a business’s main goal is to keep the investors happy -> quick profits).
Yep, even though scientists generally work hard doing science and that's all they want to do, I get the impression that they spend a lot of time on grant proposals--basically on justifying why they should continue to get paid. But if it was easy, everyone would be doing it.
If only they had studied why people from Nepal massage their new born babies regularly for almost 1.5 years.
with their.... tongues?!
Not with their tongues obviously. We do this in India too
In India we also do
What
That's interesting
This short little video is SO important. Thank you, MinuteEarth for talking about the importance of research, and how corporations profit from it without compensating the researchers.
Corporations pay taxes, and tax money is used to fund research. Goverment research benefits all corporations in the whole country(or the whole world) so people pool money together to do things that benefit everybody, which is the entire concept of goverments and taxation.
Corporations compensate the researchers everyday by paying taxes regardless of whether or not they profit from the research
If every rat on the NYC Subway had a massage every day, the subway would be a better place
Avery The Cuban-American bro I literally see you everywhere
... for rats.
that would just mean more rats lol
There’s research that shows that if we had people hug and socialize more even if by a few times a day. Their quality and outlook on life is more likely to be optimistic and actually boost productivity indirectly. And is also know to reduce suicidal tendencies. The same also happens if you keep the streets clean and force people to walk an extra 20 minutes a day exposed to the sun. Or if you own a pet that suites your personality. All those things boost your life’s quality by a bit. This all of course depends on the individual but it usually works.
@@rageraptor7127 Yeah, but the chemical your body fills up with when you are touched, also makes you gossip more, judge outsiders more, and sometimes makes your behavior in a more racist way.
You're talking about Oxytocin right?
Count me among those slapping my head at ridiculous amounts of taxpayer money being spent on ridiculous-sounding research projects … until I watched this video.
Rarely have I ever hand my mind diametrically changed in such a short amount of time. It's like a perfect video.
We must spend more in levitating frogs!
Apparently they cherry picked the right examples.
@@intrepidca80 How many examples do I need to give of private firms like Monsanto, 3M, and Exxon using their own funded research to back their products that end up being carcinogenic or harmful to the environment?
@@PityMe And State-funded research gave us such wonders as the atomic bomb. I'm not sure exactly what your point is, though. I have not said anything to imply that one ought to trust a firm's own statements regarding the safety of its products.
So, you really believe that private investors will fund levitating frogs, or Fermat's weird prime number ramblings?
BTW, actual numbers show that what you describe is not true - in countries that perform very limited basic science research, private companies never pick up the slack. I wonder why that is?
And then we have funding bias, which is enough of a problem with research as-is - the worst that could happen is to have even more of it in fundamental studies.
The problem with basic research is that there's no guarantee that the people who do the investing will be the ones to benefit, and thus like any public good, nobody wants to pay for it but everyone wants to benefit from it.
@Michael Enquist I don't think individuals will be persuaded by the offer of prestige, I think it will be governments and large institutions who want to raise their reputation. My university has gone from a purely teaching university to a fairly significant research institute in 30 years, and largely I think it was to compete with the older, established neighbouring university (and to develop an international reputation to attract foreign students).
Our current government seems to have little understanding of the value of science, but previous governments obviously did and established funding bodies for medical and fundamental research. The previous push was probably borne out of a need for medical innovation, food security and defence concerns after the first world war.
With no impending world wars to force innovation and no huge bags of excess cash lying around, how can you convince a modern government to fund basic research?
I think the best argument is that good fundamental research, based on curiosity and passion, not only provides leads to potential future breakthroughs and products, but it creates a pool of highly-skilled labour. That highly-skilled labour network attracts more high-skilled labour and that's where you start to see innovative products developing and the birth of new industries.
Michael Enquist, the answer is there isn’t a way. It’s about money and keeping investors happy.
Could perhaps pass new research grants from the govt to help a few out but again, unless it’s a charity they can’t risk blowing money (in the public eye).
An often recurring problem in many long-term projects is that politicians have an attention span of four years max...
All the more reason to get government out of science.
@Yevhenii Diomidov I like your optimism.
This is why term limits are such a bad idea. You need long term leadership to see something through to fruition.
@@awesomelyshorticles I've always agreed with Plato that what we really need is a philosopher-king. One wise man or woman with absolute power at the top. Unfortunately, good people who are willing to take that power and that can handle it are hard to find. This is why we fall back on a system like democracy, which attempts to prevent any one person from gaining too much power. Term limits are important for preventing a democratic system from spawning a tyrant. It's not 100% successful, but it is telling of its effect that this term limit is one of the first things dictators in the making get out of the way. Think of Julius Caesar, Adolf Hitler and Darth Sidious...
Or just have a small limited government that cannot fuck up too much. The less stuff it handles, the better.
MinuteEarth: Why We Should Invest In Rat Massage?
Me: To increase the chances that a rat will step on AntMan's Minivan and help destroy Thanos
Nah, that was just Disney showing us that Mickey Mouse decide the destiny of the universe
Matpat was awesome on that particular video
*y e s*
Say that to NIH grant review panels. 99% of the time they would shot down any basic research grant unless it has some direct clinical relevance.
Yes, because they receive many, many more applications than they could possibly fund. This is a good thing.
0:15 that must've been one hell of a soft brush for it to cost $250,000 🤣
Paradox It probably was the cost of the lab and buying the rats and rat food and water and other gear you need to take care of rats. Also they need to pay scientist so they can survive and keep doing research. They need to pay bills somehow.
@@Asteroid_Jam it was a joke though
r/whoosh
@@spritelin r/whoosh
Governments tend to be quite wasteful.
This is why I subscribed. For just this video.
That’s it.
same
pay a little now or pay a lot later --> definition of education
Unless you're college student and do both :D
@@melonetta depends on the degree/major and the actual institution. With only a few exceptions, the school doesn't matter so go to the inexpensive state school; and if you wan to study art, take your money and go live in Paris for a couple years...
@@MrCoxmic
What if you already don't have money to begin with
As a basic researcher, I'd like to thank you for this.
We need to invest in _Me_ massage
"He used magnets to levitate a frog"
I'm not you but if i were that frog that would be a success to me.
"Why we should invest in rat massage", You don't need to tell me anything else, i'm in.
Animal tests that I can actually stand behind, this is adorable!
This video make me remembered, "Tom & Jerry"
1 year ago and first comment is this
me too
Me:Watches Video
Also Me:Attempts to massage baby brother...
Nobody :
MinuteEarth : *RAT MASSAGE*
Much of our economy has a hard time taking in to account externalities. Be it positive externalities or negative ones. If we do not try to somehow factor in externalities then we will have a lot of inefficiencies in the system. Those 20-60% return on investment as mentioned in the video would be simply gone. And that is just what relates to basic research. Now add that to all other activities we do that have little to no effect on our selves but impacts others greatly. This I see as one of the greatest challenge we have towards making a productive economy. Luckily we do a fair amount of instruments to actually offset this issue. So it not a problem we can not tackle or haven't tackle before.
At 0:50,
In India it is common knowledge that you massage a baby everyday to strengthen the babies bones and muscles.
Let's wait till the end of the video to see what this video says.
Okay, I was more or less completely off the track.
Most basic research NEVER pays off. However, we have no clue in advance what will pay off and what will not. It's a lottery. We can't not pay to research "silly things" because those "silly things" could turn out to be gold mines.
Very true, but if we are more money efficient we could do more of those things. I do not see why in the world it took the price of a nice house in the suburbs to figure out that animals and humans enjoy massages.
They said we will have flying cars
But instead we have rat massages
Worth it
Sounds like a fair trade.
Good trade
2:19 actually stopped to solve the maze lol
Ya and it so easy
This is why college (tertiary education) should be free worth the investment community college and vocational for all if you get good enough grades 4+ universities bachelors and masters.
Just redirect a tiny percentage of the defense budget or better yet find the wasted and fraudulent spent money from DOD and use that
Yet another example of how potential losses are socialized while realized profits are eagerly privatized.
It's not quite as bad as you make it sound, but it's very close indeed.
I mean the people who use (publicly funded) research still put some work into actually *making* the product that we pay for - apart from that tiny bit I fully agree though.
That's what you get when government funds something.
A truly happy outcome from well endowed allowance for science and research ;)
Even research with specific application in mind often unexpected results. Fourier analysis was originally used to study heat transfer but became the foundation of system engineering and arguably enabled the development of a majority of modern technology.
Nobody:
MinuteEarth: We should invest in rat massages!
No one:
MinuteEarth: Let’s invest in rat massages
In other words: capitalism is not the way to a brighter future for science and mankind
Oh really?
fee.org/articles/the-government-rd-canard/
fee.org/articles/aviation-people-and-incentives/
They just cherry picked their examples.
Erm, no? This says the opposite of that. Stop filtering the word through your ideological lens.
@@CM-db5cg it says exactly that. Private firms do not invest in basic research.
@@chingizzhylkybayev8575 they haven't had too for a long while because the government covers it. In countries and industries where the government doesn't fund basic research companies do it themselves.
@@CM-db5cg no they don't. Well, normally they don't. There are no market incentives to do so.
I'm focusing more on how cute these illustrations are than the video content itself!
I am a research tech and I love these types of videos that explain why it’s important to invest in science! It’s not a business, it’s a method of knowing!
Very important video thanks
0:01 No, it's sponsored by Rats
That's all kinds of awesome.
Thanks, as always, for this video!!!
The slogan should have been: ‚Make science, not war‘ 😉
In India it is a tradition to massage babies and it is said to aid better growth. We also have a huge market of various baby oils
Hmmm well in this case when ever I see a baby human or otherwise I will give it a massage.
I remember in Iran we always where told Zakaria Razi wanted to make metal into gold and that's how he discovered alcohol, my point is that science can be discovered in many different ways
I know why he wants to invest in rat messages, he wants to *send* the blackplague
*_I now deserve to have it because of that joke_*
Just discovered your channel love it very interesting
1980s: We'll have flying cars in the future
2019:
2019: Giving to baby rats massages helped the science.
What's interesting is at the hospital?And that my son was born at didn't really do the massage but I had read about it.And had watch videos on it.I ended up doing it for him.He's now 3 foot tall.Two years old and he was born six weeks premature
"why you should invest in rat massage"
STONKS
These videos always put a smile on my face😀
You should also massage baby rats because rats make great pets. They're super friendly when raised properly!
TH-cam promotion to get good summary grades come in my head so much fun as well so
I highly recomend messaging rats of all ages. Old rats love it too.
#1, I do love this channel, so hopefully this is taken in the spirit with which it is intended. I am 100% on board with the conclusion that funding is needed for basic research, provided that the funding is individually voluntary. As soon as you make it a tax payer funded issue, then someone has to make decisions about whether or not something is a good use of those funds, which as was addressed here, is seldom clear. Ultimately there's no moral argument you could make that justifies taking, through threat of imprisonment, from one person and then using it for discretionary research. This whole channel, and many like it, operate on a model of community support. If you can't get people to voluntarily offer their financial support then it just doesn't get done.
If you don't like living in a society, move into the jungle.
@@emmastrange5557 okay, so ignoring the ridiculous ultimatum, who then should decide what research is worthy of the public $? Is it Trump + McConnell, or maybe it was Obama + Schumer, depending on your political affiliation?? Or maybe the two should have nothing to do with one another.
@Toat Burner "Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all.”
~ Frederic Bastiat
@@GrimFaceHunter ok, but what's socialism got to do with anything?
@@CameronGo democratically elected leaders, yes. Although simplifying that to just the president is pretty dishonest and you know it. The president doesn't personally assign the budget for every thing.
3:54 "making MinuteEarth would be impossible without the support of our partners like NordVPN"
Patreon: am I a joke to you?
“Electromagnets levitating frogs” was so not on my bingo card today
Not all Science needs to have a purpose!
Fundamental research for its own sake is extremely important for the future progress of humanity. It's just a harder sell to funding agencies compared with more applied research (cancer, etc.).
You started with the expenditure; you went on with the money saved. At that point, I was surprised that you somehow managed to remember the babies.
I'm amazed this hasn't been mass down voted.
I'm thankful of course, and it bolsters my trust in humanity, but when you mentioned taxes I was expecting the usual nonsense you see everywhere else on the internet. Minute Physics have done a grand job of community management!
Taxation is theft. And their examples are cherry picked.
fee.org/articles/aviation-people-and-incentives/
YAY IM SO GLAD I TURNED THE NOTIFICATIONS ON
*_This video was sponsored by Rat Gang_*
Millitary spending 600 billion
People: mhm it’s good
Nasa : 20 billion
People: Naniii?
meanwhile spacex having a 10year budget of 1 bilion
zeroth (also I stopped being a MinuteEarth partner because the titles are a little too clickbait-y)
i'm going to brush-pet my rat now, I was peting him the wrong way his whole life!
Because Rats get stressed too.
):
#StressRelieveForRats
Great vid!
If only my parents loved me. I would have been taller
Baby rats : *is healthy *
Scientists : *HMMMMMM*
I’m kind of late, but I’ll still say that I upload waffles every day
My culture always said that new born babies need massage, my sibling and I were massaged every night and morning while growing up until we reached puberty.
As a scientist and researcher I would really appreciate it if the term researcher could be changed to 'ultranerd' in future MinuteEarth videos.
As a grad student in science, thank you for making this video. Although I don't do science for the economic benefits, this really validates my curiosity about the world.
Let’s be honest, no one searched for this
Correct!
It is proven by science!
Amazing video again
Lulz yeah companies have made a fortune creating patents using taxpayer funded data.
Never Knows Best Companies? May I ask which ‘companies’ are benefitting from patients being discharged faster and needing less paid medical care? I feel like you missed the word ‘government’ when she explained who is saving. You clearly don’t know much about healthcare, American or free nationalised healthcare in other countries.
Also, are you saying babies staying in hospital for less time, medicine evolving and making economic, social and environmental improvements to our society is a bad thing because you pay taxes for those national improvements??? The selfishness and narrow-mindedness here is unbelievable
Teacher: why are you laughing
Me: nothing
My brain: *L E V I T A T I N G F R O G*
That was even a thing?
Woooow.
Yeyyyyyy.
The more you know ^^
2:51 purple necromancer
I don't think anyone would mind if you talked an octave lower
She sounds like narrating a a children's story. I was wondering if anyone else noticed. 👍
That's not usually what people mean when they talk about tone policing. But apparently it is similar enough to bring up.
Let private business do this not tax payers
James Cockerham But... What incentives does private business have to do this?
@@ab-ul1yz to make money selling medical product
@@allseriousness what medical product? The idea behind basic research is it reveals truth about the world that can be used by any number of industries and therefore impossible to patent. It's also very long term, the example given in the video took hundreds of years to become a valuable asset.
Libertarianism is an objectively terrible ideology.
James Cockerham While I don't completely agree with Toast Burner about his judgement on libertarianism, I think you're wrongly assuming that there's an immediate economic incentive behind basic research. Also, since now many bugs are resistant to antibiotics, let's look at phages, the viruses that kill superbugs: a nice video about this topic shows that both the FDA, (libertarians might like this), and private enterprises, (democratic socialists might like this) create problems about this topic, because there's not much to patent with a phage. th-cam.com/video/aVTOr7Nq2SM/w-d-xo.html Actually, now it makes sense that phages survived only in a handful of former communist countries: there's much more money to be made with antibiotics that can easily be patented than with phages that you can find pretty much in any filthy sewage. There are always stories like these, stories that challenge what we think and suggest us to see things in a different perspective.
Why would you say something so controversial yet so brave?
0:34 it's Remy!
Perhaps it's self-interest. You'd want a job that study Cats... for example.
Imagine a diabolical machine that when you press a button either spits out a random amount of $ or a random infant.
Massaging rats or rats massaging us?😅
This is such an amazing and interesting story to me!
I also grow when massaged. ;)
mhmmm... "if you know what I mean" ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Ew
The title tho... luv it
I prefer placing a rat on my chest covered by a bucket and start burning the bucket to die medieval style
I got a massage ad after this video lmao
It's crazy for a german with free health-care and many goverment subsidized research, that americans need to know that a program on health improvment actual saves money for the tax payer :/
I thought the rat thing was ONLY for rats... Didn't know humans like these treatments as babies too
Thank you :)
There is no good, justified use of tax dollars.
Nah
or we can incentivize businesses to fund public research through Social Good ranking systems. Environmental business buildings are rated up to platinum tier for how efficiently they use energy and affect the environment; if this was done with research, businesses could gain prestige and marketing power without costing taxpayers directly or using taxpayer money to fund grants.
Someone: Rat massage is good
Me: SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY
I don't know what's the point of this but i'm 100% approve
My favourite example is actually Quantum Tunneling. Sounds like a pretty useless information, right?
Well, unless you have ever used a USB stick, SSD or that memory in a Smartphone. Because all non-volatie flash memory *depends* on it.
Pretty far out there Physics stuff. And you literally have the results in your pocket.
In every strategy game, research is a ressource around which the game revolves. They guy or gal with the best tech is wrecking their opponents. So, invest more in science!
Love how you put pokémon in all your vids