Showing My Desk to Adam Savage

Hello Vsauce Michael, here the eye is a mirror. When you look into one eye, you can see a small version of yourself that looks like a doll version of yourself. The Latin word for doll is a few pills, that's where we get the The word pupil for a young student and the word pupil for the dark hole in the middle of your eye is a pupil because when you look inside it you see the pupil of yourself, the small version of yourself in a doll and today something awaits you. a little different than usual, but I think you will like it.

I've been working with Adam Savage on our Brain Candy live tour and decided to give him a tour of my Brain Candy, the little things I keep on my

desk

. I work on all the days that are head candy, but before that, here's a sneak peek of Brain Candy live, but not really, this is Brain Candy, we've literally been here, yeah, this is the show that we have been the last. A couple of days here and all the little pieces of colored paper suitable for you are blurred because we don't want to reveal them, yeah, well, maybe give them away.

You have to come on the show, oh yeah, let's not ruin this. above, that's how I think through a narrative, it's like this or on a whiteboard, yeah, I can't actually write it linearly, yeah, and you can see how dense the parts are, you can see by colors, where the audience is involved , where there will be something dangerous and how maybe they will distribute them properly, okay, but wait, that's not why we're here, we're here because we're in Michael's amazing Vsauce space in Los Angeles and I notice your

desk

is Incredibly messy. and yet covered in things I wanted to get my hands on and we realized we should just film that so yeah let me know I wanted to clean it up but it didn't convince me no the way it is is the way we're going to film it, so this is just unadulterated truth, that's really what I do, so why are you feeling a little bit hesitant to show this?

This is amazing the way your deaths you couldn't engineer this. With so much chaos, I let you like a photo to go out, but I'm nervous because I mean, I don't know, there might be something here that makes me go, oh, that's embarrassing, like you know, okay, here's a Half drunk energy drink. yesterday I'm going to finish this today I like a floor I like the room temperature I really don't want to show you this Stirling engine is made with such precision that it works only with the heat of your hand, so spread out your palm and then we'll let it warm up by itself a second in the meantime, yeah, keep all that blood on your hand, but the thing is, it doesn't need much heat underneath, it just needs a temperature difference between the surface above. the disk on the top and the disk that your hand touches, so while you hold it because I can warm up that bottom a little bit, it's a funny phrase that I hear, let's admire some of India India India, it's the only element in the universe you can chew like gum what is a soft metal it gets softer when heated but it is also not toxic and is quite rare I heard it is on the list of endangered elements in a hundred years there may not be any found in the ground So, Is this a particularly large part of what a hundred years from now might or might not be?

I mean, there's some guesswork involved in knowing what the Earth has and what it will run out of. I'm dancing it with my fingernail. exactly and you can take a bite. I wouldn't recommend it because it's pretty cold here and it might be a little firmer than your teeth once, but I took a piece off and melted it in this glass because you can make amazing mirrors with this, this is like a wonderful bucket list for me of other things to play with because I think if we were to go through my desk and my space in my store, there would be a bunch of things that will be like oh I didn't know those existed, we have to get them, yeah, I'll give it a little twist, but like You'll notice, even though I didn't put in as much energy, it won't slow down.

Will move on How well does this engine work? It's all about temperature. A kinetic approach to defining temperature. The air is made of molecules that move and tremble. Their collisions produce what we call air pressure. Now we say that hot air expands, but in reality. It simply has more energy when a gas is heated, its kinetic energy increases, its molecules literally move faster in translation, rotation and vibration, as a result, the average force that they all exert when colliding increases if the container they are in does not is perfectly rigid, these collisions are stronger. On average, those coming from the other side will push the walls of the containers outwards expanding the interior space.

That's what happens in our engine. Our engine has two pistons, a power piston responsible for moving the large wheel and a displacer piston that transports the air inside. Your hand heats the air inside giving it more kinetic energy enough to push the power piston up turning the wheel, the movement of the wheels then pushes the displacer down moving the air away from the hotter bottom plate causing it to cool quickly and collide with the walls of the container and the power piston less frequently and with less force, so the piston falls turning the wheel with it, the momentum of the wheels now drags the disc laser piston upwards, pushing the air towards the hot plate where it gains energy, collides with the power piston with more force again and sends it back.

When starting the cycle again, it is surprising how quickly the air can cool and heat up enough to move the piston. It's fast. A classic example of this is the old egg-sucking trick. Put something burning in a bottle and stick a peeled boiled egg on top and suddenly. Poop, the egg falls into the bottle. This is often explained as being caused by a vacuum forming in the bottle because the oxygen inside was used up leaving fewer molecules inside to combat the pressure coming from the outside, but that is not true, the oxygen used by the fire would not disappear. of the universe, that would violate the laws of physics, but the flame converts it into water vapor and carbon dioxide.

However, there are fewer molecules in the bottle when the egg is placed on top, but not because they have been destroyed by a fire. instead, it is because the heat of the flame gave them enough energy to get out. The air pushing against the egg can escape because the egg is shaped such that lifting it opens this seal, but once the flame goes out, the air inside starts. to cool immediately and well there is less inside now the external atmospheric pressure is stronger but the shape of the egg is such that pushing this way only tightens the seal the air inside continues to cool pushing less and less until the pressure difference is enough so that the whole egg is pushed in and that is brain candy, if you ask me, the egg is not sucked into the bottle but is simply pushed in by the atmosphere because the pressure inside, which would normally push back equally, it has also weakened.

You don't actually suck liquid through a straw, you just make the air in your mouth push it through the straw less than usual so that the outside air can beat you and push the liquid into your mouth, so make sure to Let the haters know. Scientifically nothing sucks anyway, going back to how messy my desk is, I think this gives a good idea of ​​what I have in mind and what the facades look like; it's kind of like S, this is what an episode looks like in your head before it comes, yeah, and My tolerance for mess is very high, so if I need her to work, I wouldn't even move anything.

I'd say, "Look, the trackpad and keyboard are accessible, yes, yes, yes, but it's also inspiring to have little things at hand to play with." for example, these cast puzzles, but that one is called a spiral, oh wow, the crafting one on some of these puzzles is just that I didn't realize it was a puzzle. I just don't think all those pieces won't fall apart, yeah. It doesn't exactly seem possible and what they do is, I think, exercise the part of my brain that deals with three-dimensional realization because I don't think I'm very good at it. It takes me weeks to see something in my head, so I'm trying to let you know that what they're really good for is finger strength because they're heavy and if you pull one off for a whole day, yeah, you're like, oh my gosh. , I'm getting some good ones. tone when you sit and see something in your head, I mean it's the same way I build things I can't start building unless I can see the structure in my head, do you think you look great visualizing things in your mind, yes? no, there's actually a twist that happens and as a creator you start to be able to just build things in your head.

Wow, and turn it around to drive with the turtles, practice makes it a better skill, total practice makes it a better skill and every time I attack a new material it's the same this is another one that's another one and that one is really fascinating because when you pull it apart you don't see what's getting caught, how come it's not right no matter which way you hold it? and they will be blocked. These are like really modern Appalachian, like wire puzzles. Now look, look at this. I don't know if we can get a close-up of this, but you do have pins that fall due to gravity.

This way there is no way to unlock it unless a small centrifugal force occurs or more precisely inertia will cause them to move and if I give it a small twist it just falls apart. Wow, force it, it just wants to fall apart. once you have spun so beautiful, so yes, I have a lot of things here, I am solving all the puzzles, okay, this is a game with those, well, yes, then I will boil the solutions for those who are watching, who really should understand. In my topology of love theme right now, these are Spears being dissected into a bunch of pieces that I bought at the dollar store three for a dollar but yet the mechanism or design behind it is so clever and so easy to put back together. true, I actually uploaded it to Instagram.

I was really excited about the simplicity, yeah, how it separates and comes together. This is, we, when we finished Mythbusters, we packed up my desk and it was exactly like that, like a couple hundred pounds of this stuff, yeah. this desk is super heavy for several reasons one is the tungsten cube oh there it is not that surprising ah this is bigger but not as heavy and it's solid steel it's a plumb bob and I used it on the And if? The earth stopped spinning, the video was so heavy I could tape a camera to it and then put the camera on a pendulum, so I noticed you have a lot of different materials and I saw you open this. one before, oh I think they opened up, yeah, so this is a set of density cubes, each cube measures one inch by one inch by one inch and it gives you a really good idea of ​​the density and how different they are. they feel things.

One of my favorite things to do is because different metals have different thermal conductivity, I would like to take out some of the ones that are once copper that have a let's do it. I'm anything copper and I'll mix them up so I don't know which one is which and I'll just put them on my forehead and try to guess which one is which one feels cooler and the one that feels cooler must be copper it has a hopper that may feel cooler the question is which one is covered I feel like the cooler Is it the Michael Michael school that is for everyone the coolest, but between these two the coolest is?

I can not go wrong. I think you really can't go wrong. Yes, actually I can, but I'm thinking this one is copper. Hey, hey, I can tell you have a little anxiety about that job. I knew I could do it if I didn't do well on camera. I would look silly, by the way, my desk is full of pens that you can't really see in the video that they are erasable pins because the ink inside them becomes invisible when heated. You can erase the ink on this pin by simply rubbing the other end of the pen over the ink, heating it to the invisible point, a really fun way to erase a lot of things at once is to simply use a flame.

These are also a density set, but in this case each cylinder weighs 100 grams, which is 100 grams of aluminum and this is LED and that is LED and then we have brass, copper, I think zinc and steel, it is a standard tarnish in the lead, I don't know because it's tarnished, the part that is, that's the edge of the wood, the reason I ask is because of humidity or something, one of the Maltese originals. Falcons, two of the original power strips were made of lead and now they have this very dark brown patina on them and I've wondered, I've never wondered this out loud, but I've wondered if the brown patina is something that happens;

It should, but why didn't it happen? On the court that was exposed to the air, I am actually noticing an interesting page in the brass and copper, as well as the contact with the woods. Yes, it could be oils in the wood. Multi-softening could be brown due to many people handling it. Yes, it could be goodSo what do you think is the worst thing someone could conclude from looking at your desk? I wouldn't be sad if I concluded that I was disorganized because that is true, well, there is disorganization and there is disorganization, you are not inhibited from getting your job done well, yes, exactly, it is a piece of calcite that has that property of birefringence, just where, If you know, what's good here?

That's double vision, except you have double vision. Yeah, look, I'm not disorganized. I can find a notepad in a second. So let's draw it like a circle, yeah, that's not a big circle, that's right, and then let's rotate it, oh, no way, yeah. Okay, so what's the most recent object? Yes, thanks for parking my loose tooth. What's the most recent thing you've brought into space? The most recent. I guess with oh, that's really cool, isn't it cool? That's a call. TV rock is a piece of black site with great fiber optic properties. I discovered that the famous fact that the polar bear was first supposed to be fiber optics is not true, oh, is it not? apparently he's not, so I didn't even know that fact, but If you told me and I'd believe it, you know, he's a total, he's one of those fools, oh yeah, totally.

I buy a newer object, the newest object, it's the speaker, oh, I saw this yesterday, yes, it came in the curio box this third one. one and it looks like a lab beaker, but it's a double-walled thing with a handle that you can drink coffee through and it has measurements in milliliters, but I was like milliliters, we've heard of those, let's use some crazy uses, right? So what do you value? My blood in your brain is the amount of saliva produced every three hours during the day. If you fill it up to 300 milliliters, it also tells you that the glass containing approximately 10 septal water molecules is also filled here.

Of course, I must point out the spitting error. I misspelled saliva on the Beger in each glass. In fact, it's completely my fault. I take all the blame and spit. If you're out there watching, know that I respect you even if I'm not perfect. I'm going to leave this behind because I just focused on the balloon and I'm right that it is one of those custom made balloons by that company in England, yes, Ballard b balloons, yes, oh, okay, yes, well, you can go to look for it, it is not. It's really a surprise that I love globes.

I have made many videos about what the Earth looks like, how our map projections were made and this was a gift from my wife on our wedding day. I'm flattered if you look up. of the world has written the company that made it one minute it says our names correctly and then it has the location of our wedding on the date and on the base it is there and it has a plaque that says to my husband on our wedding day, so these balloons are the most accurate. I know I'm very familiar with these balloons as I go to their website every few weeks and I think they make them really big, they make what's called Churchill, yeah, and you couldn't even hug them.

I think this is a reasonable place to stop for the desktop store. I'm going to go to a corner and watch this for a couple. Yes, sure, of course, I'll work a little. Hey, you saw Michael here, so there you are. go Brain Candy Live hits the road on February 21 traveling to 40 cities around the United States. Visit Brain Candy Live.com to see which cities they would be coming to and probably coming to one near you. For the rest of our global viewers, don't worry. We are considering and looking at tours and the rest of this beautiful shine, but for now it's just America, see you on the road and as always, thanks for watching, but wait, there's more, let's talk about eye blinking specifically, everyone we make.

It's a good thing that our eyes blink, but is there a possibility that at some point in the future there will come a time when every pair of eyes on Earth, every human being, blinks at exactly the same time? A moment we will all miss. When you plug in the tube, you blink anywhere from 30 times a minute to just three or four times a minute if you're obsessing about something like when you read, which may actually partly explain why your eyes can get dry or fatigued while reading. Also, a typical blink lasts between 100 and 300 milliseconds, which means that if you are awake for 16 hours a day and you blink, say 10 times a minute on average and your blinks are, to be conservative, only a hundred milliseconds long on a day of vigil spend about 16 minutes of your life in blink mode with your eyes closed, that's a lot of minutes to waste every day, but what about all of us blinking together?

Well, the calculations have been done on Reddit and the chances are not good, there is a zero point. zero zero zero zero zero four billion zeros plus 1% probability that today all humans blink at the same time or close their eyes because they are asleep, that is a very small probability even considering the number of days of life of the universe So far , you wouldn't expect to have seen this happen or see it happen, so remember, Earth, we are always watching and, as always, thank you for watching.