It might recognize human faces if it can recognize wasp faces. But who knows? That being said, the wasp from 6 years ago probably died of old age, or due to predation.
Anthonyist hmh likely they can same way we can recognise different trees, another way to put it is if you have a dog and run into 6 other dogs the exact same breed and look the exact same way you can still tell which is yours though they seem near identical. Just because it's not their spieces doesn't mean they can recognise it.
The Protagonist wasp are hundreds of times smaller than humans, it would be like a hamster sized human being able to recognize a whale. It’s simple not possible.
I feel like if I were a scientist and accidentally invented a new type of plastic or some such, I'm sure I'd be like "well, surely people with more experience know about this already".
Tim Smithen Aristocratic and wealthy Europeans were having ether huffing parties to get high for decades before a dentist connected the dots and discovered the first anesthesia.
I've often had the same thought. Followed by something like... well, if I were an actual scientist with degrees, I would have probably read a ton on the subject, including but not limited to published articles about new or recent discoveries so I would hope I would know if else I wouldn't be a very good scientist if I have no knowledge of current events and past events in my field. 😕
@@emilypresleysee The key here being "my field". In my example from 3 years ago, I said "accidentally invented". I feel that implies 'my field' being something reasonably different from the field of the invention. If I was a "plastic scientist" of some sort, inventing a new plastic would probably be the goal. But what if I were, say, a "cat food scientist"? I probably wouldn't be following the latest trends in plastic manufacturing. Not for work, anyway.
Makes one wonder how many 'almost discoveries' that have occurred over the years. Potential groundbreaking discoveries like these, missed because they weren't questioned, noticed, or preserved (say, an assistant disposed of it before anyone could examine it and they couldn't replicate the result).
During my PhD research I read many articles about crustal oscillations in neutron stars with dipole magnetic fields, but I realized that no one made studies using more complex magnetic fields, then I decided to do it in my PhD and now I have a PhD title in astrophysics.
People look at me (soon to be physician) funny when I say “my passion is physics but I’m not that kind of smart” and this is just another example of that lol I think astrophysics requires a certain kind of imagination that I just lack
Gibran - 1. Are you able to study the more complex magnetic fields that are around earth? 2. Are they moving? 3. If so, Do they always move? 4. Are they moving faster or more erratic than in the past? 5. Are lay, or ley line energy fields on earth real or just new age hyped up happy hippy horseshit? 6. If real, can you explain exactly what they are? I know. Astrophysics. Astronomy physics. Not geomagnetic earth physics. But it's not everyday that I have the opportunity to ask questions of an astrophysicist, a genuine educated professional person of science. I numbered my questions to make it easier for you to reply with brief answers, should you choose to do so.
@@derekskop1997 This reminds me of a time when I wrote “physician” instead of “physicist” when experimenting with Google search images and only realized that way later
"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not `Eureka!' (I've found it!) but `That's funny...'" -- Isaac Asimov
That is Sir Alexander Fleming thank you. Few truly deserve the title though he is one, he legitimately done everything he could to help save lives. The child he lost because of lack of penicillin at the start was truly heartbreaking to him
The history of penicillin is amazing and worth a movie. When they developed the process to harvest it, it was very inefficient so they searched for a better fungus that at least produces more of the wanted stuff. They worked together with the air force to collect random mould samples from all over the world - and found the best strain in a bin right outside of the institute. That's Spielberg material.
Please be specific when speaking scientifically. I read air force as in the force of air not Air Force as in the military organization. If you are not going to be serious....
@wunderduggy that's on you almost no one reads "the air Force" and thinks the force of air. That's just really weird and nitpicky to blame them for you being oblivious and not contextualizing the sentence properly. Nobody says "the air Force" to describe wind.
Cyanoacrylate. Accidentlaly discovered in 1942 by Harry Coover Jr. while trying to manufacture optical-quality acrylic rifle sights. They mixed something wrong and sound up with a formulation that stuck to everything that came in contact with it. Finding rejected. Re-discovered in 1951 by accident while Coover was working for Eastmen Kodak. This time, he realized that there _was_ some use to it and the first Cyanoacrylate superglue was born: Eastemen #910.
They prolly thought the wasps were sick and infected (imagine seeing a clown or zombie before comprehending fake makeup). The makeup looked real, so they attacked. It doesn't actually mean the wasps recognized their faces or not; inconclusive evidence.
Or it could be seen as invaders because they're territorial creatures. Paper wasps and yellow jackets won't build nests near existing ones. People even buy fake nests to deter new, real ones from moving in. So think of it more as a home invader, though I also like the zombie-clown wasp idea
If I’m not mistaken stainless steel was also an accidental discovery too. The inventor was working on steel alloys and put them in a closet, forgot about them for like a year and came back to see that one wasn’t rusted. Because he took notes he was able to trace back exactly the composition of the alloy and we got stainless steel now
It's great for knives, not so much for any blade length longer than a foot, as it becomes somewhat brittle (so no stainless steel swords), but stainless is certainly one of those "miracle inventions."
@@John-ir4id I'm not sure, but you might be refering to "lady betty", an irish female executioner: *_"Lady Betty is probably one of Ireland’s most infamous of women. Born in 1750, she married a poor farmer and had three children with him. After her husband’s death, Lady Betty left County Kerry to go to Roscommon. On the way, she lost her two youngest children to starvation._* *_With only her son left, the two reached Roscommon only to find themselves in the same situation as before. Her son could no longer stand being so destitute and left for America. Lady Betty stayed behind and years passed by. She rented out space in her room to travelers for extra pennies._* *_One night a young, wealthy man came to stay. Lady Betty saw the man had a lot of cash on him and in a mad desire to go see her son, she killed the man for his money. Sadly enough, the young man had been her son and Lady Betty turned herself in. She was sentenced to hanging._* *_Lady Betty’s background, a mother who lost three children, one by her own hand, was surely what formed her into the woman she would become. On the day of her hanging, there were 25 other people who were also to be hung and no hangman could be found to do the job._* *_No doubt, out of desperation, Lady Betty volunteered to do the job. She killed all the prisoners that day and the next day she executed some more._* *_Horrible stories surrounded the frightful Lady Betty who showed no reserve when it came to executing prisoners. For her own safety, she lived inside the Roscommon Jail and was buried there in 1807."_*
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No, she inadvertently painted them to look those jerks down the street!
That wasp got straight up abducted by aliens and he went home to tell all his friends about it but they didn't recognize him and killed him. All as part of an alien experiment.
I have a question about the wasp study How do they know that it was facial recognition, as opposed to the other wasps reacting to the altered smell of the painted wasps?
Because all the wasps already had paint on them, remember? The behavior towards paint-on-face wasps was different than their behavior towards paint-on-back wasps.
@@IceMetalPunk It might be interesting to paint over the wasp's marks again, but replicate the same shape/pattern so the marks would just be a different color. I wonder if the wasps could tell the difference between something covering the marking versus the markings being painted over. Would a smudge of blood or dirt be enough to hide the wasp's identity?? What if in the wild some wasps end up getting attacked or cast out because they get something on their face that covers their markings?? And what happens if a wasp gets a facial injury???? So many questions!
In '76, as my first ever Uni essay, I noticed the regular microstructure of cellular tubules, wondered if they might encode information - then went out for a beer. How many serendipitous near discoveries are slipping us by? :)
Wasps can recognise human faces too. There was an infertile wasp queen that lived in the van (horse tackroom). She got really used to seeing me and even tolerated me getting within inches of her. Bonus tip. Wasps get more agitated when you look at them. Also, in fall, when fruits start dropping because they got old, the wasps get drunk and that's what makes them mean. Now that I have learned about wasps, I no longer get stung unless I can't see the nest, like yellow jackets. But individual yellow jackets are somewhat peaceful. I've chilled out with some sitting on the arm of the swing. I think hornets are different though. I haven't seen enough of them to know what their triggers are. Also, Carpenter bees are super sweet and curious. They can't sting, and I've never had one bite. They mainly like to look at you and get in your face. Don't be afraid of them. If you don't like them burrowing into your wood siding, buy carpenter bee houses. Or make some! It would be a great project for kids, and they would learn about nature. If they built several, they could give them as gifts, or even sell them for some extra toy money.
"Even when you make a mistake, stay curious." When I don't get the expected results in college lab, the lab assistants will usually just tell me I must've messed something up, even if I ask what could've caused things to turn out differently. It seems schools don't exactly foster that type of curiosity. Kudos to the scientists who didn't retain that lesson not to be curious.
Jascha Bull That happened to me once, and not finding any way where I could have made the “mistake” , I asked If they would agree if I spent some time in the lab proving the experimental procedure wrong. They liked the challenge and I was able to prove that the result of the experiment was a function of the time one would spend in the queue to the spectrophotometer. They never had done the experiment themselves, just applied statistics to the results to calculate the grading. So the lesson learned was, if you are absolutely sure of what you did, you might have a shot at discrediting the whole experiment. To your own peril of course -if you can’t prove where the flaw in the experiment lies.
Jascha, well said! Thank you for being brilliantly curious. If we look at the world through the wholistic lens of complexity and interconnectivity then we always want to know why something happened and maybe why something else did not. The journeys of inquiry that sprout from, and are maintained by, these happy accidents are a crucial part of being human. I totally agree most schools do not foster this kind of curiosity and this needs to change for betterment of all.
@@anonymous.youtuber The real lesson is this: no one is responsible for your curiosity but yourself. Others may be able to assist from time to time, but they are busy on their own.
Is it odd that the first thing I think about when you say that quote is Under Siege 2 (starring Steven Seagull) and it being a favorite line of one of the villains. ... now I need to go watch that again...
I liked this presentation best so far. The willingness to be open minded helped. I worked as a salad preparer. I asked my son to tear up spinach be leaves for a home salad. He squeezed the leaves and crushed them with his hands. Actually, it improved the taste and texture. So, topped with my homemade sauce, it was my new type of spinach salad. Purely accidental, but from a genius son!!
It wasn't Flemming who discovered it, it was Flemming who owned the petri dishes and it was brought to his attention by his lab assistant instead of just washing the dishes out.
Interesting. The guy who first vulcanized rubber put his toys from home on top of the cold wood stove and went to yell at the lacky who was supposed to run around loading said stoves and starting fires in them to warm up the lab very early in the morning one winter. After a good long while Goodyear returned to his lab to find all the materials he had brought in that morning melted down on top of the now lit stove. Rubber and sulfur were among those items.
apple54345 The title of the video is "6 Accidental Discoveries You've Probably Never Heard Of" Hipsters are known to say "Yeah, you've probably never heard of it." I worded my comment poorly, so the joke I was trying to make is not very obvious.
Penicillin is usually credited to Fleming, but doctors had been working with penicillium to treat infections (experimentally) since the 1800s, and the ancient Egyptians used moldy bread on wounds (as well as honey which is antimicrobial). Fleming wasn't making a discovery from absolute darkness, he was prepared for his discovery by the work of others preceding him.
"a Parasitic Aphrodisiac, which could be a great band name." Oh my God, if that doesn't become a band soon, I'll be so sad! That'd be a perfect song or album name, too!
Craig yates especially when you see inventions of the ancient world, like the Baghdad battery, that little spinning sphere made in Rome (powered by heating water), and probably a lot of other inventions that made use of highly useful principles that no one at the time was able to see for what they were. And now that new things are being discovered pretty much daily the sheer number of useful things or even combinations of things to be made more useful is probably staggering. Future us will see this all in hindsight and want to scream about how all the answers to some unknown question that made their lives so much better were all around us and we will look like oblivious Neanderthals starring at a computer and ultimately using it to hit someone in the head with because we don't have a clue what it could do.
am I the only one that feels really bad for those wasps that got attacked by their friends who didnt recognize them cuz of the experimental face paint? :(
I think one of the greatest chance findings was RNAi. A researcher who intended to overexpress a blue protein in a flower actually found it actually knocked down the expression of the normal Gene. Most people would have pitched the results, but a follow-up found RNA was being expressed, it was just knocking down the normal RNA through a new mechanism now known as RNAi
Just watched the SciShow episode on "discoveries made by licking things" and had to keep reminding myself that the "cricket sex" bit of this video was *NOT* related to the licking video... o.o
It is nice to hear that the whole "Wasps recognize faces" was referring more to wasp faces than human faces, though I won't completely write off the possibility that a wasp could potentially remember me.
What if they painted the faces of all the wasps? Would it be a battle royale, or would the wasps avoid each other until they decided to form new social bonds?
Tippets gave some of the wasps a makeover painting on different features with a toothpick and when she reintroduced the doled up ones to the colony, *Friends and Family lashed out and attacked them. This put the painted wasps into a deep depression.*
Omg I feel famous lol Dr. Adamo is a professor in the Psych and Neuro department at my university. Hello from a (hopefully) future Animal Behaviourist at Dalhousie!! :)
Lol, I know the feeling, I know Jeanette Garcia through her brother. It's always amusing to us when she gets mentioned in videos like this especially since she doesnt really go by that name.
Honestly these scientists are smart as hell because everytime i make a mistake, I throw everything away and start over. Cudos to the scientists. Yall the real MVPs! 🙏🏽
I am curious for the Wasp facial recognition, have scientists tried looking at the facial markings under ultraviolet? wasps, bees, flies all have complex eyes, other experiments show bees can see ultraviolet. could wasps maybe utilize the same patterns that flowers do, or such as scorpions?
The ability to recognize that although that isn’t what you wanted, what did you get is something novel in itself. And continuing to experiment with that.
Im curious about the wavelengths that wasps see in. Does it extend into uv or ir? What else might they be clueing in on, when seeing other wasps, that we dont see?
Is it me or the 3rd dicovery could have been the scent of the make over that made the wasp attack or something like that..sorry for my bad english, i speak dutch.
There's a Cas (really two, Rx and 12) that binds only RNA. This is huge because it can make certain types of "genetic engineering" (not editing DNA so it's not really quite genetic) much safer. DNA breaks are super stressful on cells and even rare off-target mutations can lead to cancer. Modifying transient molecules that the cell already cuts on its own via splicing will be the way to go for many diseases, imo.
In science the biggest and best question when studying something is not "How to do something" or "How does it do what it does" but instead "Why did this item/creature do what it did instead of that?" It's not always the how, but also the why.
Great message. When I was in middle school a teacher told me everything had been invented and discovered already, there was no point going into science. I thankfully can't remember her stupid face but her ignorance inspired me both to become a scientist and raise another scientist. I'm raising my kid to know our world is so complex and we are always learning more about it. Take that, bad-teacher-lady!
The discovery of superconductivity was an undergrad tasked with measuring the resistance of metals down to absolute 0. Then the undergrad found that in many materials, that resistance suddenly drops to 0 below a certain point.
A series of happy accidents helped me perfect my BBQ sauce. Now it’s all the rage amongst my friends around Christmas time. I can it and give it away as presents.
I discovered a wasp can recognize faces more than 2 decades ago. I went to swat a red wasp in the house but I missed. It turned and looked at me so long it made me gulp nervously. That same wasp came after me (and only me) when I came back into the room after that... until I finally got it.
BlackCat2 we had a giant wasp in our old house in the bathroom and I am terrified of the things at the best of times (allergic too), but as the only adult in the house at the time, I had no choice but to try and whap the thing out of existence. Bad move. It kept coming after me, even though I left a few times (it got waaaay too close) so eventually I had to call a family friend to come and deal with it. Even then, it came after me while I was showing him where it was. Took hours to get the thing, but we got the sucker. *shudders at the memory* And people wonder why I am absolutely scared shitless by them. 😣
0:44 my favorite example is the guy who tried to engineer the perfect bubble mixture to create long lasting hard to pop bubbles. Finally got it right only to realize he didnt write it down. He started taking serious notes and tried to rediscover what he did and instead acciently created Wubble's, tough long lasting bubbles except they didn't float.
Thanks! As Louis Pasteur himself said, "In the fields of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind." You have to be willing to look deeply into mistakes, accidents, or other unexpected occurrences, and try to see *_why_* they happened the way they did. It's no good just scrapping the whole thing and starting over; that's the one sure way to learn *_nothing._* There should be a science of accidents. We need to study why things happen the way they do. Not on some chemical or molecular level - no. We need to understand why *_we as humans_* make certain types of mistakes more often than others, and learn what that can teach us about both human behavior *_and_* the kinds of 'oops!' moments that can actually be useful. A science of serendipity. I have no doubt that this would also help us avoid procedural mistakes that may lead to anything from oops! to disaster. 𝓡𝓲𝓴𝓴𝓲 𝓣𝓲𝓴𝓴𝓲.
some ancient dudes accidentally discovered that if a pig is slaughtered, the minced and grinded pork fits super nicely into the cleaned intestines of the late pig. an incredible scientific breakthrough which has given us sausage. I'm wondering what those guys were trying to do...
The reason the Wasps attacked the painted face wasps was likely because of the smell of the paint as wasps are extremely sensitive to smells and scents which are chemically based, much like ants and bees.
