***** It's absolutely ridiculous that they forgot that one, even though it's one of the most obvious ones, and yet they managed to successfully mention more obscure ones like the underdeveloped secondary eyelid and the infantile super-handgrip (and foot-grip). O__O
Daniel Bostic Outer ear=cartilage (elastic to be specific). Did you mean the ossicles? inner ear has 3 very useful bones for hearing, the malleus, incus, and stapes.
+Sprango It doesn't PRODUCE the bacteria, it acts as a reservoir, and does still serve a purpose. If, for instance, you have a really bad bout of diarrhea, your body flushes out your intestinal tract, good and bad bacteria alike...after this, your can spring back into good digestive health much faster with your appendix acting as a safe haven for all the good gut bacteria.
+Luke Gibson They wouldn't help fully in a staring contest. Blinking makes your eyelids blow away tiny dust particles. the flaps only moisturize the eyes
I don't think you guys properly demonstrated that mattress. You should have rolled around on it together, pinned each other down, made out a little ok bye
Can you PLEASE do an ASAPThought blooper reel every now and then? You two are hilarious and fun on camera anyway so I would be eager to see what the mess-ups look like :)
ehrmaygah! i didnt know i had nipples or goosebumps or ears! are goosebumps even body parts?? What about the grasping reflex thing! that's not a body part! :I
It’s not really the goosebumps but the arrector pilli. They are tiny muscles attached to your hairs which are the muscles that contract to create goosebumps.
+AkyraTheWolf No, since trans people are only the sex they want to be in that their genitalia and secondary sex traits match. If they had a Y chromosome they would be male in every sense of the word. Hopefully we can someday reach the point where we can change X chromosomes to Y chromosomes, and so no one has to be trans but can be the sex they want to be.
+Paul Kearschner How would that happen? Your mother has two X chromosomes, and every male has a mother that gave him a copy of one. There's just the anomaly of xyy.
lies. goosebumps are when it's that time for the geese to fly off and migrate to a different person. so the bumps in your skin are the little geese waiting to break out. this is an actual fact.
Hi guys! I just wanted to point out that ears are not useless at all, they actually conduct, condition and amplify sound from our sorroundings so we can hear things clearly and adequatly. I love your videos!
What about after when you're actually conscious? People said you don't feel hungry (even after you haven't eaten in like xx hours) so you end up starving yourself and even needing to puke..
To be honest: AsapThought is in my humble opinion better than AsapSCIENCE. You guys have a lot of charisma and seeing you talk about stuff is much more interesting than seeing the drawings. Anyways, just wanted to give thumbs up from Poland ;) Keep up the good work!
I was waiting for the long palmar muscle, it would have been interesting to talk about it because it's considered as a human relic, absent at about 14% of the population and useful if you need some tendon during a surgery:D
Because the vibrations of the car basically massage you and make you more relaxed.
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we study in music production classes that the shapes within the ear and the ear itself are used to better filter the sounds to the range of the human voice, it's called the Fletcher-Munson curve
I learned in anatomy that goosebumps are a way to keep you warm because the pili muscle contracts making your hair stand up. when muscles move, you feel warmer
I'm pretty sure I read at some point that the appendix served for something other than the digestion of grass, I think it was something to do with the immune system but I can't quite remember
Whenever I remember that you guys are Canadian, I think "Yeah, Canada!" It's cool that you got to do the Olympic body science stuff on CBC, it was pretty interesting.
Wouldn't: "7 Useless body parts you didn't know why you had" be a better title? English is nor my first language, but to me it seems weird, because I knew about all those things, although not necessarily about why I had them. The second eyelid is very interesting, never thought of that one.
I didn't read through the comments to see if anybody else knew this interesting little tidbit and posted it, but although what you stated about males having nipples was partially true, not all of it was. Yes, all human babies start out as females in the womb before the Y chromosome comes in and is like HAHA JUST KIDDING, YOU'RE A MAN NOW!!! But male nipples actually have a use that many people are unaware of. I am not totally sure if this applies to all males, but I would assume it does. Much like females, men can produce breast milk. Many people believe that women can only lactate when pregnant, but really, through extensive breast and nipple stimulation, they can lactate at any time. This is also true for men, although the stimulation is likely much more extensive for them due to the fact that men and women have different hormonal and chemical make-ups.
I thought it was proven that goosebumps isn't bumps, but the skin that contracts everywhere but where the hair is. And I have also read somewhere that it is to keep us warmer or something like that, but I don't know.. Great video btw! More like these :D
Palmaris Longus would have been a good one to mention. Its the equivalent to what would have been the Achilles tendon in the forearm. The tendon sits over the transverse ligament and people are starting to be born without it. If you keep your fingers out stretched and then bring your thumb close to your finger tips; look to see if a tendon significantly pops out then congratulations, you have a palmaris longus.. if not... congratulations you're 'more evolved'
+Katharine Grimo For anyone not sure if they have it, it's the little thing in the middle of your wrist, under the hand. Right where most people can see some veins very clearly.
Every time I have headphones on and someone talks to me I feel my ears move! 😂 I've moved my ears once 5 months ago and now they just move by themselves every time I hear something loud😂
The plica seluminaris actually has an use, but its not really important. You know when your eye is red after doing something with it, yep, it can also be red when your eyes are red
what's funny, is i can wiggle my ears, and use that to try and 'channel sound' which somehow helpsme hear things better... i dont really get it myself, but i love it.
Goosebumps are kinda useful to me, I get cold really easily so it makes me warm. It's helpful when a room is extremely cold and I'm like testing, but not that much. xD
your appendix!! apparently it was to help digest grass when earlier humans ate it but now we don't really eat grass anymore (unless you are a small child that likes to chew everything) it's pretty much useless
The third eyelid is actually still useful for a lot of mammals as part of the immunesystem. It has tiny lymphnodes on it that protect the eye from bacteria.
I learned, while studying aesthetics, that goose bumps helped warm the body or at least retain heat... It is very possibly wrong as I have found many inconsistencies in my text.
I was waiting for you to say the appendix and then I'd come to the comments to correct you, but I think you're updated on the maybe not so vestigial thing. Dang you updated scientific divulgators!
Goosebumps are necessary because when the hair stands up on end when cold, it creates a fluffy layer of warmth on the skin aaaand the tailbone is definitely necessary, not when we used to have tails, it is there to protective our backsides and help up sit. Do your research people, don't just believe everything you see or hear.
The grab on reflex might not be as useless as you think. It saved my little sister from falling down of jhoola(a swing you can sleep on). She was wiggling and somehow just fell over but then grabbed on to the ropes. She stayed like that for a few minutes(i am not sure about the time. I was in the kitchen and she was crying for a while). There you go! It can save your life.
The pain of wisdom teeth coming through and we don't even need them! I couldn't move with the bottom two. Top ones haven't come through yet. I'm dreading it!
I was told by my dentist long ago that I needed my wisdom teeth removed... didn't do it. I still have a full skull of teeth, and I haven't had any problems.
For anyone wondering why we have an appendix, it's because they were for helping with digestion of nuts and/or similar types of foods, I believe. Now that humans don't eat nuts as often, it's purpose seems unnecessary to many.
How about your appendix? Apparently, it used to be necessary because it could digest seeds and stuff because we would eat them with fruits or whatever.
I just thought I would say that the title of this video is a little misleading as most of these body parts (and reflex in the case of goosebumps) have an important part to play in correct functioning of the body; the tailbone (coccyx) for example is an attachment point for many important muscles and also plays a role in weight bearing.
