How Ancient Roman Baths Could Save People and the Planet

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Back in the Victorian Era, Englanders thought that the famous Roman Baths were so healing because there was radium in the water. And there was, but that wasn't the real secret. Turns out that the baths are teeming with microbes that could end up doing us and our planet some major good.
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@SciShow 19 часов назад

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@honor9lite1337 19 часов назад

@SimonClark 19 часов назад

Hey it's my town! Fun fact: Bath Abbey, where the first king of all England was crowned, recently installed a geothermal heating system. They tapped into the old Roman infrastructure and siphoned off a supply of hot water for their radiators.

@SageThyme23 18 часов назад

I had the exact same reaction!

@Aanthanur 18 часов назад

King CHarles asks wtf you are talking about

@alexwoodhead6471 18 часов назад

r/selfburn

@jennysrp 18 часов назад

me too :D

@peggywoods4327 17 часов назад

One of my favourite places to visit in your country!

@Adiscretefirm 18 часов назад

Radium Inhalitorium sounds like a banned Harry Potter spell

@PaulSebastianM 12 часов назад

😢... But 😂

@arthurmartin4616 7 часов назад

💀

@rearedrain9722 6 часов назад

Bro lmao

@alistairm5604 51 минуту назад

💀💀💀

@oldsarj 18 часов назад

Yeah, I think Madame Curie would agree, "Don't breathe the radium".

@CWorgen5732 17 часов назад

"Don't inhale Radium?" WELL, WHAT CAN WE DO, HANK?!

@jackielinde7568 15 часов назад

Wait? We're not supposed to inhale the radium? I'm confused.

@_maxgray 8 часов назад

Next he'll tell us not to eat grass

@omerkaya545 14 часов назад

0:43 I live near to a place called "Baden" in Germany that is famous for its Roman thermal baths. "Baden" translates into "Bathing" in German.

@mrripplefluff 7 часов назад

Now the question remains who is bathing württemberg

@Notsogoodguitarguy 4 часа назад

Like half the towns in Germany are called Baden Something cause they have/have had baths xD

@MikefromTexas1 18 часов назад

"The Department of Redundancy Department" 😂

@Zal1810 17 часов назад

That one went right over our heads haha

@faenethlorhalien 14 часов назад

"We do things twice. We do things a second time"

@childofivy 14 часов назад

The janitor at my middle school had that sign above the door to their work area (garage/storage/cleaning closet). I had to walk past it every day to get to lunch. Took me a few years to catch on (7th or 8th grade lol)

@nickbrockelman 7 часов назад

That is a very old quote

@nickbrockelman 7 часов назад

@childofivy to catch on to what? Those are all unique and individual things and in no way redundant of each other. You can check to see if they are redundant by using them individually in the same sentence. You wouldn't tell someone that you stored the dust mop in the garage but you would tell them you stored the dust mop in the cleaning closet. So, there for, not redundant.

@JapuDCret 19 часов назад

Hank looking like a Roman god with those curls

@Sapioso 19 часов назад

🤨

@Vlarmindel 18 часов назад

His cancer treatment caused his hair to grow curly.

@andrestorres4715 18 часов назад

Hail Cesar!

@fariesz6786 16 часов назад

_•Who Mourns For Adonais intensifies•_

@charlessarver1637 15 часов назад

Oh I thought I was seeing Apollo. His name is Hank😆🥁😆🌞🌞🌞

@frankheilingbrunner7852 11 часов назад

William Smith didn't map only Bath; he mapped all of England and Wales, and part of Scotland. This was a milestone in the development of geological science. See Simon Winchester, _The Map that Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology_ (2001).

@MrMasterprocrastinat 9 часов назад

Wait. If they found microbes that produce antibiotics in the water, and leprosy is a bacterial infection, wouldn't that mean it's possible there's a kernel of truth to the myth of the king who cured his leprosy in the bath?

@dinkledankle 8 минут назад

Leprosy is an internal infection, not an external one. Simply bathing wouldn't do anything.

@pinkcupcake4717 16 часов назад

The image of the whole planet Earth chilling in a hot bath made me smile.

@Aloddff 18 часов назад

As nice as Bath is, there were lots of Roman baths and spa towns spanning like 3 continents I find it interesting that of all the post Roman societies it’s pretty much only the Turks who maintained public bath culture without end for like 2 millennia

@peggywoods4327 17 часов назад

Example, places in Germany with "bad" in the name... (local Germans chime in!)

@aellalee4767 17 часов назад

I wonder how prolific bath culture is in further East countries. I know Japan still has bath houses because not all apartments have a place to wash up in them.

@g1u2y345 15 часов назад

The Turks absolutely did not maintain this bath culture, especially for 2 millennia, they were still north of China 2 millennia ago.

@feedbackzaloop 14 часов назад

Including the town of Spa, currently in Belguim!

@THEchiQ 10 часов назад

East Asian countries are Turkish? 😜

@BPBomber 10 часов назад

“It’s Uranium.” Lmao 🤣

@lindareed8265 2 часа назад

I'm visiting Bath next week! And I can't wait to be the most knowy know-it-all on our tours!

@exosproudmamabear558 15 часов назад

In Turkey we have lots of lots hotsprings and hamams. We have a very close hot spring place in a district ao we bought my grandma a summer house for just this purpose. She goes there not being able to walk due to osteartritis and muscle tear to be able to walk properly after a few months.

@sophierobinson2738 10 часов назад

❤ How sweet! ❤

@AncientWildTV 9 часов назад

could it help?

@exosproudmamabear558 5 часов назад

@@AncientWildTV I mean I am a doctor myself who have pharmacology and phytotherapy so I made a really good oil for her to use along with painkiller gels. She improved a lot with it but it definitely wasnt enough. Spending in hotspring 2 months helped her tremendously tho. It also helps the place has a clear air and she walks easier in there since building is in 1st floor. It certainly helps a lot.

@celestial1989 5 часов назад

I LOVE WHEN HANK HOSTS THE SCISHOW EPISODDEEESSSSS

@oddcamo6696 15 часов назад

“Normie bacteria” love it

@paigemalloy4276 17 часов назад

Hank's sarcasm is just amazing 😂

@wikyWargaming 16 часов назад

Bath is gorgeous. Highly recommend.

@aellalee4767 17 часов назад

Not surprised. I use thermal water for my eczema. It doesn't solve it, but it makes a noticable difference alongside other thick moisturizers to help fix my broken skin barrier.

@karenneill9109 11 часов назад

Have you ever gone to a hot spring?

@aellalee4767 10 часов назад

@@karenneill9109 no. Almost had a chance, but the town kept the actual hot spring location a secret, so I've tried hot spring water in a pool with chlorine once. That's it. One day.

@RecklessFables 18 часов назад

Why does radium smell so good if it isn't for sniffing?

@Ptaaruonn 18 часов назад

Why not fren if fren shaped?

@usernametaken017 17 часов назад

he wants all the radium for himself, the greedy bastard

@exosproudmamabear558 15 часов назад

@@usernametaken017He shall be named Hank the Greedy Radium Sniffer

@dorothea_walland 4 часа назад

if i don't have any radium, does it work if i sniff my radiator? does it have to be on? 😊

@hughcaldwell1034 Час назад

I am yet to exhaust the list of hilariously awful ways people used radium in the early 20th century.

@KarenParkerArtist 6 часов назад

Barium Springs NC, just down the road, was a massively popular health resort back in the day. Not a hot spring. But a "hot" spring.

@TowelGard 12 часов назад

My theory, relaxing makes you feel good and when combined with placebo causes all kinds of restorative effects. I think this is the same thing with chiropractics. You're getting a massage while someone with alleged authority tells you it will help with literally any and all problems.

@tashokukisune 10 часов назад

Chiropractic is real, though. It’s not really a massage so much as a professional friend that helps you pop your back. Mine helped fix my hip dysplasia by putting it back into the socket until my muscles learned to hold it better.

@AncientWildTV 9 часов назад

Thats interesting. Do you think there are particular types of therapies or treatments that maximize these effects?

@oliviacaron7088 19 часов назад

Love roman history

@Sharonmxg 16 часов назад

Hank's sarcasm game is on point today!

@Maphisto86 13 часов назад

Algae biofuel is the "holy grail" of biofuels, as far as I know. I hope a resilient strain based on the ones found in these baths becomes economical for fuel use. Cause we needed a carbon neutral fuel source yesterday.

@AncientWildTV 9 часов назад

I wonder are there advancements in biotechnology could help accelerate the development of resilient strains suitable for biofuel production

@raycenteno7698 8 часов назад

Well what do you know. Apparently my mother says that in Ecuador theres a place called Banos. The town got multiple hot springs and waterfalls for people to enjoy.

@JasonCorfman 10 часов назад

"Please, don't inhale radium." Oh, *now* he tells me.

@russellsimpson5243 10 часов назад

I loved the Uranium comment Hank. Made me laugh soooooo much. You sarcy devil. 😝

@RaidenSaya 7 часов назад

Never thought I’d see JMP being promoted on a RU-vid video! We use it at work everyday!

@General12th 14 часов назад

Hi Hank! Gosh, radium smells so good...

@Blasphemr 14 часов назад

I am water, for I too, have emerged from a Thrust Fault

@Grace-ms7un 11 часов назад

😂😂😂❤❤❤

@sophierobinson2738 10 часов назад

Pleasant oopsie.

@bentationfunkiloglio 9 часов назад

Oh, no! You didn't just say, "human soup." Grrrrrooooosssssssss!

@Chrisallengallery 17 часов назад

I used to work at the Roman Baths in Bath.

@jedipoz 15 часов назад

Instructions unclear, currently inhaling radium.

@pinkorulez 13 часов назад

This made me immediately think of Thermae Romae redux 😅

@pattheplanter 16 часов назад

Being in the southwest of England, Bath is pronounced Baarrth by the locals.

@Varadiio 7 часов назад

And the Brits complain about American English.

@ElsieJay 2 часа назад

Now pronounce Frome

@RumiNyx 17 часов назад

@6:50 im curious what the differences are between roman baths and Japanese hot springs

@ancientswordrage 16 часов назад

One is Roman, and one is Japan 😜

@RealUlrichLeland 16 часов назад

Roman bath complexes usually had water of varying temperatures. The tepidarium was a comfortably heated pool where you would wash yourself with olive oil and use a tool called a strigil to scrape your skin. You'd then move on to the caldarium, which was an uncomfortably hot room, kind of like a sauna or steam room, and lastly you'd take a plunge in the frigidarium which was a cold water pool. From what I can tell Roman baths have more in common with Scandinavian/Slavic sauna culture than they do with Japanese onsen.

@jackielinde7568 15 часов назад

Mostly architecture and if it's indoor or not.

@ethanlackey8048 12 часов назад

You got me with the uranium 😂

@marenjones6665 6 часов назад

Love your shirt!

@Deutschebahn 5 часов назад

Is biofuel a good idea anymore? Genuinely asking

@acmelka 6 часов назад

There used to be a massage place called The Roman Bath on Castro Street. I didn't care for it . But I bet a lotta microorganisms lived in there. Smelled like a mix of sump pump and the ocean.

@MrHugemoth 16 часов назад

Thought you were going to say the lead lining used by the Romans had some benefit.

@sarielle85 18 часов назад

I see where the inspiration for 'Project Hail Mary' came from.

@crimsonraen 13 часов назад

This is so cooooooool! Also, I wonder how many tickets to England are being bought right now. ;P

@Willow_Huckleberry 18 часов назад

Cool title!!

@theoverseer393 15 часов назад

Sorta like how they mixed alcohol with water to clean the water of harmful bacteria (ideally)

@usernametaken017 17 часов назад

Who else is listening to this while drinking some radium?

@ElsieJay 2 часа назад

Bought two uranium glass vases yesterday, gonna go take a sniff

@MagnaEssence 14 часов назад

I just hope they don't pull a 2-iQ and actually heat the water for the bacteria who are supposed to be bio-fuel...i get it, but...won't that take alot of power itself?, -unless it is a tank just for breeding them, to be in the future moved into whatever they are supposed to be in, then it would be reeeeeeeally...silly.

@imwacc0834 2 часа назад

I'm thinking data centers. Way too much heat, things that need heat... Sounds like an idea to me.

@jeanfalconer6377 7 часов назад

'Straight out of the department of redundancy department.'😂

@laurelzeri3610 9 часов назад

Beautiful shirt.

@ArnovanWyk-q2j 14 часов назад

You heard here folks. . . he said "inhale radium"

@MasterOfCydonia 17 часов назад

So, what this is telling me is that we need more Roman Style baths across the world. Got it, time to convince billionaires to give me money for this.

@jackielinde7568 15 часов назад

No, don't do that. They'll only buy them all up and raise the prices so us normal folk can't go.

@peytoia 17 часов назад

yo hank whered you get that shirt? does it come in orange?

@Groobaby 17 часов назад

for some reason i read "baths" as "battles."

@TheMadhouseOfficial 3 часа назад

I'm surprised you missed out on a key detail; they don't use the Roman baths in the English city of Bath anymore. One of the springs has had a delightful strain of a brain-eating bacterium in it as well as the good stuff since the 1970s. There are plenty of spas in the city that are perfectly safe, but not that one.

@Stammer6 13 часов назад

"...thanks to something else in the water..." (takes a sip of water) "...Uranium" (actual spit-take) "No I'm just kidding" DANG IT, HANK

@Shatterverse 15 часов назад

This message brought to you by the _Radium Is BAD what the hell were you thinking!?_

@Sen.say. 18 часов назад

5:01 "We are born of the blood, made men by the blood, undone by the blood. Our eyes are yet to open. Fear the Old Blood" 😂

@TRDPaul 18 часов назад

I'd give them a go but apparently they're poisonous now

@PrincessTS01 15 часов назад

my hot tub is perfect for myself

@GraemeGunn 16 часов назад

LMAO 3:32

@smoothrocky1847 16 часов назад

So don’t drink the Bath water or just not yet?

@thetommantom 12 часов назад

Intuitively engineered natural ground water warmed percolated thru perforated limestone drainage

@lunaoak6741 18 часов назад

It’s like the hypos

@tomholroyd7519 10 часов назад

What is it with the closing credits coming up 30 seconds before the end of the show all of a sudden

@magicknight8412 3 часа назад

You can taste the water at the Roman bath in Bath (filtered and cleaned of course) and its horrible!

@AdamTehranchiYT 11 часов назад

Huh, so on top of destressing, placebo, being clean, and whatever else is in the water, there are antibiotics in there. Neat.

@triviszla1536 5 часов назад

Time to bring back public bathing

@MrAtrophy 17 часов назад

ancient roman bath water ..... yum

@anyascelticcreations 14 часов назад

Human "pottage"

@JailanSimon 11 часов назад

Certified clean freak Certified thermophile WASH WASH WASH WASH *I’ll see myself out*

@elliephants7047 14 часов назад

✨✨radium ✨✨✨

@Meredis 14 часов назад

instructions clear, not inhaling radium

@ConstantChaos1 17 часов назад

My d&d character makes hotsprings everywhere he saves because he has to keep people from remembering him (with an artifact that prevents any identifyable recollection of the character, npcs can rembers that someome was there and they did the thing, but not anything about them personally) so they don't become enthralled so it's like his calling card.

@jackielinde7568 15 часов назад

I don't know. I don't think creating hot springs is going to get the locals to forget you. If anything, it's just another checkbox on the list to being made a saint. "Dude, do you remember the guy who saved us? Yeah, that one. He also made this hot spring, too. Is there anything he can't do?" Keep this up, and the gods might take interest. They hate competition. Just ask this one pillar of orange rock in middle of s desolate wasteland that used to be a home for a society of powerful wizards. I think it's still crying from the time AO personally said "No!"

@ConstantChaos1 15 часов назад

@jackielinde7568 oh yeah I could have been more clear, my bad, he has an artifact that prevents people remembering him, or more accurately anything about him. You can remember that there was a tiny sized (progenitor) fey creature who rides a sentient giant wolf spider, but beyond that even like the fact that he is wreathed in green flame that smells of wisteria and Japanese mountian lilac or that he predates the gods and so does his patron might fall through the cracks, it's 3.5 so the actual issue is that his charisma stat has gotten so high (34) that if he just mentions he is thirsty it acts as compulsion that can't be resisted by a mortal peasant to make and bring the finest liquor they can (you can't roll high-enough to pass without a minimum of a +3 to surpass his beauty) so being able to refrence back and say the mysterious healing hotsprings show where he's been is useful. Since both my character and his patron are fey we get along with the elvish pantheon and the order of servitude he heads up are brutally efficient metamagic warlocks who refuse to let peaceful lives be interrupted. It's a long story, there is a 3.5 fey creature born from the slaughter of other fey creatures, it's a powerful tripple aspect spirit so she became his patron once his people were attacked and they rebuilt. She now runs a city of endless life in the fey wild, where theose who follow the tenants get to make a stop off on the way to the afterlife, a bit like a non-elven arvandor.

@amysakalov6915 3 часа назад

Instructions unclear. Exhaling Radium.

@CombraStudios 19 часов назад

Hi, thanks for being recommended this so early on (6 minutes)

@gianpaulgraziosi6171 12 часов назад

Sauna kween steamin’

@jamessever8936 7 часов назад

Bacteria that make antibiotics!? 😂

@supermeansadie6753 19 часов назад

The Roman baths with their insane aquaducts and solar thermal heating is amazing. We’ve been advanced for a very long time our tech is just different each time we get reset.

@GamesFromSpace 17 часов назад

Sure, pipes carrying hot water is just as impressive as spaceflight.

@hypotheticalaxolotl 17 часов назад

@@GamesFromSpace It admittedly directly affects my life way more often.

@jcmtaz4 17 часов назад

@@GamesFromSpaceprobably more

@Inconsistent-Dogwash 2 часа назад

Human soup was such a gross thing to hear in the morning especially when involving baths…Ewww!

@coresimson3825 16 часов назад

I feel like we could grow things in these type of environments to create things to cure diseases.

@spaghettihater933 14 часов назад

the addition of the B cam was such an amazing idea.

@karasilva9842 18 часов назад

Cryophills=freezing protection thermalphills=heat protection acidcophills=acid protection hemlo Phills=salt protection

@emmy9345 18 часов назад

Shouldn't Hemlo be Halo. Such as Halocline etc

@sunshine4ndrainbows397 17 часов назад

Halo=salt and Hemo=blood

@jackielinde7568 15 часов назад

What's the one for protection from human nonsense. I need that one. November is around the corner, and the nonsense is only getting worse.

@charlessarver1637 15 часов назад

I wouldn't advise inhaling radio active air for your health🧟🧟🧟😆🥁😆

@Cybonator 13 часов назад

Radium? More like Rad-ium!

@ChronicSkater 10 часов назад

Link to get your own radium salts body scrub I will post after my bath

@FudgeYeahAmerica 26 минут назад

Bring back public baths! But we need to be ok with nudity and sex alot more for that to happen lol

@Death_Tr00per58 7 часов назад

Ancient Roman baths sound like an ideal environment for brain eating amoeba to thrive, so technically you aren't wrong by saying they have the capacity to save the world. I guess that would kind of involve the opposite of saving people though.

@devilsadvocate3364 14 часов назад

This is why we can't stop thinking about ancient Rome! Life, uh...finds a way...to bring it back to modern times

@Syco108 15 часов назад

Side question: If we get our antibiotics from bacteria and we've used them so much the bacteria is getting resistant does that mean we've now effected those bacteria's lives that we got the antibiotics from?

@tomholroyd7519 11 часов назад

Uranium lol

@eklectiktoni 11 часов назад

Yes please don''t inhale radium. Imagine the horrible challenge trend that could have resulted from that if the Victorians would've had TikTok. 😬

@jmr 13 часов назад

Thanks for deciding I didn't need to see SciShow anymore RU-vid! Somehow I was unsubscribed.

@alistairm5604 51 минуту назад

So are you supposed to like not breath for hours in the bath or what

@charlessarver1637 15 часов назад

Ill definitely try to not disappoint Hank and inhale radium🧟🧟🧟😆🥁😆

@bensoncheung2801 9 часов назад

Aye.

@michaelmcchesney6645 14 часов назад

While visiting London in 1999, my girlfriend and I took a bus tour that stopped at Stonehenge, Salisbury Cathedral, and Bath. It was a great trip with only one negative. We hit a lot of traffic and got back to our hotel much later than promised. That was the one night we didn't go to a theater. We didn't get to swim in the baths, just look around. No warning signs posted about radium.