There's a tradition some computer science professors have of putting an unsolved problem on some exams to see what people come up with, partly because there's an old story about some professor who *accidentally* put an unsolved problem in computer science on an exam, and a student managed to solve it.
Great video and excellent guesses Destin! Nice handling of the flying squirrel ;) They truly are fascinating animals to watch in motion: Attenborough: Is it a Bird? Is it a plane? Is it a flying squirrel? - BBC Earth
x12lesser21x SmarterEveryDay is a great channel. Just watch his series on helicopters. Mind blowing stuff. Also watch his series on winter olympic sports. Almost equally mind blowing for someone who is lucky to see snow one day a year.
that is so amazing that tree has adapted not a method of attack to stop itself from being eaten but a method to house insects that will attack for it !
Absolutely! Is there anyone who could explain how such a phenomenon occurs? Is it something as simple as natural selection and the tiny percentage of trees that just happened to secrete these nutrients proliferate? If so, use either as little or as much detail about it as you wish. I love learning the mechanism of how biological adaptation occurs.
Colin Prevatt _explain how such a phenomenon occurs_ Plants and animals, each being part of the environment of the other, co-evolve. _Is it something as simple as natural selection_ Yes.
I think this has taken the crown as perhaps my favourite (non-dissection) Brain Scoop episode. Learnt new things AND get to feel super smart for knowing the acacia-ant symbiosis already.
Just found this channel and has instantly become one of my favourites! I have never even been interested in biology, but your videos make all this so much more interesting!
This literally combines two of my favorite RU-vid channels. Please work with Destin again, I found this both informative and enjoyable to watch! Two cheers for collaborations with other channels! I would love to see you on his channel someday, Emily!
I remember a pharyngeal palate being one of the mystery items on Emily's tumblr when it was still the umzm blog!! It really freaked me out and opened my eyes to how freaky fish can be.
!!! You've been around here quite a while, friend. For anyone interested in playing along, we are running a "What the Function?!" game on our Facebook - every Thursday at 12pm CST we will post a photo of a specimen or artifact and you have to guess its function! First person to guess correctly gets a postcard from yours truly!
this is a beautiful fusion .. an engineer looking at biology. invite Destin back for another episode. the suggestion by Come And Get It to have him theorize about some feature biologists are uncertain about is a cool twist.
The fish teeth thing freaked me out...I think I may have a slight case of Tryptophobia...the disgust of clustered holes. I know they aren't holes, but just the strangeness of the clustered circles makes my skin crawl thinking about it. It automatically reminded me of the frogs that birth from their backs....
I like this show idea a ton! Remind's me of Scishow's "Stump Hank" where he would have to identify what kind of animal a sample is from (which I also loved)
Thank you for having SmarterEveryDay on. I love looking at nature from an engineering perspective. We can learn so much from what is already out there. Like creating airplanes that mimic the silent flight of owls or better kevlar like vests from learning about scales of fish that even piranhas cannot bite through.
That's awesome how Destin was able to more or less figure out all of the functions of each one. I guess it shows how smart engineers can be from having that background in design.
I really want to see more of these, either with Destin again or with other youtube ed people. especially Dr. Lindsay Doe, I'd love to see what you can pull out of the collection for her expertise.
I thoroughly enjoyed this video. I love the idea of the "Game Show" and I think that you should definitely do more videos like this. Also, it was so great to meet you at VidCon (TWICE! whaaaaat) and to go to your Q&A. Meeting you was definitely a major highlight in my VidCon 2014 journey, so thank you!
I would really love some more biology and engineering combined videos. This was spectacular! Give me some more "What the Function?" quizzes! rootin for you :)
Awesome to see two very fun, smart youtubers in one show! I like seeing very smart people show that they also have to learn, instead of implying that intelligence is some kind of magical, static trait.
This video was recommended to me by RU-vid because I'm subscribed to SmarterEveryDay and this was a really interesting and fun video! Then I found out its connected to the Field Museum of Chicago and my mind was blown, I live in the Chicago area and have visited the Field Museum many times! I'm definitely subscribing to this channel and will watch more. :)
