Just A Minute: Volume 19

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This is Neptune Studio’s guide to the best science content from our studio and beyond. Every edition includes stuff we’re working on, along with other cool new science-related stories we want you to know about - plus some original games just for subscribers! Make sure to subscribe below so you never miss a minute 🙂.

Here's a sneak peek of a storyboard scene from an upcoming video. Can you guess what it's about?

Here are some videos our team has released on our various channels over the last few weeks!

MinuteEarth

How To Kill A Volcano
Volcanoes can flatten cities and choke out the sun. Is there really nothing we can do about them? Well, there’s one thing…

MinuteFood

Pasta in ONE minute?
A deep dive from Arcadi into the hydration and gelatinization science behind pasta, and the cooking technique that could upend the way you make it.

MinutePhysics

This Orbit is the WORST
Why the longest way around space can be the most fuel-efficient way to get there.

xkcd’s WhatIf?

What if everything was antimatter EXCEPT Earth?
A beautiful video from Randall and the crew about what would actually happen if the rest of the things in the universe swapped places with their evil twins. Spoiler: not great for us.

• A rare Aldo (aka Know.Art) sighting in the wild. Great to catch up with our former teammate and the genius behind the xkcd sound effects.

  

• Which vegetable would you use to defend yourself in combat? The team debated the best weapons at the farmers’ market.

  

1. Grady from Practical Engineering shows exactly how dirt roads corrugate into washboard ripples, and it's oddly mesmerizing to watch it happen. Watch

2. Scientists built "SpudCell," a synthetic cell made from non-living chemicals that eats, grows, and reproduces, and now nobody can agree if it's technically alive. Article

3. Even Nature admits the future of scicomm isn't journal articles, it's videos! Lizah feels validated. Read

4. Turns out the "1500s typesetter" origin story for Lorem Ipsum is a myth, and Emily's deep dive traces the real trail to a 1914 Cicero translation and a librarian's Letraset sheets in 1966. Watch

5. Randall's latest xkcd, "Holes," is a perfect companion piece to our own "How Deep Can Caves Get?" video. See the comic

6. Tom Scott joins WIRED to answer content creator and YouTube strategy questions, worth a watch if you've ever wondered how creators actually think about this stuff. Watch

by Matthew Goldenberg

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