Just A Minute: Volume 9

We’re baaaaaaack!
This is MinuteEarth’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 🙂.

As you might know, we make the Science Minute segment of the CBS show “Mission Unstoppable with Miranda Cosgrove”, which airs every Saturday morning here in the U.S. It’s an awesome show featuring amazing women in STEM, and we often get to tell stories about amazing science pioneers like Beatrice Shilling, a British aeronautical engineer and motorcycle racer. In this case, it required us to figure out how to illustrate an old-school motorcycle, which is way harder than it seems!

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

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Could Dragons Actually Fly? (Ft. Miranda Cosgrove)
Speaking of “Mission Unstoppable”, we’re going to be publishing a few compilations of some of our favorite Science Minute segments on the MinuteEarth channel so that our regular viewers can see what we’ve been up to at CBS. Here’s our first one, featuring everything from zombie ants to gamer pigs.

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How Do Fish Get Into Isolated Mountain Lakes?
I’ve been wondering about this question for decades, and had a great time running down all the potential answers. Make sure to check out the clip we include from Colorado Parks and Wildlife; it is ridiculous.

• To celebrate our fish video, Lizah made the Instagram series below, which is one of those memes you don’t know you need in your life until you see it.

  

• MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT: MinuteEarth is working on a new book, titled “How Not To Go Extinct” to be published by Bloomsbury. It’s kind of a how to guide for species trying to make it in this crazy world.

• MinuteEarth went on location to CERN! Sarah and Jasper are working on a video about the biggest particle accelerator in the world, and travelled to Switzerland to meet the experts. Here they are at the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider with physicists Dilia Maria Portillo Quintero and Rachel Avramidou.

  

1. Emily Calandrelli’s vlog of her flight to space with Blue Origin is really lovely. 

2. A few years back, we made a video about the impact of roads and fences on wildlife. So we were super excited to see that Grady from Practical Engineering tackled the hidden engineering of Wildlife Crossings.

3. Over at the How To Cook That channel, Ann Reardon explains how microscopes work, and uses that explanation to show that a lot of viral microscopic videos about food are faked.  

4. Hank Green (heard of him?) just debuted a new show called Ask Hank Anything. The first episode with Rhett and Link is delightful, though it somehow devolves into a discussion about what would happen if humans had cloacas.

by Matthew Goldenberg

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