Just A Minute: Volume 02

Hello and welcome back!
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 🙂.

We’re currently working on a video about so-called “living fossils” - organisms that seem to have stayed exactly the same over millions of years while the rest of the world has evolved around them. This scene cracks me up because it looks like I’m arguing with a sassy stick-figure Darwin.

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

MinuteEarth

ALL Plants Have Color Vision
Plants have special photoreceptors that allow them to “see” when new greenery appears nearby. Then they can adjust their survival strategies to deal with the threat!

MinuteFood

The TRUTH about dishwashers
Over at MinuteFood, Kate continues her deep dive into dishwashers with a video investigating an age-old question: Is it actually better to hand wash your dishes? Make sure to send this one to your appliance-resistant family members. (Hi mom!)

xkcd’s What If?

What If You Tried To Print Wikipedia?
Over at xkcd’s What If?, Randall and the gang figure out how many printers you’d need to print out the internet’s encyclopedia… and how much it would cost to keep up with all of Wikipedia’s edits.

MinuteMinis

Why Does Your Shower Curtain Attack You?
Over at MinuteMinis, Cameron figures out the REAL reason his shower curtain keeps coming after him.

• Lizah made a silly post based on the ideal body meme:

• For our recent video on monkey mathematics, Sarah had to draw monkeys that were facing all sorts of different ways. So here’s a quick study she made to help make that easier!

• Pride month may be over, but pride year never ends! To celebrate, MinuteEarth just launched a new shirt in our store - featuring a celebration of love throughout the animal kingdom.

What’s that? You want a close up look at that super-cute focket? Ok!

1. Currently Hannah does a deep dive into the science of different types of sunscreen - complete with a super nerdy spreadsheet and a hilarious skin square experiment.

2. Ok so this video about building a mic from scratch is three years old, but our team recently got re-obsessed with it as we try to figure out how to produce the best audio quality possible.

3. As long as we’re geeking out about old videos, I recommend getting your hair blown back by the amazing animation in this video about the electron transport chain.

4. One of our favorite YouTube channels - Every Frame A Painting - is going to release new video essays soon!

5. A recent study highlighted in the New York Times found that ants perform amputations on their nest mates, but only if those nest mates have certain types of injuries (ie those in which getting a limb amputated make the ant more likely to survive). Wild stuff.

6. Emily Lin made a silly TikTok about cilantro:

@therealemilylin

should i call poison control

by Matthew Goldenberg

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