The Baby Bum - Mind Blow

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BENEFACTOR
Xemboy01

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS
Brent Tiggelaar, Ian Fabs, Jonathan Hawk, Markus Fleischer, NullBlox.ZachryWilsn, Thomas Kaminski, Wolfgang Hutton

You discover a new species of succulent. It’s composed of two tiny butt cheeks. What do you call it? BABY BUM. And there’s really no possible alternative, because this is Mind Blow.
An array of 100 robotic muscles that can flex 50 times per second is like a giant fluid trampoline with haptic response that can move and sort objects and also generate images. It’s like a waterbed mixed with a computer. What more could you need?

We talk a lot about AI in art, but we’re making fantastic progress in using AI to fuel neural bypass connections -- like an electronic brain-body-spinal cord bridge that has brought back movement and sensation in the limbs of a man with quadriplegia.

A full decade ago, Mind Blow highlighted the weirdly anti-bacterial wings of the clanger cicada. By analyzing the nanostructure of the wings, we finally know how the nanopillars on the wings kill bacteria and clean the surface -- and it has tremendous implications for sanitizing the surfaces of medical devices.

A 600-pound asteroid is coming directly for your head… sort of. It’s 13 million miles away, which means it’s classified as a “potentially hazardous asteroid,” and it’s tracked twice a day with a 3,200 megapixel camera. They say you never hear the one that gets you.

Spiders are incredible at pulling moisture from the air, and they do it by constructing webs on which droplets collect easily and efficiently. Replicating their process allows water collection to happen without expending energy. Science smarter, not harder.

What if tattoos could be functional instead of purely aesthetic? Nanotech’s got it covered, starting with individual cells. 3-D bioprinting technology can place a flexible tattoo that functions as a data collection and warning system for the body.

40 years ago we discovered fantastic fossils of the immortal jellyfish… and no one bothered to look at them until now, because sometimes science news takes a couple generations to develop. But the Canadian fossils are so detailed that some even reveal an animal’s last meal. They show that jellyfish as we know them today are even older than we thought -- but they’re still an aquatic whippersnapper compared to the sea sponge.

*** SOURCES ***

Baby Bum Succulent (0:00)

Shape-Shifting Display For 3D Designs (0:33)

A.I. Brain Implant (1:23)

Cicada Wings Kill Superbugs on Contact (2:06)

New Algorithm Ensnares Asteroid (3:43)

Spider Web Fog-Water Collection (4:33)

Nanoscale Tattoos For Cells (5:17)

500 Million Year Old Jellyfish (5:58)

RCA XL-100 TV Set Commercial, 1975 (6:55)

*** CREDITS ***

Hosted, Researched and Created by Kevin Lieber

Written by Matthew Tabor

Edited by Vic Grimes

Fact Checking by Geoff Barrett

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[BF_enthusiast]

Always hits us with the nostalgic feels at the end of each Mind Blow.

[Reeryce]

Thank you for bringing back Mind Blow.
It reminds me that there are hopeful and wonderous things in this world; not just negativity.

[Trolligi]

My day is instantly improved whenever I see a new Mind Blow episode

[cdprince]

"Without the need for pharmaceuticals." Something tells me their funding is going to dry up very soon.

[sushantkarki]

Thank you for bringing this series back. I missed it much. Appreciate it

[sixsixonefour]

bro revived mind blow just to end it again

[nugboy]

That brain implant for paralysis is INSANE. my buddy is paraplegic, motorcycle accident, imagine this shit going public.

[laynac]

I watch daily dose all the time but it was mostly a fill the void that mind blow left when it was on hiatus glad to have the series back again.

[Yellowninja]

I personally thought that plant looked like some fat lips and teeth instead of but cheeks

[yin-fire]

I would love to hear most measures done in metric, the asteroid thing flew over my head (pun intended)

[concentricthree]

Mind blow is back and I didn't even realise. Please never stop again 😂

[WeChallenge]

My RCA xl100 quit working about 5 years ago and I finally gave up on it and throw it in the trash. It was bought new in 1975, set in my bedroom on a dresser as a child, carried out of the house when I left home as a teenager stuck in the closet once flat screens and fancy TVs came along, pulled back out and used once I had divorced and started living in an apartment, attached to a digital antenna, and after 50+ years it finally gave up and became Landfill material. Probably one of the best investments my parents ever made.

[imnotahippie]

Your doing mind blow again? YAY!!! PLEASE KEEP IT UP

[Trolligi]

Always good to have a reminder that there is still improvement in this world, there could still be a brighter future

[catakuri]

i saw the first plant as big lips and teeth

[pete]

Amazing work! Love the mind blow series!!!

[mikehawk]

6:12 Whoever designed that hideous building should be sent to prison.

[maxmillion]

Every time I come across a new Mind Blow episode, my day instantly becomes better.

[flamewave]

love whem old mindblow stories come back latter with updates

[Audiostoke]

Happy your doing these again was one of the best things on YouTube. Good for making you aware of things and ideas that you never knew existed.