Can You Trust Your Senses? The Science of Perception | Myth or Science (5/6)

What if the food advice we follow every day is wrong? In Episode 3: Myth or Science?, Dr Jennifer Gardy investigates the everyday health claims that shape how we eat, drink, and think about our bodies. Do we really need eight glasses of water a day? Does sugar make children hyper? Is the five-second rule safe? Can caffeine improve memory? And can the size or colour of a plate change how much we eat? Through real experiments, expert analysis, and surprising results, this episode uncovers the science behind common food myths - from hydration and dieting to brain performance and eating habits. ------- Chapters ▷ 00:00 - Intro: Food Myths Tested ▷ 01:02 - Do We Need 8 Glasses of Water? ▷ 04:19 - Hydration Results ▷ 06:43 - Hidden Water in Food ▷ 09:16 - Does Sugar Make Kids Hyper? ▷ 12:01 - The Sugar Party Experiment ▷ 14:47 - Beer Goggles Tested ▷ 19:26 - The Five-Second Rule ▷ 23:20 - The Blood Type Diet ▷ 28:08 - Plate Size and Weight Loss ▷ 33:52 - Can Caffeine

In the final episode of Myth or Science, microbiologist Jennifer Gardy investigates one of humanity’s most overlooked and misunderstood substances: poop. Though commonly dismissed as disgusting waste, feces may contain remarkable clues about our health, our environment, and even the future of sustainable technology. Through a series of surprising experiments, Jennifer tests whether flushing a toilet spreads fecal bacteria around the bathroom, whether colon cleanses improve health, and whether visible corn in stool is evidence of poor digestion. She also explores what the shape, smell, frequency, and buoyancy of stool can reveal about the human body. Beyond personal health, the episode uncovers the wider scientific potential of waste. Researchers analyse sewage to track the health of entire communities, specially trained dogs locate orca feces to help protect endangered whales, and engineers transform sewage sludge into clean drinking water and energy. Jennifer even investigates whether dogs align themselves with the Earth’s magnetic field while defecating and how fish waste helps create tropical beaches. ------- Chapters ▷ 00:00 -The Hidden Power of Poop ▷ 01:38 - The Toilet Plume Experiment ▷ 05:44

Weather is powerful, beautiful, and sometimes deadly - but how much of what we believe about it is actually true? In Myth or Science 4: In the Eye of the Storm, Dr Jennifer Gardy puts popular weather claims to the test, from weighing clouds and reshaping raindrops to blasting aircraft with lightning and stepping inside a man-made tornado. With dramatic experiments and expert insight, this episode separates fact from fiction about storms, snow, rain, fog, lightning, and tornado safety, revealing the surprising science behind the weather that shapes our lives. ------- Chapters ▷ 00:00 - Intro: Weather Myths Put to the Test ▷ 01:13 - Do Clouds Really Have Weight? ▷ 06:27 - The Truth About Raindrops ▷ 11:08 - Is Fog Just a Low Cloud? ▷ 12:08 - Can Thunder Reveal a Storm’s Distance? ▷ 13:23 - What Happens When Lightning Hits a Plane? ▷ 20:16 - Lightning Safety: Trees, Homes and Hidden Dangers ▷ 22:18 - Are Overpasses Safe During Tornadoes? ▷ 30:38 - Can Crickets Predict the Temperature? ▷ 34:40 - Why Cold Snow Crunches Louder ▷

In a lab buried underground in Switzerland, scientists just proved two particles can share one fate, even when nothing physical connects them. Measured, five times over the line that separates real from random. Today, we go inside the machine that smashed protons together one million times, caught antimatter falling instead of floating, and forced physicists to ask if reality itself has a fixed state at all. A quark that reacts before information could reach it. An atom of antimatter that finally revealed which way it falls. A result so strange, even the scientists who found it weren't sure they believed it first. If your mind is already racing, hit subscribe, because it's about to race a lot faster. Get comfortable. This one gets stranger with every chapter.

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Journey across Britain with leading archaeologists as they unearth ground-breaking discoveries that rewrite human history. In this documentary episode, we travel from Norwich Castle Museum into the heart of the Cambridgeshire Fens to explore Must Farm - Britain’s "Bronze Age Pompeii" - revealing industrial-scale fishing, pristine log boats, and combat-scarred weaponry. 💚 Join the Absolute History club to get access to exclusive member benefits! 📺 You can now become a History Hit member right here on the original video platform! Join for access to a new exclusive documentary every week, and access to over 160+ of our documentaries presented by world renowned historians like Dan Snow, Eleanor Janega, Tristan Hughes, Mary Beard, Matt Lewis and more.