Are There More Raindrops In Clouds Or Data In THE Cloud?
4/8/202647 min
Does "the cloud" hold more data than a clouds hold raindrops? Can a new organ literally rewrite your personality?
Professor Hannah Fry and Michael Stevens, VSauce, weigh our massive digital servers against a standard downpour, before unpicking the biology of transplant patients suddenly waking up with entirely new cravings.
Michael also has a new Curiosity Box coming featuring an altertative periodic table disguised as a snail pin badge to showoff to Hannah.
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First 90 secondsHannah Fry· Host0:01
Welcome to The Rest is Science. This is field notes, our, well, sometimes Thursday, sometimes Wednesday, depending on what part of the world you live in, episode [laughs] where Michael and I delve into a whole host of curious items and questions.
Michael Stevens· Host0:18
That's right. Today, I'm gonna be showing off some pretty neat little things, including this: an alternate periodic table arrangement. Does the periodic table have to be so tabley? Does it have to be so rectilinear? How would God like the periodic table to look? Well, we're gonna address that today, but first, we're gonna start with questions from you all.
Hannah Fry· Host0:37
[Instrumental music] This episode is brought to you by Cancer Research UK.
Michael Stevens· Host0:47
If you wanted to type out the entire human genome, you would have to type at 60 words a minute for eight hours a day for about 50 years. Okay, that's the scale of the DNA rule book inside each one of your cells, telling it when to grow, when to divide, and when to stop.
Hannah Fry· Host1:06
And different tissues read that same rule book in different ways. So a skin cell doesn't behave like a lung cell.
Michael Stevens· Host1:12
And cancer can begin when those instructions change. Not one dramatic moment, but through small, gradual edits over time.
Hannah Fry· Host1:21
Now, cancer isn't one disease. It is more than 200 types shaped by where those changes to the rule book happen and how cells