I just realized that this channel is going to become a channel so good that I will watch every single video, and be sad cuz it's my favorite channel...
@ThePichu172 Nope. He survived because his iron rod was custom made, he had ordered one that had a tapered top end, which was unusual. Because the tapering was 12 inches long, he wasn't penetrated by the full thickness of the rod, ergo less damage. The brain and skull didn't reform. An account by his doctor after Gage had healed stated that there was a depression on the top of his skull where you could see his brain pulsating.
i would also like to add, if i may, that the story of Gage is in every psychology book. Gage's story provided undoubtable evidence, for most anyway, that the brain was in fact comprised of various, highly specialized structers/regions rather then a whole. This fact is is now common knowledge but at the time it was revolutionary.
they only thing i can really think of is that thank god the rod was pointy if it was blunt he probly would have lost many more teacup fulls of brain lol no so good
So, I was playing this game with my friends today where there was a category called "Famous Assasins and Murderers" and my friend couldn't think of a name (it had to start with h)... so she was like... "Heltzen... berg... er..." and everyone shouted, "He doesn't exist!" But I said, to try to help her, "Yeah, he does! He murdered Phineas Gage!" And then everyone agreed and let her move... But then I was like *chuckle* "Phineas Gage got a rod shot through his head and died 12 years later :D"
So it's safe to say that at one point in his life, he must have uttered this sentence: 'I was a construction worker like you once, but then I took an iron rod to the head.'
@TheYambo121 me to...i think it must be another story because i heard it on QI that someone like mr.Gage had something like this happen...and he toured with the iron bar and his act was he put the bar through the hole that was made by said bar...and he made some money...knowing me thats propably misremebered tripe but its nice to know that this is now on the internet and now has the oppertunity to be misquoted by someone else!!
heheh, this is probably the most entertaining portrayal of Phineas Gage I've EVER seen. Funny and witty, as well as very informative. i think my favorite line was "it was roughly WAY TOO MUCH BRAIN!" and "to which the doctor presumably replied...'nghh'"
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I had to track this down again because in my biology class on Friday my teacher played a video on the brain and different things that can happen to it, and Mr. Phineas Gage was mentioned and I got all happy and it took everything in me to not squeal out 'Hey! Hank taught me that!' Yeah, I was getting weird looks from my lab partner, and I was thinking 'it's okay, I'm a nerd. Live with it. It's pretty sad when a good portion of your knowledge was gained via youtube videos. :S
My psych teacher showed the song that hank put up!! I was freakin out!! Then later in my schools library I noticed a HUGE DFTBA sign!!! Soo there are deffinatly some nerdfighter teachers in my school :)
My teacher told us about this. Apparently his judgement was so impaired that they did a test on it. He refused a million dollars so he could keep a bag of rocks.
The story of phineas gage is a fasinating one. One that i read about over and over and am equally interested in every time if not even more interested. Its a freaking awesome story!
Phineas Gage wasn't that bad looking! Quite attractive in fact, but the fact he doesn't have one of his eye is kind of a turn down, but at least he has an "awesome" story to explain it, it's not like "I poked my eye with a stick while playing when I was a kid"
In my gifted and talented class, we learned about this, so first of all, to increase the awesome of young NITs, I will recomend this video to my GT teacher.
however, we learned it a bit diffrently. I was told that it was 11 years and he died of hypothermia (somehow affected by his accedent, I can't remember the details...it was about two years ago.)
I knew more or less the story of phineas gage but.... I HAVE LIVED MY ENTIRE LIFE IN CHILE AND I HAD NO IDEA HE CAME HERE!! WHAT?? now, i NEED to find out what happened to him while in Chile...off to research!!!!
@spartansareawesome His.... entire ordeal was pretty much how modern civilization discovered that tampering with the brain doesn't always kill, thus, we discovered brain surgery. People get brain surgeries all the time. Granted, they don't usually lose half a teacupful of brains, but still.
(i think this is how it goes. I'm not entirely sure. I'm not a brain surgeon or anything, i just like to learn this sort of thing. = ] )
@spartansareawesome I first heard this story in a book called "most amazing stories never told" (cool stories that never became well known) and it had this case in it, saying that for a while, he had serious personality changes, and was bassicaly a mean man "bound to bouts of profanity" but as hank said, eventually managed to get over it. The rod passed through the emotions part of the brain, and was one of the first evidences of different parts of the brain
So I had to write an article about Phineas Gage today! I'm a new writer for a newspaper and someone is giving a talk about Gage and his impact on neuroscience. And while everyone in the newsroom was wondering who the heck this guy was, I was able to inform them all about this Phineas Gage and look like a nerd at my brand new job ;) thanks toyou Hank. You rock!
Hey there, 9th grade pre-Ib bio! That's when I first learned about Gage. And no matter how many times I hear about him, it's still wicked ridiculous and awesome and a wee bit terrifying.
This was fascinating because I didn't know about the end of the story, the 12 years later bit. BAMF of the 1800s.
Today was my first day of Psych 201, and on the pretest there was a question about Phineas Gage (which I answered correctly, of course!). There was a big smile on my face when I saw his name :) I just wanted to say thanks, Hank! :D
I am currently enrolled in Psych. Science and we had to study the case of Phineas. Have exam tomorrow, cant find my notes anymore, my room looks like a war zone so came on youtube and now I know what happened to the guy! Thank you some geek guy!
Today at school our librarian was talking about the summer reading project, and a book on phineas Gage was one of them, and she showed us this video. Needless to say a library full of middle schoolers cracked up at the 'that's what she said'.
During Biology today in class my teacher brought up phineus gage. My nerdfighter friend and myself flipped out and told his whole life story. It was awesome.
I'm a ChaCha Expeditor and I was asked what year Phineas Gage got injured. I remembered the answer from this video and I felt so proud of myself. Thank you for helping me get through college with awesome Nerdfighter trivia!! :D
It's not the only picture of Phineas Gage that exists, it's one of two that exist and was the second one to be found. Also, another fact that is incorrect in this video involves Gage's state directly after his injury. He didn't even go unconscious. He merely was knocked over, but he got back up almost immediately.
"the unit of measurement 'teacup full' has since fallen out of use, but it's roughly (me preparing for accurate relation to modern unit of measurement) WAY TOO MUCH BRAIN."
@SammiRock0 what class was this? I did something similar only I quoted Arnold from Predator. My teacher said if you have to use the bathroom do it now, to which I told my sister louder than I intended to, "Do it now, kill me!" When my teacher looked mad confused and I said "oh, sorry." Surprisedly that was the end of it. It would have been hilarious if I had the chance to say "run! go! get to the chopper!"
I guess putting his head on a spike just wouldnt quite do the trick... but blasting the spike through his head was a cool idea. I guess it was just a bonus that he lived
They played this in class and man I just have to say, this made me actually interested in the guys story. Just the way it was told made me laugh. Awesome vid. Thanks for putting it up.
my psychology teacher was talking about him today and he played this video for the class to tell the sotry. i was like omg its hank green i watch him on youtube :)
That's actually not so true hank. There is another picture shown on Wikipedia. The second identified portrait of Phineas Gage. If anyone can prove me wrong please reply.
Note: I am not being cheeky I just thought to point it out.
@dunzy1996 yeah, I looked. It appears so. but Wiki labels the other as "the second known photograph" and the one hank showed is labeled as "the first known photograph, discovered in 2009"
so, at the time of the 'commenter on flickr' it was, indeed, the only known photo of gage in existence.
So technically, you're both right. Good point though!
Phineas Gage didn't die when the rod passed through his head because the rod didn't actually cause damage to the medulla oblongata, which controls involuntary muscle movement like breathing and swallowing. The medulla is located very close to the spinal cord and wasn't really anywhere near the actual damaged area.
The bit of the brain that controls personality and reasoning is in the front of the brain, though, which as we can see, it the part that got damaged. Just sayin.
Phineas Gage didn't die when the rod passed through his head because the rod didn't actually cause damage to the medulla oblongata, which controls involuntary muscle movement like breathing and swallowing. The medulla is located very close to the spinal cord and wasn't really anywhere near the actual damaged area.
The bit of the brain that controls personality and reasoning is in the front of the brain, though, which as we can see, it the part that got damaged. Just sayin.
That is incredibly awesome. But I should start wearing headphones because its hard to explain to my mom why I spend my free time like this. Or why I find this useless knowledge awesome.
I think he lived entirely because it passed through him so quickly and so released a minimum of energy into his brain and thus caused a minimum of damage.
I LOVE your video. I am a homeschool mom and today we read a bit about Mr. Gage and to further assist us in our reading, i looked on YouTube and found your video. THANK YOU. My kids especially loved the tea cup mention...."WAY TOO MUCH BRAIN!"
That is awesome...no, awesome cannot describe it. Thus making it completely Indescribable, ya I think that's good :) Indescribable, that's it...it is Indescribable...
feel free to correct me if i'm wrong... but in my psychology class i was told phineas gage had some interesting personality changes. he started becoming enraged at little things and he mightve become violent at times, i think he also suffered from some depression and sort of lived like a hermit for a while. we even watched a movie about it lol
We watched this video in school over a year ago and I was proud to say that I had already watched this.
hannahisallama 4 days ago
Oh no...
I just realized that this channel is going to become a channel so good that I will watch every single video, and be sad cuz it's my favorite channel...
lilmanc14 6 days ago
I wonder what "Gage" the iron rod was?? like maybe 1 "Gage"?? LOL
bencinurts 6 days ago
Of course my school never taught me this amazing story. Our textbooks were full of shit.
puregenius7112 1 week ago
I was expecting this to be a song.
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maybe he was distracted by an attacking squirrel (or by an amazing red death frisbee of a hat).
bluebanshee3 1 week ago
Did he survive due to the speed at which the rod passed, allowing the brain and skull to somewhat reform itself?
ThePichu172 1 week ago
@ThePichu172 Even though he did survive, his brain was clearly damaged as his personality changed a lot which isn´t mentioned in the video.
Tayloraurrekoetxea 1 week ago
@Tayloraurrekoetxea yeah, it's held up as an example of the effect of the frontal lobe on personality but not on IQ
IfRainFallsIDance 1 week ago
@ThePichu172 Nope. He survived because his iron rod was custom made, he had ordered one that had a tapered top end, which was unusual. Because the tapering was 12 inches long, he wasn't penetrated by the full thickness of the rod, ergo less damage. The brain and skull didn't reform. An account by his doctor after Gage had healed stated that there was a depression on the top of his skull where you could see his brain pulsating.
garoofiya 1 day ago
We watched this video in health class. :D
AppaloosaDreaming 1 week ago
i am studying that in my reading class but what do i say about that grosssssssssssssssss
crazymasterofbeyblad 1 week ago
awww happy ending
thewolffromhell66666 2 weeks ago
I'm debating between being Ramona Flowers and Phineas Gage for halloween... Any thoughts youtube?
OoOImWithCrazyOoO 2 weeks ago
hes good looking too
nguyenhongoe 3 weeks ago
I almost don't believe this o_O
SnowingWolfGirl 3 weeks ago
We learnt about this in Religios! :)
ItsMeEllenB 3 weeks ago
I kinda sorta have a crush on you (: ahahaha.
BrokenXDAlive 4 weeks ago
"because where could this story go from here?" *video has to buffer*
me:"whu!....."
stevray98 4 weeks ago 6
That's, roughly, the cover of Ellen Hardcastle!!!!!!
stargleekwhofighter 4 weeks ago
that was the first vlogbrothers video I ever watched!!!!
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i would also like to add, if i may, that the story of Gage is in every psychology book. Gage's story provided undoubtable evidence, for most anyway, that the brain was in fact comprised of various, highly specialized structers/regions rather then a whole. This fact is is now common knowledge but at the time it was revolutionary.
Mystro1989 1 month ago
*that's what she said* hahahaha Oh, Hank.
Balla9195 1 month ago
Omg my this is the first vlogbrothers video I saw! -3
iheartcartoons1 1 month ago
my psychology professor made us write a discussion question on this video.. :D
kkkkkkkkkirsty 1 month ago
@kkkkkkkkkirsty Me too
that guy talks in a funny way
Sara246800 1 month ago
hey now I have all the information I need for my report on him... maybe almost...
applekat1312 1 month ago
Phineas Gage is actually quite attractive
Redwillowfox 1 month ago 2
they only thing i can really think of is that thank god the rod was pointy if it was blunt he probly would have lost many more teacup fulls of brain lol no so good
willyscj2a1 1 month ago
So, I was playing this game with my friends today where there was a category called "Famous Assasins and Murderers" and my friend couldn't think of a name (it had to start with h)... so she was like... "Heltzen... berg... er..." and everyone shouted, "He doesn't exist!" But I said, to try to help her, "Yeah, he does! He murdered Phineas Gage!" And then everyone agreed and let her move... But then I was like *chuckle* "Phineas Gage got a rod shot through his head and died 12 years later :D"
LMNOP1214 1 month ago 3
After re-watching this video I found my self poking my cheek where the rod would have gone through.... Yeah.
1996FanGirl 1 month ago
He used to be a contractor, but he took an iron rod to the brain, and now he's a sideshow act.
RyanFalls 1 month ago
Is it weird that I watch this video atleast once a week?
KashMoneh0319 2 months ago
@KashMoneh0319 A little bit.
TheHannaFactor 1 month ago
ok phineas gage was a sexy ass mofo
namedropper101 2 months ago 4
hmmmmmmmmmm this sounds like a song ive heard befor who sang it whats it called
hmmmmmmmmmmmm'
iamthedocotor 2 months ago
how did he not die of a bactirial infection????
SomeoneBeginingWithI 2 months ago
So it's safe to say that at one point in his life, he must have uttered this sentence: 'I was a construction worker like you once, but then I took an iron rod to the head.'
sandman331 2 months ago 158
The whole time I thought his head had been blasted off and he was just carrying it around....
L0VEIsAllYuNeed 2 months ago
Wow I am an idiot- I thought they never took the rod out!
Hyperluna 2 months ago 2
@Hyperluna I thought the exact same thing, I was like, 'It must have sucked to have lived his life with a rod in his head!' DUUHHH! I am an idiot!
TheYambo121 2 months ago
@TheYambo121 me to...i think it must be another story because i heard it on QI that someone like mr.Gage had something like this happen...and he toured with the iron bar and his act was he put the bar through the hole that was made by said bar...and he made some money...knowing me thats propably misremebered tripe but its nice to know that this is now on the internet and now has the oppertunity to be misquoted by someone else!!
yes1sir1no1sir 2 months ago
heheh, this is probably the most entertaining portrayal of Phineas Gage I've EVER seen. Funny and witty, as well as very informative. i think my favorite line was "it was roughly WAY TOO MUCH BRAIN!" and "to which the doctor presumably replied...'nghh'"
Thank you for making my day
pinkwashere 2 months ago 4
Gosh, I'm writing a paper on neurophilosophy that features Phineas Gage and it took me forever to find how to cite a vlog in MLA format. :)
Eunnette 2 months ago
I see Michael Chabon on the bookshelf! Which book is it?
LizzytheRhetoric 2 months ago
Phineas Gage if feature in the text book and a Lecture on emotion for my Evolutionary Psychology course.
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OMEAMC 3 months ago
Holy crap!!!
olkiolki11 3 months ago
"Occasionally, weird things happen and we call them miracles. And that's a theory."
listentotheraenfall 3 months ago 5
Why can't I stop watching this video?!
BeatrixNemesis 3 months ago
the human cerebrum contains the higher level brain function
the cerebellem does the actual movement control
the cerebellem contains the subconscious and instinct
they only dameged the cerebrum the vital parts were okay
MmoComando 4 months ago 5
SammiRock0, We watched this in my class also! I think I was the only person who knew this was :)
shadowcutie1 4 months ago
My brothers Name is Phineas
glowgirl13 4 months ago
What about the picture of him on wikipedia?
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I had to track this down again because in my biology class on Friday my teacher played a video on the brain and different things that can happen to it, and Mr. Phineas Gage was mentioned and I got all happy and it took everything in me to not squeal out 'Hey! Hank taught me that!' Yeah, I was getting weird looks from my lab partner, and I was thinking 'it's okay, I'm a nerd. Live with it. It's pretty sad when a good portion of your knowledge was gained via youtube videos. :S
senselessrose 5 months ago
My psych teacher showed the song that hank put up!! I was freakin out!! Then later in my schools library I noticed a HUGE DFTBA sign!!! Soo there are deffinatly some nerdfighter teachers in my school :)
Singinevryday 5 months ago 3
My psych teacher played this video today
I totally spazzed out and made a dork of myself
and my teacher hadn't even seen any of the other Vlogbrothers videos, so I had to explain to her what they were about :)
misslampshadehead 5 months ago 2
I'm actually doing my psychology project on Phineas Gage! I need awesome nerdfightastic things to say.
ichikish 5 months ago
We talked about this in my psychology class on Friday! He even showed the picture and the animation used at the end :D
HelloMyNameIsChivers 5 months ago
And today is the anniversary of that day that a metal rod went through his brain! ^_^
SmileForTheLemons 5 months ago
lol @ 1:51
jcathomas 5 months ago
he talks to fast
254327 5 months ago
My teacher told us about this. Apparently his judgement was so impaired that they did a test on it. He refused a million dollars so he could keep a bag of rocks.
AgentFluffyUnicorn 5 months ago
Epileptic Nerdfighters FTW
jcathomas 5 months ago
I'll see you on wednesday! lol loove it!
arirenee25 5 months ago
I had the best day of school EVAR today. My Psycology teacher showed this in class.
She's a Nerdfighter. Best. Day. Ever.
grandchildofchaos 5 months ago
There's another picture of Phineas Gage that they found later on Wikipedia. =D
MKmusic20 5 months ago
O.O Phineas Gage was kinda hot.
RandomPersimmon 5 months ago 206
@RandomPersimmon #thingsineverthoughtidhear
:D so true though! DFTBA
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But he wasn't okay. Not really. Or, maybe he was, but he wasn't Phineas Gage anymore. He was someone else. Which isn't "okay" in my book.
orangesaregr8 6 months ago
The story of phineas gage is a fasinating one. One that i read about over and over and am equally interested in every time if not even more interested. Its a freaking awesome story!
alexis474542 6 months ago
Okay,now I finally understand the cover of Ellen Hardcastle. I love Nerdfighteria.
JustABitUnlikely11 6 months ago 3
Phineas Gage wasn't that bad looking! Quite attractive in fact, but the fact he doesn't have one of his eye is kind of a turn down, but at least he has an "awesome" story to explain it, it's not like "I poked my eye with a stick while playing when I was a kid"
LivLaugh 6 months ago 3
I was expecting a much worse picture. I scrolled down until I gathered the courage to look.
DaydreamDelivery 6 months ago 4
In my gifted and talented class, we learned about this, so first of all, to increase the awesome of young NITs, I will recomend this video to my GT teacher.
however, we learned it a bit diffrently. I was told that it was 11 years and he died of hypothermia (somehow affected by his accedent, I can't remember the details...it was about two years ago.)
valerie7pr 6 months ago
I knew more or less the story of phineas gage but.... I HAVE LIVED MY ENTIRE LIFE IN CHILE AND I HAD NO IDEA HE CAME HERE!! WHAT?? now, i NEED to find out what happened to him while in Chile...off to research!!!!
Arcadiax91 6 months ago
i miss riplys believe it or not.
apex2000 7 months ago
Wow, this is fascinating ^_^ You learn something new every day!
Although, honestly, with how I'm watching all this vids, I'm learning *several* different things a day due to the Vlogbrothers :3 Huzzah!
ReKrisB 7 months ago
Thats what she said:D
xLeafxVillagexNinjax 7 months ago
Like, OWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!
sharpie660 7 months ago
i wanna hear the song TOO ITUNES!!!
MrFrostingbutt 7 months ago
HOW THE FUCK DID HE NOT DIE?!?!?!
spartansareawesome 7 months ago 4
@spartansareawesome His.... entire ordeal was pretty much how modern civilization discovered that tampering with the brain doesn't always kill, thus, we discovered brain surgery. People get brain surgeries all the time. Granted, they don't usually lose half a teacupful of brains, but still.
(i think this is how it goes. I'm not entirely sure. I'm not a brain surgeon or anything, i just like to learn this sort of thing. = ] )
iamemilyrosex 7 months ago
@spartansareawesome I first heard this story in a book called "most amazing stories never told" (cool stories that never became well known) and it had this case in it, saying that for a while, he had serious personality changes, and was bassicaly a mean man "bound to bouts of profanity" but as hank said, eventually managed to get over it. The rod passed through the emotions part of the brain, and was one of the first evidences of different parts of the brain
sharpie660 7 months ago
So I had to write an article about Phineas Gage today! I'm a new writer for a newspaper and someone is giving a talk about Gage and his impact on neuroscience. And while everyone in the newsroom was wondering who the heck this guy was, I was able to inform them all about this Phineas Gage and look like a nerd at my brand new job ;) thanks toyou Hank. You rock!
baseballchica2 7 months ago
im in 6th grade and i have this for summer reading. :(
mrflinstone57 7 months ago
thumbs up if u have this book for summer reading
mrflinstone57 7 months ago
THANK YOU!!! my boyfriend ACTUALLY LEARNED SOMETHING from this ^_^
ShadowXSniper 7 months ago
Hey there, 9th grade pre-Ib bio! That's when I first learned about Gage. And no matter how many times I hear about him, it's still wicked ridiculous and awesome and a wee bit terrifying.
This was fascinating because I didn't know about the end of the story, the 12 years later bit. BAMF of the 1800s.
Martheworld 7 months ago
I was fine until he said, "And then he vomited up a teacupfull of brain." That's when I felt like puking myself.
FantasticBlueGirl 8 months ago 2
Today was my first day of Psych 201, and on the pretest there was a question about Phineas Gage (which I answered correctly, of course!). There was a big smile on my face when I saw his name :) I just wanted to say thanks, Hank! :D
pistachiomarmalade 8 months ago
AMYGDALAAAAAS~ <3
mimisezlol 8 months ago
I am currently enrolled in Psych. Science and we had to study the case of Phineas. Have exam tomorrow, cant find my notes anymore, my room looks like a war zone so came on youtube and now I know what happened to the guy! Thank you some geek guy!
naw28878787 8 months ago
its roughly WAY TOO MUCH BRAIN
joomoo123 8 months ago 64
I was watching Dr House and I was so proud of myself when I knew who Phineas Gage was. Hank, thank you for making me feel smart :D
TheNeiraaa 8 months ago
Today at school our librarian was talking about the summer reading project, and a book on phineas Gage was one of them, and she showed us this video. Needless to say a library full of middle schoolers cracked up at the 'that's what she said'.
imsoaninja4 8 months ago
How in the world did he not die of blood loss?!
dolphin64575 8 months ago 2
Wow that's weird..and gross
Lauraa4023 9 months ago
I learned about phineas gage in psychology, my teacher insisted on calling penis gage
LaurenSaysCupcakes 9 months ago
Was the iron rod stuck in his head for the rest of his life?
tospeaksiennese 9 months ago
@tospeaksiennese It went through and "landed 80 feet away".
lennic95 9 months ago
@lennic95 Ouchhhhhhh!
tospeaksiennese 9 months ago
@tospeaksiennese ... You're kidding, right?
Shadoweaver407 8 months ago
Oh my gosh thank you thank you so much for this. I'm studying him in my linguistics class.
EmmaDilemma007 9 months ago
WRONG!
YaYaSmileyFace 9 months ago
During Biology today in class my teacher brought up phineus gage. My nerdfighter friend and myself flipped out and told his whole life story. It was awesome.
alamoraadurna33 10 months ago
I'm a ChaCha Expeditor and I was asked what year Phineas Gage got injured. I remembered the answer from this video and I felt so proud of myself. Thank you for helping me get through college with awesome Nerdfighter trivia!! :D
PinkeySherbet 10 months ago
Today in my psychology class my teacher mentioned Phineas Gage and I immediately remembered this video. XD
umbreonfreak1993 10 months ago 4
It's not the only picture of Phineas Gage that exists, it's one of two that exist and was the second one to be found. Also, another fact that is incorrect in this video involves Gage's state directly after his injury. He didn't even go unconscious. He merely was knocked over, but he got back up almost immediately.
someonetough87 10 months ago
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someonetough87 10 months ago
I don't know why but Hank just scared the crap out of me.
bordercomedens2 10 months ago
did anyone else find this funny
nate4286 10 months ago
"the unit of measurement 'teacup full' has since fallen out of use, but it's roughly (me preparing for accurate relation to modern unit of measurement) WAY TOO MUCH BRAIN."
ahaha
delitebrite 11 months ago 13
We watched this in class[:
I was so excited that I was about to hop up and say "NERDFIGHTERS FTW" with the Nerdfighters symbol
but my teacher told me to sit down
everying one was like
"Who the eff is this"
and I was like
"IT'S HANK GREEN!"
and they were like
"WHO THE EFF IS HANK?!!?"
SammiRock0 11 months ago 175
@SammiRock0 You get to watch the Vlogbrothers in class?
CAPS LOCK CANNOT EXPLAIN MY JEALOUSY
Runnyscape20 6 months ago
@SammiRock0 I sure hope this story is true, because, that. That's awesome. Just... Awesome.
EmbryzImprint 6 months ago
@SammiRock0 what class was this? I did something similar only I quoted Arnold from Predator. My teacher said if you have to use the bathroom do it now, to which I told my sister louder than I intended to, "Do it now, kill me!" When my teacher looked mad confused and I said "oh, sorry." Surprisedly that was the end of it. It would have been hilarious if I had the chance to say "run! go! get to the chopper!"
puertorrriquena 5 months ago
@puertorrriquena It was in Literacy, haha :) That's pretty awesome:D Everyone thought I was loopy when I was talking along with the video :P
SammiRock0 5 months ago
@SammiRock0 WE WATCHED IT IN CLASS TOO! i was the only person in that was super excited.....
TheKellybellyjelly 5 months ago
@TheKellybellyjelly I was like, jumping for joy, and saying the words aloud because the sound was so quiet :)
SammiRock0 5 months ago
I love that Hank considers a raccoon just as distracting as a hot girl.
Then again, he's married.
TheWarnerSister 11 months ago 8
The story of Phineas Gage is gross and bizarre, yet fascinating all at the same time!
thenewhorizons 11 months ago 7
I guess putting his head on a spike just wouldnt quite do the trick... but blasting the spike through his head was a cool idea. I guess it was just a bonus that he lived
dude941024 11 months ago
Is it weird that i knew this story before you told us?
RawrLikeSo 11 months ago 4
'WAY TOO MUCH BRAIN!' makes me laugh every time. :D
bubble992 11 months ago 4
ooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww and
groooooooooooooooooooooooooooooossssss
kateperson3 11 months ago
So...the iron rod was removed..?
shellfish1010 1 year ago
@shellfish1010 It flew right through his head. ouch.
epicsquidy123 1 year ago
@shellfish1010 yes it was. It shot right outta his head.
sweetpilot1 11 months ago
That is creepy. But kind of cool... btw, he is relatively cute. :]
stevieisnotanoctopus 1 year ago
.....Are you high? i mean with !"ª"·caine...that chin don`t lie!!
guilledealberdi 1 year ago
I read the book, and I feel that Gage was very lucky. Do you think so?
rcd1997 1 year ago
I was so excited when I got to use my knowledge from this video in my psychology class today. :)
lovemeforme0321 1 year ago 4
that's what she said XD
weird :)
QueenOfTheAubergines 1 year ago
im watching house and theyre talking about phineas gage!
monstertomonster 1 year ago
They played this in class and man I just have to say, this made me actually interested in the guys story. Just the way it was told made me laugh. Awesome vid. Thanks for putting it up.
ShadowXSniper 1 year ago
@ShadowXSniper cmon nigga!!
MRLL27 7 months ago
Soooo cool. That is also why I love the internet. Really amazing story. Thanks for sharing, Hank!
RiddleRavenness 1 year ago
Oh the irony.
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SirTeeGeeEss 1 year ago
I think your voice is my favorite voice of any voice I've ever heard :D
llamamuffinpanda95 1 year ago
Phineas Gage was hot... you know, in that one-eye-open kind of way. I like his hair, though!
xDONTPANICx 1 year ago 5
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this guys a fag
bruh4444 1 year ago
@bruh4444 Being interested in a topic that you yourself do not find interesting does not automatically make someone homosexual.
SirTeeGeeEss 1 year ago 6
Why is there unopened lip balm on the shelf?
alfiestoppani 1 year ago
my psychology teacher was talking about him today and he played this video for the class to tell the sotry. i was like omg its hank green i watch him on youtube :)
halloween23 1 year ago
That's actually not so true hank. There is another picture shown on Wikipedia. The second identified portrait of Phineas Gage. If anyone can prove me wrong please reply.
Note: I am not being cheeky I just thought to point it out.
dunzy1996 1 year ago
@dunzy1996 yeah, I looked. It appears so. but Wiki labels the other as "the second known photograph" and the one hank showed is labeled as "the first known photograph, discovered in 2009"
so, at the time of the 'commenter on flickr' it was, indeed, the only known photo of gage in existence.
So technically, you're both right. Good point though!
rarefiednight 1 year ago 2
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@floddell
Phineas Gage didn't die when the rod passed through his head because the rod didn't actually cause damage to the medulla oblongata, which controls involuntary muscle movement like breathing and swallowing. The medulla is located very close to the spinal cord and wasn't really anywhere near the actual damaged area.
The bit of the brain that controls personality and reasoning is in the front of the brain, though, which as we can see, it the part that got damaged. Just sayin.
ResidentAuthor 1 year ago
@floddell
Phineas Gage didn't die when the rod passed through his head because the rod didn't actually cause damage to the medulla oblongata, which controls involuntary muscle movement like breathing and swallowing. The medulla is located very close to the spinal cord and wasn't really anywhere near the actual damaged area.
The bit of the brain that controls personality and reasoning is in the front of the brain, though, which as we can see, it the part that got damaged. Just sayin.
ResidentAuthor 1 year ago
@shinymakar: do u remember what the name of the movie was?
B4LLsOuTJ34NS 1 year ago
"WELL!"
Hahaha, so cute. :3
Tutalilly14 1 year ago
@usefulappendix I understand completely
EssayCify 1 year ago
Anyone else notice the "Thats what she said?"
EliteDarknessScyther 1 year ago 210
@EliteDarknessScyther i noticed it.
X10tion1000 1 year ago
@EliteDarknessScyther subliminal messages
delitebrite 11 months ago
@EliteDarknessScyther i did
254327 5 months ago
That is incredibly awesome. But I should start wearing headphones because its hard to explain to my mom why I spend my free time like this. Or why I find this useless knowledge awesome.
UsefulAppendix 1 year ago 3
I think he lived entirely because it passed through him so quickly and so released a minimum of energy into his brain and thus caused a minimum of damage.
CyraEm 1 year ago
@CyraEm still pretty wierd that he live dont ya think???
floddell 1 year ago
@floddell Undoubtedly.
CyraEm 1 year ago
wasn't he blind? you know, atleast in one eye?
iamjustanerd 1 year ago
"the unit of measurement 'teacupful' has since fallen out of use, but its is roughly WAY TO MUCH BRAIN!!"
Rarefied100 1 year ago
i emailed this video to my psychology teacher and she gave me extra credit. :)
caitlahx3 1 year ago
A "teacupful" is 3/4 an American cup...
Therefore Phineas lost 3/8 cup of his brain...
Where a human brain only wieghs about 1300-1400 grams (2.985 lbs)...
Not to mention the additional brain that was lost in the initial blow...
OhMiGosh thats alot of brain!!!!!!!!!
xoXOawesomenessOXox 1 year ago
I LOVE your video. I am a homeschool mom and today we read a bit about Mr. Gage and to further assist us in our reading, i looked on YouTube and found your video. THANK YOU. My kids especially loved the tea cup mention...."WAY TOO MUCH BRAIN!"
snapfishgirl 1 year ago
i was talking to my friends about him and they were like"what! how?" i told them this story and they said "he is my new hero"
DDCrob 1 year ago
1:08 -> 1:20 i thought he did all that headless..until he said 'chatted'
i thought the rod took his head and flew with it this is how bad he explains it
dokha 1 year ago
thanks Hank... I was just putting a rather big spoonful of mashed potatoes in my mouth when you said a teacupful of his brain fell out... Blurgh
MsIdontmakevideos 1 year ago 4
The interesting part is that his disposition completly changed. He was much more angry and agressive after the fact.
azndude3600 1 year ago
That is awesome...no, awesome cannot describe it. Thus making it completely Indescribable, ya I think that's good :) Indescribable, that's it...it is Indescribable...
xBenRitchiex 1 year ago
feel free to correct me if i'm wrong... but in my psychology class i was told phineas gage had some interesting personality changes. he started becoming enraged at little things and he mightve become violent at times, i think he also suffered from some depression and sort of lived like a hermit for a while. we even watched a movie about it lol
shinymakar 1 year ago