The Professor's Brain - Sixty Symbols

[mechamorafa]

"Hello!", "I´m here".

[SuperDogbrown]

love the video man

[msjessypp]

love the video man

[MrJonkelp]

very interesting thanks

[TheSpikeystuff]

some really good stuff here

[Blues251]

So can you tell from a MRI-Scan if somebody's left-handed? I'm left-handed and curious :)

[RagingBubuli]

What will happen if a person stayed on a very strong magnetic field for a long period of time?

[pinnegubbe]

@RagingBubuli nothing :)

[MrSuednym]

So... What would they do if someone with a pacemaker needed a MRI? Wouldn't the very strong magnetic field mess up the pacemaker?

[pinnegubbe]

@MrSuednym im not 100% sure, but i think pacemakers are made from titanium, witch is not magnetic :)

[MrSuednym]

@pinnegubbe Well wouldn't it be very similar to why they put warnings about why you should avoid microwave ovens if you've got a pace maker?

[pinnegubbe]

@MrSuednym yeah, maybe it conducts heat or something. i dont know

[tkuzzz]

She's so cute, love her voice.

[TheNachter]

they get dizzy when you push them in....

magnets do interfere with your brain^^

mind control^^

[tecana88]

i have been in this machine because of my crohns disease :(

nice vid

[zurechtweiser]

Der Typ ist ein wandelndes "zerstreuter-Wissenschaftler"-­Klischee.

[WackyAmoebatrons]

@zurechtweiser Bei "alt und weißhaarig = weise" will ich ja zustimmen. Aber zerstreut ist er noch in keinem Video, das ich sah. Im Gegenteil, der ist scharfsinnig, stellt präzise Fragen, kann ganze verständliche Sätze sprechen. Und die letzte Frage "Könnt ihr anhand der Bilder feststellen, dass ich Linkshänder bin" ist eine wunderbar tiefgründige Frage, deren Antwort sowohl medizinische als auch philosophische Seiten hat.

[johnball235]

this sounds like brainwashing threw radio waves is fully possible

[TheToxicRadio]

SHARE THY CEREBELLUM!

[goboenomo]

1 person is jealous enough about the professors brain to dislike.

[winterstellar]

My brain looks way smarter! But I just happened to choose to become a car mechanic/grease monkey instead of a physics professor!:)

[bogieman987]

If i eat his brain would i become just as smart, nah just kidding XD

[redbladegreek]

wait...so how do magnets work then?

[iSynOSX]

The Professor is so awesome!

[ysflightman]

"How are you doing in there?"

"Fine"

"Hello?"

"Ya I'm here"

[verbatim945]

Is this guy trying to be Einstein?

[cheguevaraisgod]

omg, prof was absolutely giddy at looking at his brain and asking them questions lol

[ib9rt]

What exactly makes the loud noise requiring ear plugs?

[jfn1103]

I dont know about you guys, but i saw the same image in his brain as i did in the shroud of Turin

[homousios]

lovely mind!

[opiumgland]

Why isn't she wearing scrubs?

[odysseus9672]

Oh, professor! Your brain is so big and foldy!

I'm jealous!

j/k :)

[nemesisnick66]

that isnt hair on his head its gray matter!

[vrshowdown]

@nemesisnick66 looks like a gray afro to me

[nemesisnick66]

@vrshowdown joke was that since he's a professor/scientist guy and brains are called gray matter that his "gray afro" was just his brain cause its huge an all...something like that kinda lame but what ever

[Muscleduck]

I'm a lefty too! Is it me or are some of the biggest brains left handed... The Professor, Einstein, Picasso,...

[skuul666]

@Muscleduck Same here, and im just like the professor a chemist :) the chemistry professor on my university (amsterdam) is also a lefty

[Jadandlud]

@Muscleduck Come to think of it, there is a pattern. I'm a lefty too but no way am I genius(IQ 136...Don't even start with EQ).

[Geomanb]

his lateral ventricles ('space' inside ones brain, in which cerebrospinal fluid is mainly produced) seem to be comparatevely small - so there's more room for gray matter :)

[carnyzack]

Can you tell that I'm left handed by looking at that? LOL!

[IAINMAN96]

@Serostern: Proffessor's name is Martyn Poliakoff

[pepsibookcat]

I wonder if anyone framed a printout of one of the cooler images so the Professor could hang it in his office.

Hmmm, chemistry and physics are represented. I wonder if there will ever be Math Dept. videos?

[Cream147player]

Would be great I think

[Serostern]

Anyone know the professors real name?

[chrisofnottingham]

I have been in that exact MRI scanner! Found it to be like just like the video says, it made me slightly dizzy getting pushed in and it was loud for a long while. FYI the dizziness is allegedly caused by the fluid in the ear canals, which is in loops, getting movement induced into it as one's head travels through the magnetic field.

[Dune1884]

BIG GRAY AFRO DUDE

[orang3c4rt]

lmao

[yngmalm]

she was cute

[mikez565]

why does the girl have an american accent?

[Hellothere212121]

@mikez565 - Perhaps because she's American...

[solomsolomol]

what's that line at 1:58 ?

[kebabsallad]

The little gap thingi between the 2 halves of the brain :P?

[Bloodscalpr]

i think he means the white one :P

[tjd07x]

your brain is actually split up into 2 hemispheres, they are separate entities attached by a small inslet of brain matter called the corpus callosum

[Badwolf6669]

i went in one of those machines and i hate the sound it made

[badwolf66]

I've been in 1 too well twice actually 1 was to scan my brain and the other was for my brain and back and those giant magnets sure screw with your stomach.

[IPT1994]

Is that his real hair? o.O

[porsche911sbs]

of course. you can't make this stuff up

[antioxcidity]

Its made by Phllips? how do you schedule one of these i had a head injury want to get checked

[4jonah]

also by GE. i had a brain tumor a while back and had to get several MRIs. big tech companies make them.

[Incogniten]

He's pretty cool, despite being really old, he's also kind of funny. The music is also...interesting. Overall a fantastic video.

[culwin]

Sorry to be a Buzzkillington, but there's no actual symbol in this video... unless a brain is a symbol?

LOL

[kayne001]

yes it is :)

[roendm]

ahahaa

[rwcabrera]

I wonder if you can tell he's lefty based off the images. I'm lefty aswell and am wondering if the difference can be seen in the brain.

[LostMente]

I personally Don't believe in any real differences between left and right handed people, I do believe there is some repression of left handedness

[Envergure]

Excellent music!

[hiitsme3love128]

eh? just 10 you know!

[TableWolfMusic]

Talk about twisting your melon.

It'd be great if Sixty Symbols would make the frames of the scan available as a 3D model on their website... as long as that is not too intrusive.

That said, he has just exposed his noggin to the internet, mind.

[sixtysymbols]

@TableWolfMusic: Pictures of the Professor's brain have been uploaded to the sixtysymbols Flickr account! You can see them there.

[TableWolfMusic]

@sixtysymbols

Thanks. Sadly, there appears to be 6 images only. Is that all the hospital handed over? Stingy so and sos.

If I were you I would have given them a piece of my mind. Oh, hang on... you already did.

No chance of a 3D rotational model maybe in Java or Flash for the web browser? Maybe some Nottingham CompSci students would take up the challenge?

Come to think of it, the new firefox 3.5 video abilities would do the job.

Flying around the Prof's loaf with a Wii Remote would be such fun.

[sixtysymbols]

@TableWolfMusic: The Professor was being scanned for some serious research into iron levels in the brain, so the images captured were quite specific to that work - we were grateful they let us in at all!

For a true journey into The Professor's brain I can only recommend the 100+ videos featuring him on periodicvideos and nottinghamscience.

But good idea for next time! ;)

[LutzDerLurch]

@sixtysymbols I gues using these Data to create a 3D Image of the Professors Brain laseretched into a Glass-Cube would be a great Merchandise!



[The1stPoster]

Would be funny if you heard him screaming and then he came out a zombie.

And then someone grabbed a crowbar.

[arcarulez]

No, it wouldn't. Now hush, young man.

[zimant78]

its relatively safe, if it makes hydrogen rotate very fast, maybe some people would be worried that it could make your dna mutate, thereby giving you a cancer.

obviously i think you would have 100 percent chance of a cnancer only if you spent 1 or 2 years in that feild, its alot stronger than the RF of household equipment.

[hiitsme3love128]

o.0 kewl!! so i have a magnetic brain!!! :D

[strek0655]

Well all of your electrons and nucleus wich are in odd numbers...

[archaedemos]

Very interesting.  They say these are completely safe . but i have to wonder about running that much rf through your head. does anyone know anything here? (:

[hiitsme3love128]

what? so are our brains magnetic? COOL!

[meusicalentall27]

they sure are...

[jnrolf]

Can you take the sliced data and convert it to a 3D image, say in Java... would love to see that up on the net.

Great Video!

[DeoMachina]

Woah bit ambitious there..

[jnrolf]

Mmmmmmmm?

Not realy.

A good MRI centre would have the program. This is a University MRI so I would say, they are up to date with the method. I Hope?

[Dan4157]

Yummy radiation...

[chimpstop]

Both of my parents and A LOT of MRI Scans, and I had to sit down with an Oncology/ICU doc and review the history of them for my Dad...just accepted the miracle and that strong magnent fields were involved, but never had the time to consider HOW it worked. This short Video Film has filled in that missing gap.

Are you folks planning to do one about PET Scans? The positron part of that has always made me think of either Asimov or Roddenberry...

[dirtzonline]

why cant professor look after their hair?

[mashugac]

They have better things to do ;)

[Dalekman911]

Yes, we do =)

[mashugac]

So you are one?

[Dalekman911]

Yeah.

[DeoMachina]

If they cut it short they lose their genius, like Samson but with intellect.

[DeoMachina]

The Professor is a fellow lefty!

[jadoredobby]

hmm, interesting.

i clicked on this by accident but thought i'd hear it out - you learn something new everyday!

[sixtysymbols]

High quality pics of The Professor's brain can be viewed at the sixtysymbols Flickr page!

[sixtysymbols]

Sorry, accidentally removed comment from @AquaScrotum1975 praising our talented musician... Check out Traxscape on MySpace.

[flyaxe]

so could she tell that he was left handed by looking at the scan?

[okuma0kuma]

right parts of brain controls left side of body and left side brain parts controls right side of body its even possible to know which eye a person with parallel vision use the most

[flyaxe]

i know that! but that was not my question!

[okuma0kuma]

funny to see negative mark for answering question , sorry i thought you had enough common sence to realize if brain mass is larger then the other in certain area's that part would be more active ,she would know yes being as she is trained in medical profession

[formula8888]

i want that brain

[gydeme]

r u a zombie!?!?!?!?!?!

[mantas1111000]

It looks kinda ironic to me. The Professors Brain.

[NAMLegolas]

Woooow.... Thanks for sharing!

[lvecsey]

lol the intercom voice sounded like he was inside a gaming environment

were any brain abnormalities found?

[IAmRodyle]

the prof's a lefty! w00t

[fran13r]

how could that machine see his brain trough that hair xD!!??? lol cool vid =) 5stars 4 the proffesors brain xD

[ELuhn]

You missed a fantastic opportunity. It would've been hilarious if he came back out with a crewcut or a rainbow clown wig or something...

[safibn1]

HAHAHAHAHAHA...

it was still a good video

[10mintwo]

the real opportunity that was missed was to bring a block of aluminum with him so he could demonstrate the lorenz force. if he'd've dropped the block in front of the bore of the magnet it would've fallen through the air to the ground VEEEERRRRRRYYY slowly. I would have loved to have seen that on a 7T magnet!

[odysseus9672]

@10mintwo You would actually need to put it in some kind of slot, otherwise the block will be pushed sideways out of the field, I would think.

[10mintwo]

@odysseus9672 and @arcarulez  Actually, yes it WOULD, although odysseus is right that it would tend to be pushed out, but only very slowly at 7T I would imagine. Look at this, it's only 1T!!!

watch?v=lszHhU52Mow

[nilbud]

@10mintwo Actually it would have shot through the room like a shell from a gun.

[10mintwo]

@nilbud um yeah, no. Aluminum is not attracted to magnetic fields. It's not ferromagnetic.

[nilbud]

@10mintwo Spooky action at a distance.

[HiyoriTamura92]

All my knowledge of MRI machines comes from House :D Awesome video.

[mmmSS1282]

great job! I`m not scare to be no.13 :-s

[zakyb1]

nice music!

[777Marlene]

if the professor has had radio waves in his brain....what kind of tunes is his station playing, classical....jazz....or heavy metals ?...........just a thought to ponderously whack about

[Akhiloth]

Must feel really strange when all of your magnetically sensitive bits move at the same time.

[Qtmas]

1:40

"ok we're going to start"

"yes i'm ready to start"

"ok we're going to start"

lol

[colinstu]

"how are you doing in there?"

"fine"

"okay I'm going to ask you now to move your head ..hello?"

"yeah I'm here..."

plenty of awkward moments :P

[MichaelERutherford]

That is one hell of a brain, I tell you that!

What a guy!

Excellent video:D

[whitehiliter]

Yay!

[MeLL1eJ]

I'd like to know the answer to the question at the end :)

[swivelingchairguy]

get a haircut hippy

[JonatanGronoset]

This was interesting! The Professors brain! Thanks for posting. :3

[hord]

Id like to thank both this channel and the people who let u use the machine for this amazing video, i always wondered how they managed to actually get the image onto a physical print out.

[retrotees]

good film , nice music lol. thanks for using it brady. rob

[Scubaman5000]

I like how immediately he's asking questions when he's done. Scientists are awesome.

[Kargoneth]

This is your brain. This is your brain on SCIENCE!

What a strange machine... I love it.

[redone632]

Very interesting to know how exactly it works :)

Were they able to tell that he is left handed?

[itsabomberscope]

Wow, quite a humbling experience I would imagine - seeing your own brain.

[solomsolomol]

cool ,now MRI his hair !

[goldliquid]

o_O wasn't the teaser posted in another acc?

[sixtysymbols]

@goldliquid: yep, but we said the main film would be posted here because it is our physics film about MRI.... Glad you're subbed to both channels! Our third channel is called nottinghamscience and is more broad.

[imgordonfreeman]

Are you guys going to stop making physics video after you introduce all 60 symbols?

[sixtysymbols]

@imgordonfreeman: I hope we keep going, but we haven't really talked about it yet... Just trying to get the 60 done first and see how they're working! :)