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This video is presented by Jayde Lovell, Directed by Mizanur Rahman, and Edited by Emily Lin at Youtube Space NYC. SCIQ ON THE YOUNG TURKS Produced by Jayde Lovell and Bec Susan Gill. ScIQ is a partner of the The Young Turks Network. SCIQ ON THE YOUNG TURKS Produced by Jayde Lovell and Bec Susan Gill. ScIQ is a partner of the The Young Turks Network. Milk Is Good For Your Bones Okay, let’s get one thing straight. The food pyramid is a lie. It was designed by companies with corporate interests in what is put in your shopping trolley. Conventional wisdom that dairy products help build strong bones by providing calcium. But Milk is actually only one of many sources of calcium—dark leafy green vegetables and some types of legumes are among the other sources—and there are some important reasons why milk may not be the best source for everyone. The truth is that the bioavailability of calcium in milk isn’t even that high, and that other factors (like exercise and protein/vitamin D intake) are far more important for bone health. Brain Cells Can’t Regenerate It has been said that once you have lost brain cells, there is no way to gain any back. Luckily, science shows that brain cells do regrow! Many people think that we are born with all the brain cells, or neurons, that we'll ever have and when they're gone, they're gone for good. But Researchers at Cornell University have demonstrated that cells from the hippocampus – the brain essential for learning and memory - can regenerate in a laboratory dish. There’s no gravity in space Yale researchers have found that there actually is gravity in space, and there is a lot of it. It is true that as you travel farther away from the earth, its gravitational pull weakens. However, the pull fades away pretty slowly, and the gravity never fully goes away. Gravity is everywhere in space, the objects that are in space are continuously falling towards the galactic center. Now, you might be thinking, how do astronauts float about while they’re in space? These astronauts in the midst of the orbit around the earth aren’t experiencing “no gravity,” they’re actually experiencing a TON of gravity, but don’t have anything in their tracks to stop them. This concept is known as “free falling.” Pennies dropped from skyscrapers can kill people Although the penny is made out of hard copper, it is extremely difficult for a penny to transform into a deadly weapon. Even if it is tossed off a building as high as the Empire State building, a penny is far too flat and small in size to kill, and on it’s way down to the ground, it is buffered by far too many air particles. Due to all of this air resistance, the penny would actually just drift to the ground like an autumn leaf. Louis Bloomfield, a physicist at the University of Virginia says that if you happened to be walking on the sidewalk at it’s time of descent, and it did end up hitting you, it would feel like someone lightly flicked you on the head. Bloomfield speaks from experience. He created an experiment to simulate the falling of pennis from tall buildings using wind tunnels and helium balloons. He says that one penny even bounced off of his face, and he was in no pain. SOURCES http://gizmodo.com/why-you-definitely-shouldnt-drink-your-own-pee-1648474064 http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/could-a-penny-dropped-off/ http://www.therichest.com/rich-list/most-popular/10-popular-science-myths-debunked/ http://www.yalescientific.org/2010/10/mythbusters-does-zero-gravity-exist-in-space/ https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/calcium-full-story/ Thumbnail: Flickr // DonkeyHotey - Albert Einstein - Caricature https://www.flickr.com/photos/donkeyhotey/12658290004 Follow SciQ on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ScIQ_TYT Follow SciQ on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sciq.tyt?ref=hl Follow SciQ on Tumblr: http://dssscience.tumblr.com/ Follow Jayde on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jaydelovell Follow Jayde on Instagram: www.instagram.com/jaydelovell Follow Jayde on the interwebs: www.jaydelovell.com Follow Bec on Twitter: https://twitter.com/becsusangill Follow Bec on Instagram: https://instagram.com/becsusangill Follow Bec on Tumblr: http://becsusangill.tumblr.com/ CONTACT For enquiries – please email bec@tytnetwork.com or jayde@tytnetwork.com