The Mystery of Magnetic Worms - Smarter Every Day 253

Trent just made a discovery and it's almost made us mad. It's an earthworm..... A worm.... a magnet. (Laughing) What's going on? This makes us mad because nobody's told us this before. (More laughing) Does that mean that the worm has.... can you.... can it hang from the magnet? I haven't tried. Is it just one part of his body? ...Or HER body? ...the heck man? It felt that. Oh, look what it just did! What did it do? It broke part of its body. The magnet did!? Yeah Do you think there's a piece of metal inside the worm? Is it just in that location? I don't know. I think so. ⚡ZAP!⚡ Oh! The worm shocked me. Okay... Worm... (Brain overloaded) You think there's a little.... maybe there's like a little.... was this on the ground? Yeah! There's more of them out there. It's just the one location. So this worm has a piece of metal in it. We can go look and find some more. More worms. All right. Could we have another there's two worms (Whispers softly in disbelief) SHUTUP ...THEHECKMAN (Trent giggles) This makes me angry because I don't understand it. Look at that. Is there something in the digestive system? Of... I have.... I have to pick up a warm with a magnet. -Do it There's another worm. (Inaudible bewilderment) Oh, you see it? (INHALE GASP) Oh... what's happenin'?...... dude. (Laughing) Oh what's happenin? Oh man. What's going on, dude? Why don't I know.... that's a dead worm. I think they're pooping out... Is the soil? Does the soil have to much... it's not a dead worm. Does the soil have so much iron in it? -Let's go find a....uh Come here! Get that one. (Both laugh) Okay. Come on worm. We ain't going.... We're not going to fish with you. Okay. So here, go ahead. Try. So is it just worms in proximity to the shop? -I don't know. That's not a magnetic worm! That's a non-ferrous worm. (Laughing) -Brand new sentence right there! The non-ferrous worm Cannot believe this is what we're doing right now. This is the RIGHT thing to be doing... picking up worms with magnets. Okay. Conclusion is... - I have a theory. What's your theory? -The blanket was sitting on the driveway. Yeah. And it has been there for a day. Two days. Yeah. With a bunch of rainfall and there's much iron dust all over the, ...And they'd been eating it. Okay. We've got a pile of steel here. All right. I want there to be a warm under this. (Metal scraping) I struck out there's no worms. (Clanking and moving metal) This isn't right. There's not a worm in here... We are worm poor.... (gasp) There's a worm....he's a tiny, tiny worm. No.....no... These worms, (Pointing) These are the ferrous worms. (Laughing) OK, so... All right. So all of this. Yeah! You see all this? This is all iron from when we were grinding. That's what's going on! There's iron in the worms digestive system. That's what's happening! 😂 Oh man! We've poisoned the worms. Humanity. That just jumped up on the magnet. Golly. So we've ground iron or steel in these locations and that's all rust and we've created.... I feel bad! I feel like we've done something wrong, man. Look at that! That is insane. But the Earth's crust has a lot of iron in it (confused). So does that mean that there could be like locally, you could measure the "ferrous-city" of the soil based on how magnetic worms are? You have the magnet in a paint cap. And so you just run it like that and that's how you picked up stuff and you pull that out and then all your nails are right there. Yup. Except I did it wrong. You do it over the garbage can and they fall out, you see. Open up your hand. Do that and then you pull magnet out and then the nails fall out and that's And you picked up a worm on accident? Hahaha! That's how we made the great discovery. That's how that's how things happen. Okay. So I just recorded a video about worms and I love it. I love that video. It's so simple that like the mystery and the magic of like trying to figure out this worm problem. I love that. And I that's like, that's where I like to operate as a person. I just want to explore the world using science and I want it to be fun. And that's what I'm going to do. And so here's my play. I want to be able to show you the videos when I make them. And I don't want any algorithm in between you or I. So here's what I would propose. Please consider going to smartereveryday.com. And I'm going to, I've got an email list there. I've already made it, but this is the first time I've announced it. So if you consider going to smartereveryday.com, clicking on the email list, I will literally email you when I upload a video and I will keep you up to date on all the latest worm news and Alabama. I mean, you know what I'm trying to say! I want to explore the world in a curious way. And I want to show you what I'm learning because that's what smarter every day is for me. So THANK YOU also to the Patrons. I should've sent you a baseballs. If you're a patron, if not, I'm still sending baseball. So if you'd like to be a patron at smartereveryday.com, No! Patreon.com/smartereveryday, I'll send you a baseball and like thank you for pitching in and making this happen! But I realized that not everybody is willing to pitch in financially to support a channel like this. So that's the purpose of the email list. If you want to go back to internet 1.0 with me and let's just do this, the old school way, I will email you when I make a video and there will be no algorithms in between you or I and we're going to do this brute force and it's going to be awesome. So if you're in.. THANK YOU. I will leave a link down in the description of this video, go right to the email list and verify your email address and feel free to unsubscribe anytime. But anyway, internet 1.0, me and you just going to explore the world, using science and have fun. I am grateful for you. 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Channel: SmarterEveryDay

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Keywords: Smarter, Every, Day, Science, Physics, Destin, Sandlin, Education, Math, Smarter Every Day, experiment, nature, demonstration, slow, motion, slow motion, education, math, science, science education, what is science, Physics of, projects, experiments, science projects, worm, biology, magnets, how to magnets work, magnetic

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Length: 8min 28sec (508 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 31 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/Cravatitude]

You bioleached iron with worms!

[u/RoadHustler]

Great video love the mailing list idea. Could you send all the videos? since youtube stopped notifying me abou your videos even though I am subscribed with full notifications.

[u/ronglangren]

I'm guessing high iron content in the soil?

CALLED IT!!!!

[u/michaelfri]

So apparently the fastest land animal is an earthworm in an MRI machine.

[u/JWGhetto]

Gotta find worms from other places, maybe they are all magnetic!

[u/justme46]

Thought for sure this was April Fools

[u/joelmooner]

WHAT THE HECK

[u/lustindarkness]

Magnetic Ferrous Worms, who would've thunk it?

[u/Thriven]

Keep dropping video links here and I'm sure I'll see them.