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Curiosity Weekly

You May Have Eaten Glass (w/ Nick Uhas), Using Positive Stress, and Identifying Screams

Curiosity Weekly

Warner Bros. Discovery

Science

4.6963 Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2019

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Learn about how you’ve probably eaten glass, with Netflix’s “Blown Away” host Nick Uhas. You’ll also learn about how to tap into a positive kind of stress called eustress; and, how your unique screams can identify you.

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0:00.0

Hi, we are here from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes.

0:05.4

I'm Cody Gough.

0:06.4

And I'm Ashley Hamer.

0:07.4

Today you learn about how you've probably eaten glass with special guest Nick U-Hoss.

0:12.2

You'll also learn about how to tap into a

0:14.2

positive kind of stress and how your unique screams can identify you.

0:18.8

Let's satisfy some curiosity. Would you ever eat glass?

0:24.0

Your instinct might be to say no.

0:26.0

But according to today's guest,

0:28.0

it's possible you already have eaten glass.

0:31.0

Nick U-Hoss is a science influencer and creator of the

0:33.8

Nicopedia YouTube channel and he's also the host of the brand new Netflix

0:37.8

competition series called Blown Away. In the show, 10 master artists turn up the heat in glass-blowing sculpture challenges for the chance to win $60,000 in prizes and the title of champion.

0:51.0

Here's Nick with a fun fact he learned while he was shooting the show.

0:54.0

There are so many really interesting things about glass and glass blowing in general,

1:00.0

but one that I just thought this is really interesting is that the candy

1:04.8

jolly ranchers are technically glass. You're technically eating glass

1:12.3

when you're eating gaily answers now I shall explain.

1:16.2

So glass is defined as anything that is transparent that is a solid that is in its non-crystalline sort of form. So there's no

1:25.8

crystal lattice that goes through the entire substance. There's another word for

1:30.1

anamorphic and so glass that we think of when we think of like windows, that

1:36.4

glass has like a silicon base. So it comes from sand. The sand is sort of like the

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