(rooster crows) (animal growls) – Welcome to Good Mythical More. Have you ever looked at pictures of old scientists and thought, wow, that guy is hotter than I anticipated? – Well, you’re about to. But first, in the name of science, let’s explore a random, disturbing fact. – Oh good. – Did you know that there are colors that humans can’t see and you can’t even try to imagine what they would look like. You can’t even see them. I knew about this because I listened to a podcast – Who can see them, moles? – One time about, I think it was a butterfly that sees millions of colors. – Wow. – So the spectrum is more detailed and also it goes out further to the left and the right, like they can see what ultraviolet looks like. We can’t see that. But let’s just see what the official explanation is. – Zack doesn’t have an official explanation. – Ha ha, that was a test, Zack, because I just gave you the official explanation. – You failed. All right, so we’re going to play a game of buddy, daddy, enemy, where we look at a set of three scientists and then we each have to decide which one we want to be our friend, which one we want to be our father, and which one we want to be our arch nemesis. – Okay, this is easy for me. – Let’s learn a little bit about these guys. First of all, that Hermann Rorschach is good looking. – So this guy was around from ’84 to 1922, that means that’s how long he lived. He wasn’t that old when he died. – 1884. – 1884 to 1922. As we established earlier, he’s a Swiss psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, developed the Rorschach test in ’21. Wow, he developed it in ’21 and then died in ’22. I guess it’s dangerous to be good at science. Oh, he died at 38 of – Ink blot, he was drinking ink. – Peritonitis, abdominal swelling, most likely the result of a ruptured appendix. Even the scientists can die of appendicitis, so you better watch out if you start feeling that pain in your lower right abdomen. – I’d like to see that, – Or is it the left? – On a Rorschach test. – That’s key, I think it’s, verify that, I think it’s the right. – Albert Einstein, we knew enough about him. We got a lot of these to go through, so I don’t– – Yeah, and then, so Jonas Salk. – He was a chemist, right? – He was a virologist and medical researcher who developed the first polio vaccine. – He saved a lot of people. – He chose not to patent the vaccine or seek any profit to maximize its global distribution. Moderna would have something to say about that. – I just think, – I want to be best friends with Einstein. – So do I. – This guy is, – Enemy. – Too good looking. – Oh yes. – And this guy kind of looks like my dad. – Yeah, He seems boring, but can give you good advice in saving people. We totally agree on this. I was thinking the same thing. I mean, Rorschach, it’s not because he’s hot, it’s because, I don’t know, he would just get in my mind. He’d be asking me to interpret things all the time and then telling me how screwed up I am. – What do you think of that sign? – And it’s so subjective. – [Stevie] I’m sorry, so daddy, you’re using the meaning of daddy as in you would want this gentleman to be your father. – Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. – Oh, you want us to change that? Dmitri Mendeleev. – You know, we can update our strategy, ’cause you’re saying that Rorschach would have been daddy in that one. – Hua Tuo. – I mean, yeah. – Okay, here we go, these guys, only one of them has a real picture. Aristotle, you know him. This is all the way back in the 300s BC philosopher, came up with a lot of things, modern philosophy, largely based on a lot of things that he had to say. Then you have Hua Tuo. – It’s good to have a friend like that. – Who was from one 140 to 208, he’s a Chinese physician who lived during the Eastern Han dynasty, what did he do? – He’s a doctor,. – He is the first person to use anesthesia. Oh, first of all, thank you. He would use general anesthesia combining wine with an herbal concoction. – Daddy like anesthesia. – Dmitri Mendeleev, this is the chemist, he’s the chemist who developed the periodic table of elements, which he actually, I knew about this, he saw the table in a dream and woke up and started writing it down. – That’s pretty cool, but also scary. – Kind of crazy. Okay, so you’ve already made your decisions. Wow, this is tough. I kind of feel like my enemy would be Aristotle. – Why is that? – He just – Because he thinks hard? – He just looks a little too stoic. My buddy is going to be – That’s a statue. – A guy who can constantly give me anesthesia, if you know what I mean. – You don’t want to be on the bad side of a guy who can just anesthetize you. – And I’m going to go with daddy for Mendeleev and I’m not saying that I’m wanting him to be my dad, I’m just saying, daddy, you know what I’m saying? You know what I mean? I mean, look at that beard, look at that hair, does it remind you of anybody? – Yeah, let’s get rid of that. You love yourself is really what you’re saying. Okie dokie, okie dokie. – I’m learning a lot today. – Hey, by the way, we got a coloring book for adults of all ages, The Mythical Coloring Book. Lots of fun stuff to, I mean the detailed colorings that we’re seeing from the mythical beasts – So detailed. So detailed and so colorful. – Are pretty amazing. It’s nice to have a little project. George Washington Carver, the peanut man himself, got lots of love. Charles Darwin, the father of evolution and turtles. – Father of turtles. – And Edwin Hubble, the guy who saw far out into space because he was a telescope. – He was the guy who made the first observations that led to understanding the big bang had happened. And he did that just right up the hill, just right up the Hill at Mount Wilson, can you believe that? You can basically see that from there. – The fires threatened the telescope, but they were saved. – Man, the firefighters were out there surrounding that telescope for days, it was crazy. There’s going to be a movie about it, I’m sure. Buddy. – George Washington Carver. – I want to be buddies – Now I’m right about – with him. – The peanut of it all, right? – Yes. – Oh, so you’re using the blue this time? – Nope, I’ll use the red? – That’s me, that’s me. – I want to be buddies with George Washington Carver because – I just don’t know who– – He invented, he doesn’t invent peanut butter, he invented, like, all kinds of things. – These may be my three favorite scientists all in one place, this is difficult. – I want Darwin to be my daddy because he’s a traveler. He was on the, what was the name of his ship that went to the Galapagos? – The Beagle. – The Beagle. – Yeah. – Yeah, I want to go on The Beagle, I want to travel the world, he knows a lot about things. – I’m having trouble – He’s a deep thinker. – With the enemy. – I’m giving the enemy to Hubble just because pipe smoke is really good, like from a distance, but when you get around somebody who’s smoking a pipe, sometimes you just want to take it and just do this and it would go right into their brain. – So you’re saying he’s an easy target as an enemy. – Yeah, yeah, yeah, you can take advantage of a man with a pipe. – I’ll buy that. You know, Charles Darwin, I’d just love to hear the stories of all of his travels and all of his theories. He’s a big-picture thinker. I like to talk to a guy like that, but a fellow peanut butter lover has a direct line to my heart. – So, okay, so he’ll be your daddy. – He will. – In that way. Okay, all right, let’s keep going. What if this is what your science class was like? What would you learn? – [Stevie] What about the science teachers showing their class this video? – Oh, they’re still showing, yeah, yeah, welcome back psych 101. – We got some Sigmund Freud for you. I mean, even his pose here is a little scandalous. – He’s got a little – E-sock Newton. – A cigarillo there. – Tell me about Alhazen, I can’t remember. Is he a mathematician? – We’ll get to him, of course, Sigmund Freud, you know, basically the founder of psychoanalysis. Actually, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize 13 times. – Wow. – That’s crazy, but a lot of people find his methods to be completely just not real. – A lot Of people don’t like him, so he is the intellectual enemy of quite a few. Isaac Newton, of course, made all kinds of incredible discoveries, most notably gravity, I guess. But in reading about him, he kind of just seems like a little bit of a guy you wouldn’t want to be friends with. I’m just going to say that right off the bat because he just seemed to be anal about a lot of things and just really particular about everything and so I just want to stab him with my stick. And then there is Alhazen, who lived around the middle ages. – He was a mathematician. – He was an Arab mathematician, astronomer, and physicist of the Islamic golden age. His most influential work is the Book of Optics. He was the first person to explain that vision occurs when light reflects from an object and it passes to one’s eyes. The Book of Optics has seven volumes. I’ve read them all. – I think Freud’s going to be my enemy because, I mean, everything’s not about sex, is it? Come on man, let off it. – Freud’s gonna be my daddy for obvious reasons, because I mean, he’s gonna, we’re going to talk about mommy, you know what I’m saying, that’s what he does. And my buddy is going to be Alhazen so we can sit down and read seven volumes together. – I think I’ll be friends with Isaac Newton and I want Alhazen to be my actual dad, so he can do do my math for me. – Okay. – We ain’t done. – You still learning? Last round. Now we’ve got, – George Carruthers. – We’ve got George Carruthers. – Tell me. – This guy actually died last year. He’s an American inventor, physicist, engineer, and space scientist. He perfected a compact and very powerful ultraviolet camera or spectrograph for NASA to use when they launched Apollo 16. – Cool. – He designed it so astronauts could use it on the lunar surface making all adjustments inside their bulky space suits. Carl Linnaeus is an early 17th, well, basically all of the 1700s, he was a Swedish botanist. He’s the guy that came up with the idea of taxidermy, right, – Taxidermy? – Taxonomy, so I think it was, – Oh, so he’s a, this, I mean, this guy, – The system of naming things. – He’s got quite, he’s an animal lover and a plant lover. He’s a nature lover – Which again, the whole time, – Carruthers is like a space innovator. – And then, of course, Louis Pasteur is the microbiologist who discovered, renowned for the discoveries and principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization. And he created vaccines for rabies and anthrax. – Phew, we gotta give him some love for his vaccination innovations. – This is not easy. – This is not easy. – Who am I the most attracted to? – I mean, I definitely, – Definitely Linnaeus. – I want to be in nature with Linnaeus as a buddy. Let’s just hang out as a buddy. Oh, you know what? I think as a dad, as a bonafide dad. – I think my buddy is going to be Carruthers, which is sad, because he died last year. So it makes it all that more real. – How can you make the vaccine innovator your enemy? I just can’t do that to him. – Well, kind of process of elimination. He also kind of looks like a jerk. (upbeat theme music) – George. I don’t know, again, it’s nothing personal, it’s just a matter of elimination here that you gotta be my enemy. Color your way through the world of mythicality with The Mythical Coloring Book, available at mythical.com.