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@TrevorZero
March 6, 2024 at 3:37 pm
if God didn’t want me to put holes in my head why did he give me five?
@TheBadSpoon
March 6, 2024 at 6:35 pm
Real
@rolloxra670
March 7, 2024 at 12:08 am
Seven if you count your eye sockets
@niamotullah99
March 7, 2024 at 1:21 am
Exactly, he already gave you so u don’t have to
@popularscience
March 8, 2024 at 2:52 pm
TREV! This is not a how-to guide!
@memeslich
March 6, 2024 at 4:08 pm
meme accounts show a lot of women getting hurt too
@popularscience
March 6, 2024 at 6:53 pm
doing dumb things is the great unifier of all demographics
@SnowyOwl369
March 6, 2024 at 4:24 pm
Who else is here from Vsauce2?
@T-J-S
March 6, 2024 at 4:30 pm
I am, and he always makes my day better while I watch his videos! He’s an amazing teacher
@The.171
March 6, 2024 at 5:57 pm
Me
@popularscience
March 6, 2024 at 6:46 pm
me
@catherinebaldwin6580
March 7, 2024 at 10:05 pm
Me
@Bombingham
March 6, 2024 at 4:56 pm
God: gives humans intelligence
Humans: ima put a hole in my head
@popularscience
March 6, 2024 at 6:31 pm
you can’t reach great heights without first knowing where rock bottom is
@Bombingham
March 6, 2024 at 10:09 pm
@@popularscience true, someone had to “invent” common sense after all
@ddturnerphd
March 6, 2024 at 4:57 pm
What an insightful video on trephenation, not at all boring.
@popularscience
March 6, 2024 at 6:30 pm
thank you — and we had to leave out some really good stuff (YouTube would’ve age-restricted it for “gore” despite it being purely medical/scientific)
@ddturnerphd
March 6, 2024 at 7:44 pm
@popularscience I appreciate your whittling through reams of material and material on reaming that could lead to circular arguments.
@catherinebaldwin6580
March 7, 2024 at 10:03 pm
I thought it was very boring. Afterall, he spent the hole time boring through Joe rind.
@ddturnerphd
March 7, 2024 at 10:09 pm
@@catherinebaldwin6580 That was the ‘hole point of my pun!
@Conrad500
March 6, 2024 at 5:57 pm
This video blew my mind. Well, at least it put a hole in it
@popularscience
March 6, 2024 at 6:20 pm
Good, but did the explosion and the small channel it created allow the evil spirits to escape?
@TheBadSpoon
March 6, 2024 at 6:38 pm
They always did say I’ve got a head like a hole.
@popularscience
March 6, 2024 at 7:02 pm
Black as your soul?
@Astrolab.insights
March 6, 2024 at 6:45 pm
It suggested the other new video but not this one.
@popularscience
March 6, 2024 at 6:56 pm
the algorithm works in mysterious ways
@kae3037
March 6, 2024 at 7:33 pm
So that’s how they tried to cure Joe’s melon-choly 🤔 😉
@AlternateHoney
March 6, 2024 at 9:52 pm
At least we’ve gotten better at doing the bad thing
@popularscience
March 8, 2024 at 1:05 pm
sometimes that’s all we can hope for
@tahiryaqubov3548
March 6, 2024 at 11:30 pm
Found another rare video that i will talk about to my friends
@popularscience
March 8, 2024 at 1:00 pm
please tell your closest 50,000 friends and family to like and subscribe
@superfishman3243
March 7, 2024 at 12:38 am
Gonna do a presentation on trepination as a treatment for possesion in Africa. Thanks for more inspiration!
Don’t know why you didn’t link the first article you used though.
@superfishman3243
March 7, 2024 at 12:38 am
Gonna do a presentation on trepination as a treatment for possesion in Africa. Thanks for more inspiration!
@popularscience
March 8, 2024 at 12:52 pm
Heyyy that’s awesome, one of the most comprehensive articles is from Charles Gross (whose book we used) writing in The MIT Press Reader, check it out:
@superfishman3243
March 8, 2024 at 4:22 pm
Okay, I’ll check it out.
@KyleIng
March 7, 2024 at 1:39 am
Hey man just found your videos today, they are so amazing I just wanted to let you know your going places. Keep entertaining man!
@popularscience
March 8, 2024 at 12:46 pm
thanks Kyle, many more on the way — new video next week!
@KyleIng
March 8, 2024 at 1:31 pm
@@popularscience keep ‘em coming!
@johnnydarling8021
March 7, 2024 at 2:48 am
Glad that you’re still making videos.
I love your other channel, Sauce, too.
@popularscience
March 8, 2024 at 11:59 am
thanks, Johnny — and yeah, Vsauce2 continuing as normal (new video out over there next week!) and a new one each week here. lots and lots of content is happening
@noob19087
March 7, 2024 at 3:27 am
Only a thousand views? I figured this to have a few million.
@popularscience
March 8, 2024 at 11:58 am
hopefully we get there, it’ll take a little while to get the algorithm rolling. but that’s why we love the early crowd who’s with us from the start
@noooosleeplol
March 7, 2024 at 3:36 am
I’m just here before the channel blows up more. Glad I have a backlog of the old content to watch now too, and whatever the future holds for this teams channel. I’ve been having a science itch. Great work as always for like the last 15 years at this point, Kevin.
@popularscience
March 8, 2024 at 11:57 am
thanks, nosleep! Really excited to re-invent the content here and roll it out every single week, retro tech, science documentaries, visualizations, and stories. 15 years and 50 more!
@BeastBishop
March 7, 2024 at 6:42 am
Neutral Link: is it Dream, or is it advertising?
@popularscience
March 8, 2024 at 11:54 am
we are probably about to find out
@jimmerlin3852
March 7, 2024 at 8:44 am
Is this where the saying “I need this like a “hole in the head” originated?
@popularscience
March 8, 2024 at 11:51 am
It seems that way, jimmerlin — there was some coverage in the 60’s/70’s about the counter-culture fringe elements (like Huges and his followers) engaging in trepanation, which had to have come off as being nuts to most people
@salvsays
March 8, 2024 at 12:57 am
Id do it
@popularscience
March 8, 2024 at 7:53 am
It’s actually really surprising how little pushback people seem to have had with this. The very sick, hurt, and unconscious people aside, there weren’t too many indications that people put up a crazy fight to avoid trepanation, or maybe it just got dropped from the narratives. History is written by the drillers.
@salvsays
March 8, 2024 at 8:29 am
Lol 😂 amazing. I love your work on V2. Loved this.
@aL3891_
March 8, 2024 at 4:35 am
i do it to get the bad thoughts out
@popularscience
March 8, 2024 at 7:51 am
Sure, but now that there’s a hole, won’t it be easier for new ones — and WORSE ones — to make their way in? Cranial conundrum.
@jasperekkel
March 8, 2024 at 1:01 pm
Just found this channel. Enjoying it so far!
@popularscience
March 8, 2024 at 1:24 pm
ayyy jasper, welcome — hopefully you like the next video as well, coming next week!
@bagel29
March 8, 2024 at 1:08 pm
2:05 TABBERRRRRRR
@popularscience
March 8, 2024 at 1:16 pm
missed a chance for a JSchlatt cameo :'(
@jaizo_
March 8, 2024 at 7:16 pm
I am so confused by why this channel exists, what was popular science/why is vsauce doing this?
@matianlong7907
March 9, 2024 at 6:43 am
Interestingly, I’ve been to a traditional Tibetan Medicine hospital and the practice of a small trepanation of the skull to let blood flowing away is displayed as a traditional practice and seems its still practiced in that hospital. I guess it’s maybe based on a similar concept of that of Mr. Mellon about reducing the blood pressure
@bagel29
March 9, 2024 at 12:11 pm
Something something head like a hole by nine inch nails something
@jasonsharpe9766
March 10, 2024 at 7:09 pm
You look like the lead singer of Korn
@danthelatch
March 11, 2024 at 6:45 pm
Looking forward to the next video where you show us how to do a lobotomy on a cantaloupe
@Crouchdown
March 12, 2024 at 9:42 am
Wait… Matthew Taber wrote a medical journal?
@Grill_Jones
March 12, 2024 at 6:42 pm
good video
@forbiddenera
March 12, 2024 at 8:12 pm
I’m gonna have nightmares now.😢
@SirYenner
March 12, 2024 at 8:19 pm
I recommend getting a CT scan before self trepanation so you’ll know precisely how deep to drill.
@TheSimArchitect
March 14, 2024 at 5:38 pm
Perhaps he just wanted a headphone jack but he was too ashamed to admit it.
@robertkerr4199
March 14, 2024 at 8:57 pm
I had a friend who got into black magic, then drilled a hole in his head to release the demons. He’s not right…
@Joeyzoom
March 15, 2024 at 1:50 pm
You need a hole in your head like you need a hole in your head.
@secondlifearound
March 15, 2024 at 9:00 pm
Patient: “Doctor I have a very bad stomach ache.”
Doctor: “Let me work on the top of your head for a sec.”
@obrecht72
March 16, 2024 at 5:22 am
Quote Morpheus, “This may feel a little weird. “
@ilpi7216
March 16, 2024 at 7:56 am
Mankind YEARNS for the lobotomy, and it did so since the dawn of time
@BobofWOGGLE
March 16, 2024 at 10:22 am
Needed this video like I needed a hole in the head.
So like, surprisingly a lot actually.
@lordterra1377
March 17, 2024 at 1:11 am
Democrats have a huge hole in there heads, they cant define what a women is.
@Umuthoper
March 17, 2024 at 4:29 pm
So, just to be sure the holes are covered with skin right?
@ristube3319
March 18, 2024 at 6:35 pm
15:54 why not put it in a vice?
@Yourmission9
March 19, 2024 at 7:46 pm
This is much like the medical “science” of blood letting and humors
@goldendk9
March 20, 2024 at 7:54 pm
Helium holes.
@alby13
March 21, 2024 at 4:19 am
This is because the brain is the least understood part of the human body.
@SDRIFTERAbdlmounaim
March 22, 2024 at 1:52 pm
Kirkland vsauce 😂
@SDRIFTERAbdlmounaim
March 22, 2024 at 1:56 pm
people really had it tough before the invention of Aspirin 😂
@bradzandmaxplays
March 23, 2024 at 8:25 am
wow
@sevenbender7927
March 23, 2024 at 9:30 pm
Hey Mr. Host Guy. I’m getting some Frankie Muniz vibes from you
@LIVE781REDRUM
March 25, 2024 at 8:59 am
THIS IS THE SUPERB CONTENT I NEED IN MY LIFE. I HOPE YOU DO MORE OLD GADGETS OUT OF POPULAR SCIENCE MAGAZINES.
@shornoMALONEY
April 4, 2024 at 5:00 pm
There’s a great episode of Hamilton’s Pharmacopeia where he interviews Amanda Feilding, “My LSD-Induced Love Affair With a Pigeon”. She’s now a prominent researcher in the field of psychedelic medicine, specifically 5-MeO-DMT if I recall.
@No.Good.Nickname
April 4, 2024 at 5:44 pm
I’m just thinking about these holes looking likes they where inflicted with warhammers.
@CDRaff
April 4, 2024 at 6:10 pm
This might be the most uncomfortable video I have ever watched.
@Dan-Simms
April 4, 2024 at 8:18 pm
Until his hand got sore haha!
Bet buddies head was a lot more sore.
Wild
@TheSkypetube
April 5, 2024 at 12:22 am
Well look at it this way. This is the oldest surviving surgery that we know of. It was also a very dangerous surgery performed by top doctors. Those doctors needed a livelihood and if they have no one to teach their very important medical procedure they will be out of a job and their decendents will have to look work else where instead in top of the line bone cracking
@xander9460
April 12, 2024 at 1:37 pm
Oke definitely subbed. Excellent quality! Despite me squirming throughout the whole episode in discomfort =S
@popularscience
April 12, 2024 at 1:44 pm
Awesome, thank you! There’s another one of these documentary videos coming next week. 🙂
@Talon3000
April 12, 2024 at 2:19 pm
11:30 I’d totally wear a part of my skull around my neck, that sounds badass.
@michellebeckham5310
April 12, 2024 at 3:57 pm
I would guess migraines , that’s what feel like doing when i get one.
@garatenadialga6886
April 13, 2024 at 3:27 am
We are created we dont evolve
@SOUL-KING-93
April 15, 2024 at 5:28 am
Created by what?
@ShockedCaucasian
April 13, 2024 at 3:32 am
You have explained my curiosity about trepanning, brought a whole new meaning to being “bored/Bored to death” and have also made me thankful for Excedrine headache pills! cannot wait to see this channel blow up just like the Vsauce Channels did 🙂
@naiknaik8812
April 13, 2024 at 10:18 am
hell yeah more kevin content
@AnglophobiaIsevil7
April 13, 2024 at 1:30 pm
For fun obviously
@AnglophobiaIsevil7
April 13, 2024 at 1:30 pm
How great was trepang 2 though?
@charliebot6027
April 14, 2024 at 11:27 am
*guy losing liters of blood from a hole in his head*
“Whoah I feel lighter now haha this is crazy! My blood pressure is going down and I feel like taking a nap whoah”
@lightspeedjunky
April 15, 2024 at 10:40 pm
They did surgery on a watermelon!
@Simosayso
April 16, 2024 at 4:45 pm
Don;t know how you missed the fact bushmen (San) used to also do this practice including the whole necklace thing.
@Mr371312
April 17, 2024 at 1:08 pm
“Trepanning” used (mistakenly)as noun “trepang” – “hole in the head” makes now sense for a video game of said name. Otherwise “sea cucumber” didnt.
@GUNDAMxGSRx
April 17, 2024 at 11:35 pm
It’s weird how we came into the world in a body without an instruction manual or a schematic 😂
@2010RSHACKS
April 18, 2024 at 6:32 am
I thought it was for spiritual purposes? People today do it because they say it heightens their spiritual awareness or connection to god or something like that?
@TheGreenDragon419.9
April 18, 2024 at 9:22 am
I have constant pressure in my cheek bones and AC bice my eyes, also diagnosed with persistent postural perception disorder, I have been thinking of this.