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My favorite thing this guy does is not talk, for some reason.
There's another channel called kiwami japan about a guy who mostly is making knives out of things or other silly metal crafts. He also doesn't talk in most of them. I think the sound of banging wood or polishing metal is just very relaxing.
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Interestingly, aluminum is a really really new material for us. Wasn't really available until ~1950, and used to be more rare and valuable than gold.
How's that? Hard to refine? I did hear elsewhere that aluminium is one of the most common metals on the world, possibly even moreso than iron.
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Humans have always had the same/similar capacity for intelligence, but the modern world creates people with IQs significantly higher than the median would have been only 150 years ago.
Is IQ still considered important? I've not seen it around other than people bragging online about having a high IQ, which they take to mean they are very smart (when usually they're not, more like, average). Also I disagree partially, I do think the modern world creates smarter and/or more educated people, but that's thanks to education. Lots of education. And access to information of course.
That's what the person you're replying to said ...
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Again, I was commenting specifically on this claim: > This form of farming is a good way to get around the conventional farming practice of clearing trees to make fields. It's not a good form of farming, because it's both low density and expensive.
Depends on your criteria. If you only aim to feed a small group, it is significantly less cost to make a handful of enclosures than to clear a large amount of space for a field, even if the field is more efficient at scale.
Let's say each enclosure produces three-days worth of yams in six months. To feed one person for a year you need 100 enclosures, and you need to stagger their planting so you can harvest them continously.
Each enclosure takes up about one square meter, so you need a line of them 100m long for each person in your group. You also need space to walk between them, so you need 3m for each two lines of enclosures. For a ten-person group, that's a 100m x 30m yam farm.
This is probably my favorite youtube channel.
If categorized very roughly, Primitive Technology would be the best in it's wide category for me. But I cannot say it is the best channel for me among Vsauce, Kurzgesgt, CrashCourse, and many others.
It's getting to the point where there is so much quality that discovery of it all is getting hard.
In the spirit of your answer, I would say these other channels are also outstanding in their categories:
Any of Brady Haran's (Numberphile/Sixty Symbols/Objectivity etc)
Fully Charged Show (electric vehicles/renewable energy)
Nick Carver (film photography)
Pine Hollow Auto Diagnostics (watch a few to grok the style)
Kevin Mullins (Fuji users photography and more)
Explaining Computers (hard to categorise, that's why it's good)
There are many many many more but I think most of those are really widely known, perhaps some of the above aren't quite as widely watched and they're very worth it.
Fire making, clay pots, mud huts, stone axes, rope, hunting weapons -- these are what kept people alive for eons, and ironically in our modern high tech era, many if not most of these skills are largely forgotten by all but a few remaining primitive tribes and archivists like him.
These videos are worth watching not just to celebrate these high achievements but also to disseminate and preserve the knowledge. Should you find yourself stranded in a forest hundreds of miles from civilization, you may indeed need to build a friction fire, knap a stone knife, weave some cordage, rough up a shelter, and hunt for food.
As a "primitive survival skills" fan (I'm a viewer, not a doer) I have learned so much that I feel a certain confidence that were I to somehow fall off civilization's ship, and be forced to fend for myself, or to help a group of stranded individuals to survive, we would somehow make it.
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There was one video where in the same video he went from some very basic tool to an advanced version of that tool, using each iteration to build the next. I think it might have been a drill but I can't recall. It was surprisingly inspirational.
I definitely agree. I think this is the video you mentioned. I have watched it myself many times as well. "Primitive Technology: Cord drill and Pump drill" > https://youtu.be/ZEl-Y1NvBVI
There's a lot of sophistication in "primitive" agriculture. Humans have always been as intelligent and ambitious as they are today; they just didn't always have today's tools. Yams always make me think of Gone with the Wind . The climax of Act III (not labeled as such, but stories are stories) is Scarlett O'Hara at her family's plantation. Yankee soldiers have come through and taken every scrap of food, but they didn…
I've followed this channel for a few years. It's fun to watch his whole series from the beginning, because he builds on what he made in previous videos. Like one video will show how to make a kiln and the next will be pottery in the kiln.
A tip: turn on captions. The creator somewhat famously doesn't talk, but does provide really informative captions for each step of the build/experiment process. Related: if you like this and want more I recently read a book series called Bonesetter that has a protagonist who lives in primitive times and it tells the story of a person kicked from their tribe, but who prospers by building Primitive Technology type inve…
There's more 'wonder' this way.