Good Morning John,
Thanks for joining me in our brand new format,
which I’m sure we will bring back again, but today, instead of that,
I’m back in the old space and I’m gonna do an old format.
This one is the one where you ask google what questions people have
been asking by starting to ask the
question and not finish it. Good old Google autocomplete.
Why is there an egg shortage? Well, broadly it is because we build
many systems for efficiency rather than resiliency.
If you wanna make a lot of eggs really cheap you gotta have
one very big room with a whole lotta chickens in it.
But that’s also a fantastic circumstance for the transmission
of disease like bird flu. In order to control diseases,
farmers have to kill all of the birds in a facility when one bird
gets bird flu and then disinfects the whole place.
Over 60 million birds have been killed in the current bird flu
outbreak, and that decreases the number of eggs on
the market while demand stays roughly the same.
$5 for a dozen eggs is a lot of money compared to what
we were spending this time last year, but $1.33 for a dozen eggs,
which is what we were spending this time last year,
is a price that some would argue should be a little bit higher to
allow for more resilience in the system.
Why is the sky blue? The white light that comes from
the sun is made of a bunch of different wavelengths that
all look different colors to us. The gasses in our atmosphere
are good at scattering blue wavelengths out of that white light.
So the sun, with the blue taken out, looks yellow, while the sky,
with the blue scattering around, looks like blue.
But, as I have said before, the sky doesn’t actually exist
it’s just an illusion. A kind of one one-colored rainbow.
Why is my poop green? Could be a lot of different things.
Probably something you ate either a bunch of green vegetable stuff or
green food coloring, or maybe some antibiotics or different medications
will turn your poop green. If its accompanied by diarrhea or other
symptoms that have been going on for multiple days, go see a doctor.
I’m not a doctor and either is the internet.
Why is my eye twitching: I don’t know. Same though.
Maybe it’s because of the–this. We don’t actually know why eyes twitch,
though it's definitely correlated with fatigue and stress.
And if you don’t have one or the other of both of those, well done.
I’m just– I’m loving that for you. I’m not– I’m fine.
Why is the flag at half mast? In the US, and probably other places,
definitely canada, now that I found this clip.
When mourning something we often \put the flag only halfway up.
This is sometimes because of like, big, national tragedies that are in the news,
but it’s often because of the death of a member of the government,
or some public servant, and it varies from state to state.
FlagExpress, which sells flags,
keeps track of this on their website. So you can always know if you want to.
Why is my poop black? This is significantly more concerning,
and less common than green poop. You should probably go see a
doctor immediately.
It could be because you’re bleeding somewhere in your GI tract.
Why is it called Black Friday? Well at the moment I’m thinking it has
something to do with poop, but I know that that can’t be right,
so I’ll look it up, i guess. I looked it up and i’m gonna be honest
with you, it’s boring. It’s like, oh there’s a lot of traffic on
the day after Thanksgiving on the roads. People didn’t like that.
Why is JJ Watt retiring? I dunno, man.
That seems like a pretty personal question.
Why is diesel so expensive?
Well it’s taxed a little bit higher and so that makes it a little bit more expensive.
Also recently we started to require, in the US, low sulfur diesel because
of the human health consequences of having all that sulfur in the air.
But the biggest reason is that, when you have a barrel of crude oil,
the part that can get turned into gasoline is fairly big and it’s more flexible…
that part can be used for a bunch of different stuff,
that’s like high value and low value and you can sort of mix up the
market based on what’s needed and what’s more expensive.
While the part that can get turned into diesel is smaller and the stuff
it can get turned into is more valuable than diesel, like jet fuel.
So there’s just more, higher value demand for the diesel
fraction of the crude, which drives up the price.
And our final question, in the Google auto complete list--
Why is my dog shaking? And gosh, I dunno…that sounds scary.
I’m sorry about your dog. It could be stress, anxiety,
nervousness, cold, excitement.
But if it’s a new thing, and you’re worried about it again,
I’m not a doctor of animals or people, so maybe you should go see the vet.
John, after16 years. I still love making videos with you…
Why is this so much fun?
I don't know but I like it
And I’ll see you on Tuesday