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Help me with an upcoming video! Wrong answers only: What do you think the narwhal horn is for? Best answers will be featured in the video lol 

As I sit in central Illinois freezing my absolute, complete ass off in -5°F temps with brutal wind, the subject of our next Real Science video is all the more impressive to me. I simply want to die getting out of the car or walking the dog for 30 seconds.  In the brief moments I go outside, all I can think about is how any wild animal can survive these conditions. And yet, emperor penguins live their entire lives in conditions much like this. In fact, they NEED it to be this cold. They even choose to breed and lay their eggs when it is even colder than this! Why would any animal want this for themselves?? How do they manage it at all?

Check out the Insane Biology of: Emperor Penguins on Nebula now. The link is in the comments. 

The first episode of our new series, Archeology Quest, is live! This episode explores the importance of ancient pottery in the archeological record, and then puts me and Lorraine to the test. Can we succeed in making our own pottery with only the tools and materials that would have been available during the Paleolithic? Spoiler: things do not go as planned lol. 

Watch it now on Nebula! The link is in the comments. 

What has been your favorite video this year? What projects and topics would you like to see us cover next year?

This year has been the most eventful and stressful year of my life, for both good and bad reason (deaths in the family, getting married, friends almost dying, filming a new Nebula series, moving, etc...). It has sometimes been hard for me to stay on top of the youtube treadmill. And even though I have personally been struggling, I am so thankful for the support you all have given the channel throughout this difficult year for me. I am excited to enter 2024 with new focus and ambition for the channel, to take on bigger and better projects, and to engage with you all a bit more. Let me know in the comments if there are any life science topics you'd love to see me cover in depth next year! I always love everyone's suggestions (even the weird ones lol)


If you want to support this channel for the next year, and allow us to create more ambitious videos (including perhaps one about your favorite animal?!), signing up to Nebula is the best way to do so.


When you sign up to Nebula using the Real Science code, more funds get directed to Real Science - funds that allow us to hire more animators or producers, or tackle stories that we might otherwise be too crunched and spread-thin to pull off. Your support of Real Science on Nebula has allowed me to take a big risk this year, and go film a brand-new docu-game show called Archeology Quest, which will be available on Nebula Dec 21. We want to keep doing big ambitious projects like this about all sorts of subjects, from archeology to marine biology to robotics.


A yearly Nebula subscription is $30 a year. But for a limited time, Nebula is offering lifetime memberships. This costs $300, and will give you access to Nebula for as long as you and Nebula both exist. Lifetime memberships can also been given as a gift - which could be a great idea for your content-loving friends or family.


And on top of all of this, if you previously signed up to Nebula via the CuriosityStream bundle subscription - you should know that CuriosityStream intends to no longer honor the agreement we had where they pay us a part of the money for your subscription. So if you signed up to Nebula and CuriosityStream to support specific creators on Nebula, the best way to continue to support them is to sign up to Nebula directly. And if you sign up directly to Nebula today, don't worry, we won't start the clock until your current subscription expires. 

The links to these options are pinned in the comments. 

If you have questions, feel free to leave comments and I will try to get them cleared up.


Thank you all again - I can't wait to see what this next year brings. 

For a limited time we are doing Nebula lifetime memberships!

Regular yearly membership is $30 a year, so this is not a discount. It's a way to avoid a reoccurring subscription and to help us accelerate the growth of our platform without taking on VC money. We know not everyone can afford this option, but for those who can, it can be a great way to support us and the platform without worrying about a recurring subscription ever again.

A link to get it is in the description. This offer is good through the rest of September!

PS For all the comments that are going to say we are doing this because the platform is going bust - its not. We simply want to expand and grow without taking on VC money. We don't want no Kevin O'Leary's in our mix. 

I am being indecisive! What should be the next video I work on? 

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The next Real Science video is available now, The Insane Biology of: The Sunfish. These guys are the biggest, dumbest fish in the sea, and the way they survive is as perplexing as it is amazing. Link in the comments! 

Our next video "Why Creatures Get Creepier the Deeper You Go" is available now on Nebula, two weeks before it will be available on YouTube! If you've ever seen a picture of a deep sea creature and asked yourself "Why the f*** is that so weird," or had images of horrorshow squids haunt your dreams, then this is the episode for you. Link in the comments!