Corenswet or Corn Sweat - Superman or Plant Actions？ We discuss...

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Real quick in chat. Let me know. Do you know

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what corn sweat is? Don't Google it. Don't use

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AI. Don't use Alexa. Let me know in chat right

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now if you know what corn sweat is because we're

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about to dive into it. So with all the recent

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Superman stuff, obviously the new Superman, the

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actor that plays Superman is played by David

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corn sweat, which is a really funky like last

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name, not spelled the same as corn sweat, but

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pronounced it. Um, but most people did not know

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corn sweat is a real thing and no, it is not

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a sex thing. My gosh. Stop with the corn all

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the time. All right. So let's dive into this.

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We're going to, we're going to, you did not know

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this was an educational thing. You know, Bill

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Nye, the science guy was born right here in Seattle.

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Actually. I don't know if he is born here. He,

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I'll look at our career. Get to the corn in a

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nutshell, which I guess there's not a nutshell

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of corn, man. Should have thought that one out

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in a nutshell, though. Corn sweat refers to the

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process of corn plants releasing water vapor

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into the atmosphere through their leaves. A process

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called transpiration. This release of moisture

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can contribute to increase humidity in the air,

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especially in areas with large corn fields and

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can make it feel hotter and sticker stickier.

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Going deeper. What is transpiration? What is

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that? So plants, including corn, absorb water

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through their roots and transported throughout

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their structure. Some of this water is used for

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photosynthesis. Um, but Much of is released into

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the atmosphere as water vapor through tiny pores

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called domata on the leaves. I don't know. I'm

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not a herbologist. Probably that one. And then

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obviously humidity and heat. We understand this

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released water vapor increases the humidity of

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the surrounding air. When the air is humid, it

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can make it can make it feel hotter. more uncomfortable

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because the human's body ability to cool itself

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through sweating is reduced. And where is corn

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sweat an issue? So corn sweat is often used in

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the Midwestern United States, which is probably

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why I don't think a lot of people have ever heard

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of this term out here in Seattle, because we

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don't live around cornfields. But yeah, there

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you go. Supposedly it peaks in July and August,

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which is when, when the new Superman movie came

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out, when the world was introduced to corn sweat,

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AKA corn sweat, huh? Huh? Okay. So it is also

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key to note. It's not just corn. All plants do

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this, but farmers near corn fields will experience

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what's known as Corn sweat. There you go. That's

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how the cookie crumbles. You just learned something

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today. Go impress your friends. That's it. Roll

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roll credits. So I have I have a couple of things

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to say. One is that Jay just did three minutes

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and 30 seconds on corn sweat, which is amazing.

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Right. So somebody please share this with David

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corn sweat and see if he's heard of this term,

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because I'm now curious whether he has. Also,

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how long did it take you to put this into the

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run down today? It took me like maybe five minutes,

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like of some some research, you know, looking

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like, OK, how how can I very quickly kind of

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without boring people go into explaining corn

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sweat like I don't need a dissertation on corn

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sweat? But yeah, I would say probably like five

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minutes. I put it together. There you go. So

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now you have drawn. And wait, Superman is from

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the Midwest, from Kansas, where I believe they

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grow corn. Yeah. So there you go. There's your

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connections. And he fucking Bill Nided up, by

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the way, to answer the question from the beginning

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of the segment. No, Bill Nye was not born in

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Seattle. He was born in Washington, D .C. before

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he moved to Seattle. So he was born in the other

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Washington. Right. The bad Washington. Right?

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So, there you go. And now you've learned two

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things today. You've learned about corn sweat

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and where Bill Nye the Science Guy was born.

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So, you know what? You guys can take that to

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the bank.