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Is Santa Real? (A Scientific Analysis)

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...and other Christmas mysteries answered with science! Viewers like you help make PBS (Thank you 😃) . Support your local PBS Member Station here: https://to.pbs.org/PBSDSDonate Subscribe to It's Okay To Be Smart: http://bit.ly/iotbs_sub Happy Holidays! Ever wonder how Santa could possibly manage to deliver all those presents in a single night? Or what gives red-nosed reindeer the ability to fly? And why do your Christmas lights get tangled in knots no matter how carefully you put the away?! Here's some Christmas-themed science, as our gift to you. See you in 2015! SOURCES: Why Christmas lights tangle: "Spontaneous knotting of an agitated string" http://www.pnas.org/content/104/42/16432 Apollo 8 "Santa sighting" https://archive.org/details/Apollo8Hi... Santa's reindeer are probably female: http://www.livescience.com/32149-are-... Reindeer hair is hollow and "buoyant" http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/61... Reindeer really do have  …...more
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Is Santa Real? (A Scientific Analysis)
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...and other Christmas mysteries answered with science! Viewers like you help make PBS (Thank you 😃) . Support your local PBS Member Station here: https://to.pbs.org/PBSDSDonate Subscribe to It's Okay To Be Smart: http://bit.ly/iotbs_sub Happy Holidays! Ever wonder how Santa could possibly manage to deliver all those presents in a single night? Or what gives red-nosed reindeer the ability to fly? And why do your Christmas lights get tangled in knots no matter how carefully you put the away?! Here's some Christmas-themed science, as our gift to you. See you in 2015! SOURCES: Why Christmas lights tangle: "Spontaneous knotting of an agitated string" http://www.pnas.org/content/104/42/16432 Apollo 8 "Santa sighting" https://archive.org/details/Apollo8Hi... Santa's reindeer are probably female: http://www.livescience.com/32149-are-... Reindeer hair is hollow and "buoyant" http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/61... Reindeer really do have red noses: http://www.bmj.com/content/345/bmj.e8... Reindeer eyes change color: http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.c... Santa's challenge (check my math!): http://bit.ly/1sOW15q Produced for PBS Digital Studios Joe Hanson - Creator/Host/Writer Joe Nicolosi - Director Amanda Fox - Producer, Spotzen Inc Kate Eads - Associate Producer Andrew Matthews - Editing/Motion Graphics Katie Graham - Director of Photography John Knudsen - Gaffer Dalton Allen - Post-Production Intern Theme music: "Ouroboros" by Kevin MacLeod ----------- Join us on Patreon!   / itsokaytobesmart   Twitter   / drjoehanson     / okaytobesmart   Instagram   / drjoehanson     / okaytobesmart   Merch https://store.dftba.com/collections/i... Facebook   / itsokaytobesmartpbs  

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