explainer · HACKER NEWS RECOMMENDATION
This Is Your Brain On Stale Air
Tom Scott · 2 HN recommenders · 2 recommendation months
Recommended by 2 Hacker News commenters across 2 months (2019–2025).
SignalTube analysis
Among 12 other explainer videos tagged Neuroscience & the brain, the mean is 2.8 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 2 distinct HN recommenders, below that mean. Recommendations span 2 distinct months; the peer average is 2.3 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
15% of its 13 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2019–2025; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 5 minutes 51 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2019-01-21.
- Channel / speaker
- Tom Scott
- Verified runtime
- 5m 51s
- YouTube upload date
- 2019-01-21
- Hacker News mention years
- 2019–2025
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other explainer videos in Neuroscience & the brain. “Shared recommenders” counts HN users who recommended both videos in the source graph.
| Video | HN recommenders | Recommendation months | Positive label share | Shared recommenders | Runtime | Upload date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This Is Your Brain On Stale AirCurrent video | 2 | 2 | 15% | — | 5m 51s | 2019-01-21 |
| You Actually Share Your Brain With a Silent Strangerexplainer · CGP Grey | 7 | 7 | 58% | No recorded overlap | 4m 58s | 2016-05-31 |
| Why you DON'T want Perfect Pitchexplainer · Adam Neely | 6 | 4 | 75% | No recorded overlap | 15m 9s | 2021-02-08 |
| Why Adults Can't Develop Perfect Pitchexplainer · Rick Beato | 4 | 3 | 40% | No recorded overlap | 16m 26s | 2017-05-26 |
THREE SOURCE-BASED CONTEXT POINTS
Why Hacker News recommends it
Each note combines the dataset’s stance label and short rationale; comment bodies are not reproduced. Open the HN source for the original discussion.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in a Hacker News discussion. Its short rationale: the source snapshot has no short rationale for this mention.
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The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Analyzing Carbon Dioxide levels while attending IETF-115 in London, UK”. Its short rationale: the source snapshot has no short rationale for this mention.