Sunburn, Sweat and the Science of Summer!
A summertime look at why we sweat, why we burn, and why our fingers wrinkle in the poolSubscribe to It's Okay To Be Smart: http://bit.ly/iotbs_sub ↓ More info ...
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[MUSIC] Hey everybody! It is deep in the heart of summer deep in the heart of Texas here. As much as I’d love to be inside watching YouTube videos with all of you, I had to get outside and enjoy this day. Now that we’re out here, why don’t we check out some summer science. We can start with all this sweat. Sweat glands come in primarily two forms: eccrine and apocrine. Apocrine glands are mainly found in places like armpits, and places that contribute to body odor. Eccrine glands are distributed throughout your whole body, and those are the ones that most of the cooling, and the shirt soaking. You’ve got between 1.5 and 4 million eccrine sweat glands distributed throughout your skin. When your body’s thermostat, in the hypothalamus region of your brain, detects a rise in bo...
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[MUSIC] Hey everybody! It is deep in the heart of summer deep in the heart of Texas here. As much as I’d love to be inside watching YouTube videos with all of you, I had to get outside and enjoy this day. Now that we’re out here, why don’t we check out some summer science. We can start with all this sweat. Sweat glands come in primarily two forms: eccrine and apocrine. Apocrine glands are mainly found in places like armpits, and places that contribute to body odor. Eccrine glands are distributed throughout your whole body, and those are the ones that most of the cooling, and the shirt soaking. You’ve got between 1.5 and 4 million eccrine sweat glands distributed throughout your skin. When your body’s thermostat, in the hypothalamus region of your brain, detects a rise in bo...
