Why Are We Morbidly Curious?

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Published 2014-10-08
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THE SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES book: www.amazon.com/Smoke-Gets-Your-Eyes-Crematory/dp/0…

Everyone Loves A Good Train Wreck book: www.amazon.com/Everyone-Loves-Good-Train-Wreck/dp/…

Google Glass + Vsauce PARODY:    • Vsauce Reinvents Google Glass!  

V1 and V2 and V3 eat gross jelly beans:    • Refried Bean Boozled with Michael Ste...  

Ask A Mortician: youtube.com/user/OrderoftheGoodDeath

Carney Landis facial expression experiment: www.madsciencemuseum.com/msm/pl/facial_expressions…

“knoll”: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knoll_(verb)

Kangling being played:    • Kangling by Lama Choying  

Huge cyst:    • HUGE CYST EXTRACTION  

TJ Lane in court [explicit]:    • TJ LANE SHOCKING DIABOLICAL KID KILLE...  

Haiti photographs: www.colorsmagazine.com/stories/magazine/86/story/t…

Doyen's book [disturbing]: goo.gl/cypR1U

Dopamine: www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200411/addiction-…

Doyen: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne-Louis_Doyen

Boomerang Effect: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boomerang_effect_(psychology)

Reactance: [PDF] www-personal.umich.edu/~bbushman/bs96.pdf

California Coastal Preservation Project: www.californiacoastline.org/

Muderbilia:

www.redrumautographs.com/
serialkillersink.net/

Garbage Pail Kids Dress: www.dollskill.com/iron-fist-garbage-pail-kids-mash…

The attraction of the morbid links:

clinicallyspeaking.blogspot.com/2012/04/psychology…
www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/10/why-do-…
www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/features/exploring-thr…
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2012/jul/27/morbi…
www.today.com/health/morbid-curiosity-why-we-cant-…
www.psychologytoday.com/blog/morbid-curiosities/20…
www.psychologytoday.com/blog/morbid-curiosities/20…
www.psychologytoday.com/blog/morbid-curiosities/20…
aeon.co/magazine/philosophy/how-much-should-we-wor…
sciencenordic.com/your-dna-loves-horror-movies

Most physically viewable on-screen kills of people: www.moviebodycounts.com/Top-Movies.htm

actors who have killed the most people on-screen: www.businessinsider.com/the-deadliest-actors-of-al…

Chicago murder house: 4.bp.blogspot.com/_adQFJxToEyc/S-81TJQGJ0I/AAAAAAA…

Uh oh, mom flinched: www.nbcnews.com/id/33402802/ns/health-childrens_he…

Encryption Theory of Laughter [PDF]: www.sscnet.ucla.edu/anthro/faculty/barrett/flamson…

EXTRAS:

Death in the subway: www.liveleak.com/view?i=759_1375050663&comments=1

Death on camera:    • Video  

Solitary Confinement photos: solitarywatch.com/special-projects/photo-requests-…

much loved teddy bears: www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/01/23/much-lo…

Hurricane Sandy message: www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/03/a-hurricane-sand…

scary/creepy images: imgur.com/a/zpxZj?gallery

homemade tank rampage:    • Destroyed in Seconds - Bulldozer Rampage  

music by youtube.com/jakechudnow
and www.audionetwork.com/

All Comments (21)
  • Michael says so many mindblowing things that he sometimes faints at the end of sentences which is why you always see him pop back up randomly.
  • @ianhall7513
    As Johnny Bravo once said... "I'm sickened, but curious."
  • “Compulsive behavior - just because you WANT to do something doesn’t mean you LIKE it”. Addiction in a nutshell. Very profound.
  • @RiskySimonK4Z
    it's amazing how I managed to prove all points Michael made, for listening to this video in the background for ''not wanting to see something gorey'' but the moment he said ''images of corpses in stackable slices'' I reluctantly opened the video to see them
  • @mig9265
    Plugs in usb correctly on the first try Dopamine releases
  • @isaacgans290
    Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought him back.
  • @CozyVemgeance
    Michael is like a friend who guides you through your own nightmares, debunking everything in a calculated, literal yet very friendly way.
  • @treespunk
    So...my brain's dopamine output will double if I'm presented with sexy food?
  • @mrmimeguy
    Beginning of title: "Why are we curious?" End of Video: "We're all gonna die."
  • Imagine Michael being a father Nurse: It's a boy! Michael: or is it?
  • Riddle me this Michael. Why did the doctor diagnose me morbiously a beast?
  • @jordanl2317
    Does anyone else find themselves going off on a tangent and considering an idea proposed only to realise you've totally ignored the last 30 seconds of him speaking?
  • @e1c124
    Just me being curious, imagine how In shape Michel must be doing all those squats when he transitions.
  • @KENNETHUDUT
    He covers a lot of territory in a very short time.  He educates thousands of people - many of them are trapped in schools that are stuck with limited textbooks and teachers who have to get them ready to pass the next standardized test.  Not their fault; its part of their job. VSauce and those like him are giving the kids and teens of today the education they deserve to get, not the crappy, purposely confusing way they do things in schools.  (hear that Common Core (USA) - ugh).  The kids growing up on Youtube will revolutionize the next generation after them; thanks to the pioneering efforts of people like this awesome guy.  Thanks man.