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Smosh's roasts become a science question on Complexly

Shayne Topp's reverse interview with Hank Green has passed 1.2 million views during an upload-free week.

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Is Immortality Possible? | Shayne Topp Asks Hank Anything

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2:22Hank connects a hypothesis about humor and relieved surprise with intelligence and social bonding.
4:53Shayne and Hank consider how Smosh roasts navigate comedic boundaries without becoming malicious.
11:29Hank distinguishes Many-Worlds quantum mechanics from other ideas about multiple universes.
29:20Single-celled organisms and continuous cell lineages complicate the question of biological immortality.
37:11Statistical estimates help scientists investigate how many species remain undiscovered.
44:17Brain-computer interface research and electric fish offer starting points for the telepathy question.

Shayne Topp makes people laugh for a living, which gives his opening question for Hank Green a particularly practical edge: what is laughter actually doing?

In "Is Immortality Possible? | Shayne Topp Asks Hank Anything", the Smosh comedian and Green move from the biology of humor to the delicate business of roasting someone without being malicious. Green outlines a hypothesis connecting humor with relief after a brief startle, then explores laughter's role in social bonding. The big cosmic questions can wait a few minutes; first, there is the puzzle of why another person being funny feels so good.

Complexly posted nothing new this week, but this conversation remains its busiest video by daily views, drawing more than five times the daily audience of the John Green episode behind it. Topp also asks about multiverses, undiscovered species and telepathy. The episode includes a sponsored segment.

The home channel of the studio behind Crash Course and SciShow added about 1,000 subscribers over the week, though daily viewing is running well below its usual level. Among nearby education channels, English with Steve Ford and History on Maps had substantially larger viewing weeks.

Further along Complexly's shelf, John Green's questions mix science with memories of being Hank's brother, while Jonny Manganello's episode brings recycling, laughter and mixed drinks into the same conversation. The reverse-interview format leaves plenty of room for the guest's own particular curiosity.

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