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Can a quantum sensor detect your heartbeat from 60 km away?
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- Can a quantum sensor detect your heartbeat from 60 km away?
- Date posted
- 7 days ago
- Description
- Is the CIA’s Ghost Murmur technology real? Sponsored by Ground News. Go to https://ground.news/Ve for 40% off the unlimited Vantage plan.
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A huge thanks to Patrick Maletinsky at the University of Basel and Jan Jeske at the Fraunhofer Institute for their insights into NV magnetometry.
Likewise, thank you to Brad Roth at Oakland University, John Wikswo at Vanderbilt University, and Bob Fagaly at the IEEE for their input on the history and constraints of magnetometry.
Thank you to Douglas London, CIA Senior Operations Officer (Rtd), for his input on the story. His book, The Recruiter, can be found here - https://ve42.co/Recruiter
A big thanks to Herbert ...
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- The disaster I never imagined having to worry about
- Date posted
- 11 days ago
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- The crystals that wiped out an HIV medication, almost overnight. Thanks to SoFi for sponsoring the video! Click here to sign-up for SoFi Checking and Savings: https://sofi.com/ve
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Check out the excellent video by Reactions here: https://youtu.be/PccOwGEbtQU?si=NOpmaulDcoq6Kif-
This video was a huge collaborative effort!
Special thanks to…
Dr Andreas Kafizas for all his help with the Silver and Tin demonstrations, and staying up for those 14 hours with us monitoring the timelapse! As well as Conrad Duncan and the team at Imperial College London.
@ChrisYoungCooks for teaching Casper how to temper chocolate and @jameshoffmann and the t...
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- Wombats Poop Cubes
- Date posted
- 13 days ago
- Description
- Wombat feces are surprisingly... cube shaped.
They are the only known animal to produce this kind of poop leading scientists to work out this strange phenomenon.
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- Why don't trains make *that* sound anymore?
- Date posted
- 16 days ago
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- If you've been on a modern train you won't have noticed that classic "clickety-clack" sound anymore. This is because train tracks are now one continuous piece of rail without gaps.
But one long piece of metal without room to expand when hot is dangerous.
Thus, engineers had to come up with an ingenious solution involving... jagged rocks?
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- The Most Radioactive Place On Earth
- Date posted
- 21 days ago
- Description
- Where comes to mind when you think of radioactivity?
Chernobyl? Hiroshima? A banana?
The most radioactive place isn't actually where you think...
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- How easy is it to steal $10,000 from a locked phone?
- Date posted
- 25 days ago
- Description
- How we hacked MKBHD! Sponsored by Incogni - Use code veritasium at https://incogni.com/veritasium to get an exclusive 60% off.
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0:00 Stealing $10,000 From MKBHD
4:04 How The Hack Works
8:29 High Value vs Low Value Transactions
10:18 Tricking The Card Reader
14:20 Transit Mode
15:22 Why does this hack only work with Visa?
17:10 How does RSA encryption work?
20:13 How can you prevent this hack?
21:59 What are Visa doing about it?
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A huge thank you to professors Ioana Boureanu from the University of Surrey and Tom Chothia from the University of Birmingham, for supporting us with the execution and the explanation of th...
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- Can something go faster than it’s pushed?
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- A UCLA Physics Professor bet Derek $10,000 that his video about going downwind faster than the wind was wrong.
Here's a demonstration you can do at home to see why something can move faster than the force pushing it.
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- What happens if you drop 0.125 grams of antimatter?
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- The factory that makes the world's most volatile substance. Sponsored by SoFi - Join SoFi Plus today and get more for your money! Visit https://sofi.com/veritasium
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0:00 The Problem Of Antimatter Storage
2:18 What is particle annihilation?
6:13 The Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry
12:44 CPT Symmetry
16:28 The Wu Experiment
22:13 The Antimatter Factory
25:35 How To Make Antimatter
32:05 How do you store antimatter?
33:55 Creating Anti-Atoms
44:44 Does antimatter fall up or down?
50:18 The Portable Antimatter Trap
53:34 Antimatter Bombs
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- The Bizarre Behaviour Of Rotating Bodies
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- What you are looking at is known as the Dzhanibekov effect or the tennis racket theorem or the intermediate axis theorem.
It involves arguably the best mathematician alive, Soviet era secrets, and the end of the world.
So in 1985, cosmonaut Vladimir Dzhanibekov was tasked with saving the Soviet space station Salyut 7 which had completely shut down. The mission was so dramatic that the Russians made a movie out of it in 2017 and after rescuing the space station, Dzhanibekov unpacked supplies sent up from Earth which were locked down with a wing-nut and as the wing-nut spun off the bolt, he noticed something strange:
The wing-nut maintained its orientation for a short time, and then it flipped, 180 degrees. And as he kept watching, it flipped back a few seconds later and it continued flipping back and forth at regular intervals.
This motion wasn’t caused by forces or torques applied to the wing-nut: there were none. And yet it kept fl...
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- The Secret Spy Tech Inside Every Credit Card
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- How safe are the cards we use? Sponsored by Saily - Prepare for your next destination today! Download the Saily app now or go to https://saily.com/veritasium and use code ‘veritasium’ for 15% off. Share your referral code with friends and family to collect more credit for your next trip.
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0:00 Dissolving A Card In Acetone
1:32 The Soviets’ Powerless Bug
6:24 The First Credit Card
8:21 Magnetic Stripe Credit Cards
11:51 How To Clone A Credit Card
13:50 Chip and Pin
18:03 Operation Easy Chair
19:58 How does a contactless card work?
23:39 Digital Pickpocketing
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We’d love to thank some of the experts who helpe...
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- How Pressure Can Come From *Nothing*
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- If you went to the emptiest part of the universe and took 2 uncharged objects with you, something really strange happens...
They snap together almost by magic!
This is called the Casimir Effect and the explanation is still an ongoing debate in physics!
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- Making A Giant Zipper To Explain How They Work
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- How do zippers work? Sponsored by Hostinger. Host OpenClaw on a Hostinger VPS plan: https://www.hostinger.com/veritasiumopenclaw - and use code 'veritasium' for an extra discount.
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A huge thank you to Prof. Robert Friedel for his invaluable expertise and contributions to this video.
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Massive thanks to IPFL for fabricating our giant zipper - https://ve42.co/ipfl-fabrication
A huge thank you to Emily Zhang for her advice on how to best structure this story. Check out her new channel here: @rabbithole
The giant zipper was adapted from an original design by LoboCNC - https://ve42...
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- The Shadow Illusion
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Cut any shape hole into a piece of cardboard and hold it up to the sunlight.
When sunlight shines through this hole, it casts a circular image on the wall regardless of the shape of the hole.
Why does this happen?
The size of the hole also doesn't affect the size of the image.
This counterintuitive demonstration shows that the hole is acting like a pinhole camera, producing an image of the sun on the wall. Therefore the size and shape of the hole have no effect on the size and shape of the image.
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- This Paradox Splits Smart People 50/50
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Two boxes, one choice, and $1,000,000. Sponsored by Brilliant - To learn for free on Brilliant for a full 30 days, go to https://brilliant.org/veritasium. Our viewers also get 20% off an annual Premium subscription, which gives you unlimited daily access to everything on Brilliant.
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A huge thank you to Dr. Arif Ahmed, Dr. Adam Elga, Dr. Kenny Easwaran, Dr. Peter Slezak, Dr. David Wolpert, Dr. Scott Aaronson & Dr. Michael Huemer for their invaluable expertise and contributions to this video on Newcomb’s Paradox.
The causal expected utility calculation was based on a post by Professor Huemer here - https://ve42.co/Huemer
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0:00 What is Newcomb’s Pa...
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- You Can't Feel Wet
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Put on a glove and dip your hand into icy water. You'll notice it still feels wet?
But the glove is waterproof, how does this work?
That's because wet isn't a feeling, we use other sensory information to feel water...
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- The Internet Was Weeks Away From Disaster and No One Knew
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- How a single hack infected the world’s most important operating system. Sponsored by NordVPN - Get exclusive NordVPN deal here: https://NordVPN.com/veritasium It’s risk free with Nord’s 30 day money-back guarantee!
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0:00 The Free Software Foundation
5:03 Why is Linux so popular?
9:57 The XZ Weakness
12:07 End To End Encryption - SSH
18:40 How To Compress Data
23:47 How The .XZ Hack Worked
34:24 A Bug In Jia’s Code
38:27 Henry Hacks Derek
43:16 The Back Door Is Exposed
47:16 Who is Jia Tan?
50:33 Open Vs Closed Source
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A huge thank you to everyone who made this possible:
Rich Jones fo...
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- The Crazy Physics of Jet Engines
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- This is one of the most powerful jet engines in the world, and it runs at temperatures more than 250 degrees celsius hotter than the melting point of the materials that make it up.
So why doesn't it melt?
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- The asbestos problem is worse than we thought
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
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- How asbestos ended up everywhere, and why we’re still using it today. Sponsored by Ground News - Go to https://ground.news/Ve for 40% off the unlimited Vantage plan, to catch how major public health stories are covered across the political spectrum and spot media bias for yourself.
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0:00 A Weavable Rock
9:41 The Asbestos Boom
13:06 What Does Asbestos Do To Humans?
16:57 The Doctor Who Exposed Asbestos
21:59 The Asbestosis Cover-Up...
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- Rubber used to be useless…
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- The strange natural material that reshaped the world.
Watch the full video here: https://youtu.be/AFXLZ7FEJc4?si=OaiAz42CzKGSPOYh
Written by Sulli Yost and @casper_mebius
Produced and Directed by Sulli Yost
Hosted by Derek Muller and @henry.vandyck
#science #veritasium #physics #engineering #experiment
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- World’s Largest Spiderweb
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- This is the world's largest spiderweb.
Entirely underground, it's home to an entire ecosystem.
But how does it work?
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- This Common Substance Was Once Worth Millions
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- The rise and fall of a forgotten frozen empire. Sponsored by Brilliant. To learn for free on Brilliant for a full 30 days, go to https://brilliant.org/Veritasium/. Our viewers also get 20% off an annual Premium subscription, which gives you unlimited daily access to everything on Brilliant.
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A huge thank you to Amy Brady and Tom Jackson for their invaluable expertise and contributions to this video.
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0:00 The Frozen Monopoly
4:40 How To Stop Ice From Melting
8:06 An Icy Welcome
10:52 The Rise Of The...
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- The Tiny Donut That Proved We Still Don't Understand Magnetism
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- What this strange quantum effect reveals about potentials. Sponsored by Planet Wild. Want to restore the planet’s ecosystems and see your impact in monthly videos? The first 150 people to join Planet Wild will get the first month for free at: https://planetwild.com/r/veritasium/join
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Chapters:
0:00 The 3 Body Problem
4:16 Potential Energies
7:09 What is the curl in mathematics?
11:59 Bohm and Oppenheimer
14:36 Potentials in the Schrödinger Equation
18:40 The Aharonov-Bohm Effect
25:...
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- How They Prevented The Citicorp Disaster
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- The Citicorp centre once had a 67% chance of falling over!
Repairs were beyond necessary but William LeMessurier and his team had to construct supports secretly at night so as not to cause panic.
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- What Happens If You Keep Slowing Down?
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
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0:00 How does a strobe work?
3:28 The Man Who Stopped Time
8:43 Spatial vs Temporal Resolution
13:09 1 Trillion FPS
16:56 Watching Light Move
19:04 The Straightest Building in the World
24:19 How to get 1 Quadrillion FPS
28:25 Seeing Electrons
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A huge thank you to Jim Bales, Kim Vandiver, Jamie Chelel and everyone at the MIT Edgerton Center for walking us through Edgerton’s demos - https://ve42.co/EdgertonC
Thank you to Tech Imaging for l...
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- What happens if you cut the green rope?
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- The problem seems simple but the answer isn't...
How an unlikely physics paradox controls these counterintuitive structures.
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- You're Only 6 Steps Away From Anyone On Earth
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- The small world problem.
How can we be connected in 6 steps if most of us spend our lives in small clusters?
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- The World's Most Important Machine
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- The insane machines that make the most advanced computer chips. Sponsored by Brilliant - To learn for free for a full 30 days, go to https://brilliant.org/veritasium and get started. Plus, our viewers get 20% off an annual Premium subscription for unlimited daily access to all Brilliant courses.
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0:00 The Machine That Saved Moore’s Law
3:12 How are microchips made?
9:11 What is extreme ultraviolet lithography?
15:04 Nuclear Fusion To The Rescue
21:59 How ASML Conquered The Chip World
35:35 Who are ASML’s biggest customers?
37:40 The Most Important Tech Company In The World
41:25 Inside ASML
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A big thank you to Marc A...
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- The Future of Veritasium
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
- Description
- Am I retiring?
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Writer and Director: Derek Muller
Editor: Trenton Oliver
Additional Photography: James Horsley, Callum Cuttle, and Miguel Duarte
Researcher: Aakash Singh Bagga
Animator: Peter Nelson
Production Team: Katy Southwood...
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- There Is Something Faster Than Light
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
- Description
- How an argument between Einstein and Bohr changed quantum mechanics forever.
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Thank you to Dr Adam Becker for his help with this video - check out his book here https://ve42.co/WhatReal
And special thanks to Thierry Avignon, Benjamin Vest, and Lionel Jacubowiez of the Institut d'Optique Graduate School - Laboratoire d'Enseignement Expérimental (LEnsE)
Correction:
30:53 Electrons and Positrons not Protons
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0:00 The Speed of Gravity
3:07 Spooky Action at a Dis...
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- What is this strange pattern down the east coast of America?
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
- Description
- There is this strange pattern of bodies of water all down the east coast of America and most of them point northwest.
They're called Carolina Bays as they're found predominantly in the Carolina states, and they're home to some crazy wildlife.
But how did they form?
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- The Man Who Accidentally Discovered Antimatter
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
- Description
- How Paul Dirac uncovered the anti-universe. Sponsored by Hostinger - visit https://ve42.co/hostinger and use the code VERITASIUM to get an extra discount on top of the sale prices.
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A huge thank you to Graham Farmelo and Cumrun Vafa for their invaluable expertise and contributions to this video.
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A special thanks to Matteo Arfini for his help with this video.
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- I Turned My Phone Into A Microscope
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
- Description
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- You've (Likely) Been Playing The Game of Life Wrong
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
- Description
- The world is not Normal. Sponsored by NordVPN. 🌏 Get exclusive NordVPN deal here ➵ https://NordVPN.com/veritasium It’s risk free with Nord’s 30 day money-back guarantee!✌
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A huge thanks to Steven Strogatz, Mark Buchanan and Mark Newman for their time and expertise.
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- How Strong Is Super Glue?
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- Why does superglue always stick to your hands and never what you want it to?
And how strong is it really?
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- The Ridiculous Engineering of Jet Engines
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- How does a jet engine not melt? Sponsored by KiwiCo - Use code VERITASIUM to get 50% off your first monthly KiwiCo Crate! https://www.kiwico.com/VERITASIUM
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- Why People Are So Confident When They're Wrong
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- The problem with overconfidence. To help correct your overconfidence we have a tabletop game launching. Pledge your support now on kickstarter! - https://ve42.co/ocdsc
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CHAPTERS:
0:00 The Most Dangerous Cognitive Bias
3:01 How confident are you that you are right?
7:40 Why are people overconfident?
8:53 The Real Dunning-Kruger Effect Graph
10:22 How Your Brain Takes Shortcuts
14:02 How overconfidence is good for you
15:55 Nick Leeson Rogue Trader
17:17 The Importance of Feedback
18:45 How One of England's Oldest Banks Collapsed
20:41 How To Correct Overconfidence
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A big thanks to Professor Moore and Prof...
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- Seeing Inside A Thermite Reaction
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- The world’s first look inside a thermite reaction.
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- The Most Controversial Idea in Biology
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- Most people don’t fully understand evolution. Sponsored by Hostinger - visit https://ve42.co/hostingern8n and use the code VERITASIUM to get an extra discount on top of the sale prices.
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0:00 Why does poop smell bad?
2:51 The Beginning Life
7:15 What is gene mutation?
8:01 Simulating Evolution
13:25 How natural selection works
16:39 What do we pass on?
19:40 Kin Selection
22:04 The Selfish Gene
25:35 It’s all a simulation
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A big thanks to Dr. Jack Szostak at the University of Chicago, Dr. John Sutherland at Cam...
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- Why didn't this skateboard stunt start from the top?
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- This is the world's largest skateboard ramp from @redbull
Sandro Dias broke two world records skating down it but all we could think was...
Why didn't he start from the very top?
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- How To Solve a Quadratic Equation
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- What does it mean to solve a quadratic equation by 'completing the square'? Here it is explained visually.
A general solution to the cubic equation was long considered impossible, until we gave up the requirement that math reflect reality.
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- How To See Atoms
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- Here’s what happens when you just keep zooming in.
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- Renting A Helicopter To Settle A Physics Debate
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- The story of a controversial physics question on the qualifying exam for the 2014 US Physics Olympiad team. How does a uniform cable beneath a helicopter hang?
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- Can you really reach anyone in 6 steps?
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- The beautiful math behind six degrees of separation. Sponsored by Incogni - use code veritasium at https://incogni.com/veritasium to get an exclusive 60% off.
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A huge thank you to:
Duncan Watts, for creating the small-world model that inspired this video and expanding on his further work; Steve Strogatz, for telling the story with such clarity & humour; Albert-László Barabási, for revealing the the inevitability and impact of hubs; Mark Buchanan, for his in...
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- Alfred Nobel: The Man Who Fooled The World
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CORRECTIONS:
30:36 The molecular chain we showed here when talking about cellulose was actually starch, the glycosidic bonds should be bent (beta) not straight (alpha) bonds - Thank you to someriversong1793 for spotting this
37:38 The animation shows the casing flying away with the bullet, this is incorrect, only the bullet accelerates down the barrel like that - Thank you to kettusnuhveli for pointing this out
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- The real impact of spin on a football—explained with @tombrady.
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A massive thank you to Emily Zhang for suggesting this idea and helping shape it.
A huge thanks to the team at OTIS, especially Ed Jacovino, Gregory Sefcik and Dirk Winkelhake, for their time and expertise.
Thank you also to Professor Gero Gschwendtner, Professor Michael Fu, and Dr. Peter Kauffmann for all their help on the project.
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A huge thank you to Carey Gillam at the New Lede, Nathan Donley at the Center for Biological Diversity, and Bart Elmore at Ohio State University for their time and expertise on the topic.
A very special thank you to Prof. Dr. András Székács at the Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences
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- 8 months ago
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Special thanks to Xi Shen and his team at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University for all their help. ACS Energy Lett. 2025, 10, 7, 3419–3429.
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- 9 months ago
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A huge thanks to Professor James Busfield, Dr. Katrina Cornish, and Dr. Judit Puskas
We’re incredibly grateful to Toby Samples and the team at ARDL for their time and expertise.
Thanks also to Joe Jackson, Dr. Kevin Krause, Dr. Peter Polyak, Donald Shultz, Professor Robert Weiss for all their help on the project.
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2:59 What is rubber?
5:10 Why is rubber so stretchy?
6:29 The problem with natural rubber
9:02 Cured Rubber
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