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You're Only 6 Steps Away From Anyone On Earth
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- You're Only 6 Steps Away From Anyone On Earth
- Runtime
- 1:14
- Date posted
- 7 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
- Runtime
- 55:00
- Date posted
- 7 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?
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- The Future of Veritasium
- Runtime
- 17:35
- Date posted
- 8 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
- Runtime
- 44:16
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- How an argument between Einstein and Bohr changed quantum mechanics forever. 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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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 ...
- Title
- What is this strange pattern down the east coast of America?
- Runtime
- 2:04
- Date posted
- 8 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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- Why is there antimatter?
- Runtime
- 35:23
- Date posted
- 8 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.
If you want to hear more about Dirac's life we've posted an extended interview with biographer Graham over on our patreon here - https://ve42.co/patreonbonus
A special thanks to Matteo Arfini for his help with this video.
Check out Graham Far...
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- I Turned My Phone Into A Microscope
- Runtime
- 1:42
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- #Sponsored @madebygoogle A single drop of water is all it takes to turn the new Google #Pixel10Pro into a makeshift microscope.
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- You've (Likely) Been Playing The Game Of Life Wrong
- Runtime
- 45:13
- Date posted
- 9 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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To play around with the simulations in the video, you can follow these links:
Sandpiles - https://www.veritasium.com/simulation3
Ising model (magnetism) - https://www.veritasium.com/simulation4
Forest fires - https://www.veritasium.com/simulation5
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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?
- Runtime
- 0:44
- Date posted
- 9 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
- Runtime
- 39:34
- Date posted
- 9 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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0:00 How a jet engine works
3:18 Why are jet engines so big?
5:17 The Inside of a Jet Engine
8:49 Edge Dislocati...
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- Why People Are So Confident When They're Wrong
- Runtime
- 24:02
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- The problem with overconfidence. To help correct your overconfidence we have a tabletop game launching, Elements of Truth. You can pre-order the retail edition here: https://elementsoftruth.game/products/elements-of-truth
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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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- Seeing Inside A Thermite Reaction
- Runtime
- 2:33
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- The world’s first look inside a thermite reaction.
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- The Most Controversial Idea In Biology
- Runtime
- 28:50
- Date posted
- 9 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?
- Runtime
- 1:19
- Date posted
- 10 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
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- 2:34
- Date posted
- 10 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
- Runtime
- 1:04
- Date posted
- 10 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
- Runtime
- 1:34
- Date posted
- 10 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?
- Runtime
- 33:17
- Date posted
- 11 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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Disease spreading - https://www.veritasium.com/simulation2
Preferential attachment - https://ve42.co/barabasiAlbertSim
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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
- Runtime
- 46:09
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- Discover the explosive story of Alfred Nobel. Sponsored by Opera - Upgrade your browsing experience with Opera today. Download it right here: https://opr.as/Opera-browser-veritasium
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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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- How to solve any maze
- Runtime
- 2:56
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- By following this algorithm you can solve any maze in the world.
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- What Happens When You Spin a Football?
- Runtime
- 1:58
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- The real impact of spin on a football—explained with @tombrady.
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- Why Do Escalator Steps Have Teeth?
- Runtime
- 22:18
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- The surprising science of escalators. Sponsored by Brilliant - check out https://brilliant.org/veritasium to start learning for free.
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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 expertis...
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- Why Farmers Can't Legally Replant Their Own Seeds
- Runtime
- 46:59
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- This is the history of Monsanto’s herbicides… 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 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
Check out Carey Gillam’s books here — https://ve42.co/Gillam
Check out Bart Elmore’s book here —...
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- How aerogel can make the ocean drinkable
- Runtime
- 2:43
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- This short was made in support of #TeamWater
💧Support Team Water Here: https://www.TeamWater.org
The biggest YouTuber collab just happened on YouTube! Hundreds of creators got together to post a video about Team Water, a fundraiser launched by @MrBeast and @MarkRober to raise $40 million to give people all over the world clean drinking water!
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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- This is the natural disaster to worry about
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- 41:07
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- The strange natural material that reshaped the world. Sponsored by Ground News -
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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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0:00 Where does rubber come from?
2:59 What is rubber?
5:10 Why is rubber so stretchy?
6:29 The problem with natural rubber
9:02 Cured Rubber
15...
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- Can you swim in shade balls?
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- 2:28
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- I bought 10,000 shade balls and tried to swim in them.
They appear to act like a non-Newtonian fluid: rigid under high shear stress, but they flow like a liquid under low shear.
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- Testing the US Military’s worst idea
- Runtime
- 1:00
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Rods from God.
This is the nickname for a theoretical space weapon, in which large rods of tungsten would be dropped onto Earth based targets.
The idea behind this weapon is that the projectiles would build up enough speed, and thus kinetic energy, which would cause bomb-like destruction on the ground below.
The concept was devised during the Cold War but has faced heavy criticism both logistically and scientifically.
However, it has certainly made its mark on science fiction, both appearing in and being referenced across many media, from TV to video games.
But could it work in practice?
We tested to find out.
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- The Perfect Battery Material Is Dangerous
- Runtime
- 34:42
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- High-energy rechargeable batteries seemed impossible, until we made them. Sponsored by CodeRabbit. Cut code review time and bugs in half. Try CodeRabbit at https://coderabbit.link/veritasium
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0:00 What’s inside a battery?
4:11 How does a battery work?
7:15 How did we increase battery power?
11:13 The first rechargeable lithium battery
13:29 The Tiny Needles That Kill Batteries
16:06 Goodenough? We can do better
20:07 The birth of the lithium-ion battery
27:10 Why do batteries explode?
29:31 Blowing up a battery
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A massive thank you to Dr Billy Wu, Dr Sam Cooper, Dr Derek Sui, Professor Magda Titirici, Dr Jingyu Feng, Dr Monica Marinescu, Li Ren Thow, Genlin Liu and Sam Riley; and to Professor Guillermo Rein, Dr Harry Mit...
- Title
- The blue LED was almost impossible to make
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- 1:43
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- LED's don't get their colour from their plastic covers. The blue LED was supposed to be impossible—until a young engineer proposed a moon-shot idea.
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- The Strange Math That Predicts (Almost) Anything
- Runtime
- 32:32
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- How a feud in Russia led to modern prediction algorithms.
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A huge thank you to Brian Hayes, David Aldous, Geoff Engelstein, Jeffrey Rosenthal, Jimmy He, Mark Priestley, Michael Choi, Peter Norvig, Sam Power, and Thomas Haigh for their invaluable expertise and contributions to this video.
And a special thank you to Madeline Johnson for her excellent fact-checking.
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0:00 The Law of Large Numbers
4:37 What is a Markov Chain?
9:43 Ulam and Solitaire
12:21 Nucl...
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- Why do all animals jump to about the same height?
- Runtime
- 1:39
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- All animals jump to about roughly the same height, but why is this? Aren't some animals bigger and stronger than others?
- Title
- Why did light bulb lifetimes get shorter?
- Runtime
- 1:36
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Planned obsolescence, explained. #veritasium #engineeering #lightbulbs
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- This mechanism shrinks when pulled
- Runtime
- 23:07
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- How an unlikely physics paradox controls these counterintuitive structures. 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 Paul Ducarme and Bas Overvelde at AMOLF for showing us around.
Check out their research on counter-snapping structures here - https://ve42.co/CounterSnapping
For more on Braess’s Paradox, check out these great videos by Up and Atom (https://youtu.be/cALezV_Fwi0) and Steve Mould (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg73j3QYRJc)
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0:00 What happens if you cut this rope?
1:41 The Spring Paradox
4:59 New York’s Perplexing Discovery
6:2...
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- There are 96 million black balls on this lake
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- 1:07
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- I took a boat through 96 million black plastic balls on the Los Angeles reservoir to find out why they're there.
The first time I heard about shade balls the claim was they reduce evaporation.
But it turns out this isn't the reason they were introduced.
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- The Obviously True Theorem No One Can Prove
- Runtime
- 42:34
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- This deceptively simple math problem has stumped mathematicians for almost 300 years! 👉 Head to https://hensonshaving.com/veritasium and enter code 'Veritasium' for 100 free blades with the purchase of a razor. Make sure to add both the razor and the blades to your cart for the code to take effect.
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A huge thank you to Steven Strogatz, Alex Kontorovich, Harald Helfgott, Senia Sheydvasser, Jared Duker Lichtman, Roger Heath-Brown, Kevin Ford, Carl-Fredrik Nyberg Brodda, Kaneenika Sinha & Shehzad Hathi for their invaluable expertise and contributions to this video.
Look out for the upcoming @fern-tv video on the tragic life of Srinivasa Ramanujan! A huge thank you to Ruben Katsc...
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- The Biggest Misconception in Football (ft. Tom Brady)
- Runtime
- 27:17
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Even the GOAT Tom Brady can’t throw a perfect spiral. Here’s why. 🌏 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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Thank you so much to everyone who voted for this video to win the people's voice awards for best creator-to-creator collaboration at the 2026 Webby Awards. We couldn't have done it without you. Thank you again for all your support!
A huge thank you to Tom Brady for coming and throwing some footballs with us and letting us analyse his throw. You can check out his channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@tombrady
Also thank you to Kevin Bonner and the team at Shadow ...
- Title
- Why do planes fly so high?
- Runtime
- 1:04
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Now, it’s true that one of the benefits of flying at 30,000 ft is a smoother ride. This is high in the troposphere, the layer in which most weather occurs. So, there’s less turbulence and fewer storms to navigate around.
But this is not the main reason that planes fly so high.
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- How One Company Secretly Poisoned The Planet
- Runtime
- 54:08
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- The biggest chemical cover up in history. PFAS has polluted the entire global water system. Now, potentially dangerous forever chemicals are being found in the entire US population. Go to https://groundnews.com/Ve to get all sides of every story. Subscribe to save 40% off the unlimited Vantage Plan through our link.
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0:00 Killed by Fridges
5:27 Teflon and The Manhattan Project
7:59 Teflon is Tricky
11:37 The Teflon Revolution
13:27 Earl Tennant's Farm
17:34 Inside DuPont
20:28 Fluoride In Drinking Water
25:00 It's bigger than that
29:23 What is...
- Title
- How A Student's Question Saved This NYC Skyscraper
- Runtime
- 33:39
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- How a single phone call from a student helped uncover a flaw that nearly toppled Citicorp. Get an exclusive 15% discount on Saily data plans! Use code veritasium at checkout. Download Saily app or go to https://saily.com/veritasium
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Correction: From construction images of Citicorp, sharp-eyed viewers might see that the mid-V columns are still there. Those columns help prevent buckling of the diagonal and the weight of people on the floor above, but do not take the majority of the gravity load. So we left them out of our diagram to clearly explain the load paths. See page 70 of this source for more details - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ODFo66-_V7Y9vKANbj53mQ0z20RZ2Uai/view
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- Title
- Why we put spiders on soccer balls
- Runtime
- 1:02
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- How jumping spiders reveal an entire secret world of colors.
- Title
- The Biggest Misconception in Physics
- Runtime
- 27:40
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Why does energy disappear in General Relativity? 👉 Use code VERITASIUM to get 50% off your first monthly KiwiCo Crate! https://www.kiwico.com/VERITASIUM
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A huge thank you to Prof. Geraint Lewis, Prof. Melissa Franklin, Prof. David Kaiser, Elba Alonso-Monsalve, Richard Behiel, Prof. Leo Stein and Jakob Schwintenberg for their invaluable expertise and contributions to this video.
Special thanks to Alessandro from ScienceClic for his help on animations and input on the script. Check out his excellent video on Noether’s theorem here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF_uHfSoOGA
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- Can you solve this SAT question?
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- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- How an SAT question became a mathematical paradox.
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- The Most Controversial Idea In Math
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- 33:01
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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A huge thank you to Dr Asaf Karagila, Prof. Alex Kontorovich, Prof. Joel David Hamkins, Prof. Andrew Marks, Prof. Gabriel Goldberg and Prof. Elliot Glazer for their invaluable expertise and contributions to this video.
Head over and sign up to our Patreon for some exclusive behind the scenes footage, showing how the animations and illustrations for this video were made - https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-behind-126443880?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=j...
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- Can you solve the prisoner's riddle?
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- 1:42
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- There is a riddle that is so counterintuitive, it still seems wrong even if you know the answer.
The 100 prisoners problem - comment your answer!
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- How this helicopter survived 1004 days on Mars, then disappeared...
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- 29:08
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- How a helicopter built of phone parts survived Mars for 3 years. Use code veritasium at https://incogni.com/veritasium to get an exclusive 60% off an annual Incogni plan.
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Correction:
0:12, we say that ingenuity is 680g which is its weight on Mars. On Earth however, it weighs around 1800g.
Clarifications:
- A Patreon supporter named Zeus pointed out that we were wrong about Perseverance's/Ingenuity's position on Mars. It is in the Northern Hemisphere and hence Mars would be getting closer to the Sun as it goes into winter.
- Ingenuity was on Mars for 1004 Earth days.
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A massive thank you to the team at JPL and especially Teddy Tzanetos, Travis Brown, Håvard Grip and DC Agle
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- The Strangest Implication of Quantum Mechanics
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- 33:01
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Does light take all possible paths at the same time? 🌏 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 massive thank you to Dr. Andrew Mitchell for all his help and expertise. If you want to delve further into this topic then we highly recommend his lecture on Classical physics derived from quantum mechanics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iuLwWDYC4U&t=1s
We’re incredibly grateful to Prof. David Kaiser, Prof. Steven Strogatz, Prof. Geraint F. Lewis, Elba Alonso-Monsalve, Prof. Christopher S. Baird, Prof. Anthony Bloch, and Prof. Stephen Bartlett for their...
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- The Blender Question Everyone Gets Wrong
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- 20:13
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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A massive thank you to Dan Goldman, Jeff Aguilar, Daniel Soto and Georgia Tech’s Complex Rheology And Biomechanics Lab
We’re incredibly grateful to Carl Zimmer, Gayle McDowell, and Geoffrey West
Correction: Dan Goldman is a Professor of Physics not Biomechanics.
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0:00 Hard Google Interview Question
2:34 How do Geckos stick to walls?
5:58 Do physicists know the answer?
7:01 The Square-Cube Law
9:10 Tiny Superheroes
10:23 Simulating the problem
13:36 Adding Air Resistance
15:14 The End?
16:16 What would happen if you were shrunk?
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- This Is The Perfect Bowling Strategy
- Runtime
- 2:06
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- What is the optimal strategy for bowling? #science #veritasium #physics #bowling
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- AlphaFold - The Most Useful Thing AI Has Ever Done
- Runtime
- 24:52
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- The biggest problems in the world might be solved by tiny molecules unlocked using AI. Take your big idea online today with https://ve42.co/hostinger - code VE at checkout.
A huge thank you to John Jumper and Kathryn Tunyasuvunakool at Google Deepmind; and to David Baker and the Institute for Protein Design at the University of Washington for their invaluable expertise and explanations.
We’re incredibly grateful to Juanita Bagawan and Lucie Kerley at Google Deepmind, and Ian C. Haydon at the UW Institute for Protein Design for their assistance with some of the animation and imagery used in this video.
Special thanks to those at Google DeepMind Production Studios for their help interviewing John Jumper:
Director - Bernardo Resende
Director of Photography - Robert Messere
Senior Audio Technician - Perry Rogantin
Senior Production Coordinator - Sarah Ellen Morton
Studio Manager - Nicholas Duke
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- Can You Keep Zooming In Infinitely?
- Runtime
- 21:29
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Here’s what happens when you just keep zooming in. Use code veritasium at https://incogni.com/veritasium to get an exclusive 60% off an annual Incogni plan.
In 2025, we launched the Elements of Truth game on Kickstarter and were thrilled by the response. We’re now in the final stages of production, with Kickstarter rewards shipping soon. If you missed the campaign, you can now pre-order the retail edition through our new website here -https://ve42.co/SeeingAtomsDes
A big thank you to Magnus Garbrecht from the University of Sydney for showing us around the lab and for his feedback on the script.
Special thanks to Quentin Ramasse for his expertise on the video.
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0:00 Why is it hard to see atoms?
2:12 How does an electron microscope work?
4:09 Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM)
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