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Veritasium

Science-Fiction / Mystery / Nature

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Season 1 · 0 episodes
    Season 2010 · 2 episodes
    1. S2010 E01 · How long does it take for the earth to go around the sun?
    2. S2010 E02 · What causes the seasons?
    Season 2011 · 73 episodes
    1. S2011 E01 · Atomic Theory
    2. S2011 E02 · Thomson's Plum Pudding Model of the Atom
    3. S2011 E03 · Cathode Rays Lead to Thomson's Model of the Atom
    4. S2011 E04 · Scientific Notation - Explained!
    5. S2011 E05 · I'm Atoms (Scientific Cover of Jason Mraz's I'm Yours)
    6. S2011 E06 · Scientific Notation - Example
    7. S2011 E07 · The Difference Between Mass and Weight
    8. S2011 E08 · Egg Experiment to Demonstrate Inertia
    9. S2011 E09 · Gravity (Scientific Version of John Mayer's Gravity)
    10. S2011 E10 · How Far Away is the Moon? (The Scale of the Universe)
    11. S2011 E11 · What is a Force?
    12. S2011 E12 · What Forces Are Acting On You?
    13. S2011 E13 · Why Does the Moon Orbit Earth?
    14. S2011 E14 · What Is Gravity?
    15. S2011 E15 · Best Film on Newton's Third Law. Ever.
    16. S2011 E16 · Calculating Gravitational Attraction
    17. S2011 E17 · Which Hits The Ground First?
    18. S2011 E18 · Misconceptions About Falling Objects
    19. S2011 E19 · Is There Gravity In Space?
    20. S2011 E20 · Three Incorrect Laws of Motion
    21. S2011 E21 · Experiments A Cappella
    22. S2011 E22 · Khan Academy and the Effectiveness of Science Videos
    23. S2011 E23 · What Are Atoms and Isotopes?
    24. S2011 E24 · Supercooled Water - Explained!
    25. S2011 E25 · How Damaging is Radiation?
    26. S2011 E26 · What Powers Australia?
    27. S2011 E27 · Galileo the Scientific Parrot
    28. S2011 E28 · Radiation vs Radioactive Atoms
    29. S2011 E29 · Sound + Fire = Rubens' Tube
    30. S2011 E30 · Types of Radiation
    31. S2011 E31 · What Is Electricity? (Are You Gonna Be My Girl?)
    32. S2011 E32 · How Old Is The Earth?
    33. S2011 E33 · Where Did The Earth Come From?
    34. S2011 E34 · Veritasium Bungee Jumps!
    35. S2011 E35 · When Is A Bungee Jumper's Acceleration Max?
    36. S2011 E36 · Option A - Acceleration of a Bungy Jump
    37. S2011 E37 · Option B - Acceleration of a Bungy Jump
    38. S2011 E38 · Option C - Acceleration of a Bungy Jump
    39. S2011 E39 · Option D - Acceleration of a Bungy Jump
    40. S2011 E40 · Option E - Acceleration of a Bungy Jump
    41. S2011 E41 · Can You Perceive Acceleration?
    42. S2011 E42 · Can You Solve This Shadow Illusion
    43. S2011 E43 · Misconceptions About Heat
    44. S2011 E44 · Fire Syringe
    45. S2011 E45 · Persistence Of Vision
    46. S2011 E46 · Why Does The Earth Spin?
    47. S2011 E47 · How Does The Earth Spin?
    48. S2011 E48 · Why Is Ice Slippery?
    49. S2011 E49 · Does Pressure Melt Ice?
    50. S2011 E50 · Ice Cutting Experiment
    51. S2011 E51 · Ice Cutting Experiment 2
    52. S2011 E52 · What Is Chemistry?
    53. S2011 E53 · What Is Water Made Of?
    54. S2011 E54 · Impress Her With Nanodiamonds
    55. S2011 E55 · Chain Drop Experiment
    56. S2011 E56 · Chain Drop Answer 2
    57. S2011 E57 · What Colour Is Most Attractive?
    58. S2011 E58 · Imploding Drum
    59. S2011 E59 · States of Matter
    60. S2011 E60 · Slinky Drop
    61. S2011 E61 · Slinky Drop Answer
    62. S2011 E62 · Slinky Drop Extended
    63. S2011 E63 · Make Plasma With Grapes In The Microwave!
    64. S2011 E64 · Supersized Slow-Mo Slinky Drop
    65. S2011 E65 · Nobel Prize Winner Brian Schmidt - Physics 2011
    66. S2011 E66 · Physics Nobel Prize 2011 - Brian Schmidt
    67. S2011 E67 · Can You Go the Speed of Light?
    68. S2011 E68 · Atomic Rant
    69. S2011 E69 · What Is The Magnus Force?
    70. S2011 E70 · A Human Being Is A Part Of The Whole
    71. S2011 E71 · What Causes The Phases Of The Moon?
    72. S2011 E72 · How To Make Graphene
    73. S2011 E73 · Candle Trick
    Season 2012 · 42 episodes
    1. S2012 E01 · What Is The Coastline Paradox?
    2. S2012 E02 · Koala Encounters
    3. S2012 E03 · The Science of Curveballs
    4. S2012 E04 · World's Longest Straw
    5. S2012 E05 · Are You Lightest In The Morning?
    6. S2012 E06 · Spinning Tube Trick
    7. S2012 E07 · Spinning Tube Trick Explained
    8. S2012 E08 · Spool Trick
    9. S2012 E09 · Spinning Tube Trick Answer
    10. S2012 E10 · Where Do Trees Get Their Mass From?
    11. S2012 E11 · Why Do You Make People Look Stupid?
    12. S2012 E12 · Destination: Alaska
    13. S2012 E13 · What Causes The Northern Lights? (Aurora Borealis)
    14. S2012 E14 · Where Does The Sun Get Its Energy?
    15. S2012 E15 · Why Are Astronauts Weightless?
    16. S2012 E16 · Spinning Disk Trick
    17. S2012 E17 · Gyroscopic Precession
    18. S2012 E18 · How Does A Slinky Fall?
    19. S2012 E19 · Spinning Disk Trick Solution
    20. S2012 E20 · Transit of Venus! Sydney 2012 Contacts, Contracts and Parallax
    21. S2012 E21 · Does a Falling Slinky Defy Gravity
    22. S2012 E22 · Northern Lights From 100,000 ft!
    23. S2012 E23 · Free Higgs!
    24. S2012 E24 · Atomic Bonding Song
    25. S2012 E25 · Veritasium & Team Record Gold Invade London
    26. S2012 E26 · How Does A Wing Actually Work?
    27. S2012 E27 · How Does A Sailboat Actually Work?
    28. S2012 E28 · What's The Best High Jump Technique?
    29. S2012 E29 · How Does A Boomerang Work?
    30. S2012 E30 · Misconceptions About Temperature
    31. S2012 E31 · How Can Trees Be Taller Than 10m?
    32. S2012 E32 · What's In A Candle Flame?
    33. S2012 E33 · Making SOLID Nitrogen!
    34. S2012 E34 · Misconceptions About Falling Objects
    35. S2012 E35 · Levitating Barbecue! Electromagnetic Induction
    36. S2012 E36 · What Now For The Higgs Boson?
    37. S2012 E37 · How Trees Bend the Laws of Physics
    38. S2012 E38 · World's First Electric Generator
    39. S2012 E39 · Corn Flour Fireball
    40. S2012 E40 · How To Clean Up Space Junk
    41. S2012 E41 · Paralysed Rats Made To Walk Again
    42. S2012 E42 · What Could Survive An Atomic Bomb?
    Season 2013 · 26 episodes
    1. S2013 E01 · Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle Explained
    2. S2013 E02 · How To Make Colour With Holes
    3. S2013 E03 · Why Do Venomous Animals Live In Warm Climates?
    4. S2013 E04 · The Original Double Slit Experiment
    5. S2013 E05 · What Can Frogs See That We Can't?
    6. S2013 E06 · Single Photon Interference
    7. S2013 E07 · World's Roundest Object!
    8. S2013 E08 · Epic Slow-Mo Drum Implosions!
    9. S2013 E09 · The Science of Jetpacks and Rockets!
    10. S2013 E10 · Empty Space is NOT Empty
    11. S2013 E11 · Your Mass is NOT From the Higgs Boson
    12. S2013 E12 · Why the Sky ISN'T Blue
    13. S2013 E13 · Do Aliens Exist?
    14. S2013 E14 · How Does a Quantum Computer Work?
    15. S2013 E15 · Can We Really Touch Anything?
    16. S2013 E16 · How Does a Transistor Work?
    17. S2013 E17 · How To Make a Quantum Bit
    18. S2013 E18 · Slow-Mo Non-Newtonian Fluid on a Speaker
    19. S2013 E19 · The Bullet Block Experiment Everyone Gets Wrong
    20. S2013 E20 · Bullet Block Explained!
    21. S2013 E21 · How Special Relativity Makes Magnets Work
    22. S2013 E22 · 10 Facts About Great White Sharks
    23. S2013 E23 · How a Shark Attack Survivor Invented Cage Diving
    24. S2013 E24 · How We're Fooled By Statistics
    25. S2013 E25 · Bullet Block Experiment Result
    26. S2013 E26 · We Tagged a Great White Shark!
    Season 2014 · 23 episodes
    1. S2014 E01 · Will This Go Faster Than Light?
    2. S2014 E02 · Facebook Fraud
    3. S2014 E03 · Can Silence Actually Drive You Crazy?
    4. S2014 E04 · The Most Common Cognitive Bias
    5. S2014 E05 · Anti-Gravity Wheel?
    6. S2014 E06 · Anti-Gravity Wheel Explained
    7. S2014 E07 · Gravitational Wave Discovery! Evidence of Cosmic Inflation
    8. S2014 E08 · Why Trees Are Taller Than They Need To Be
    9. S2014 E09 · Musical Fire Table!
    10. S2014 E10 · Buoyancy Quiz
    11. S2014 E11 · Misconceptions About the Universe
    12. S2014 E12 · Why Women Are Stripey
    13. S2014 E13 · How Much Information?
    14. S2014 E14 · What is NOT Random?
    15. S2014 E15 · 5 Fun Physics Phenomena
    16. S2014 E16 · Explained: 5 Fun Physics Phenomena
    17. S2014 E17 · Climate Change is Boring
    18. S2014 E18 · 13 Misconceptions About Global Warming
    19. S2014 E19 · CapitolTV's DISTRICT VOICES - District 5: Electric Sparks From Falling Water
    20. S2014 E20 · Sparks from Falling Water: Kelvin's Thunderstorm
    21. S2014 E21 · How Were the Pyramids Built?
    22. S2014 E22 · The Most Persistent Myth
    23. S2014 E23 · The Most Radioactive Places on Earth
    Season 2015 · 25 episodes
    1. S2015 E01 · Would You Take This Bet?
    2. S2015 E02 · Quantum Entanglement & Spooky Action at a Distance
    3. S2015 E03 · Do Cell Phones Cause Brain Tumors?
    4. S2015 E04 · An Astronaut's View of Earth
    5. S2015 E05 · An Affordable 3D-Printed Arm
    6. S2015 E06 · How Do Chameleons Change Color?
    7. S2015 E07 · How YouTube is Like a Potato
    8. S2015 E08 · Beaker Ball Balance Problem
    9. S2015 E09 · Explained: Beaker Ball Balance Problem
    10. S2015 E10 · What I Wish I Knew When I Was Younger
    11. S2015 E11 · Extended: Beaker Ball Balance Problem
    12. S2015 E12 · Ice Spikes Explained
    13. S2015 E13 · The Truth About Toilet Swirl - Southern Hemisphere
    14. S2015 E14 · Uranium: Twisting the Dragon's Tail
    15. S2015 E15 · Chernobyl - What It's Like Today
    16. S2015 E16 · Should This Lake Exist?
    17. S2015 E17 · Backspin Basketball Flies Off Dam
    18. S2015 E18 · How to Launch a Nuclear Missile
    19. S2015 E19 · Evolutionarily Stable Strategies ft. Richard Dawkins
    20. S2015 E20 · Our Greatest Delusion
    21. S2015 E21 · The Science of Six Degrees of Separation
    22. S2015 E22 · Is Glass a Liquid?
    23. S2015 E23 · The Brightest Part of a Shadow is in the Middle
    24. S2015 E24 · Snatoms! The Magnetic Molecular Modeling Kit
    25. S2015 E25 · How Long Will You Live?
    Season 2016 · 18 episodes
    1. S2016 E01 · Why Life Seems to Speed Up as We Age
    2. S2016 E02 · What Exactly is the Present?
    3. S2016 E03 · These Liquids Look Alive!
    4. S2016 E04 · Why Anecdotes Trump Data
    5. S2016 E05 · Science of Laser Hair Removal in SLOW MOTION
    6. S2016 E06 · Svalbard - The Northernmost Town on Earth
    7. S2016 E07 · Inside the Svalbard Seed Vault
    8. S2016 E08 · Celsius Made His Thermometer Upside Down
    9. S2016 E09 · Stringless Yo-Yo!
    10. S2016 E10 · The Illusion of Truth
    11. S2016 E11 · Is Most Published Research Wrong?
    12. S2016 E12 · The Best and Worst Prediction in Science
    13. S2016 E13 · How the Quantum Vacuum Gave Rise to Galaxies
    14. S2016 E14 · Why Metals Spontaneously Fuse Together In Space
    15. S2016 E15 · Is This What Quantum Mechanics Looks Like?
    16. S2016 E16 · What the Fahrenheit?!
    17. S2016 E17 · Indestructible Coating?!
    18. S2016 E18 · Post-Truth: Why Facts Don't Matter Anymore
    Season 2017 · 25 episodes
    1. S2017 E01 · The Absurdity of Detecting Gravitational Waves
    2. S2017 E02 · The Real Moral Dilemma of Self-Driving Cars
    3. S2017 E03 · Electromagnetic Levitation Quadcopter
    4. S2017 E04 · 3 Sources of Water on the Moon
    5. S2017 E05 · The Science of Thinking
    6. S2017 E06 · Does Water Swirl the Other Way in the Southern Hemisphere?
    7. S2017 E07 · How To Update Your Beliefs Systematically - Bayes' Theorem
    8. S2017 E08 · 4 Revolutionary Riddles
    9. S2017 E09 · 4 Revolutionary Riddles Resolved!
    10. S2017 E10 · The Sun Sneeze Gene
    11. S2017 E11 · Fire in ZERO-G!!
    12. S2017 E12 · Is America Actually Metric?
    13. S2017 E13 · Mars 2020: Nasa's Next Mission To Mars
    14. S2017 E14 · World's Heaviest Weight
    15. S2017 E15 · NEW Gravitational Wave Discovery!
    16. S2017 E16 · Sandwich Bag Fire Starter
    17. S2017 E17 · How To See Air Currents
    18. S2017 E18 · Hydrodynamic Levitation!
    19. S2017 E19 · How We're Redefining the kg
    20. S2017 E20 · Total Solar Eclipse (2017)
    21. S2017 E21 · Schlieren Imaging in Color!
    22. S2017 E22 · Neutron Star Merger Gravitational Waves and Gamma Rays
    23. S2017 E23 · Your Body's Molecular Machines
    24. S2017 E24 · World's First Car!
    25. S2017 E25 · This Particle Breaks Time Symmetry
    Season 2018 · 17 episodes
    1. S2018 E01 · Why Mosquitoes Bite Some People More Than Others
    2. S2018 E02 · The Threat of AI Weapons
    3. S2018 E03 · Why Einstein Thought Nuclear Weapons Were Impossible
    4. S2018 E04 · My Life Story
    5. S2018 E05 · Spinning Sphere of Molten Sodium
    6. S2018 E06 · The World in UV
    7. S2018 E07 · Can You Overdose on Vitamins?
    8. S2018 E08 · Is Our Food Becoming Less Nutritious?
    9. S2018 E09 · How UV Causes Cancer and Aging
    10. S2018 E10 · This Toy Can Open Any Garage
    11. S2018 E11 · Why Boredom is Good For You
    12. S2018 E12 · What Actually Causes Dandruff?
    13. S2018 E13 · Drinking in ZERO-G! (and other challenges of a trip to Mars)
    14. S2018 E14 · The kg is dead, long live the kg
    15. S2018 E15 · Five Firsts for Mars InSight
    16. S2018 E16 · How Ultrasound Can Deactivate Parts of the Brain
    17. S2018 E17 · The Best Test of General Relativity (by 2 Misplaced Satellites)
    Season 2019 · 31 episodes
    1. S2019 E01 · Spinning Black Holes
    2. S2019 E02 · The Inverse Leidenfrost Effect
    3. S2019 E03 · Do Salt Lamps Work
    4. S2019 E04 · Microwaving Grapes Makes Plasma
    5. S2019 E05 · Can You Recover Sound From Images?
    6. S2019 E06 · Why Machines That Bend Are Better
    7. S2019 E07 · Can Humans Sense Magnetic Fields?
    8. S2019 E08 · How Was Video Invented
    9. S2019 E09 · How to Understand the Black Hole Image
    10. S2019 E10 · First Image of a Black Hole!
    11. S2019 E11 · Three Awesome High School Science Projects
    12. S2019 E12 · Magnetic Micro-Robots
    13. S2019 E13 · Why Are 96,000,000 Black Balls on This Reservoir?
    14. S2019 E14 · My Video Went Viral. Here's Why
    15. S2019 E15 · World's Lightest Solid!
    16. S2019 E16 · Can You Swim in Shade Balls?
    17. S2019 E17 · I Waterproofed Myself With Aerogel!
    18. S2019 E18 · How Cod Saved the Vikings
    19. S2019 E19 · Why Apollo Astronauts Trained in Nuclear Bomb Craters
    20. S2019 E20 · Why the Future of Cars is Electric
    21. S2019 E21 · Mars Helicopter (before it went to Mars)
    22. S2019 E22 · Making Liquid Nitrogen From Scratch!
    23. S2019 E23 · Flamethrower vs Aerogel
    24. S2019 E24 · Does Planet 9 Exist?
    25. S2019 E25 · The Bizarre Behavior of Rotating Bodies, Explained
    26. S2019 E26 · Engineering with Origami
    27. S2019 E27 · Why Trees Are Out to Get You
    28. S2019 E28 · 3 Perplexing Physics Problems
    29. S2019 E29 · Chaos - The Science of the Butterfly Effect
    30. S2019 E30 · How to Slow Aging (and even reverse it)
    31. S2019 E31 · Why New Years Resolutions Fail & How To Succeed
    Season 2020 · 15 episodes
    1. S2020 E01 · This equation will change how you see the world (the logistic map)
    2. S2020 E02 · Parallel Worlds Probably Exist. Here's Why
    3. S2020 E03 · Turbulent Flow is MORE Awesome Than Laminar Flow
    4. S2020 E04 · The Launch of Perseverance to Mars
    5. S2020 E05 · Half the universe was missing... until now
    6. S2020 E06 · Is Dust Mostly Dead Skin?
    7. S2020 E07 · Is Success Luck or Hard Work?
    8. S2020 E08 · How Kodak Exposed The Atomic Bomb
    9. S2020 E09 · The Infinite Pattern That Never Repeats
    10. S2020 E10 · Why Gravity is NOT a Force
    11. S2020 E11 · How One Supernova Measured The Universe
    12. S2020 E12 · Do You Expand With The Universe?
    13. S2020 E13 · Why no one has measured the speed of light
    14. S2020 E14 · These are the asteroids to worry about
    15. S2020 E15 · The Illusion Only Some People Can See
    Season 2021 · 29 episodes
    1. S2021 Special · Q&A + Giveaway for 10 Years on YouTube
    2. S2021 E01 · These Pools Help Support Half The People On Earth
    3. S2021 E02 · I Asked Bill Gates What's The Next Crisis?
    4. S2021 E03 · Why Robots That Bend Are Better
    5. S2021 E04 · The Discovery That Transformed Pi
    6. S2021 E05 · This is why we can't have nice things
    7. S2021 E06 · The Surprising Secret of Synchronization
    8. S2021 E07 · This Unstoppable Robot Could Save Your Life
    9. S2021 E08 · How An Infinite Hotel Ran Out Of Room
    10. S2021 E09 · Math Has a Fatal Flaw
    11. S2021 E10 · Risking My Life To Settle A Physics Debate
    12. S2021 E11 · The Longest-Running Evolution Experiment
    13. S2021 E12 · A Physics Prof Bet Me $10,000 I'm Wrong
    14. S2021 E13 · The Biggest Myth In Education
    15. S2021 E14 · Why You Should Want Driverless Cars On Roads Now
    16. S2021 E15 · The Simplest Math Problem No One Can Solve
    17. S2021 E16 · The Genius of 3D Printed Rockets
    18. S2021 E17 · Clickbait is Unreasonably Effective
    19. S2021 E18 · The Universe is Hostile to Computers
    20. S2021 E19 · Why All Scorpions Are Fluorescent
    21. S2021 E20 · How Hidden Technology Transformed Bowling
    22. S2021 E21 · How They Caught The Golden State Killer
    23. S2021 E22 · This Robot Walks, Flies, Skateboards, Slacklines
    24. S2021 E23 · I Rented A Helicopter To Settle A Physics Debate
    25. S2021 E24 · How Imaginary Numbers Were Invented
    26. S2021 E25 · The Big Misconception About Electricity
    27. S2021 E26 · Most People Don't Know How Bikes Work
    28. S2021 E27 · The Snowflake Mystery
    29. S2021 E28 · The Most Powerful Computers You've Never Heard Of
    Season 2022 · 18 episodes
    1. S2022 E01 · Future Computers Will Be Radically Different
    2. S2022 E02 · How Horses Save Humans From Snake Bites
    3. S2022 E03 · The Man Who Accidentally Killed The Most People In History
    4. S2022 E04 · How Electricity Actually Works
    5. S2022 E05 · Why It Was So Hard To Take This Picture (Very Long Baseline Interferometry)
    6. S2022 E06 · The Absurd Search For Dark Matter
    7. S2022 E07 · The Riddle That Seems Impossible Even If You Know The Answer
    8. S2022 E08 · The Man Who Killed Millions and Saved Billions
    9. S2022 E09 · The 4 things you need to be an expert
    10. S2022 E10 · World's Highest Jumping Robot
    11. S2022 E11 · How Dangerous is a Penny Dropped From a Skyscraper?
    12. S2022 E12 · The Remarkable Story Behind The Most Important Algorithm Of All Time
    13. S2022 E13 · What If A Star Explodes Near The Earth?
    14. S2022 E14 · The world depends on a collection of strange items. They're not cheap
    15. S2022 E15 · Inside The Navy's Indoor Ocean
    16. S2022 E16 · How To Measure The Tiniest Forces In The Universe
    17. S2022 E17 · I tested the US Military's secret space weapon
    18. S2022 E18 · 3 Ways Of Seeing Invisible Air Flow
    Season 2023 · 27 episodes
    1. S2023 E01 · The Stickiest Non-Sticky Substance
    2. S2023 E02 · 143,526 People Agree With Me, 54,536 Disagree
    3. S2023 E03 · World's Strongest Magnet!
    4. S2023 E04 · How Quantum Computers Break The Internet... Starting Now
    5. S2023 E05 · Explaining concrete while getting buried in it
    6. S2023 E06 · How NASA Reinvented The Wheel
    7. S2023 E07 · Why Lightbulbs Might Be The Best Idea Ever
    8. S2023 E08 · The Fastest Maze-Solving Competition On Earth
    9. S2023 E09 · The Strange Number System Used Only By Mathematicians
    10. S2023 E10 · How To Get Venom From The World's Deadliest Spider
    11. S2023 E11 · The Most Misunderstood Concept in Physics
    12. S2023 E12 · The Hidden Science of Fireworks
    13. S2023 E13 · Why Oppenheimer Deserves His Own Movie
    14. S2023 E14 · How Important is IQ?
    15. S2023 E15 · Should Airships Make a Comeback?
    16. S2023 E16 · How The Most Useless Branch of Math Could Save Your Life
    17. S2023 E17 · All The Times We Nearly Blew Up The World
    18. S2023 E18 · Extreme Breath-Holding
    19. S2023 E19 · The Man Who Killed Millions and Saved Billions (Clean Version)
    20. S2023 E20 · How One Line in the Oldest Math Text Hinted at Hidden Universes
    21. S2023 E21 · The Problem With Science Communication
    22. S2023 E22 · World's Best Night Vision vs World's Darkest Room
    23. S2023 E23 · What The Longest-Running Study on Happiness Reveals
    24. S2023 E24 · The Surprising Genius of Sewing Machines
    25. S2023 E25 · The SAT Question Everyone Got Wrong
    26. S2023 E26 · World's Largest Earthquake Simulator
    27. S2023 E27 · What The Prisoner's Dilemma Reveals About Life, The Universe, and Everything
    Season 2024 · 27 episodes
    1. S2024 E01 · Do People Understand the Scale of the Universe?
    2. S2024 E02 · The Rainiest Place On Earth
    3. S2024 E03 · Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED
    4. S2024 E04 · The Trillion Dollar Equation
    5. S2024 E05 · The Oldest Unsolved Problem in Math
    6. S2024 E06 · How The Most Expensive Swords In The World Are Made
    7. S2024 E07 · Why is this number everywhere?
    8. S2024 E08 · Something Strange Happens When You Follow Einstein's Math
    9. S2024 E09 · These Are The Avalanches To Worry About
    10. S2024 E10 · What Jumping Spiders Teach Us About Color
    11. S2024 E11 · Why People Prefer More Pain
    12. S2024 E12 · The Real Reason Robots Shouldn't Look Like Humans
    13. S2024 E13 · These Illusions Fool Almost Everyone
    14. S2024 E14 · Why Democracy Is Mathematically Impossible
    15. S2024 E15 · What Everyone Gets Wrong About Planes
    16. S2024 E16 · Exposing The Flaw In Our Phone System
    17. S2024 E17 · How do QR codes work? (I built one myself to find out)
    18. S2024 E18 · Seeing Inside a Thermite Reaction
    19. S2024 E19 · We Might Find Alien Life In 2333 Days
    20. S2024 E20 · This Single Rule Underpins All of Physics
    21. S2024 E21 · On These Questions, Smarter People Do Worse
    22. S2024 E22 · The Quest To Make Unbreakable Glass
    23. S2024 E23 · What Actually Happened To Amelia Earhart?
    24. S2024 E24 · You're Probably Wrong About Rainbows
    25. S2024 E25 · 12,419 Days Of Strandbeest Evolution
    26. S2024 E26 · This Musical Instrument Took Eons To Make
    27. S2024 E27 · The Man Who Went From Doing Drugs To Saving Millions
    Season 2025 · 29 episodes
    1. S2025 E01 · Why Don't Railroads Need Expansion Joints?
    2. S2025 E02 · Why Are Scientists Making Robot Insects?
    3. S2025 E03 · Why Super Glue Is Perfect For Gluing Skin
    4. S2025 E04 · What if you just keep zooming in?
    5. S2025 E05 · The Most Useful Thing AI Has Ever Done
    6. S2025 E06 · The Google Interview Question Everyone Gets Wrong
    7. S2025 E07 · Something Strange Happens When You Trust Quantum Mechanics
    8. S2025 E08 · What Happened to the Mars Helicopter?
    9. S2025 E09 · The Man Who Almost Broke Math (And Himself...)
    10. S2025 E10 · The Biggest Misconception In Physics
    11. S2025 E11 · The Most Dangerous Building in Manhattan
    12. S2025 E12 · How One Company Secretly Poisoned The Planet
    13. S2025 E13 · The Biggest Misconception in Football (ft. Tom Brady)
    14. S2025 E14 · The Obviously True Theorem No One Can Prove
    15. S2025 E15 · This mechanism shrinks when pulled
    16. S2025 E16 · The Strange Math That Predicts (Almost) Anything
    17. S2025 E17 · The Perfect Battery Material Is Dangerous
    18. S2025 E18 · This is the natural disaster to worry about
    19. S2025 E19 · Why Farmers Can't Legally Replant Their Own Seeds
    20. S2025 E20 · The Most Dangerous Escalator in Rome
    21. S2025 E21 · This liquid explodes when shaken
    22. S2025 E22 · Something Strange Happens When You Trace How Connected We Are
    23. S2025 E23 · The Most Controversial Idea in Biology
    24. S2025 E24 · The Most Dangerous Cognitive Bias
    25. S2025 E25 · Why don't jet engines melt?
    26. S2025 E26 · You've (Likely) Been Playing The Game of Life Wrong
    27. S2025 E27 · Something Weird Happens When E=-mc²
    28. S2025 E28 · The Most Controversial Experiment in Quantum Physics
    29. S2025 E29 · The Ridiculous Engineering Of The World's Most Important Machine
    Season 2026 · 20 episodes
    1. S2026 E01 · What If You Keep Slowing Down?
    2. S2026 E02 · This Tiny Donut (Almost) Broke Physics in 1986
    3. S2026 E03 · How The Fridge Destroyed One of the World's Largest Monopolies
    4. S2026 E04 · How One Rock (Almost) Poisoned The Entire Planet
    5. S2026 E05 · How One Hack Nearly Took Down The Internet
    6. S2026 E06 · On This Problem Rational People Do Worse
    7. S2026 E07 · Making A Giant Zipper To Explain How It Works
    8. S2026 E08 · The Secret Spy Tech Inside Every Credit Card
    9. S2026 E09 · This Factory Makes The World's Most Expensive Stuff
    10. S2026 E10 · Can you steal $10,000 from a locked iPhone?
    11. S2026 E11 · The disaster I never imagined having to worry about
    12. S2026 E12 · Can a quantum sensor detect your heartbeat from 60 km away?
    13. S2026 E13 · How Does Google Maps Actually Work?
    14. S2026 E14 · Something is jamming GPS over Europe. Here's what we found
    15. S2026 E15 · Does This Prime Pattern Continue Forever?
    16. S2026 E16 · The Problem With Fingerprint Analysis
    17. S2026 E17 · The Scariest Chart In Electrical Engineering
    18. S2026 E18 · Why does every mammal get 1 billion heartbeats in their life?
    19. S2026 E19 · Is spider silk really stronger than steel?
    20. S2026 E20 · Total Solar Eclipse From Space

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