Veritasium

Season 2021

An element of truth | Science and engineering videos

Veritasium is a channel of science and engineering videos featuring experiments, expert interviews, cool demos, and discussions with the public about everything science.

Where to Watch Season 2021

28 Episodes

  • These Pools Help Support Half The People On Earth
    E1
    These Pools Help Support Half The People On EarthWhat are these electric blue ponds in the middle of the Utah desert? And why do they keep changing color?
  • I Asked Bill Gates What's The Next Crisis?
    E2
    I Asked Bill Gates What's The Next Crisis?got the chance to interview Bill Gates so I asked him: Will Covid-19 be the last pandemic? How does he deal with misinformation and conspiracy theories? And what is the next disaster?
  • Why Robots That Bend Are Better
    E3
    Why Robots That Bend Are BetterOn Thursday February 18th, 2021 the NASA Perseverance Rover will land on Mars. It is a wonderful robot, made out of steel and wire — but will future robots look like Perseverance? There is an emerging field of research on "soft robots", where the machines are flexible. These soft robots have many advantages over traditional robots — they're safer, lighter, more flexible and can change their shape and size.
  • The Discovery That Transformed Pi
    E4
    The Discovery That Transformed PiFor thousands of years, mathematicians were calculating Pi the obvious but numerically inefficient way. Then Newton came along and changed the game.
  • This is why we can't have nice things
    E5
    This is why we can't have nice thingsThis video is about stuff: light bulbs, printers, phones and why they aren't better.
  • The Surprising Secret of Synchronization
    E6
    The Surprising Secret of SynchronizationHow does order spontaneously arise out of chaos?
  • This Unstoppable Robot Could Save Your Life
    E7
    This Unstoppable Robot Could Save Your LifeThis robot has applications to archaeology, space exploration, and search and rescue — with a simple elegant design inspired by a plant.
  • How An Infinite Hotel Ran Out Of Room
    E8
    How An Infinite Hotel Ran Out Of RoomIf there's a hotel with infinite rooms, could it ever be completely full? Could you run out of space to put everyone? The surprising answer is yes -- this is important to know if you're the manager of the Hilbert Hotel.
  • Math Has a Fatal Flaw
    E9
    Math Has a Fatal FlawNot everything that is true can be proven. This discovery transformed infinity, changed the course of a world war and led to the modern computer
  • Risking My Life To Settle A Physics Debate
    E10
    Risking My Life To Settle A Physics DebateEveryone will say this craft breaks the laws of physics.
  • The Longest-Running Evolution Experiment
    E11
    The Longest-Running Evolution ExperimentIf you ran evolution all over again, would you get humans? How repeatable is #evolution?
  • A Physics Prof Bet Me $10,000 I'm Wrong
    E12
    A Physics Prof Bet Me $10,000 I'm WrongA UCLA Physics Professor bet me $10,000 that my video about going downwind faster than the wind was wrong.
  • The Biggest Myth In Education
    E13
    The Biggest Myth In EducationYou are not a visual learner — learning styles are a stubborn myth.
  • Why You Should Want Driverless Cars On Roads Now
    E14
    Why You Should Want Driverless Cars On Roads NowHow close are we to having fully autonomous vehicles on the roads? Are they safe? In Chandler, Arizona a fleet of Waymo vehicles are already in operation.
  • The Simplest Math Problem No One Can Solve
    E15
    The Simplest Math Problem No One Can SolveThe Collatz Conjecture is the simplest math problem no one can solve — it is easy enough for almost anyone to understand but notoriously difficult to solve.
  • The Genius of 3D Printed Rockets
    E16
    The Genius of 3D Printed Rockets3D printed rockets save on up front tooling, enable rapid iteration, decrease part count, and facilitate radically new designs.
  • Clickbait is Unreasonably Effective
    E17
    Clickbait is Unreasonably EffectiveOriginal Title: We Need To Talk About Clickbait The title and thumbnail play a huge role in a video's success or failure.
  • The Universe is Hostile to Computers
    E18
    The Universe is Hostile to ComputersOriginal Title: How Distant Stars ACTUALLY Affect Our Lives Tiny particles from distant galaxies have caused plane accidents, election interference and game glitches.
  • Why All Scorpions Are Fluorescent
    E19
    Why All Scorpions Are FluorescentUnder UV light, almost all species of scorpions glow a bright green color, but why?
  • How Hidden Technology Transformed Bowling
    E20
    How Hidden Technology Transformed BowlingBowling has been reinvented many times over the past seven thousand years but especially in the last 30. This is the fascinating physics of balls, oil, lane and pins.
  • How They Caught The Golden State Killer
    E21
    How They Caught The Golden State KillerYour genetic code is probably already in a database, without you ever giving a sample or permission.
  • This Robot Walks, Flies, Skateboards, Slacklines
    E22
    This Robot Walks, Flies, Skateboards, SlacklinesThis is a #robot that walks, flies, #skateboards, #slacklines, and might do much more one day.
  • I Rented A Helicopter To Settle A Physics Debate
    E23
    I Rented A Helicopter To Settle A Physics DebateThe 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?
  • How Imaginary Numbers Were Invented
    E24
    How Imaginary Numbers Were InventedA general solution to the cubic equation was long considered impossible, until we gave up the requirement that math reflect reality.
  • The Big Misconception About Electricity
    E25
    The Big Misconception About ElectricityThe misconception is that electrons carry potential energy around a complete conducting loop, transferring their energy to the load.
  • Most People Don't Know How Bikes Work
    E26
    Most People Don't Know How Bikes WorkWhy are bicycles stable? The most common answer is gyroscopic effects, but this is not right.
  • The Snowflake Mystery
    E27
    The Snowflake MysteryDr Ken Libbrecht is the world expert on snowflakes, designer of custom snowflakes, snowflake consultant for the movie Frozen - his photos appear on postage stamps all over the world.
  • The Most Powerful Computers You've Never Heard Of
    E28
    The Most Powerful Computers You've Never Heard OfAnalog computers were the most powerful computers for thousands of years, relegated to obscurity by the digital revolution.

 

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