Veritasium

Season 2024

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 2024

27 Episodes

  • Do People Understand the Scale of the Universe?
    E1
    Do People Understand the Scale of the Universe?People don’t understand the scale of the Universe.
  • The Rainiest Place On Earth
    E2
    The Rainiest Place On Earth
  • Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED
    E3
    Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LEDThe blue LED was supposed to be impossible—until a young engineer proposed a moonshot idea.
  • The Trillion Dollar Equation
    E4
    The Trillion Dollar EquationThe most famous equation in finance, the Black-Scholes/Merton equation, came from physics. It launched an industry worth trillions of dollars and led to the world’s best investments.
  • The Oldest Unsolved Problem in Math
    E5
    The Oldest Unsolved Problem in MathDo odd perfect numbers exist?
  • How The Most Expensive Swords In The World Are Made
    E6
    How The Most Expensive Swords In The World Are MadeThis is a video about how Japanese swords are made – from the gathering of the iron sand, to the smelting of the steel, to the forging of the blade.
  • Why is this number everywhere?
    E7
    Why is this number everywhere?
  • Something Strange Happens When You Follow Einstein's Math
    E8
    Something Strange Happens When You Follow Einstein's MathEinstein was wrong about black holes, what else?
  • These Are The Avalanches To Worry About
    E9
    These Are The Avalanches To Worry AboutAvalanches are beautiful, majestic, and completely terrifying – this is a video all about the science of avalanches.
  • What Jumping Spiders Teach Us About Color
    E10
    What Jumping Spiders Teach Us About ColorHow jumping spiders reveal an entire secret world of colors.
  • Why People Prefer More Pain
    E11
    Why People Prefer More PainWe experimented to see how much pain our volunteers could handle.
  • The Real Reason Robots Shouldn’t Look Like Humans
    E12
    The Real Reason Robots Shouldn’t Look Like HumansThe robots of our future may look nothing like humans at all. Huge thanks to Dr. Elliot Hawkes for showing us his robots over the years, and for the update on what they’re doing now!
  • These Illusions Fool Almost Everyone
    E13
    These Illusions Fool Almost EveryoneAudio illusions show us that hearing is about more than just sensing frequency.
  • Why Democracy Is Mathematically Impossible
    E14
    Why Democracy Is Mathematically ImpossibleDemocracy might be mathematically impossible – here’s why.
  • What Everyone Gets Wrong About Planes
    E15
    What Everyone Gets Wrong About PlanesWhy are plane doors not locked?
  • Exposing The Flaw In Our Phone System
    E16
    Exposing The Flaw In Our Phone SystemCan you trust your phone?
  • How do QR codes work? (I built one myself to find out)
    E17
    How do QR codes work? (I built one myself to find out)How do QR codes work? The checkerboard patterns taking over the world, demystified.
  • Seeing Inside a Thermite Reaction
    E18
    Seeing Inside a Thermite ReactionThe world’s first look inside a thermite reaction.
  • We Might Find Alien Life In 2333 Days
    E19
    We Might Find Alien Life In 2333 DaysEuropa Clipper is looking for signs of alien life in a very deadly place.
  • This Single Rule Underpins All of Physics
    E20
    This Single Rule Underpins All of PhysicsA massive thank you to Prof. Steven Strogatz for his expertise and enthusiasm. A huge thank you to Prof. Haithem Taha, Prof. Anthony Bloch, Dr. Carl-Fredrik Nyberg Brodda, Dr. Sarah Millholland, and Dr. Andrew Mitchell for all their help with finding the story and getting it right. A special thanks to Dr. Aurèle Adam, Ron Haaksman, Marc Serra Peralta, and everyone at the Delft Makerspace for their help with preparing and performing experiments.
  • On These Questions, Smarter People Do Worse
    E21
    On These Questions, Smarter People Do WorseBeing better at math can make you worse at math problems, and it’s completely rational.
  • The Quest To Make Unbreakable Glass
    E22
    The Quest To Make Unbreakable GlassGlass is one of the most important materials humans have ever made.
  • What Actually Happened To Amelia Earhart?
    E23
    What Actually Happened To Amelia Earhart?The mistakes of Amelia Earhart’s final flight, and the physics that could have saved her.
  • You’re Probably Wrong About Rainbows
    E24
    You’re Probably Wrong About RainbowsYou probably don’t understand how a rainbow really works.
  • 12,419 Days Of Strandbeest Evolution
    E25
    12,419 Days Of Strandbeest EvolutionThe surprising genius of Strandbeests.
  • This Musical Instrument Took Eons To Make
    E26
    This Musical Instrument Took Eons To MakeThis musical instrument is 400,000+ years old and still growing.
  • The Man Who Went From Doing Drugs To Saving Millions
    E27
    The Man Who Went From Doing Drugs To Saving MillionsLSD-fiend, surfer, maverick — Kary Mullis might be the weirdest person ever to win the Nobel Prize.

 

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