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We Took $10,000 From @mkbhd's Locked iPhone
There's a flaw in some virtual wallets. We exploited this flaw to steal $10,000 from @mkbhd. Watch the full video to find out how we did it...
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I'm here with MKBHD and we're going to try to steal $10,000 from his locked iPhone. Really hope it doesn't work. Really hope it doesn't work. I'm going to get you to put that phone down on top of this device. >> It's just a regular payment terminal. Nothing nothing weird about that. >> Careful. [music] Careful with tha...
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It's impossible to choose a number at random
In math you can't truly pick things at random because formulas always give the same result. So if we can't pick randomly, how do we select anything in math?
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In math, you can't truly pick things at random because formulas always give the same result, which is why computers don't have true random number generators. Instead, they usually run an algorithm on your current local time to generate numbers that appear random. So, if we can't pick randomly, how do we select anything...
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Could identical twins commit the perfect crime?
The DNA in twins is (almost) exactly the same. So how could a team of forensic scientists tell which twin committed the crime? There is a way but it has some issues...
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Could identical twins get away with murder? Identical twins have the same DNA. So, if one of them commits a murder, which one goes to prison? [music] When police run a standard DNA test at a crime scene and it matches two twins, they're stuck. [music] And this has literally happened. In Germany, two twin brothers were ...
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How do submarines know where they are?
How does a submarine find its way 600m deep in the ocean? Surfacing is obviously the easiest way but not when you want to stay hidden. So how do a crew balance concealment and pathfinding?
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Here's a question. How do submarines know where they are? I mean, near the surface they can just stick out an antenna above the water to use GPS, but if the antenna is even a couple of centimeters below the surface, the GPS will stop working because it uses radio waves that are easily absorbed by seawater. So, as an al...
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The World's Heaviest Weight
How do you measure big forces accurately? By calibrating your force transducer on the world's biggest weight - 1,000,000 pounds of force. This machine ensures planes don't break apart, jets provide required thrust, and rockets make it to their destination.
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This piece right here is approximately 50,036.27 lbs of mass. >> Approximately. >> Approximately, yeah. There are 20 50 50,000 lb increments in this machine. 20 * 50 = 1 million lbs. Cumulatively, that's 4.45 MN. These are the largest mass objects ever calibrated. >> The machine works like this. Below ground are the 20...
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The Most Controversial Thought Experiment In Physics
Put a cat in a box with a radioactive atom. Add a radiation detector that triggers the release of poisonous cyanide gas. Schrödinger's thought experiment was supposed to be a criticism of quantum mechanics and is now one of it's best explainers. Here's why and what happens to the cat...
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Put a cat in a box with a radioactive atom. Add a radiation detector that triggers the release of poisonous cyanide gas. Now, although it was only meant as a thought experiment, Schrödinger helpfully notes this device must be secured against direct interference by the cat. Anyway, the whole point of the experiment is t...
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Why Waves Travel Faster At The Top
Why do objects travel with waves? We're taught waves only transfer energy, not material, but objects wash ashore all the time. How does this work? #veritasium #science #physics
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There are lots of wave pools in the world, but what makes this one different is control. You can create waves of a specific amplitude and frequency and do so repeatedly. >> Can we try a 1 hertz? >> Yeah. Do me a favor and dial up 1 hertz. >> Amplitude will be 0.078 at 1 hertz. >> All right, go ahead and send it from ze...
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The Google Interview Question Everyone Gets Wrong
The blender problem. Do you think you know the answer? Comment below!
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There is this famous Google interview question that everyone gets wrong. You're shrunk down to the size of a nickel and put into a blender. The blades will start spinning in 60 seconds. So, what do you do? >> I would like to think I could duck down and miss the blades. >> Push the button. >> Ask nicely for the blender ...
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How does light 'know' the shortest path?
Light is the fastest thing in the universe. In order to be this fast it always needs to take the shortest path (as it's speed cannot change). So how does it always know what the shortest path is?
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This is one of the craziest thought experiments in all of physics. Say you're at the beach, when all of a sudden you see your friend struggling out in the water. You want to go help him as quickly as possible, so which path should you take to get there? Well, the shortest path is a straight line, so you could head dire...
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AD - Why are plants colder than their surroundings?
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This is just a plant. But if you point a thermal camera at it, you'll notice something weird. It's about 5 degrees Celsius colder than everything else around it, which is weird because it's sitting in the same hot sun and the same hot air. So you'd expect it to warm up and reach the same temperature. So what is going o...
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AD - Why do I get this spark when I unplug my hair dryer?
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Have you ever noticed if you unplug an appliance while it's running like this hairdryer then you get a spark? To make a one centimeter spark in air requires 10,000 volts but mains voltage is only around 120 to 240 volts. So where is that extra voltage coming from? Thanks to Anker for sponsoring this video. When the hai...
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Why do these metronomes sync up?
Watch what happens when you start a metronome ticking on an unstable platform, out of sync with two others. Slowly over time, they all sync up. How does this happen?
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You may have seen this demo where you put several metronomes on a light wobbly platform and start them out of sync. These metronomes don't have exactly the same natural frequency, and yet they still beat in time. To understand how this works, it's easiest to first consider a couple metronomes oscillating in sync with e...
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This tiny magnetic blob could change how we treat brain tumors forever...
Scientists have developed a new way to provide treatment for brain tumours. Currently we use chemotherapy, but that's like throwing a grenade at a mosquito, you end up damaging a lot more than you mean to. This magnetic blob will help change that. References: Microrobots: https://www.science.org/stoken/author-tokens...
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This magnetic blob might one day save your life. Why? Because doctors right now are struggling to treat brain tumors. They can use chemotherapy, but it's like using a grenade to kill a mosquito. That's why researchers at ETH Zurich have developed this. It's a little gelatin blob that's wrapped in an iron oxide coating,...
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Zippers are stronger than you think...
How do zippers work? We made a giant one to find out!
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Aaaaah! See how strong this really is? We're gonna try and pull it apart. Doesn't seem easy. Yeah, I know. It's not breaking. Zippers are surprisingly tough. See, back in the 1910s, the inventor of the zipper, Gideon Sunback, created this ingenious machine for manufacturing the zipper. It takes Y-shaped metal wire as a...
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How A Random System Can Actually Be Predictable
The balls in a Galton board fall down randomly. Any time they come to a junction they can take any number of paths and it's almost impossible to accurately predict every ball's trajectory. However, the system as a whole is predictable. How can this be? How can random systems actually be predictable?
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This is a Galton board. It's got rows of pegs arranged in a triangle and around 6,000 tiny ball bearings that I can pour through the pegs. Now each time a ball hits a peg there's a 50-50 chance it goes to the left or the right. So each ball follows a random walk as it passes through these pegs, which makes it basically...
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AD - How do cities control traffic? We partnered with Anker to find out…
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Did you know the first traffic light involved a police officer manually pulling a lever to rotate panes of red and green glass in front of a gas lamp? It only lasted a month before it exploded. The solution to this problem, it turns out, is surprisingly similar to how today's video sponsor, Anchor, solved a major issue...
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How An Infinite Hotel Ran Out Of Room
If 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.
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Imagine there's a hotel with infinite rooms. They're numbered one, two, three, four, and so on forever. This is the Hilbert Hotel and you are the manager. Now, it might seem like you could accommodate anyone who ever shows up, but there is a limit, a way to exceed even the infinity of rooms at the Hilbert Hotel. To sta...
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Can you solve the hat riddle?
You and 3 amigos are buried neck deep in sand in a prison yard. The guard says if one of you can guess your own hat colour you can all go free. You know there are two black hats and two white hats and you can only see the hats of the people in front of you. A minute passes in silence and then one of you shouts out a ...
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Here's the problem. You and three amigos are buried neck deep in sand in a prison yard facing a life sentence. The guards offer you a deal. Guess your hat color and you all go free. There are two black hats and two white hats. Three of you are in a line facing a wall and the fourth is on the other side of the wall. Eac...
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How many batteries would it take to power a human?
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How many batteries would it take to power a human for an hour? Now, a normal AA battery like this has about 2.9 watt hours worth of energy. That's enough energy to keep a worker end going for nearly two years. For a buzzing bee which is just flying around and has to fight against gravity, it can last about four days. F...
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How Alpha Particles Can Break Computer Chips
In the 1970s, Intel couldn't work out what was damaging the DRAM on their microchips. The cause turned out to be the ceramic that the chip was encased in. It was secretly flipping 1s to 0s. But how?
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In 1978, Intel reported some strange errors popping up in their 16 kilobit dynamic random access memory, or DRAM. Ones would spontaneously flip to zeros with no apparent cause. The problem turned out to be the ceramic packaging the chip was encased in. With the demand for semiconductor packaging skyrocketing in the 197...
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The Surprising Genius Of Sewing Machines
How does a sewing machine work? The answer is more genius than you might think.
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As the needle lowers, the hook grabs the thread. The rotating hook spins around, the first loop is released, and then the hook grabs the second loop. The looper was held by pieces of metal, tightly enough that it didn't fall out, but with enough of a gap for the thread to pass through all the way around. That same shap...
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Wombats Poop Cubes
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 do wombats make cubic poops? At first we thought it was because they stack so well. Without the round sides, they won't roll away. That makes it a lot easier to mark your territory. But there are plenty of other scent marking animals that poop, but none of them make it quite so angular. So then researchers thought ...
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Why don't trains make *that* sound anymore?
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 invo...
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Why is it so important that the stones on a rail track are jagged? In the past, train tracks used to have gaps in between them. The gaps let the steel tracks expand and contract with temperature. And wheels hitting those gaps made that ta-tok, ta-tok, ta-tok sound. But those gaps also slowed the trains down. So today's...
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The Most Radioactive Place On Earth
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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If you had to guess the most radioactive place on earth, where would you pick? Let's use this banana for scale, because bananas are high in potassium, and around 0.001% of potassium atoms are naturally radioactive. Which means every time you eat a banana, you're ingesting around 50 micrograms of radioactive material. N...
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Can something go faster than it’s pushed?
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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You don't actually need aerodynamics. Here I have a little cart with a big wheel that rolls on two smaller spools. And what I'm going to show is that when you have two media moving relative to one another, well then if this car is in contact with both media, it can actually move faster than their relative velocity. So ...
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The Bizarre Behaviour Of Rotating Bodies
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...
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What you are looking at is known as the Janabekov effect, or the tennis racket theorem, or the intermediate axis theorem. Now you may have seen clips like this one before, but in this video I will provide the best intuitive explanation of how this effect works. So in 1985, cosmonaut Vladimir Janabekov was tasked with s...
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How Pressure Can Come From *Nothing*
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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If you flew out to the darkest, emptiest part of the universe and brought these two uncharged mirrors very closely together, something really strange would happen. I mean, there's no air repelling them and there are no electric or magnetic forces. Okay, there is a tiny amount of gravitational attraction, but it's so sm...
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The Shadow Illusion
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 s...
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Watch what happens if I slowly lift up the cardboard. The square starts to blur and the light slowly morphs into this perfect circle. And you can try this with any shape. A triangular hole, you still get a circle. A star-shaped hole, still a circle. Even this V-shape. So why do all of these different shapes give you a ...
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You Can't Feel Wet
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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Try this. Put on a latex glove and then put your hand into ice-cold water. You'll notice it still feels wet. But that's strange because the glove is impermeable to water, but it still feels wet. That's because we actually don't have a way to directly measure wetness. Instead, we use temperature changes as a proxy. And ...
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The Crazy Physics of Jet Engines
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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This is one of the most powerful jet engines in the world. And it actually runs at temperatures 250 degrees Celsius hotter than the melting point of the materials that make it up. That's 1,200 degrees. So the question is, why doesn't a jet engine just melt into a puddle? To keep a turbine blade whole and unaffected wit...
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Rubber used to be useless…
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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See, all natural rubber has a critical weakness. It's extremely sensitive to temperature changes. It melts when it gets too hot, and it freezes and becomes brittle when it gets too cold. This made the coats and shoes practically useless during the hot summer. So customers returned their items en masse. Then things went...
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World’s Largest Spiderweb
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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If the sun were to disappear tomorrow, these cave spiders could go on living for thousands of years. Completely in the dark. If you go right to the border of Greece and Albania, you head down this dark cave, and then you wade through chest-high water for about 50 meters, you find something really strange. This thick, s...
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How They Prevented The Citicorp Disaster
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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LeMessure acquired emergency generators for the tuned mass damper. The TMD was originally designed to stabilize any swaying for comfort, but now it became the crutch that the tower leaned on. Each night, welders would enter the building after everyone left, rip off the sheetrock around the chevron beams, and then weld ...
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What happens if you cut the green rope?
The problem seems simple but the answer isn't... How an unlikely physics paradox controls these counterintuitive structures.
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What will happen to this weight if you cut the green rope? Where is this going to end up? Is it going to go up? Is it going to go down? Or is it going to stay the same? Can I touch? Yeah, you can try it. Nothing. You don't think anything is going to happen? In the same place. Weight is going to be right over there. Lik...
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You're Only 6 Steps Away From Anyone On Earth
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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Imagine all 8 billion people on Earth are arranged into a circle, and say each person knows the 100 people closest to them, so 50 to the left and 50 to the right. Well in this case, the furthest person you can connect to is just 50 people away. So if you wanted to connect to someone on the other side of the planet thro...
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What is this strange pattern down the east coast of America?
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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There's this really weird pattern down the east coast of America. 23,000 oval-shaped depressions that reach from New Jersey all the way down to Florida. And most of them point this way, northwest. They're called Carolina Bays because most of them are found in the Carolinas. Kinda looks as if the Earth has been shot up ...
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I Turned My Phone Into A Microscope
#Sponsored @madebygoogle A single drop of water is all it takes to turn the new Google #Pixel10Pro into a makeshift microscope. Promotional code offer expires 12/05/2025 at 11:59p.m. PT; while supplies last. Must be redeemed on Google Store only. User must be signed-in to their Google Account and checkout with Google ...
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Watch what happens when I put a drop of water on my phone camera. Thanks to Google for sponsoring this video. Well, the droplet forms a tiny dome, and when light hits this dome, it gets bent and focused, just like a lens. I'm putting a drop of water on the front-facing camera. The macro lens on this Pixel phone is alre...
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How Strong Is Super Glue?
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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Here are two metal cylinders and a single drop of superglue. Once it sets, you can literally hang from that one drop of adhesive. Oh my god! That is crazy! So how is superglue so strong? That's what I want to find out. And along the way, we're going to learn how it sets so quickly, why it's so good at sticking to skin,...
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Seeing Inside A Thermite Reaction
The world’s first look inside a thermite reaction.
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We cut the crucible in half and we're attaching two pieces of thermally resistant glass, each four millimeters thick as a window into the reaction. People said this would be impossible, that you wouldn't be able to see anything or that the glass would just break. We've never done this on camera. I've always seen it thi...
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Why didn't this skateboard stunt start from the top?
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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This is Sandro Diaz and he's about to drop him from the world's largest quarter pipe. But all I could think about was, why didn't he go from the very top? So we decided to ask Sandro and he told us that it would have been virtually impossible. See, at the top there's a 10 meter freefall, so you wouldn't roll, you would...
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How To Solve a Quadratic Equation
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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Negative numbers didn't exist. You could subtract, that is find the difference between two positive quantities, but you couldn't have a negative answer or negative coefficients. Mathematicians were so averse to negative numbers that there was no single quadratic equation. Instead, there were six different versions arra...
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How To See Atoms
Here’s what happens when you just keep zooming in.
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This is a tiny piece of metal just three millimeters across, and here's what happens if you just keep zooming in. A thousand times, a hundred thousand times, 50 million times. Each of these blobs is an actual atom. I saw this the other day at the University of Sydney, and it kind of blew my mind, because up until just ...
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Renting A Helicopter To Settle A Physics Debate
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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In 2014, the qualifying exam for the US physics team had this as question 19. A helicopter is flying horizontally at constant speed. A perfectly flexible uniform cable is suspended beneath the helicopter. Air friction on the cable is not negligible. So which of the following diagrams best shows the shape of the cable a...
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How to solve any maze
By following this algorithm you can solve any maze in the world.
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You can solve a maze with your eyes closed. If you just put one hand along one wall, you will eventually reach the end of most common mazes. After a simple wall following mouse took home gold in the first finals, the goal of the maze was moved away from the edges and freestanding walls were added. Your next instinct mi...
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What Happens When You Spin a Football?
The real impact of spin on a football—explained with ⁨@tombrady.
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Why do you spin the football? Why? Yeah, why in part the spin? Aerodynamics. So it keeps it more... Straight. Straight. But that can't be the full story, because when you throw a ball, whether it's spinning or not, we're launching with the same angle, the same speed, and the same shape pointed into the air on release. ...
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How aerogel can make the ocean drinkable
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...
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This is aerogel, one of the lightest solids on earth. It beat my blowtorch, liquid nitrogen, and even a flamethrower. But can it make the ocean drinkable? Desalination by evaporation seems simple enough. You just heat up salty water and collect the fresh water. But using sunlight, it's horribly inefficient because wate...
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Can you swim in shade balls?
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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I've purchased 10,000 shade balls to try to swim in. Now, there is a scientific and safe way to test this, which would be to go in the shallow end, but I am going to jump in the deep end and just see if I can swim. It was probably right about now that I thought back to my conversation with the shade ball manufacturer. ...
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Testing the US Military’s worst idea
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 c...
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They are not bombs. They contain no explosives. But the amount of energy that they're carrying, because they are so heavy and they're going so fast, it is as big as any conventional bomb ever detonated. His concept was to put telephone pole sized pieces of tungsten in orbit, so that these pieces of tungsten could drop ...
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The blue LED was almost impossible to make
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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LEDs don't get their color from their plastic covers and you can see that because here is a transparent LED that also glows the same red color. The color of the light comes from the electronics themselves. In 1962 General Electric Engineer Nick Holignac created the first visible LED. It glowed a faint red. A few years ...
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Why do all animals jump to about the same height?
All animals jump to about roughly the same height, but why is this? Aren't some animals bigger and stronger than others?
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Have you ever noticed this strange thing? Did you see it? A horse, a dog, and a squirrel. They all jump to about the same height. Why is that? In the same conditions, smaller and lighter animals make bigger jumps relative to their body. And it's not because squirrels are super muscly or something. Horses and squirrels ...
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Why did light bulb lifetimes get shorter?
Planned obsolescence, explained. #veritasium #engineeering #lightbulbs
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In Geneva, Switzerland, just before Christmas 1924, there was a secret meeting of top executives from the world's leading light bulb companies. Philips, International General Electric, Tokyo Electric, OSRAM from Germany, and the UK's Associated Electric, among others. They formed what became known as the Phoebus Cartel...
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There are 96 million black balls on this lake
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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96 million shade balls. That's correct. 96 million. We did test to see if there's any other colors we could use. So we actually had the company make three different shades of blue, but the dyes were so unstable they said, we can't guarantee it's going to last more than a year. And so it's that carbon black, the magic p...
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Why do planes fly so high?
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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Why we put spiders on soccer balls
How jumping spiders reveal an entire secret world of colors.
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The theory is simple. You show the spider a screen with a moving shape that differs from the background in color, but not in brightness. And you see if the spider tries to follow. The problem with letting the jumping spider actually turn and respond is that they'll absolutely do so, but it changes some of what they see...
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Can you solve this SAT question?
How an SAT question became a mathematical paradox.
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In 1982, there was one SAT question that every single student got wrong. Here it is. In the figure above, the radius of circle A is one third the radius of circle B. Starting from the position shown in the figure, circle A rolls around circle B. At the end of how many revolutions of circle A will the center of the circ...
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Can you solve the prisoner's riddle?
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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There is a riddle that is so counterintuitive, it still seems wrong even if you know the answer. Here is the setup. Say there are 100 prisoners numbered one to 100. Slips of paper containing each of their numbers are randomly placed in 100 boxes in a sealed room. One at a time, each prisoner is allowed to enter the roo...
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This Is The Perfect Bowling Strategy
What is the optimal strategy for bowling? #science #veritasium #physics #bowling
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Hitting the head pin square on is not the perfect strategy. If you hit the head pin square on going straight, you're unlikely to knock down all the pins. You could end up with a split where the ball goes through the middle or with the ball deflecting off to one side after hitting the head pin. Chances for a strike are ...
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Explaining Pi With Pizza
When the demonstration hits your eye and it explains the value of pi, that’s Newton! #veritasium #science #physics
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Cut the crust off a pizza and lay it across identical pizzas. And you'll find that it goes across three and a bit pizzas. This is pi. The circumference of a circle is roughly 3.14 times its diameter. But pi is also related to a circle's area. Area is just pi r squared. But why is it pi r squared? Well, cut a pizza into...
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How Dishwashers Actually Work
I put cameras inside a dishwasher to wash away some common dishwasher myths. Learn more about the KitchenAid® 360° Max Jets Third Rack Dishwasher by visiting KitchenAid.com/veritasium #sponsored #kitchenaidambassador
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What is your dishwashing habit? Lawful good? Place the pod in the compartment and load every utensil carefully? Or chaotic evil? Just toss it all in unceremoniously? And does it even make a difference? Well, to find out, we put a camera inside a 360 MaxJets third rack dishwasher from KitchenAid to watch a full cycle fr...
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The BEST way to tie your shoelaces
Which is better - granny knot or square knot? Most of us are tying our laces wrong.
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Most of us tie our shoelaces wrong. There are two ways to tie a knot in your shoelaces. In one, you go counterclockwise around the loop, and in the other, you go clockwise. These two methods look almost identical, but one of these knots is far superior to the other. It doesn't loosen or come untied nearly as easily. I'...
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The real science of black holes
What would happen if you fell into a black hole? #astrophysics #einstein #generalrelativity
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You can never see anything enter a black hole. Imagine you trap your nemesis in a rocket ship and blast him off towards a black hole. He looks back at you, shaking his fist at a constant rate. As he zooms in, gravity gets stronger, so you'd expect him to speed up. But that is not what you see. Instead, the rocket ship ...
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What Do You Hear?
Hearing is about way more than sound #audioillusion
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What am I saying in this clip? Bear, bear, bear. If you heard the word bear, that's because that's what I was saying. But what am I saying in this clip? Bear, bear, bear. Now I bet you heard fair. But if you play back both those clips without looking, you'll find it's the exact same audio. All we changed was the mouth ...
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This phone trick is IMPOSSIBLE
It all depends on the way you flip it. #science #physics #scienceexperiment For more videos like this, subscribe to @veritasium.
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Have you ever tried to spin your phone? If you do it in this direction, it's pretty easy. It stays nicely aligned. If you spin it along its short axis, you'll also find it spins very well. But, if you try to flip your phone end over end like this, you can't do it cleanly. The phone will never flip simply end over end w...
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The most dangerous problem in math
The Collatz Conjecture is easy enough for almost anyone to understand but notoriously difficult to solve.
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This is the most dangerous problem in mathematics. Here's how it works. Pick a number, 7. Good choice. We're going to apply two rules. If the number is odd, we multiply by 3 and add 1. 3 times 7 is 21, plus 1 is 22. If the number is even, we divide by 2. 22 divided by 2 is 11. Now we keep applying these two rules. 40, ...
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How bikes *actually* work
Why are bicycles stable? The most common answer is gyroscopic effects, but this is not right.
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How do bikes without riders stay upright? As long as a bike is moving with sufficient speed, it can keep coasting indefinitely. But it turned out the ground where we went to test this effect was really bumpy, but the bike still manages to absorb all these perturbations and remains stable. So how does it do this? I thin...
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I call this the 'No, You Don't' Law
Lenz's Law states that the direction of the induced current will oppose the change in flux that created it. Here's how that looks in practice. For more videos like this, subscribe to @veritasium.
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I like to think of Lenz's law as the no-you-don't law, because whatever you try to do, nature acts to oppose you. There you go. If the plate is falling, eddy currents are induced to slow its descent. But if you try to pick up the plate... Come on! Nature also says, no you don't. In this case, a south magnetic pole is i...
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Congress is about to make a huge mistake for astronomy #SaveChandra
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Congress is about to make a huge mistake in space. In the 1990s, NASA launched four telescopes called the Great Observatories. Their purpose was to study the universe across the electromagnetic spectrum. And as the telescopes aged, NASA built replacements for each of them, except Chandra. Chandra is the world's most po...
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I buried myself in concrete to explain how it works
Concrete = cement + sand + gravel. Cement is the most important man-made material on Earth.
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Being buried in concrete is sort of like jumping in a vat of bleach. So the pH of concrete can get up to 12 or 13. The pH of this is 11.8. And that's incredibly basic, which means if it's on your skin, if it's on your body, it can be dissolving your skin and cells. And that's why I'm actually wearing a dry suit and som...
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World's strongest magnet!
The world's strongest magnet is a million times stronger than Earth's magnetic field.
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This is the world's strongest magnet, capable of sucking objects in, generating electric current, and levitating non-magnetic objects. For reference, the magnetic field of the Earth is 0.00005 Tesla. This electromagnet creates a magnetic field of 45 Tesla, so nearly a million times Earth's magnetic field. We're going t...
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I waterproofed myself with aerogel!
Experiencing the extraordinary properties of aerogel first hand
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I'm about to step into this pool without getting wet. I think there's a layer of air there right next to my skin. That thin layer of air is what makes my skin look silvery. Light from certain angles reflects off the water-air interface in what's called total internal reflection. That is very strange. This is a really c...
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The illusion only some can see
This is the Ames window illusion
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This is the first part of a three-part illusion. What do you see? Well, there's a window and it's turning, except it stops and reverses direction. I'm going to attach this Rubik's Cube to the short side of the trapezoid. Okay, the Rubik's Cube is going around, but now what is that? It looks like the Rubik's Cube is con...
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The Damaged Chernobyl Reactor
The containment facility for the damaged Chernobyl nuclear reactor being built back in 2014
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That is the damaged Chernobyl nuclear reactor. In 1986, after the accident, it was encased in the sarcophagus that you can see now. But it's weathering and cracking and needs to be replaced. So they're building a new confinement structure over here. They can't build it above the old sarcophagus because the levels of ra...
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Microwaving grapes makes plasma
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If you take a grape and cut it almost completely in half and put it in the microwave, you can make some plasma. Go the laws of physics! Yeah! Oh yeah! It's still going! You don't need to cut the grapes in half. Two grapes placed side by side will make this effect work, as long as they stay in contact. Now with the very...
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World's Roundest Object
This silicon sphere was made to redefine the kilogram
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Can I hold it? I think you promise to be really really careful. I promise I will be so incredibly careful. It feels absolutely incredible. This is the world's roundest object. If you scaled it up to the size of the earth, there would be no mountain or valley bigger than 10 meters. It was made out of a single crystal of...
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Raindrops aren't shaped like raindrops
Water breaks up into droplets - this is what it would be like to fall with raindrops.
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One of the coolest things in the wind tunnel is to see water floating. Poured from a jug, it quickly breaks up into droplets, the same size as raindrops, from around 0.5 to 4 millimeters in diameter. And standing there, you can experience what it would be like to fall with raindrops. They have a low terminal velocity o...
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The stickiest *non-sticky* material
For more: https://youtu.be/vS0TuIPoeBs?t=23
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This is one of the strangest materials I have ever seen. It is not sticky at all. You can't even stick like regular tape to it. But if I drape it over this tomato, it holds it up. Unless you turn it upside down, in which case it just falls off.
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The ring on a chain trick
For the answer: https://youtu.be/K-Fc08X56R0?t=228
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Here I have a metal ring and a closed loop of chain. And I'm gonna do this all in one take, so you know that I'm not playing any tricks. So what I'm gonna do is dangle the chain and then hold the ring over it, like so, and then I'm gonna drop the ring. And exactly what you expect happens. The ring just falls off this c...
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Falling ladders - why does this happen?
What happens when a chain ladder lands on a table? Great video and concept by Andy Ruina. Let me know if you want me to post a follow up explaining the answer.
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These two chain ladders were dropped at exactly the same time by Cornell professor Andy Runa. The one on the right remains in free fall, but the one on the left will hit a table. So which one will fall faster? The free falling ladder, the one that hits the table, or will they both fall at the same rate? Now, why did th...
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Indestructible coating?!
The coating is a polymer sold under the brand name Line-X. More about how it works in the full video here: https://youtu.be/DWkYRh6OXy8
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From the top of this 45 meter drop tower, my friends How Ridiculous are about to release a watermelon. In free fall for a full three seconds, the watermelon accelerates to over 100 kilometers per hour before smashing into the ground. Another watermelon was sprayed with a polymer coating. Let's see how the coated waterm...
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What’s in a candle flame?
In a candle flame there are electrically charged particles, which you can pull apart using an electric field.
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Look at that! Yeah! Did you know candle flames conduct electricity better than air? That is because there are ions in the flame, positively and negatively charged particles, resulting from the combustion process. It's kind of a plasma. And you can see that the flame has two separate pieces to it now. One is going towar...
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Why do we launch rockets from Florida?
I always thought Florida seemed like a terrible place to launch anything from.
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Why do we launch rockets in Florida? I remember as a kid just not getting it as I watched these rocket launches get scrubbed due to bad weather. I was like you guys know that's Florida right? That's where they get the hurricanes and the thunderstorms and you know one of the Apollo missions got hit by a lightning strike...
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How a slinky falls in slow motion #shorts
This is not just true of slinkies - if you release a steel rod from the top, the top really starts falling before the bottom. If you hit a tennis ball with a racket, a wave has to travel from the strings to your hand before you feel it - and the ball is well on its way to the net by this time. If you hit a golf ball, t...
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If you drop a slinky dangling under its own weight, the bottom won't start falling until the whole slinky has collapsed. This is because each coil is stretched to support the weight of everything beneath it. So in order for one coil to fall, it needs the coil above it to collapse and so on all the way up to the top. It...
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Dust Is Not What You Think
Dust is everywhere, but it's not what most people think. Some of it can make you sick, some of it helps rain forests survive, and a tiny fraction is older than Earth itself. #kurzgesagt #inanutshell #kurzgesagt_inanutshell #learnwithshorts #science #dust #microbiology Sources & further reading: https://sites.goog...
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What actually is dust? Only about 1% of household dust comes from dead skin and hair. It's mostly a mix of soil, pollen and other particles from outside, along with tiny textile fibers from inside your home. But that's not all. One gram can hold thousands of mites, microscopic spider relatives that feed on your skin, a...
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Why Ebola Keeps Coming Back
Ebola outbreaks can be contained, but ending them is another story. Conflict, fragile healthcare systems, and limited access to vaccines give the virus new chances to spread. Stopping one outbreak helps prevent the next. #kurzgesagt #inanutshell #kurzgesagt_inanutshell #learnwithshorts #science #ebolavirus #ebola #he...
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How Stress Changes Your Brain
Stress can sharpen your focus, but only up to a point. Beyond that, it starts to impair memory, decision-making, and even your eating habits. Here's where the tipping point lies. #kurzgesagt #inanutshell #kurzgesagt_inanutshell #learnwithshorts #science #stress #stressrelief #stressscience Sources & further reading:...
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Does stress make you more productive? Yes and no. Adrenaline makes your heartbeat and breathing faster, while cortisol makes you more alert. A little short-term stress can help you crunch through repetitive tasks, but for difficult ones, stress can work against you, because cortisol forces your body to prioritize your ...
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How Antidepressants Work
Antidepressants don't make people happy overnight. Instead, they slowly change how brain cells communicate, helping worn-down neural circuits recover over time. Here's why they take weeks to work, and why they help millions of people. #kurzgesagt #inanutshell #kurzgesagt_inanutshell #learnwithshorts #science #antidep...
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How do antidepressants really work? We're simplifying a lot, but depression messes with chemical signals across the whole brain, including weakening your serotonin receptors. The signals that give you negative emotions become easier to process, while signals tied to positive emotions go quiet. This affects at least 5% ...
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What the Flu Does to Your Body
The flu is often dismissed as just a bad cold, yet it still kills hundreds of thousands of people every year. Here's how influenza damages your body, why it can become deadly, and what it would take to save many more lives. #kurzgesagt #inanutshell #kurzgesagt_inanutshell #learnwithshorts #science #influenza #flu #he...
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How does flu kill you? Influenza doesn't kill you like a bullet. The virus hijacks your cells to replicate, killing many of them in the process. For some, this damage and the immune system's counter-attack make the air sacs in your lungs leaky or stop working. In others, it weakens your defenses so bacteria can flood i...
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Building a Secret Moon Base
Deep inside the Moon’s permanently shadowed craters lies a hidden treasure: ice. If we can harness it for water, fuel, and construction, these frozen, lightless pits could become the perfect place for humanity’s first permanent Moon base. #kurzgesagt #inanutshell #kurzgesagt_inanutshell #learnwithshorts #science #moo...
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Can we build a secret base in the Moon's darkest region? Because of a slight tilt in the Moon's axis and its path around the Earth, some craters at the lunar poles never receive direct sunlight. These are the Moon's permanent shadow regions, where it's always pitch black and temperatures are colder than Pluto. Perfect ...
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The Deadliest Thing in Your Kitchen
Sugar, salt, cinnamon, saffron... which common kitchen ingredient is the deadliest? #kurzgesagt #inanutshell #kurzgesagt_inanutshell #learnwithshorts #science #poison #nutritionscience #nutritionfacts Sources & further reading: https://sites.google.com/view/kgs-tiktok-sources Follow us for more sciencey content! ...
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Something in your kitchen killed you! Sugar seems innocent at first, but it can be lethal. Around 500 teaspoons will turn you blue as it starves your blood of oxygen, sends your body into violent seizures, and stops you from breathing. But could anyone really consume that much sugar? It could be cinnamon, which contain...
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The True Cost of War
War costs far more than weapons and destroyed buildings. It leaves countries poorer, disrupts education, drives migration, and passes trauma to future generations. Some of its highest costs are paid decades later. #kurzgesagt #inanutshell #kurzgesagt_inanutshell #learnwithshorts #science #warfare #generationalcurse #...
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How much do wars really cost? Weapons, tanks and planes alone cost the world almost $3 trillion a year. But rebuilding everything they destroyed adds hundreds of billions more to the bill. And costs can stack up long after the bombs start falling. War destroys the land itself. When fields are filled with landmines that...
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What is El Niño?
First noticed by South American fishermen in the 1600s, El Niño can affect the weather significantly! #kurzgesagt #inanutshell #kurzgesagt_inanutshell #learnwithshorts #science #elninoeffect #weathereffects #elniño Sources & further reading: https://sites.google.com/view/kgs-tiktok-sources Follow us for more sci...
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El Nino is upon us. What is it and why do we need to keep an eye on it? First, we need to understand trade winds. They span the entire planet and blow from east to west. In the Pacific Ocean they help transport warm surface water to Asia and Oceania, allowing colder subsurface water to flow towards South America. But e...
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The World’s Most Average Person
If you averaged all 8 billion people together, what would you get? Meet the world’s most average person: where he lives, what he earns, what he eats, and how he’ll change over the next century. #kurzgesagt #inanutshell #kurzgesagt_inanutshell #learnwithshorts #science #average #statisticsvideolectures #statistics S...
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Who's the world's most average person? It's a close call, but as there are slightly more men than women, the average person is male. He used to be from China, but since its population was overtaken in 2023, he's now from India, though he still speaks Mandarin Chinese, and he just turned 31. But what's he actually like?...
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Processed Food Won’t Kill You
From bread and yogurt to frozen vegetables, most of us eat processed food every day. The real story is more complicated than “processed = bad”, and some processing can even make food safer and more nutritious. #kurzgesagt #inanutshell #kurzgesagt_inanutshell #learnwithshorts #science #nutrition #processedfood Sourc...
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Processed food is not killing you. Processed food is just food that's been changed, like milk into yogurt or grain into bread. When you add something you don't find at home, like synthetic colors or flavorings, it's called ultra-processed food. But even then, getting 90% of your calories from this kind of food can stil...
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The Power of 1%
What could 1% of the richest countries’ income achieve? From malaria vaccines and clean water to renewable energy, a surprisingly small fraction of global wealth could transform millions of lives. #kurzgesagt #inanutshell #kurzgesagt_inanutshell #learnwithshorts #science #internationalaid Sources & further reading:...
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Let's take 1% of the richest country's money and see what we can do with it. 1% of what these 5 countries make in a year is around $495 billion. Stacked up in banknotes, it would wrap around the whole world. With less than 1% of our pot, we could vaccinate every child in sub-Saharan Africa against malaria, saving hundr...
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Let’s Steal a New Moon
What if Earth could swap its Moon for a better one? From volcanic Io to methane-soaked Titan, the Solar System offers some tempting alternatives. But maybe our Moon is already perfect. #kurzgesagt #inanutshell #kurzgesagt_inanutshell #learnwithshorts #science #astronomy #moon #newmoon Sources & further reading: htt...
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Our moon is boring. Let's steal a new one. How about the reddest object in the solar system, Amalthea? From its host planet Jupiter, it shines as brightly as Venus does from Earth. Sadly, it's just a pile of rubble with a radius 20 times smaller than our moon, and it's 4 times less dense, so we'd have to say goodbye to...
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Your Brain Peaked at Birth
Babies may seem helpless, but their brains are incredible learning machines. They can hear sounds from any language, recognize faces adults can't, and build millions of neural connections every second. 🧠👶 #kurzgesagt #inanutshell #kurzgesagt_inanutshell #learnwithshorts #science Sources & further reading: https:/...
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A baby's brain is better than yours. At birth, a newborn's brain has roughly 100 billion neurons, 15% more than an adult's. Soon, synapses start forming at a rate of around 100 million per second as new experiences trigger chemical signals and build new connections. Having a brain that's still wiring itself makes babie...
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The Deadliest Year of Your Life
Which year of your life is the most dangerous? For many people, it’s not old age but infancy. Where you're born can dramatically change your chances of survival, and millions of child deaths are still preventable today. #kurzgesagt #inanutshell #kurzgesagt_inanutshell #learnwithshorts #science #biology #lifelessons ...
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Which year of your life is the deadliest? Life gets dangerous from the moment you're born. Problems during delivery, premature births and the risk of infections all make tiny humans very fragile. But where you're born can change everything. In many high-income countries where risks are lower, around 1 in 200 infants di...
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Where Did the Antimatter Go?
Pigeons can pinpoint their location hundreds of kilometers from their roosts and navigate home autonomously, only using smell, the sun, and even Earth’s magnetic field. #kurzgesagt #inanutshell #kurzgesagt_inanutshell #learnwithshorts #science #astrophysics #antimatter Sources & further reading: https://sites.goog...
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Did half of the universe disappear? The Big Bang should have created equal amounts of matter and antimatter. When the two meet, they annihilate each other and transform back into pure energy. But if there had been equal amounts of matter and antimatter, we'd see a universe made 50% out of antimatter or nothing but a se...
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Could Humans Evolve Flight?
Flying like a bird would require way more than wings. Hollow bones, giant chest muscles, rewired nerves, and absurd amounts of food would transform you into something barely human anymore. #kurzgesagt #inanutshell #kurzgesagt_inanutshell #learnwithshorts #science #birds #biology Sources & further reading: https://s...
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Let's evolve so you can fly. To get off the ground, you'll need a pair of wings with a wingspan of about 7 meters. But to actually flap those wings, you need stronger pectoral muscles and a keel bone to anchor them, or they'd rip off instantly. Still, the rest of your bones are too bulky. Bird bones are hollow, with ai...
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Why Malaria is Winning (For Now)
Caught malaria? Fast treatment can save your life. Modern drugs kill the parasites attacking your blood, but resistance is growing fast, and without treatment, severe malaria is often deadly. #kurzgesagt #inanutshell #kurzgesagt_inanutshell #learnwithshorts #science #malaria #malariaawareness #malariatreatment Sourc...
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You've caught malaria. Now let's save your life. Malaria is caused by five different parasites and depending on the one you've got, you'll receive the best drugs to kill it. Usually it's a combination of artemisinin which is derived from a common weed and kills the parasites as they snack on your blood cells and a part...
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