Veritasium

  • : 2010
  • : 398
  • : 1
  • YouTube
  • Documentary Talk show

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2022
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Future Computers Will Be Radically Different
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01, 2022
Original Title: We're Building Computers Wrong (for artificial intelligence) Digital computers have served us well for decades, but the rise of artificial intelligence demands a totally new kind of computer: analog.
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How Horses Save Humans From Snake Bites
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22, 2022
Alternate Title: "Milking The World's Most Venomous Snake" To make antivenom, you first need to collect venom from the world’s most deadly snakes.
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The Man Who Accidentally Killed The Most People In History
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22, 2022
One scientist caused two environmental disasters and the deaths of millions.
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How Electricity Actually Works
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29, 2022
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Why It Was So Hard To Take This Picture (Very Long Baseline Interferometry)
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12, 2022
Original Title: A Picture of the Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole This is an image of the supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*, at the center of our Milky Way galaxy.
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The Absurd Search For Dark Matter
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02, 2022
Astronomers think there should be 5 times as much dark matter as ordinary matter – a shadow universe that makes up most of the mass in the universe. But after decades of trying, no experiments have found any trace of dark matter – except one.
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The Riddle That Seems Impossible Even If You Know The Answer
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30, 2022
The 100 Prisoners Riddle feels completely impossible even once you know the answer.
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The Man Who Killed Millions and Saved Billions
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22, 2022
Fritz Haber is the scientist who arguably most transformed the world.
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The 4 things you need to be an expert
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02, 2022
Which experts have real expertise?
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World's Highest Jumping Robot
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31, 2022
This tiny robot can jump higher than anything else in the world.
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How Dangerous is a Penny Dropped From a Skyscraper?
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01, 2022
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The Remarkable Story Behind The Most Important Algorithm Of All Time
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03, 2022
The Fast Fourier Transform is used everywhere but it has a fascinating origin story that could have ended the nuclear arms race.
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What If A Star Explodes Near The Earth?
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15, 2022
People have witnessed supernovae for millennia, but what threat do they pose to life on Earth?
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The world depends on a collection of strange items. They're not cheap
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19, 2022
The US Government Sells Human Poop This government warehouse keeps our entire society up to standard.
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Inside The Navy's Indoor Ocean
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01, 2022
The US Navy has an indoor ocean that can simulate any wave in the world.
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How To Measure The Tiniest Forces In The Universe
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12, 2022
This lab measures the tiniest forces in the universe.
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I tested the US Military’s secret space weapon
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21, 2022
An engineer came up with a plan to drop tungsten telephone poles from space - the idea has been seriously considered on multiple occasions, so we tested it.
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3 Ways Of Seeing Invisible Air Flow
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24, 2022
In this lab, they use different flow visualization techniques to help detect contraband, residues, and develop trace particle detection methods. Alternative Title: This fake dog nose makes chemical sensors 18x better

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