Veritasium - Season 16 / Year 2024
Season 16 / Year 2024
Episodes
Do People Understand the Scale of the Universe?
The Rainiest Place On Earth
Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED
The Trillion Dollar Equation
The Oldest Unsolved Problem in Math
How The Most Expensive Swords In The World Are Made
Why is this number everywhere?
Something Strange Happens When You Follow Einstein's Math
These Are The Avalanches To Worry About
What Jumping Spiders Teach Us About Color
Why People Prefer More Pain
The Real Reason Robots Shouldn't Look Like Humans
These Illusions Fool Almost Everyone
Why Democracy Is Mathematically Impossible
What Everyone Gets Wrong About Planes
Exposing The Flaw In Our Phone System
How do QR codes work? (I built one myself to find out)
Seeing Inside a Thermite Reaction
We Might Find Alien Life In 2333 Days
This Single Rule Underpins All of Physics
On These Questions, Smarter People Do Worse
The Quest To Make Unbreakable Glass
What Actually Happened To Amelia Earhart?
You're Probably Wrong About Rainbows
12,419 Days Of Strandbeest Evolution
This Musical Instrument Took Eons To Make
The Man Who Went From Doing Drugs To Saving Millions
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