Summaries of Veritasium Videos 📚

Exposing The Flaw In Our Phone System

What Are Mathematics' Inherent Limitations and Flaws?

4 Revolutionary Riddles

The Science of Jetpacks and Rockets!

34 Years Of Strandbeest Evolution

Is America Actually Metric?

What Is Bayes' Theorem and How Can It Help You?

Is This What Quantum Mechanics Looks Like?

The Perfect Battery Material Is Dangerous

Why Do Shaken Soda, Melting Ice, and a Ring on a Chain Behave So Strangely? 3 Physics Problems Explained

Turbulent Flow is MORE Awesome Than Laminar Flow

What Is Longyearbyen, the Northernmost Town on Earth?

Physics Nobel Prize 2011 - Brian Schmidt

The Real Story of Oppenheimer

Can You Keep Zooming In Infinitely?

What Are Penrose Patterns and Their Significance?

The Most Important Material Ever Made

What Is the Axiom of Choice in Math?

Should Airships Make a Comeback?

What Is the Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics?

This is the natural disaster to worry about

What Does Game Theory Teach Us About Cooperation?

How Imaginary Numbers Were Invented

What Is the Most Controversial Idea in Evolution?

We Might Find Alien Life In 1847 Days

What Are the Missing Baryons in the Universe?

How Vast Is the Universe and Do We Understand Its Scale?

What Is the Ames Window Illusion and How Does It Work?

Why the Future of Cars is Electric

What Is the Science Behind Fireworks and How Are They Made?

How to Slow Aging (and even reverse it)

How Special Relativity Makes Magnets Work

What Are the Risks of Autonomous Weapons in Warfare?

I Asked Bill Gates What's The Next Crisis?

How Does a Spinning Flywheel Defy Gravity?

What Are Rods from God and Why Are They Impractical?

Engineering with Origami

How to Overcome Learned Helplessness in Life

What Is Quantum Entanglement and Its Implications?

The Terrifying Real Science Of Avalanches

How Close We've Come to Nuclear War

Where Does The Sun Get Its Energy?

How a Shark Attack Survivor Invented Cage Diving

Where Do Trees Get Their Mass From?

What Are the Effects of a Supernova Near Earth?

Misconceptions About Heat

Why Is MIT Making Robot Insects?

Why Does Time Seem to Speed Up as We Age?

How PFAS Chemicals Contaminate Our Planet

How We’re Fooled By Statistics

How Japanese Masters Turn Sand Into Swords

How a Single Hack Nearly Crippled the Internet

What Challenges Did Shūji Nakamura Overcome to Create the Blue LED?

How Does a Quantum Computer Work?

Why Isn't Energy Conserved in Expanding Universe?

What Is the Oldest Unsolved Problem in Math?

Why Trees Are Taller Than They Need To Be

Make Plasma With Grapes In The Microwave!

What Is Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle and Its Impact?

Why Do Viral Videos Succeed on YouTube?

What Are the Two Systems of Thinking in Our Brains?

Why Is Boredom Important for Our Well-being?

Inside the Svalbard Seed Vault

The Science of Six Degrees of Separation

How Do Trees Defy Gravity to Transport Water?

Why The Universe Expands Faster Than Light

Does Water Swirl the Other Way in the Southern Hemisphere?

How Did Leaded Gasoline Impact Public Health?

What Is the Aharonov-Bohm Effect?

These are the asteroids to worry about

Why Do Venomous Animals Live In Warm Climates?

Why No One Has Measured The Speed Of Light

How Is Funnel-Web Spider Venom Used to Create Anti-Venom?

Fire in ZERO-G!!

How To Measure The Tiniest Forces In The Universe

How Does Advanced Visualization Improve Air Flow Detection?

Why Does Metal Feel Colder Than Wood If They're Same Temp?

World's Roundest Object!

Why Do Metals Weld Together in Space Without Heat?

How Does a Spinning Sphere of Molten Sodium Model Earth's Magnetic Field?

Best Film on Newton's Third Law. Ever.

What Is Counter-Snapping and How Does It Work?

What Actually Happened To Amelia Earhart?

What Is the Logistic Map and Its Impact on Nature?

What Was the SAT Question Everyone Answered Wrong?

The Absurdity of Detecting Gravitational Waves

I Took an IQ Test to Find Out What it Actually Measures

What Are the Risks of Over-Hyping Science Discoveries?

Why Is Clickbait So Effective on YouTube?

How to Hold Your Breath Longer: Techniques Revealed

Can the Blackbird Car Really Go Faster Than the Wind?

World's Longest Straw: How Long Can a Straw Actually Be?

How Does the Principle of Least Action Work?

Why Is GPS Disrupted Over Europe?

Why Was the Celsius Temperature Scale Upside Down?

How Does Microwaving Grapes Create Plasma?

People said this experiment was impossible, so I tried it - Thermite Part 1

What They (Probably) Don't Teach You About Rainbows At School

Schlieren Imaging in Color!

Uranium: Twisting the Dragon's Tail

How Markov Chains Predict Events and Trends

Drinking in ZERO-G! (and other challenges of a trip to Mars)

How AlphaFold Revolutionizes Protein Structure Prediction

Why Were Early Computers Made From Light Bulbs?

Why Future Robots Won't Look Like Humans

How to Color Plastic Using Only Holes

Transit of Venus! Sydney 2012 Contacts, Contracts and Parallax

What Is the Trillion Dollar Equation in Finance?

Epic Slow-Mo Drum Implosions!

What Percentage of Household Dust Is Dead Skin?

How Does a 33-Year E. coli Experiment Show Evolution?

Are You Lightest In The Morning?

Is Glass a Liquid?

Should This Lake Exist?

Can you really reach anyone in 6 steps?

Is Success More About Luck or Hard Work?

What Is Gravity If It’s Not a Force?

What Impact Did Fritz Haber Have on Agriculture and Warfare?

Do Salt Lamps Really Produce Negative Ions?

How Does Electromagnetic Levitation Work in Quadcopters?

What Did Euclid's Fifth Postulate Reveal About Geometry?

The 4 things it takes to be an expert

What Is the Illusion of Truth and How Does It Work?

What Happens If You Keep Slowing Down?

Mathematicians Use Numbers Differently From The Rest of Us

How Is Nitinol Revolutionizing NASA's Space Tires?

These Pools Help Support Half The People On Earth

Can Silence Actually Drive You Crazy?

Imploding Drum

The Biggest Misconception in Football (ft. Tom Brady)

How to Make Liquid Nitrogen at Home

What Are the Common Myths About Climate Change?

NEW Gravitational Wave Discovery!

What Is the Difference Between Mass and Weight?

Is Our Food Losing Nutritional Value Over Time?

What Is the History of the Fahrenheit Temperature Scale?

What Everyone Gets Wrong About Planes

What Is Audio Video Sync and Why Is It Important?

Why Are People Overconfident Despite Being Wrong?

How To See Air Currents

What Are Micromouse Competitions and How Do They Work?

What Does Thomas Young's Double Slit Experiment Prove About Light?

The Man Who Accidentally Discovered Antimatter

How Was Video Technology Invented and Developed?

The Surprising Genius of Sewing Machines

Why You Should Want Driverless Cars On Roads Now

How to Solve Google's Blender Interview Question

What Is the Energy Content of Empty Space?

Why Do Some People Attract More Mosquitoes Than Others?

Five Firsts for Mars InSight

How Does Electromagnetic Induction Create Levitation?

How a Student's Question Saved This NYC Skyscraper

What Is Entropy and How Does It Affect Time?

How Do Different Types of Night Vision Goggles Work?

The Man Who Fooled The World

What Is the Real Mechanism of Electricity Transmission?

What Are the Molecular Machines in Your Body?

Why Does Access to Facts Increase Fake News and Polarization?

What Are the Moral Dilemmas of Self-Driving Cars?

Asbestos is a bigger problem than we thought

How Does EUV Lithography Work in Chip Making?

Why Can't Farmers Replant Their Own Seeds?

How Can Aerogel Make You Waterproof?

How Has Technology Changed Bowling Techniques?

Future Computers Will Be Radically Different (Analog Computing)

Musical Fire Table!

How Did Scientists Predict a Supernova in SP1149?

I built a QR code with my bare hands to see how it works

How Do Non-Newtonian Fluids React to Frequency Changes?

What Is Dark Matter and Why Is It Hard to Detect?

How Did Misplaced Satellites Test General Relativity?

How Do Jet Engines Survive Extreme Heat?

What Are the Most Radioactive Places on Earth?

Khan Academy and the Effectiveness of Science Videos

Single Photon Interference

Does Planet 9 Really Exist in Our Solar System?

How Did Derek from Veritasium Transition from Engineer to Filmmaker?

What Is the Sleeping Beauty Problem in Philosophy?

Why Are Snowflakes Unique in Their Shapes?

This Is the Oldest, Weirdest Instrument On Earth

Is Democracy Mathematically Possible?

How Does Line-X Coating Make Objects Indestructible?

What Is the Collatz Conjecture and Why Is It So Unsolved?

Why Do People Frequently Choose the Number 37?

How Does Electricity Flow in a Circuit?

What Is the Largest Rainfall Simulator in the World?

What Now For The Higgs Boson?

On These Math Problems, Smarter People Do Worse

Why Scorpions Glow in the Dark

These Illusions Fool Almost Everyone

The Obviously True Theorem No One Can Prove

Why People Prefer More Pain

Getting Buried In Concrete To Explain How It Works

Do Learning Styles Really Improve Education Outcomes?

Why Super Glue Is Perfect For Gluing Skin

What Is the Most Common Cognitive Bias and How to Avoid It?

Why Does a Spinning Wheel Feel Lighter When Lifted?

Sandwich Bag Fire Starter

How Did Isaac Newton Revolutionize Pi Calculation?

How Does Quantum Mechanics Influence Particle Paths?

How to Launch a Nuclear Missile Safely and Quickly

How Does the Hilbert Hotel Illustrate Different Sizes of Infinity?

What Jumping Spiders Teach Us About Color

What Can We See in Ultraviolet Light?

The Genius of 3D Printed Rockets

Why Don’t Railroads Need Expansion Joints?

What Does the Harvard Study Reveal About Happiness?

What Is the Dzhanibekov Effect and How Does It Work?

Why Did Scientists Believe Nuclear Energy Was Impossible?

What Are Compliant Mechanisms and Why Are They Better?

Neutron Star Merger Gravitational Waves and Gamma Rays

Why Do Escalator Steps Have Teeth?

Why Do Anecdotes Often Override Statistical Data?

What Is Poisson's Spot and Where Is It Found?

The Future of Veritasium

What it’s like to watch a Total Solar Eclipse

This is why we can't have nice things

Chaos: The Science of the Butterfly Effect

What Is Snatoms and How Does It Teach Chemistry?

What Is the World's Strongest Magnet and Its Uses?

Can You Go the Speed of Light?

This Particle Breaks Time Symmetry

What Are Power Laws and Their Impact?

Would You Take This Bet?

Do Cell Phones Increase Brain Cancer Risk?

The Universe is Hostile to Computers

Why Do Two Wood Blocks Shot Differently Reach the Same Height?

World's First Car!

What Is the Non-Sticky Gecko-Inspired Adhesive?

How LSD Led to the Discovery of PCR

What Are Shade Balls and Why Are They Used in Reservoirs?

What Is the Fast Fourier Transform and Its Importance?

What Myths Have Failed to Revolutionise Education?

Can a Penny Dropped From a Skyscraper Kill You?

How Kodak Exposed Nuclear Testing

What Is the Navy's Indoor Ocean and How Is It Used?

I Rented A Helicopter To Settle A Physics Debate

What Is the Balance Between Order and Randomness in the Universe?

What Is Synchronization and Why Is It Important?