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?
The number 37 is on your mind more than you think.

Something Strange Happens When You Follow Einstein's Math

These Are The Avalanches To Worry About
The Terrifying Real Science Of Avalanches
Causing An Avalanche To Explain How They Work
Avalanches are beautiful, majestic, and completely terrifying – this is a video all about the science of avalanches.

What Jumping Spiders Teach Us About Color
How jumping spiders reveal an entire secret world of colors.

Why People Prefer More Pain

The Real Reason Robots Shouldn't Look Like Humans

These Illusions Fool Almost Everyone
Audio illusions show us that hearing is about more than just sensing frequency. Which ones trick you every time?

Why Democracy Is Mathematically Impossible

What Everyone Gets Wrong About Planes

Exposing The Flaw In Our Phone System
Can you trust your phone?

How do QR codes work? (I built one myself to find out)
I built a QR code with my bare hands to see how it works
How do QR codes work? The checkerboard patterns taking over the world, demystified.

Seeing Inside a Thermite Reaction
People said this experiment was impossible, so I tried it - Thermite Part 1
The world's first look inside a thermite reaction.

We Might Find Alien Life In 2333 Days

This Single Rule Underpins All of Physics
The Closest We've Come to a Theory of Everything
The single principle that underpins all of physics.

On These Questions, Smarter People Do Worse

The Quest To Make Unbreakable Glass

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
You probably don't understand how a rainbow really works.

12,419 Days Of Strandbeest Evolution

This Musical Instrument Took Eons To Make
Playing The World's Oldest, Weirdest Instrument
This musical instrument is 400,000+ years old and still growing.

The Man Who Went From Doing Drugs To Saving Millions
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