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Simply put: cool physics and other sweet science. "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." ~Rutherford via Einstein? (wikiquote) Created by Henry Reich
The rocket & string paradox
A better way to picture atoms
How much wind should a windmill mill?
Why do boats make this pattern?
The physics of windmill design
General relativity explained in 7 levels of difficulty
The case for less sensitive covid tests
Why masks work better than you'd think
The astounding physics of n95 masks
How to tell if we're beating covid-19
How to tell matter from antimatter | cp violation & the ozma problem
Hacking the periodic table
Why do mirrors flip left & right (but not up & down)?
Do photons cast shadows?
The man who corrected einstein
When it's ok to violate privacy
Protecting privacy with math (collab with the census)
How to build a lava moat (with xkcd)
Why some days aren’t 24 hours
Einstein's biggest blunder, explained
The portal paradox
Our ignorance about gravity
How shor's algorithm factors 314191
How quantum computers break encryption | shor's algorithm explained
Why do compressed air cans get cold?
How isps violate the laws of mathematics
Shells of cosmic time (ft. @astrokatie)
How to make muons
Hardy's paradox | quantum double double slit experiment
Impossible muons
How to stop structures from shaking: lego saturn v tuned mass damper
The twins paradox hands-on explanation | special relativity ch. 8
The physics of caramel: how to make a caramelized sugar cube
Feynman's lost lecture (ft. 3blue1brown)
Spacetime intervals: not everything is relative | special relativity ch. 7
Extraterrestrial cycloids - why are they on europa?
Relativistic addition of velocity | special relativity ch. 6
Length contraction and time dilation | special relativity ch. 5
Relativity of simultaneity | special relativity ch. 4
Lorentz transformations | special relativity ch. 3
The brown dwarf debate
New show! | the science of seeing
Spacetime diagrams | special relativity ch. 2
Why is relativity hard? | special relativity chapter 1
How we know black holes exist
The unreasonable efficiency of black holes
The black hole tipping point
Are university admissions biased? | simpson's paradox part 2
Time travel in fiction rundown
Simpson's paradox
How to build a teleporter with aliens
Solar panels made with a particle accelerator?!
Bell's theorem: the quantum venn diagram paradox
Myths and facts about superintelligent ai
Misconceptions footnote †: randomness and feedback
Correlation can imply causation! | statistics misconceptions
Black holes, neutron stars, and white dwarfs (collab. w/ minuteearth)
Will batteries power the world? | the limits of lithium-ion
What is the shape of space? (ft. phd comics)
Why it's hard to land on mars
The mountain or valley? illusion
Quantum shape-shifting: neutrino oscillations
Footnote †: double pendulums are crazy
Footnote †: unstable equilibrium
Ring around the earth?
How do we know the universe is accelerating?
Can we survive curiosity?
Should you walk or run when it's cold?
How to teleport schrödinger's cat
The no cloning theorem
How perspective shapes reality
What is the purpose of life? (big picture ep. 5/5)
How entropy powers the earth (big picture ep. 4/5)
Where does complexity come from? (big picture ep. 3/5)
Do cause and effect really exist? (big picture ep. 2/5)
Why doesn't time flow backwards? (big picture ep. 1/5)
Complete solution to the twins paradox
The twins paradox primer (rotating time!)
How long is a day on the sun?
Hitting the sun is hard
Gravitational waves explained using stick figures
Where do galaxies come from?
Minutephysics behind the scenes – teleportation
How long to fall through the earth?
Solution to the grandfather paradox
Why are airplane engines so big?
Why you should care about nukes
Aliens: are we looking in the wrong place?
Transporters and quantum teleportation
The limb of the sun
How do we know what air is like on other planets?
Concrete does not dry out
How to discover weird new particles | emergent quantum quasiparticles
Why december has the longest days
The physics of car crashes
Why isn't it faster to fly west?
How to go to space (with xkcd!)
Why do we put telescopes in space?
Why it's impossible to tune a piano
A brief history of everything, feat. neil degrasse tyson
The counterintuitive physics of turning a bike
How do bikes stay up?
How to detect a secret nuclear test
Upside down mountains in real life
Why raindrops are mathematically impossible
How to subtract by adding
How big is the sun?
How do airplanes fly?
Computer color is broken
What is angular momentum?
Astronomically correct twinkle twinkle
A simple proof of conservation of energy
How airplanes are made
Why is it harder to drive backwards?
Solution to the impossible bet
An impossible bet
Why isn't the sky purple?
This is not a rainbow
Why is the sun yellow and the sky blue?
Antimatter explained
How to draw a stick figure (school of youtube)
Why are stars star-shaped?
How long can you balance a pencil?
How to find an exoplanet
How far can legolas see?
Pot theft (a radiolab adventure)
Is the universe entirely mathematical? feat. max tegmark
A youtube phishing attack you need to watch out for
How to see without glasses
When insanity becomes normal - venezuela
Relativity isn't relative
A polarizing discovery about the big bang!
How modern light bulbs work
Evolution vs natural selection
Why is the solar system flat?
Why the full moon is better in winter
One-way mirrors explained in ten seconds
Radar explained in ten seconds
What is sea level?
The dark side of the moon explained in ten seconds
Poll (and physics explained in ten seconds explained in ten seconds)
Microwaves explained in ten seconds
How many stars there are in the sky, explained in ten seconds
Negative temperature explained in ten seconds
Time dilation illustrated within ten seconds
Fahrenheit, celsius and kelvin explained in ten seconds
The tides explained in ten seconds
Physics explained in ten seconds (announcement)
3 simple ways to time travel (& 3 complicated ones)
Magnetic levitation
How to destroy a magnet (+ interactive periodic table)
Magnets: how do they work?
Where was the big bang?
Science, religion, and the big bang
Do we expand with the universe?
Where is the true north pole?
How to turn sound into light: sonoluminescence
Can humans really feel temperature?
The order of operations is wrong
Confessions of a youtuber
Foiled proof
New show: minuteearth!
Parallel universes: many worlds
The true science of parallel universes
Youtube video vs. the universe
How big is the universe?
What is the universe?
The best science online (henry's list)
Immovable object vs. unstoppable force - which wins?
Another physics misconception
Top 10 reasons why we know the earth is round
Is it better to walk or run in the rain?
Is there poop on the moon? ft. smarter every day
Common physics misconceptions
Does the universe have a purpose? feat. neil degrasse tyson
What is touch?
Open letter to the president: physics education
Vote!
Can we predict everything?
E=mc² is incomplete
The origin of quantum mechanics (feat. neil turok)
2012 nobel prize: how do we see light?
Real world telekinesis (feat. neil turok)
Why is it dark at night?
Is racewalking a sport?
How to simulate the universe on your laptop
What if the earth were hollow?
Usain bolt vs. gravity
London bridge was sold to the us!?
The most burly hurls
Higgs boson part iii: how to discover a particle
To london, to london
The higgs boson, part ii: what is mass?
The higgs boson, part i
Open letter to the universe
Picture of the big bang (a.k.a. oldest light in the universe)
Tour of the map of the big bang
Proof without words: the circle
Every force in nature (theory of everything, part iii)
Speed of light thank you!
How to count infinity
Why the solar system can exist
Ye olde debunking
There is no fourth dimension
How far is a second?
Einstein's proof of e=mc²
Ten-second physics #1
Einstein and the special theory of relativity
Albert einstein: the size and existence of atoms
Albert einstein: why light is quantum
What are years... and the galactic supermassive black hole!
Theory of everything: what is matter?
Vomitphysics! physics of fiction
Football, physics, and symmetry
Round triangles!
Smbc physics: why are stones round? feat. zach weiner
The tides
Faster than light neutrinos (maybe): field trip!
What is a neutrino?
The tacoma narrows fallacy
How lasers work (in theory)
The hairy ball theorem
Weigh a million dollars with your mind
The arrow of time feat. sean carroll
Gps, relativity, and nuclear detection
How to break the speed of light
The speed of light in glass
There is no pink light
2011 nobel prize: dark energy feat. sean carroll
Schrödinger's cat
Taming infinity
What is fire?
Distance and special relativity: how far away is tomorrow?
What is a dimension? in 3d...and 2d... and 1d
Tutorial: creating the sound of hydrogen
Adding past infinity (warning: math ahead)
What is quantum tunneling?
The sound of hydrogen
What is the uncertainty principle?
How the sun works: fusion and quantum tunneling
The wave/particle duality - part 2
What is the wave/particle duality? part 1
Minute physics: what is dark matter?
Minute physics: what is gravity?
