Veritasium

The Tiny Donut That Proved We Still Don't Understand Magnetism

What Happens If You Keep Slowing Down?

The Ridiculous Engineering Of The World's Most Important Machine

This podcast delves into the intricate world of microchip manufacturing, focusing on the crucial role of Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) lithography. It explains how transistors work and how their size impacts computing speed, leading to the discussion of Moore's Law and its stagnation around 2015. The podcast introduces ASM...

The Future of Veritasium

There Is Something Faster Than Light

The Man Who Accidentally Discovered Antimatter

You've (Likely) Been Playing The Game of Life Wrong

What happens if you throw sand into a jet engine?

Why People Are So Confident When They're Wrong

The Most Controversial Idea in Biology

Something Strange Happens When You Trace How Connected We Are

World's Most Explosive Liquid

The Most Dangerous Escalator in Rome

Exposing Why Farmers Can't Legally Replant Their Own Seeds

This is the natural disaster to worry about

The Perfect Battery Material Is Dangerous

Lithium-ion batteries transformed modern technology by enabling high energy density in portable devices, yet their development was a decades-long journey of trial and error. Initially conceived by Stanley Whittingham during the 1970s energy crisis, the technology matured through John B. Goodenough’s cathode innovations...

The Strange Math That Predicts (Almost) Anything

Markov Chains provide a powerful mathematical framework for modeling dependent events by focusing on current states rather than entire histories. This concept emerged from a 1905 intellectual feud between Pavel Nekrasov, who erroneously linked probability to free will, and Andrei Markov, who used Russian poetry to prov...

This mechanism shrinks when pulled

The Obviously True Theorem No One Can Prove

The Biggest Misconception in Football (ft. Tom Brady)