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What are Markov chains? And why are they so useful? Veritasium Does a good job of explaining how Google works, which is remarkably sim...

This mechanism shrinks when pulled Veritasium Curious stuff.  Wikipedia has a page about Braess's Paradox .  The video has an ad tha...

How One Company Secretly Poisoned The Planet Veritasium What does one part per trillion look like? Well, how may molecules of water in a...

The Illusion of Truth Veritasium Advertising 101, also, Propaganda 101. If you don't want the peasants to revolt, you need to master...

What Jumping Spiders Teach Us About Color Veritasium The techniques they are using in microbiology these days are out of this world.

We tested the US Military’s secret space weapon Veritasium I first came across the idea of using heavy metal rods dropped from space as...

How To Measure The Tiniest Forces In The Universe Veritasium How low can you go? Lower than I even imagined.

The Snowflake Mystery Veritasium Snowflakes are amazing, even after we now have a theory about they get to be snowflakes.

How Horses Save Humans From Snake Bites Veritasium Some people are terrified by snakes, some people enjoy killing them, others are enth...

The Ridiculous Way We Used To Calculate Pi Veritasium I'm thinking about how calculating a zillion digits of  π  is like the intelle...

The Illusion You Need To See Veritasium You have probably seen this rotating window illusion before, but Derek dives into it (heh heh). He ...

The Bizarre Behavior of Rotating Bodies, Explained Veritasium makes my day, again. When I started working as a carpenter (a half centur...

How Cod Saved the Vikings I almost feel guilty about posting Veritasium videos. Almost every one he produces is great, so great that I c...

The History of Video I thought I had a pretty good grasp of how video evolved. I was wrong. I'm better now. Previous post, a video...