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Math's Fundamental Flaw
30.8M viewsGödel's incompleteness, Turing's halting problem and the limits of mathematics.
The Most Misunderstood Concept in Physics
31.5M viewsEntropy, the arrow of time and why the Sun is a source of low entropy rather than just energy.
How Imaginary Numbers Were Invented
22.7M viewsHow imaginary numbers arose from solving cubic equations in Renaissance Italy.
The Most Underrated Algorithm
10.7M viewsThe history and inner workings of the Fast Fourier Transform, from nuclear test detection to everyday signal processing.
Why No One Has Measured The Speed Of Light
24.3M viewsWhy the one-way speed of light can't be measured, and what that says about relativity.
How Does a Transistor Work?
4.57M viewsHow a transistor works, from semiconductors and doping to the switches inside every chip.
How Special Relativity Makes Magnets Work
3.95M viewsShows how a magnetic force on a moving charge near a current-carrying wire can be understood as an electric force plus special-relativistic length contraction.
27:19Once you understand game theory, you understand the world.
26.8M viewsExplains the iterated prisoner's dilemma and Robert Axelrod's tournaments, and what strategies like tit-for-tat reveal about cooperation.
9:07The Absurdity of Detecting Gravitational Waves
7.85M viewsExplains how LIGO detects gravitational waves by measuring length changes far smaller than a proton.
21:12The Infinite Pattern That Never Repeats
21.9M viewsExplains Penrose tilings, aperiodic order and how quasicrystals were discovered, including Dan Shechtman's Nobel-winning work.
The Simplest Math Problem No One Can Solve - Collatz Conjecture
46.6M viewsThe Collatz conjecture: a simple rule, a famous open problem, and what mathematicians have proved about it.
Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED
57M viewsHow Shuji Nakamura overcame material-science dead ends to make the first bright blue LED.
How Kodak Exposed Nuclear Testing
6.7M viewsHow Kodak discovered radioactive fallout from US nuclear tests by finding fogged film, and what the government did about it.
9:16Quantum Entanglement & Spooky Action at a Distance
4.54M viewsExplains quantum entanglement and Bell's inequality through a hands-on spin-measurement analogy and why local hidden variables are ruled out.
24:57The Man Who Accidentally Killed The Most People In History
43.5M viewsThe story of Thomas Midgley Jr., who introduced leaded petrol and CFCs, and the science of how both harmed health and the ozone layer.
The Ridiculous Engineering Of Jet Engines
16.9M viewsThe engineering of jet engines: compressors, turbines, cooling and materials pushed to extremes.
32:32The Strange Math That Predicts (Almost) Anything
13.1M viewsMarkov chains from the Nekrasov–Markov dispute through card shuffling, Monte Carlo methods and PageRank.
31:12The line that broke mathematicians for 2000 years
18.2M viewsHow attempts to prove Euclid's parallel postulate led to hyperbolic and elliptic geometry.
Why Machines That Bend Are Better
13.3M viewsCompliant mechanisms: how engineers design parts that move by bending instead of using joints.
Does a Falling Slinky Defy Gravity?
2.72M viewsWhy the bottom of a dropped Slinky hangs in the air — information propagation in a spring.
Mars Helicopter (before it went to Mars)
6.19M viewsThe engineering of NASA's Ingenuity helicopter before launch: thin-atmosphere aerodynamics, power and autonomy.
54:08The Biggest Chemical Coverup In History
37.4M viewsDocuments the history of PFAS 'forever chemicals', how they were made and spread, and what is known about their health effects.
The Biggest Misconception About Electricity
28.2M viewsWhere the energy in an electric circuit actually flows — fields around the wires, not electrons in them.
23:34Why Democracy Is Mathematically Impossible
10M viewsVoting systems and Arrow's impossibility theorem: why no ranked voting system satisfies a few fair-sounding conditions.
Khan Academy and the Effectiveness of Science Videos
1.68M viewsDerek Muller summarises his PhD research showing that clear explanatory science videos can reinforce misconceptions, and that addressing misconceptions first works better.
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6:043 Sources of Water on the Moon
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21:3934 Years Of Strandbeest Evolution
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4:00An Astronaut's View of Earth
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4:03Anti-Gravity Wheel Explained
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5:42Anti-Gravity Wheel?
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2:33Atomic Theory
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