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The Official Veritasium Tabletop Game

Hello everyone!

We couldn’t be more excited to announce Elements of Truth, the game you helped us...

Building a wooden escalator, timelapse - Patreon Exclusive

For our recent video about escalators, writer Darius put together a wooden model of an escalator and attached a motor to make it...

Something Strange Happens When You Trace How Connected We Are - our latest video, ad-free!

The beautiful math behind six degrees of separation.

The simulations are now added below!

To play around with the simulations in the video, you can follow these links: Disease spreadi...

WIP video about Networks - Kindly Requesting Feedback

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We've got an exciting video coming out very soon!

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This liquid explodes when shaken. Our latest video, ad-free!

Discover the explosive story of Alfred Nobel.

Veritasium Tabletop Learning: Sneak Preview

Hope you're having a great hump day!

As some of you have heard, we've been working on a tabletop learning project for the better part of a year, and we're really excited to be in the final ...

Patreon Exclusive: Exposing Why Farmers Can't Legally Replant Their Own Seeds - Extended interviews with experts

In our recent video about Monsanto team Veritasium interviewed several experts to uncover the full story behind the Monsanto con...

WIP video about Alfred Nobel - Kindly Requesting Feedback!

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Why does an escalator handrail move faster than the stairs? Our latest video, ad-free!

The surprising science of escalators.

Many thanks to all of you who contributed to the work in progress for helping us get this over the line. Enjoy!

WIP video about Escalators - Urgently Requesting Feedback!

We've got an exciting video coming out very soon!

We’d love to hear your feedback and suggestions as we wrap up this video all about Escalators (it's still pretty rough around the edges in...

Patreon Exclusive: This is the natural disaster to worry about - Extended interviews with experts

In our recent video about Rubber, team Veritasium interviewed several experts to uncover the full story behind why this material...

Exposing the Monsanto Conspiracy, our latest video ad-free!

This is the history of Monsanto’s herbicides…

This is the natural disaster to worry about - our latest video, ad-free!

The strange natural material that reshaped the world, rubber.

Apologies if you saw this already, this one doesn't have an ad!

WIP video about Monsanto and Herbicides — Kindly Requesting Feedback!

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Would love to hear your feedback and suggestions as we wrap up work on our video about Monsanto (still pretty rough around the edges — especially the 2nd half)

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This is the natural disaster to worry about - our latest video, ad-free!

The strange natural material that reshaped the world, rubber.

Patreon Exclusive: Markov Chains - Footage from the public that didn't make the cut

For our recent video on the topic of Markov Chains we wrote and filmed a segment where people had to guess how many jellybeans were in a jar. This involved producer Casper counting an amount of bea...

Meet us in NYC!

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Would you like to join the Veritasium team and your fellow Patreon members for a night of board gaming in New York?

Over six months, we have quietly been working on a scien...

WIP video about Rubber — Kindly Requesting Feedback!

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Thank you so much for your time and help.

-Team Ve

This Battery Was Almost Too Dangerous to Exist - our latest video, ad-free!

For decades, a high-energy rechargeable battery seemed impossible - until we managed to tame one of the most volatile metals.

WIP video about Batteries — Kindly Requesting Feedback!

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The Strange Math That Predicts (Almost) Anything - Markov Chains. Our latest video, ad-free!

How a feud in Russia led to modern prediction algorithms.

WIP video about Markov Chains — Kindly Requesting Feedback!

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Patreon Exclusive: This mechanism shrinks when pulled - BTS at AMOLF playing with more metamaterial toys

In our recent video about Braess's Paradox, Veritasium producer Gregor visited the AMOLF research institute to look at metamaterials designed to exhibit counter intuitive behaviour, such as an obje...

Patreon Exclusive: The Obviously True Theorem No One Can Prove - Steven Strogatz Extended Interview

In our recent video about Goldbach's Conjecture, Veritasium producer Casper spoke with Steven Strogatz, Professor of Mathematics at Cornell University, about the history of the conjecture and the s...

This mechanism shrinks when pulled - our latest video, ad-free!

How an unlikely physics paradox controls these counterintuitive structures - Braess's Paradox.

WIP video about Braess’s Paradox — Kindly Requesting Feedback!

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Patreon Exclusive: The Biggest Misconception in Football - Tom Brady Extended Interview

Derek and Henry meet 7-time Superbowl winner, Tom Brady, to discuss the physics behind throwing a football.

Watch our video on YouTube for more about why even the GOAT Tom Brady can’t thr...

The Simplest Unsolved Problem in Math - our latest video, ad-free!

This deceptively simple math problem has stumped mathematicians for almost 300 years - Goldbach's Conjecture.

Patreon Exclusive: An assortment of extended interviews about Teflon

In preparation for our video on PFAS chemicals, 'How One Company Secretly Poisoned The Planet', writer/director Gregor interviewed multiple experts in this field.

Here are the extended inte...

WIP video about Goldbach's Conjecture — Kindly Requesting Feedback!

Coming soon: a video about the story behind one of the oldest unsolved problems in mathematics - Goldbach's conjecture.

We’d love to hear your feedback and suggestions as we wrap up this ...