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Why Are We Morbidly Curious?

Vsauce | March 24, 2025

My twitter: http://www.twitter.com/tweetsauce My Instagram: http://instagram.com/electricpants THE SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES book: http://www.amazon.com/Smoke-Gets-Your-Eyes-Crematory/dp/0393240231 Everyone Loves A Good Train Wreck book: http://www.amazon.com/Everyone-Loves-Good-Train-Wreck/dp/0374533709/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1412758187&sr=1-3&keywords=eric+g+wilson Google Glass + Vsauce PARODY: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymebYkl2lA0 V1 and V2 and V3 eat gross jelly beans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aat9dhkIS-Y Ask A Mortician: https://www.youtube.com/user/OrderoftheGoodDeath Carney Landis facial expression experiment: http://www.madsciencemuseum.com/msm/pl/facial_expressions_while_decapitating_a_rat “knoll”: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knoll_(verb) […]

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Misnomers

Vsauce | March 23, 2025

NEW LEANBACK: http://goo.gl/fp5ued VISIT Singapore!!! http://www.yoursingapore.com/ TWITTER: http://www.twitter.com/tweetsauce INSTAGRAM: http://www.instagram.com/electricpants There are Two Errors in the the Title of This Book: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1096663.There_Are_Two_Errors_in_the_the_Title_of_This_Book most hated baby names: http://www.babynamewizard.com/archives/2011/4/the-most-hated-baby-names-in-america Apple & Orange etymologies: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=orange http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=apple&allowed_in_frame=0 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_(word) Fruit vs vegetable: http://www.livescience.com/33991-difference-fruits-vegetables.html Stigler’s Law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_examples_of_Stigler’s_law misnomers: http://www.gunther.net.nz/category/words/ http://listverse.com/2014/08/03/10-things-you-didnt-know-were-completely-misnamed/ http://www.paulnoll.com/Books/Clear-English/misnomer-01.html http://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2006/feb/23/features11.g21 http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=WDT19060209.2.4 http://www.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/~pjs1/others/miscon.html name format […]

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Is Cereal Soup?

Vsauce | March 22, 2025

Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/tweetsauce Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/electricpants ***EXTRA INFO AND SOURCES BELOW*** Vsauce2: http://www.youtube.com/Vsauce2 Vsauce3: http://www.youtube.com/Vsauce3 Great video about English spellings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYplM1QCv0Y soup etymology: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/soup reduplication: http://www.slate.com/blogs/lexicon_valley/2014/09/10/ikea_s_bookbook_soy_milk_vs_milk_milk_and_like_liking_contrastive_focus.html http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~krussll/redup-corpus.html https://solongasitswords.wordpress.com/tag/tmesis/ reduplication poem “After the Funeral”: http://www.boulevardmagazine.org/Collins.pdf retronyms: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/07/magazine/07wwln_safire.t.html morse code translator: http://morsecode.scphillips.com/jtranslator.html dog’s bollocks punctuation: http://pittmanlettersproject.com/2013/03/05/the-dogs-bollocks-you-say/ http://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2011/09/frasers-phrases-the-dogs-bollocks/ emoticon history: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticon#History overwhelmed tweet: https://twitter.com/tweetsauce/status/535424574880768000 USA’s […]

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Is All Fair In Love And War?

Vsauce | March 21, 2025

http://www.twitter.com/TWEETSAUCE http://www.instagram.com/electricpants **The song at the end is “Infinite Cities” performed by The Bright Light Social Hour off of the album Space Is Still the Place courtesy of Frenchkiss Records:

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Did The Past Really Happen?

Vsauce | March 20, 2025

Greece is full of wonderful new things and wonderful old things. But when WE become old things, will our ruins also be tourist attractions? **Sources and extra info below!!** me on twitter: http://www.twitter.com/tweetsauce on instagram: http://www.instagram.com/electricpants Humorous/interesting videos about how future archeologists might interpret us: VIDEO: “Beatles 3000”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z2vU8M6CYI VIDEO: […]

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Human Extinction

Vsauce | March 19, 2025

Some ideas about our end. Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/tweetsauce Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/electricpants MORE LINKS BELOW! related Vsauce videos: What Will We Miss? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uiv6tKtoKg Cruel Bombs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHZAaGidUbg Risk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-CK8VxMz9g Will We Ever Visit Other Stars? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD08CuUi_Ek last words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qig68IuPrbk Ebola genome: http://www.cs.bc.edu/~alvarez/CS127/HW/HW5/ebolaVirusDNA 3D bioprinters: https://medium.com/backchannel/where-s-my-bioprinted-kidney-already-25d8c2a5d676 http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-10/16/andrew-hessel-autodesk Human Extinction: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/03/were-underestimating-the-risk-of-human-extinction/253821/ http://bigthink.com/dangerous-ideas/5-stephen-hawkings-warning-abandon-earth-or-face-extinction http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_extinction http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_catastrophic_risk Global […]

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The Science of Awkwardness

Vsauce | March 18, 2025

awkward……… Sources and extra links below! me on twitter: http://www.twitter.com/tweetsauce me on instagram: http://www.instagram.com/electricpants music by http://www.youtube.com/JakeChudnow Embarrassment and prosociality: http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~keltner/publications/FeinbergWillerKeltner2012.pdf Empathetic Embarrassment: http://www.npr.org/2014/07/19/332760081/the-opposite-of-schadenfreude-vicarious-embarrassment http://healthland.time.com/2011/05/05/why-your-embarassment-causes-me-so-much-pain/ Cringe subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/cringe awkward hug gifs: http://giphy.com/search/awkward-hug Embarrassment: http://www.apa.org/monitor/2012/11/embarrassment.aspx The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: http://www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows (on YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/user/obscuresorrows “Why Are […]

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Vsauce | March 16, 2025

Watch my FIELD DAY video, “Home Sweet Whittier”: http://bit.ly/1QKKcuo Support Vsauce, your brain, Alzheimer’s research, and other YouTube educators by joining THE CURIOSITY BOX: a seasonal delivery of viral science toys made by Vsauce! A portion of all proceeds goes to Alzheimer’s research and our Inquisitive Fellowship, a program that gives […]

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The Moon Terminator Illusion

Vsauce | March 15, 2025

http://www.twitter.com/tweetsauce http://instagram.com/electricpants Sources and sites to learn more below!!! dolly zoom effect: http://filmmakeriq.com/lessons/introduction-to-the-dolly-zoom/ visual angle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angular_diameter https://xkcd.com/1276/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_angle http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/A/Angular+Diameter great visual angle / angular diameter chart: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f8/Comparison_angular_diameter_solar_system.svg moon terminator illusion resources: rogers and olga naumenko (2014): http://www.perceptionweb.com/abstract.cgi?id=v1410275 moon tile illusion [PDF]: http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~amyers/MoonPaper20June.pdf http://www.upenn.edu/emeritus/essays/MyersMoon.html http://www.astropix.com/HTML/L_STORY/MOONILL.HTM http://cosmoquest.org/forum/showthread.php?39035-Why-does-the-moon-s-terminator-not-appear-orthogonal-to-the-direction-of-the-sun the (more famous) moon illusion: […]

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