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Rainbow Science! … AND Why Headphones Get So Tangled.

Vsauce | August 20, 2025

LINKS: Optic Science of Rainbows: http://www.atoptics.co.uk/bows.htm Wiki article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow Flying through rainbow (first video): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yU-K-dpflgo Flying through rainbow (second video): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNBHm8W90lU Petrichor (the smell of rain): http://www.wordsmith.org/words/petrichor.html Why do wires knot so easily? http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/content/latest-questions/question/1824/ Scientific paper on random knotting of an agitated string: http://www.pnas.org/content/104/42/16432.full Also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrichor Music courtuesy of Jake […]

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How Hot Can It Get?

Vsauce | May 4, 2025

TEMPERATURES! Links to everything: http://www.twitter.com/tweetsauce http://www.facebook.com/VsauceGaming Thanks to http://www.youtube.com/minutephysics and http://www.youtube.com/user/phdcomics for their guidance on this video! All music (except for the classical in the beginning) by Jake Chudnow: http://www.soundcloud.com/JakeChudnow Human body temperature: http://antranik.org/regulation-of-body-temperature/ GreenPowerScience: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svAPyyUJUCo wbeaty’s videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/wbeaty/videos?view=0 sun and pinhead fact is from this book: http://www.amazon.com/The-Universe-Teacup-Mathematics-Beauty/dp/0151003238 PLASMA IN […]

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How Much Does a Shadow Weigh?

Vsauce | May 3, 2025

Veritasium SLINKY video: http://bit.ly/SGD73o Veritasium channel… SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/RoMMH7 A great Veritasium episode about using video to teach: http://bit.ly/VOsZVx Vsauce2 LEANBACK about shadows: http://bit.ly/VOt8rP Vsauce3 explains how realistic SimCity is… SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/PMThlp ALL MUSIC BY: http://www.soundcloud.com/JakeChudnow Jake’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/jakechudnow Vsauce on Twitter (lots of extra mindblows): http://www.Twitter.com/TweetSauce Vsauce on Facebook […]

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What Can You Do Without a Brain?

Vsauce | May 2, 2025

Vsauce3: http://bit.ly/UE3Q0R BACKYARD BRAIN CHANNEL: Electrical impulses from di-embodied limbs: http://bit.ly/TVtE39 BackyardBrains INSANE squid axon reactions to music: http://bit.ly/WJLyw3 Frog legs move when salted VIDEO: http://bit.ly/VFGHg6 Music by Jake Chudnow: http://www.youtube.com/jakechudnow Mike the headless chicken: http://www.miketheheadlesschicken.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_the_Headless_Chicken Cockroach’s can live without heads for a while: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=fact-or-fiction-cockroach-can-live-without-head Speed of a sneeze: […]

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The Science of the Friend Zone

Vsauce | April 28, 2025

Subscribe to Vsauce and follow @tweetsauce for knowledge points! MUSIC BY: https://soundcloud.com/jakechudnow Wild Sex episode: http://bit.ly/VNLpGl My episode about how much money love is worth: http://bit.ly/UO91ZJ Can guys and girls just be friends? VIDEO: http://bit.ly/UO8R4H Jenna Marbles on “nice guys” [NSFW language]: http://bit.ly/UOdpIa FRIENDS episode about the Friend’s zone: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0583579/ […]

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Should You Eat Yourself?

Vsauce | April 26, 2025

I answer 5 questions you guys asked over twitter. http://www.twitter.com/tweetsauce Google Science Fair: https://www.googlesciencefair.com VSAUCE2: http://www.youtube.com/Vsauce2 VSAUCE3: http://www.youtube.com/Vsauce3 Music by Jake Chudnow: http://www.youtube.com/JakeChudnow eyebrow man: http://www.ptleader.com/main.asp?SectionID=36&SubSectionID=55&ArticleID=15119 gravity anomalies: http://www.bgs.ac.uk/data/gravAndMag.html ring on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/s4ki4/if_a_giant_ring_was_built_on_mile_high_supports/ notch: https://twitter.com/notch rope around Earth puzzle: http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/R/rope-around-the-Earth_puzzle.html word record for longest hair: http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/longest-hair-(female)/ eye floaters: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floater Wikipedia […]

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How Big Can a Person Get?

Vsauce | April 24, 2025

Click to subscribe to Vsauce: http://bit.ly/POIaN7 Check out Veritasium’s channel: http://bit.ly/YY7KDe LINKS and SOURCES below. Follow me on twitter! http://www.twitter.com/tweetsauce Music by Jake Chudnow http://www.soundcloud.com/jakechudnow http://www.youtube.com/jakechudnow Veritasium video on single photons and frog eyes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cztocbHiiqQ British Pathe Robert Wadlow video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5McWw03Ryrs Earth Unplugged channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/EarthUnpluggedTV AsapScience Moon Illusion video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49RztN4Bqu0 […]

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Why Do We Kiss?

Vsauce | April 23, 2025

The scientific study of kissing is “philematology” Follow Michael Stevens: http://www.twitter.com/tweetsauce Sources and links to learn more: Kissing facts: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/let-their-words-do-the-talking/201212/odd-facts-about-kissing Longest kiss: http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/records-1/longest-kiss/ general info on kissing: http://anthropology.net/2007/03/09/why-do-we-kiss/ http://intro2psych.wordpress.com/2009/05/13/the-evolution-of-a-kiss/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiss birds kissing (“billing”): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beak#Billing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiss kiss researcher interview : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mun5nXXy6II pac man’s shape: http://pacmanmuseum.com/history/Toru-Iwatani.php premastication: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premastication http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courtship_feeding Alicia Silverstone premastication […]

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What is the Shortest Poem?

Vsauce | April 20, 2025

Click to SUBsauce: http://bit.ly/POIaN7 http://www.twitter.com/tweetsauce **sources and bonus links below** music by http://www.youtube.com/JakeChudnow ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ Big Bird song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pr5er4ueWBQ John Denver’s “Ballad of Richard Nixon”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC9U_PvC8Fs SHORTEST CONCERT by White Stripes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vYlHTGsmso Shortest video on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uDgJ9_H0gg other REALLY short videos on YouTube (involves cats): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPEE9ZwTmy0&list=PL1EBE78CC528B52E8 Muhammad Ali “me / we” […]

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Are We Ready For Aliens?

Vsauce | April 19, 2025

FOLLOW MICHAEL STEVENS: http://www.twitter.com/tweetsauce **Big thanks to Antonius from AVbyte for helping with audio! His channel is great: http://www.youtube.com/avbyte ** My video about space travel and the Fermi Paradox and Drake equation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD08CuUi_Ek What to do if you meet an alien: https://twitter.com/tweetsauce/status/355046441888120832 UN Office of Outer Space Affaris: http://www.oosa.unvienna.org/oosa/COPUOS/copuos.html Galileo […]

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