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Why Do We Get Bored?

Vsauce | April 15, 2025

Follow Michael Stevens for daily sauce: http://www.twitter.com/tweetsauce LINKS TO EVERYTHING BELOW: “Cosmological Principle” by Zach McCoy [VIDEO]: http://ow.ly/o2yI6 “Cosmological Principle” by Zach McCoy on iTunes: http://ow.ly/o2Al4 EXTREME HOLE BORING VIDEO: http://ow.ly/o2yH1 Genie documentary: http://ow.ly/o2ymk VICE deprivation documentary: http://ow.ly/o2yjx 10MinutesOfYourLife channel: http://ow.ly/o2yJz take a train across Russia: http://ru-train.appspot.com/en Boredom Proness Scale: […]

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Why Do We Clap?

Vsauce | April 14, 2025

Follow Michael Stevens: http://www.twitter.com/tweetsauce LINKS BELOW! All music by Jake Chudnow: http://www.youtube.com/JakeChudnow Really neat Grand Illusions video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-IYQntl9C0 Grand Illusions (site): http://www.grand-illusions.com/ Loudest clap: http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/records-2000/loudest-clap/ Fastest clap: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z571ByeNbPQ WEsauce: http://www.youtube.com/wesauce My video on ‘the friendzone’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGK2KprU-To Driftless Pony Club (band from concert footage): http://www.driftlessponyclub.com/ Driftless Pony Club (VidCon concert footage): […]

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Our Narrow Slice

Vsauce | April 12, 2025

SOURCES AND MORE INFO BELOW: Jared Diamond’s “The World Until Yesterday”: http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-World-Until-Yesterday-Traditional/dp/0141024488/ music by: youtube.com/jakechudnow Follow Michael Stevens: http://www.twitter.com/tweetsauce more on WEIRD: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2013/05/weird_psychology_social_science_researchers_rely_too_much_on_western_college.html incorrect predictions: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Incorrect_predictions More famous INCORRECT predictions: http://www.rense.com/general81/dw.htm http://web.mit.edu/randy/www/words.html history of miscegenation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miscegenation debunked scientific beliefs: http://listverse.com/2009/01/19/10-debunked-scientific-beliefs-of-the-past/ Hollow Earth: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow_Earth Hollow Concave Earth: http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/koreshan-state-historic-site Concave Earth spying […]

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Cruel Bombs

Vsauce | April 10, 2025

Command And Control book: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Command-Control-Eric-Schlosser/dp/1846141486 FOLLOW MICHAEL STEVENS: http://www.twitter.com/tweetsauce music by http://www.youtube.com/JakeChudnow and http://www.audionetwork.com general info about nuclear weapons and testing: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/05/when-we-tested-nuclear-bombs/100061/ http://www.cddc.vt.edu/host/atomic/nukeffct/enw77b3.html Nevada nuclear test footage: http://www.nv.doe.gov/library/films/testfilms.aspx AMAZING channel with HD restored historical nuclear footage: http://www.youtube.com/user/atomcentral Edgerton detonation photos: http://roamaboutmike.com/2013/02/15/rapatronic-camera-an-atomic-blast-in-3-shots/ Amazing shot of nuclear weapon test. notice it occured […]

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Moving Illusions

Vsauce | April 8, 2025

The newest Mind Blow on Vsauce2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkAIR5p9Ni8 LINKS AND SOURCES BELOW: FOLLOW MICHAEL STEVENS: http://www.twitter.com/tweetsauce music by http://www.youtube.com/Jakechudnow and http://www.audionetwork.com brusspup anamorphic illusions: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBNHPk-Lnkk ANOMALOUS MOTION by Akiyoshi Kitaoka: http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/index-e.html http://www.psy.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/motion12e.html “Out of Focus” by Akiyoshi Kitaoka: http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/plaidm2.jpg anomalous motion explanations: http://www.cs.unm.edu/~williams/cs591/explanation.html http://mathworld.wolfram.com/OuchiIllusion.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_motion http://www.livescience.com/4950-key-optical-illusions-discovered.html how to make YOUR OWN […]

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Why Is Your BOTTOM in the MIDDLE?

Vsauce | April 7, 2025

Sport Relief and the Sainsbury’s Sport Relief Games: http://goo.gl/UAKUr2 Sport Relief interactive video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG2vTwKyDMM Follow Michael Stevens on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tweetsauce Ruis Martins animation: http://ruimartinsartwork.tumblr.com/post/17299782876/http-www-behance-net-rui-martins http://www.behance.net/gallery/basic-instint/942241 Muybridge images: http://www.buzzfeed.com/angelameiquan/muybridge-photographs-reinvented-as-animated-gifs-70fn Prince Randian clip from “Freaks”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66Pgw_nUlMw Reddit comment thread: http://www.reddit.com/comments/gibxk Persistance hunting YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=826HMLoiE_o etymology: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=bottom&searchmode=none http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=bum http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=sole&searchmode=none http://starling.rinet.ru/cgi-bin/etymology.cgi?single=1&basename=/data/ie/germet&text_number=+++113&root=config http://goo.gl/2j8Brg Cedric […]

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What Does Human Taste Like?

Vsauce | April 6, 2025

Follow Michael Stevens for more: http://www.twitter.com/tweetsauce EXTRA INFO & LINKS BELOW! Guest Star: Elsie the cat. Music by http://www.youtube.com/JakeChudnow and from http://www.audionetwork.com https://www.facebook.com/VsauceGaming FLAVOR NETWORK ARTICLE (the cool food network graphs): http://www.nature.com/srep/2011/111215/srep00196/full/srep00196.html Hygiene hypothesis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene_hypothesis Eating snot: http://www.psmag.com/navigation/health-and-behavior/this-man-wants-you-to-pick-your-nose-and-eat-it-57024/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_mucus http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-04/could-eating-boogers-be-good-you human meat CHART: http://i.imgur.com/1DjGj.jpg Calories in an entire human body’s worth […]

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What’s The Brightest Thing In the Universe?

Vsauce | April 5, 2025

Follow Michael Stevens for neat stuff: http://www.twitter.com/tweetsauce SOURCES BELOW music by http://www.youtube.com/JakeChudnow and http://www.audionetwork.com SixtySymbols video on new black hole theory: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXTGInIbD_Q “How Hot Can it Get?” Vsauce video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fuHzC9aTik “What Will We Miss?” Vsauce video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uiv6tKtoKg Taijitu: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taijitu Yin Yang blackhole art (made by https://twitter.com/guylar ): http://imgur.com/IpD5L4l Roman ‘Yin […]

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DISTORTIONS

Vsauce | April 4, 2025

YouTube FanFest with HP in Mumbai: http://www.youtubefanfest.com/india/ Follow Michael Stevens: https://twitter.com/tweetsauce SOURCES BELOW Guy (editor/production): https://twitter.com/guylar music from: http://www.youtube.com/JakeChudnow and http://www.audionetwork.com Celestia 3D space software: http://sourceforge.net/projects/celestia/ Another great visualization of star locations in 3D space: http://moebio.com/exomap/viewsofthesky/2/ minutephysics video about why it’s dark at night: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxJ4M7tyLRE my video on moving illusions: […]

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Risk.

Vsauce | April 2, 2025

follow: http://www.twitter.com/tweetsauce Sources and more below! are you an uninsured American? Check out: https://www.healthcare.gov Music by http://www.youtube.com/JakeChudnow and http://www.audionetwork.com Mental Floss “micromorts” video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLmBJ4_5eG4 WHO life tables: http://apps.who.int/gho/data/view.main.61780?lang=en K.C. Cole “The Universe and the Teacup”: http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Universe-Teacup-Mathematics-Beauty/dp/0156006561 Abraham Wald: http://youarenotsosmart.com/2013/05/23/survivorship-bias/ http://learn-math.info/historyDetail.htm?id=Wald Soyuz 11: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_11 http://www.spacesafetymagazine.com/2013/04/28/crew-home-misfortunes-soyuz-11/ http://www.qsl.net/up0r/NetEng.htm The atmosphere (chart): http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f9/Atmosphere_layers-en.svg “Poke” […]

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