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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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What if the Moon was a Disco Ball?

Vsauce | April 1, 2025

DISCO BALL MOON INFORMATION: The large mirror-tiles are 150km squared, and the small ones are 100km squared. They are all 10 km thick with glass (with an IOR of 1.56) There are 3012 mirrored tiles When as near as the ISS, the Earth surface to disco-ball-moon surface distance is 420 […]

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Where Is This Video?

Vsauce | March 31, 2025

VOTE FOR A VSAUCE WEBBY: http://bit.ly/1gI36xA follow http://www.twitter.com/tweetsauce and: https://www.facebook.com/VsauceGaming Thanks to the beautiful Villa Stephanie: http://la-villa-stephanie.com/ music by: http://www.youtube.com/jakechudnow DNA animation video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjPcT1uUZiE view morphing and the Mona Lisa: http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~seitz/vmorph/vmorph.htm Bill Thompson’s “Don’t Mind Digital” at #digiconf14: http://www.thebillblog.com/2014/04/dont-mind-digital-talking-at-digiconf14/ The $12 Million Dollar Shark BOOK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Million-Stuffed-Shark-Contemporary/dp/1845134079 Quirkology BOOK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Quirkology-Curious-Science-Everyday-Lives/dp/0330448110 The […]

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How Many Things Are There?

Vsauce | March 30, 2025

follow: @tweetsauce https://twitter.com/tweetsauce SOURCES BELOW music by http://www.youtube.com/JakeChudnow and from http://www.audionetwork.com/ My instagram: http://instagram.com/electricpants Big thanks to https://www.youtube.com/user/Vihart and https://www.youtube.com/user/minutephysics for help with this journey. Human biomass volume: http://eesmyal.com/2012/02/human-cube/ spit facts: http://www.livescience.com/32208-how-much-spit-does-a-person-produce.html LEGOs: http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2013/10/23/lego-movie-peek-will-ferrell/2918385/ sand calculation: http://www.hawaii.edu/suremath/jsand.html sun in different wavelengths gif: http://imgur.com/gallery/H4IhGCg Sun image: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/news/light-wavelengths.html totally neat minutephysics video […]

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Why Don’t We All Have Cancer?

Vsauce | March 29, 2025

Thanks to Cancer Research UK! http://www.cancerresearchuk.org Links to LEARN MORE and SOURCES are below. follow me: http://www.twitter.com/tweetsauce What is cancer? http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/cancer-info/cancerandresearch/all-about-cancer/what-is-cancer/ http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/cancer-info/cancerstats/keyfacts/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallmarks_of_cancer Visualizing the prevention of cancer: http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/cancer-info/cancerstats/causes/attributable-risk/visualisation/ 10 cancer MYTHS debunked: http://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2014/03/24/dont-believe-the-hype-10-persistent-cancer-myths-debunked/ other cancer articles: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2014/02/deadliest_cancer_chart_shows_mortality_and_incidence_rates.html http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/05/sunday-review/why-everyone-seems-to-have-cancer.html?=ref=opinion&_r=6& http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/takeonestep/cancer/interviews-demetri.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-couzens/cancer-an-inevitable-stag_b_4558325.html http://www.wired.com/2013/05/al_argcancer/ http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/may/06/nuclear-power-leukaemia Stirling Engine: http://www.grand-illusions.com/acatalog/Low-Temperature-Stirling-Engine-612.html Stirling Engine: VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCGTNArwJ0s […]

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