If you are interested in supporting the channel, you can subscribe to our Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/pursuitofwonder Or shop Pursuit of Wonder merch & book here: https://www.pursuitofwonder.com/store (This video is fictional) When an individual suddenly finds themself with no way home, they record their final moments, reflecting on their life, current […]
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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Video transcripts, audio files, and more on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pursuitofwonder Pursuit of Wonder merch & book: https://www.pursuitofwonder.com/store After stumbling across a YouTube video, a young man suddenly finds himself thinking and seeing differently. In a chain of events, this thought then leads to a sequence of new thoughts and discoveries, which […]
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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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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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 […]
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 […]
