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Why It's Impossible to Throw a Perfect Spiral (ft. Tom Brady) - our latest video, ad-free!

Even the GOAT Tom Brady can’t throw a perfect spiral.

WIP video with Tom Brady — Kindly Requesting Feedback!

Coming soon: a video about the mystery of how an American football flies. It seems like a simple question—but the real answer wasn’t uncovered until just five years ago. We’d love to hear your feedback and suggestions as we wrap up this video.

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How One Company Secretly Poisoned The Planet - our latest video, ad-free!

The history of Teflon and exposing the biggest chemical cover up in history - that has polluted the entire global water system and led to potentially dangerous forever chemicals being found in the entire US population.

Patreon Exclusive: Noether's Theorem Interview With Melissa Franklin

Melissa Franklin, an experimental particle physicist and the Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics at Harvard University, talks about Emmy Noether and the lasting impact she has had in the field of physics.

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How this skyscraper nearly collapsed - our latest video, ad-free!

How did this brand new skyscraper almost fall down? -The Citicorp Center engineering crisis

WIP video about Forever Chemicals — Kindly Requesting Feedback!

Coming soon: a video about the discovery, implementation, and widespread use of some very unique chemicals

We’d love to hear your feedback and suggestions as we wrap up this video.

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Veritasium Newsletter Launch! Early Access for Patreon.

Hi everyone,

Behind the scenes update from the team here, we’re gearing up to launch a weekly newsletter! As part of that, we'll be running an early-access phase where we test a few different formats.

We want you to be part of shaping this with us, so sign up to the early editions and your feedback will change...

WIP - Citicorp Engineering Crisis

We've got a new video coming out next week on the Citicorp Center engineering crisis!

We’d love to hear your feedback and suggestions as we wrap up this video. Some animations and b roll are still in progress.

Is there anything wrong? Any questions we didn't answer? Rough explanations that lack depth or cla...

Ask Us a Question!

We're doing a second round of Q&A, but this time we'll select 4 of our favorite questions on Patreon and have the YouTube community decide which one we answer.

To fit in the community poll, your question will need to be 65 characters or less, so ask us anything snappy!

Just leave a comment on...

The Woman Who Fixed Einstein's Mistake - Our latest video, ad-free!

Why does energy disappear in General Relativity? - Noether's Theorem

Patreon Exclusive: Behind The Scenes Look At Historical Animations From The Axiom Of Choice

For those of you who enjoyed our most recent video The Man Who Almost Broke Math (And Himself...) you will have noticed that it was animation heavy.

So here is some behind the scenes footage, showing how those animations and illustratio...

WIP Video About Noether's Theorem - Urgently Requesting Feedback

We've got an exciting video coming up in the next few days!

A video about Noether's Theorem and its impact on physics.

We’d love to hear your feedback and suggestions as we wrap up this video! Animations are still in progress and placeholders are used for Derek talking to the camera.

Producer Caspe...

Least Action Q&A Session With Casper and Derek

The much anticipated Least Action 2 Q&A!

We had so many insightful and intriguing questions it was hard to choose what to include.

There are two subsections in this video, the first part focuses on least action in general and the second on the demonstration that Casper showed us.

Thank you so much fo...

Snatoms Giveaway

Hi Everyone!

This March there's been a ton of new joiners here on Patreon, mostly coming to see the results of the Q&A (which will be out very soon!).

As a way to celebrate, welcome some of you, and admittedly do some product promo, we're giving away 10 sets of Snatoms!

Snatoms are a magnetic molec...

The Most Controversial Rule In Math -- Our latest video, ad free!

How do you make infinite choices? - The Axiom of Choice

WIP video about The Axiom of Choice - Urgently Requesting Feedback

We've got an exciting video coming up in the next few days!

A video about the axiom of choice and it's implications to mathematics.

We’d love to hear your feedback and suggestions as we wrap up this video! Animations are still in progress and placeholders are used for Derek talking to the camera.

P...

What Happened To The Mars Helicopter? -- Our latest video, ad free!

How a helicopter built of phone parts survived Mars for 3 years.

WIP video about NASA's Mars Ingenuity Helicopter - Kindly Requesting Feedback

Coming soon: a video about NASA's Ingenuity Helicopter and its mission on Mars!

We’d love to hear your feedback and suggestions as we wrap up this video! Animations are still in progress and placeholders are used for Derek talking to the camera.

Producer Henry has also recorded some temporary lines of voice...

Q&A! Principle of Least Action

We will be doing a Q&A video about the Principle of Least Action, exclusive to Patreon. So if you have any burning questions about our first or second video on this topic, submit them using the form below:

https://ve42.co/LA-QA

The team will pick th...

Something strange happens when you trust quantum mechanics -- Our latest video, ad free!

Is everything actually going everywhere all at once?

If you want to ask Derek and Casper a question about the principle of least action, submit your question here: https://ve42.co/LA-QA

New video coming soon about The Principle of Least Action, Part 2! - Urgently Requesting Feedback

We've got an exciting video coming up in the next few days!

In it, we prove that light doesn't just follow a straight line, in fact -- it takes every possible path!

This has been a mind bending video to make, but also super fun.

We'd love to hear your feedback and suggestions as we wrap up this video.

Patreon Exclusive: Extra Responses To The Google Interview Question

In our latest YouTube Video writer/director, Henry, went to MIT to ask this Google Interview Question to students.

In this exclusive bonus video, MIT's best and brightest show us how their minds work to solve difficult problems an...

The Google Interview Question Everyone Gets Wrong - our latest video, ad-free!

Are you smart enough to solve this Google interview question?

WIP video about Google Interview Questions - Kindly Requesting Feedback

Coming soon: a video about a tricky google interview question and how things work on the micro level!

We’d love to hear your feedback and suggestions as we wrap up this video!

Animations are still in progress and placeholders are used for Derek talking to the camera. Producer Henry has also recorded some tem...

Patreon Exclusive: AlphaFold Interview With John Jumper - Extended Cut

In our latest YouTube video we explore the incredible work done by DeepMind and their development of AlphaFold, a protein-folding AI.

In this exclusive bonus video, the 2024 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry, John Jumper, provides a more i...

What if all the world's biggest problems have the same solution? - our latest video, ad-free!

The biggest problems in the world might be solved by tiny molecules unlocked using AI.

What if you just keep zooming in? - our latest video, ad-free!

Here’s what happens when you just keep zooming in.

WIP video about Alphafold AI - Kindly Requesting Feedback

Coming soon: a video all about alphafold and protein structures!

We'd love to hear your feedback and suggestions as we wrap up this video.
Animations are still in progress and pictures are used in place of videos at times.

Is there anything wrong? Any other questions? Anything more you'd like to see? Explanatio...

WIP video about Seeing Atoms - Kindly Requesting Feedback

Coming soon: a video all about seeing atoms and the journey of electron microscopes!

We'd love to hear your feedback and suggestions as we wrap up this video.
Animations are still in progress and pictures are used in place of videos at times.

Is there anything wrong? Any other questions? Anything more you'd lik...

Patreon Exclusive: Super Glue Interview With Chantelle Champagne

An interview with Dr. Chantelle Champagne from the University of Alberta, who, inspired by an accident in a hospital emergency room, has written a history of super glue and its role in military medicine.

Super glue video on YouTube here - ht...