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Why do hot objects glow?

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What if you try to sandwich a cube between two portals?

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The Wavy Window Paradox

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How long is a day on the sun?

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Strings Don't Vibrate The Way You Think

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Why some flames are blue and others are red?

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This Orbit is the WORST

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There Is No 4th Dimension

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Two Paradoxes of Space Navigation

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Why Driving Backwards Is So Hard

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The Magic of Thorium Nuclear Reactors

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Is Perfect Prediction Possible?

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What is the farthest on earth you can get from ANYTHING

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Schrödinger’s Cat (from the cat's perspective)

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Do you understand ISO?

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When 2 + 2 = 3.999999999…

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Breaking the speed of light from your backyard

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Is Quantum Mechanics Stopping Aliens From Contacting Us?

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Not a rainbow!

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What’s the source of gravity? (a common physics misconception)

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The REAL Reason Asteroids Aren't Planets

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An Argument The Moon is a PLANET!

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The TROJAN Test

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Why Some Rainbows Turn White

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Common Moon Mistakes

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Why Do Wind Turbines Have Three Blades?

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Draining The Oceans Is HARD

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The Physics of Supercooling

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White Balance is Broken

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The Physics Of Dissonance

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The Magnetic Shadow Effect

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Antimatter in Sci-Fi Rundown

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The Teleprompter Paradox

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Get one of my original drawings on Patreon!

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The Chart Missing From ALL Spreadsheet Software

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The Periodic Table in a 2D World

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I'm giving away 14 years of drawings

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The Moon's Orbit is WEIRD

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Does Pressure Keep the Deep Ocean From Freezing?

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The Color Temperature Paradox

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Which Planet Has the Best Eclipse?

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Why Do Eclipses Travel WEST to EAST?

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Why Aren't There Eclipses Every Month?

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Should You Wipe Off Your Sweat?

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The LAST Eclipse in History

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But What IS A Lens Flare?

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What if you pointed the Hubble telescope at Earth? @xkcd_whatif

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The Bizarre Physics of Electric Guitars

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Geosynchronous Orbits are WEIRD

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Why Penrose Tiles Never Repeat

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Freezing water expands. What if you don't let it?

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You're Technically HOTTER Than The Sun (with XKCD!)

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Passing A Portal Through Itself

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How Many Fossils to Go an Inch? (ft. Robert Krulwich)

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Another Portal Paradox

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The Trinity of Quality

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Announcing...

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Most Collisions Are Secretly in One Dimension

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Is Anything on the Internet Real?

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The Problem With The Butterfly Effect

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(A book with the answer)

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The Rocket & String Paradox

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A Better Way To Picture Atoms

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Windmills Are NOT Like Dams

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Why Do Boats Make This Shape?

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The Physics of Windmill Design

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General Relativity Explained in 7 Levels of Difficulty

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Why LESS Sensitive Tests Might Be Better

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Why Masks Work BETTER Than You'd Think

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The Astounding Physics of N95 Masks

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How To Tell If We're Beating COVID-19

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How to Tell Matter From Antimatter | CP Violation & The Ozma Problem

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Reimagining the Periodic Table

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Why Do Mirrors Flip Left & Right (but not up & down)?

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Do Photons Cast Shadows?

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The Man Who Corrected Einstein

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When It's OK to Violate Privacy

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Protecting Privacy with MATH (Collab with the Census)

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How to Build a Lava Moat (with xkcd)

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Why Some Days Aren’t 24 Hours

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Einstein's Biggest Blunder, Explained

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The Portal Paradox

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Our Ignorance About Gravity

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I Had to Build a Custom Mute Switch for my Violin

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How Shor's Algorithm Factors 314191

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How Quantum Computers Break Encryption | Shor's Algorithm Explained

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Why Do Compressed Air Cans Get Cold?

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How ISPs Violate the Laws of Mathematics

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Shells of Cosmic Time (ft. @AstroKatie)

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How To Make MUONS

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Hardy's Paradox | Quantum Double Double Slit Experiment

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Impossible Muons

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Legitimate Cold Fusion Exists | Muon-Catalyzed Fusion

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How To Stop Structures from SHAKING: LEGO Saturn V Tuned Mass Damper

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The Twins Paradox Hands-On Explanation | Special Relativity Ch. 8

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The Physics of Caramel: How To Make a Caramelized Sugar Cube

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Feynman's Lost Lecture (ft. 3Blue1Brown)

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Spacetime Intervals: Not EVERYTHING is Relative | Special Relativity Ch. 7

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Extraterrestrial Cycloids - Why Are They on Europa?

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Relativistic Addition of Velocity | Special Relativity Ch. 6