#Veritasium #introduction #video to #asbestos health risks and #history, including Irving Selikoff’s finding in the 01960s that 1.4% of wartime shipyard workers died of #mesothelioma and other asbestos-related #cancer, presented at a conference in 01964, but also covering recent findings about non-quantified risks of natural asbestos exposure.
on 02026-03-12#Veritasium #video about #power-laws like the "St. Petersburg Paradox" in #statistics, where the expectation of a heavy-tailed distribution diverges. Sometimes “two exponentials are dancing together to make a power law”, moving on to earthquake magnitudes and how the Ising model of ferromagnetism at the Curie temperature is scale-free, and then how a simple model of forest fires produces self-organized criticality. Also, in Per Bak’s sandpile automata. And how VC firms, wildfire insurance, streaming video platforms, and book publishing are governed by power-law distributions. And Albert-László Barabási and Réka Albert’s simulation of power-law link behavior on the internet.
on 02026-01-03#Veritasium #video about how Derek Muller is appearing less in the videos because he wanted to spend more time with his kids and has investors and 30+ employees now
on 02026-01-03#Veritasium #video about #ASML #EUV #photolithography machines, which apparently cost US$400 million each. Explains #optics a bit, including defining NA (as the sine of half the cone included angle) and the Rayleigh equation. Traces the #history through Kinoshita and Andrew Hawryluk, with an #interview with the latter, and extensive interviews with people at ASML. #precision
on 02025-12-31#Veritasium #video about negative energies in relativistic quantum #physics
on 02025-12-10#Veritasium #video on snowflake growth and crystal growth in general
on 02025-12-09#Veritasium #video about rubber #materials and their #history, and the risk of the South American Leaf Blight
on 02025-09-25#Veritasium #video on #Braess’s paradox
on 02025-07-02#video by #Veritasium on welded rail with thermite in railways
on 02025-04-30#video on quantum #physics by #Veritasium walking through the principle of least time with the beach example, Maupertuis’s principle of least action, the Ultraviolet Catastrophe, Planck’s solution, the photoelectric effect, Bohr’s computation of the hydrogen spectrum, de Broglie’s matter-wave hypothesis, etc. At 22'30" he derives the least-action principle from the quantum-variational stationary-phase principle.
on 02025-03-06#Veritasium #video of aspheric electron #microscopy using radially asymmetric magnetic lenses
on 02025-02-05#video of an hour and a half on robots that don’t look like humans: the everting “vine robot” from the lab of Elliot Hawkes at UCSB, his jumping robot that jumps 30 meters high, flexures, and an inflatable compliant truss octahedron robot. #Veritasium #formina
on 02024-08-07#Veritasium #video on expertise and expert performance (Tetlock, Buffett, Kahneman, etc.) Lots of filler: stock footage and talking heads.
on 02024-07-31#Veritasium #video about #entropy in #physics, explaining Carnot efficiency and thus the rudiments of #thermodynamics, but not explaining even the units of entropy; he chose to include stock footage clips instead of equations. But he does include a bargraph of how much entropy was in the early universe and how much is in stars, neutrinos, empty space, the CMB, and the Milky Way’s central black hole, so it’s still pretty informative.
on 02024-07-06