MinutePhysics

MinutePhysics

97 episodes

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Why You Should Care About Nukes

Published: March 29, 2016, 9:58 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 15 seconds

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Aliens: Are We Looking in the Wrong Place?

Published: March 24, 2016, 6:01 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 23 seconds

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Transporters and Quantum Teleportation

Published: March 15, 2016, 8:56 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 1 second

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The Limb of the Sun

Published: March 11, 2016, 8:28 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 17 seconds

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How Do We Know What Air is Like on Other Planets?

Published: Feb. 24, 2016, 8:46 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 43 seconds

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Concrete Does Not Dry Out

Published: Feb. 10, 2016, 8:17 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 4 seconds

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How To Discover Weird New Particles | Emergent Quantum Quasiparticles

Published: Feb. 1, 2016, 10:07 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 14 seconds

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Why December Has The Longest Days

Published: Dec. 22, 2015, 8:04 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 52 seconds

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The Physics of Car Crashes

Published: Dec. 14, 2015, 11:15 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 9 seconds

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Why It's Impossible to Tune a Piano

Published: Sept. 17, 2015, 10:04 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 20 seconds

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How Long Can You Balance a Pencil?

Published: Aug. 7, 2015, 2 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 2 seconds

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A Brief History of Everything, feat. Neil deGrasse Tyson

Published: July 20, 2015, 7:48 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 30 seconds

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The Counterintuitive Physics of Turning a Bike

Published: July 17, 2015, 4:04 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 47 seconds

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How To Detect A Secret Nuclear Test

Published: June 25, 2015, 9:49 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 48 seconds

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Upside Down Mountains in Real Life

Published: May 31, 2015, 11:11 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 34 seconds

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Why Raindrops Are Mathematically Impossible

Published: May 20, 2015, 7:44 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 54 seconds

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How to Find an Exoplanet

Published: May 6, 2015, 2 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 48 seconds

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How to Subtract By Adding

Published: May 1, 2015, 9:37 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 14 seconds

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How Big is The Sun?

Published: April 25, 2015, 6:16 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 16 seconds

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How Do Airplanes Fly?

Published: April 8, 2015, 11:53 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 11 seconds

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Computer Color is Broken

Published: March 20, 2015, 1 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 14 seconds

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What IS Angular Momentum?

Published: Jan. 22, 2015, 1 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 19 seconds

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Astronomically Correct Twinkle Twinkle

Published: Dec. 22, 2014, 1 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 9 seconds

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A Simple Proof of Conservation of Energy

Published: Dec. 20, 2014, 1 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 58 seconds

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How An Airplane Is Made

Published: Dec. 19, 2014, 1 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 14 seconds

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Why is it Harder to Drive Backwards?

Published: Dec. 15, 2014, 1 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 25 seconds

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Solution to The Impossible Bet

Published: Dec. 9, 2014, 1 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 58 seconds

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An Impossible Bet

Published: Dec. 8, 2014, 1 a.m.
Duration: 1 minute 37 seconds

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Why Isn't The Sky Purple?

Published: Nov. 11, 2014, 1 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 10 seconds

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This is Not a Rainbow

Published: Oct. 28, 2014, 10:21 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 5 seconds

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Why is the Sun Yellow and the Sky Blue?

Published: Oct. 19, 2014, 1 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 42 seconds

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Antimatter Explained

Published: Sept. 21, 2014, 1:14 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 48 seconds

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Why are Stars Star-Shaped?

Published: Aug. 27, 2014, 1:48 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 41 seconds

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Pot Theft (A Radiolab Adventure)

Published: June 13, 2014, 11:27 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 23 seconds

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Is the Universe Entirely Mathematical? Feat. Max Tegmark

Published: May 26, 2014, 9:48 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 47 seconds

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How to See Without Glasses

Published: April 27, 2014, 10 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 23 seconds

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When Insanity Becomes Normal - Venezuela

Published: April 11, 2014, 1:14 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 10 seconds

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A Polarizing Discovery About the Big Bang!

Published: March 19, 2014, 8:53 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 42 seconds

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How Modern Light Bulbs Work

Published: Feb. 16, 2014, 2:53 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 10 seconds

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Evolution vs Natural Selection

Published: Jan. 22, 2014, 10:35 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 1 second

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Why is the Solar System Flat?

Published: Jan. 10, 2014, 1:56 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 24 seconds

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Why The Full Moon is Better in Winter

Published: Dec. 17, 2013, 9:06 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 31 seconds

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What is Sea Level?

Published: Nov. 25, 2013, 10:22 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 38 seconds

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3 Simple Ways to Time Travel (& 3 Complicated Ones)

Published: Oct. 26, 2013, 8:39 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 26 seconds

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Magnetic Levitation

Published: Oct. 18, 2013, 9:10 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 21 seconds

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How to Destroy a Magnet

Published: Sept. 28, 2013, 9:44 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 43 seconds

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How Do Magnets Work?

Published: Sept. 23, 2013, 10:07 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 38 seconds

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Where Was The Big Bang?

Published: Aug. 22, 2013, 2 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 39 seconds

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Science, Religion, and the Big Bang

Published: Aug. 18, 2013, 2 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 32 seconds

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Do We Expand With The Universe?

Published: Aug. 1, 2013, 9:12 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 29 seconds

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Where is the True North Pole?

Published: July 1, 2013, 4:01 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 6 seconds

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How to Turn Sound Into Light: Sonoluminescence

Published: June 3, 2013, 10:15 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 19 seconds

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Can Humans Really Feel Temperature?

Published: May 30, 2013, 11:08 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 46 seconds

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The Order of Operations is Wrong

Published: May 18, 2013, 9:46 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 23 seconds

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Foiled Proof

Published: May 5, 2013, 11:50 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 32 seconds

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Parallel Universes: Many Worlds

Published: April 17, 2013, 2 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 7 seconds

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The True Science of Parallel Universes

Published: April 1, 2013, 1 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 8 seconds

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Youtube Video vs. The Universe

Published: March 10, 2013, 1 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 30 seconds

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How Big is the Universe?

Published: Feb. 24, 2013, 1 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 29 seconds

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What Is The Universe?

Published: Feb. 15, 2013, 1 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 53 seconds

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Immovable Object vs. Unstoppable Force - Which Wins?

Published: Jan. 24, 2013, 1 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 47 seconds

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Another Physics Misconception

Published: Jan. 2, 2013, 1 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 24 seconds

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TOP 10 REASONS Why We Know the Earth is Round

Published: Dec. 27, 2012, 1 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 54 seconds

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Is it Better to Walk or Run in the Rain?

Published: Dec. 20, 2012, 9:42 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 14 seconds

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Is There Poop on the Moon- ft. Smarter Every Day

Published: Dec. 13, 2012, 11:28 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 15 seconds

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Common Physics Misconceptions

Published: Dec. 5, 2012, 1 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 53 seconds

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Does the Universe Have a Purpose- feat. Neil deGrasse Tyson

Published: Nov. 27, 2012, 8:59 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 46 seconds

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What is Touch?

Published: Nov. 22, 2012, 2:28 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 31 seconds

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Open Letter to the President: Physics Education

Published: Nov. 10, 2012, 1 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 1 second

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Can we Predict Everything?

Published: Nov. 4, 2012, 1 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 22 seconds

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E=mc2 is Incomplete

Published: Oct. 29, 2012, 2:11 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 19 seconds

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The Origin of Quantum Mechanics

Published: Oct. 13, 2012, 1 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 20 seconds

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2012 Nobel Prize: How Do We See Light?

Published: Oct. 11, 2012, 10:22 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 47 seconds

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Real World Telekinesis (feat. Neil Turok)

Published: Oct. 7, 2012, 1 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 24 seconds

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Why is it Dark at Night?

Published: Sept. 30, 2012, 11:34 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 5 seconds

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Is Racewalking a Sport?

Published: Sept. 20, 2012, 2 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 16 seconds

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AMAZING Simulation of the Evolution of the Universe

Published: Sept. 2, 2012, 2:14 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 38 seconds

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How to Simulate the Universe on your Laptop

Published: Sept. 2, 2012, 2:09 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 28 seconds

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What if the Earth were Hollow?

Published: Aug. 27, 2012, 12:50 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 11 seconds

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Usain Bolt vs. Gravity

Published: Aug. 12, 2012, 6:32 a.m.
Duration: 1 minute 37 seconds

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The Most Burly Hurls

Published: Aug. 3, 2012, 11:57 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 33 seconds

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Higgs Boson Part III: How to Discover a Particle

Published: July 27, 2012, 2:51 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 20 seconds

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The Higgs Boson, Part II: What is Mass?

Published: July 12, 2012, 11:33 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 2 seconds

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The Higgs Boson, Part I

Published: July 5, 2012, 9:31 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 16 seconds

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Open Letter to the Universe

Published: June 14, 2012, 6:18 a.m.
Duration: 1 minute 22 seconds

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Picture of the Big Bang

Published: June 7, 2012, 9:48 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 13 seconds

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Proof Without Words- The Circle

Published: May 29, 2012, 10:21 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 32 seconds

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Every Force in Nature (Theory of Everything, Part III)

Published: May 21, 2012, 9:21 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 10 seconds

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How to Count Infinity

Published: May 12, 2012, 11:58 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 8 seconds

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Why the solar system can exist

Published: May 3, 2012, 9:15 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 19 seconds

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Ye Olde Debunking

Published: April 21, 2012, 7:52 a.m.
Duration: 1 minute 36 seconds

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There is no "Fourth" dimension

Published: April 14, 2012, 11:09 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 15 seconds

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How far is a second?

Published: April 8, 2012, 2:39 a.m.
Duration: 1 minute 42 seconds

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Einstein and The Special Theory of Relativity

Published: March 18, 2012, 1 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 2 seconds

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Albert Einstein- The Size and Existence of Atoms

Published: March 13, 2012, 1 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 24 seconds

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Albert Einstein- Why Light is Quantum

Published: March 12, 2012, 1 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 31 seconds

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What are years... and the galactic supermassive black hole!

Published: Feb. 27, 2012, 1 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 5 seconds

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