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Can you solve this pier puzzle?

Can you solve this pier puzzle?

Season 1 Episode 30
4:58
What are antibubbles?

What are antibubbles?

Season 1 Episode 31
6:11
Does height matter in sports?

Does height matter in sports?

Season 1 Episode 32
6:35
Calculating Pi with Darts

Calculating Pi with Darts

Season 1 Episode 925
5:47
5 Awesome Science Party Tricks!

5 Awesome Science Party Tricks!

Season 2 Episode 1
4:10
5 Science Tricks w/ Explanation

5 Science Tricks w/ Explanation

Season 2 Episode 2
7:24
How do touchscreens work?

How do touchscreens work?

Season 2 Episode 3
6:03
The Ultraviolet Catastrophe

The Ultraviolet Catastrophe

Season 2 Episode 4
6:31
5 cool math tricks ft. Technicality

5 cool math tricks ft. Technicality

Season 2 Episode 5
7:19
Can explosions work in space?

Can explosions work in space?

Season 2 Episode 6
5:42
Impossible Zero G Skyscraper

Impossible Zero G Skyscraper

Season 2 Episode 7
6:33
Solving crimes with infrared?

Solving crimes with infrared?

Season 2 Episode 8
9:09
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How to shrink a quarter with electricity

Season 1 Episode 29

How an 8000V electromagnet can be used to shrink a quarter. The interplay between electric and magnetic forces leads to the Lorentz Force and Faraday’s law of induction which can be used to shrink a quarter, or any other type of metal coin.

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4:36
Do Mars moons, or Jupiter moons causes total solar eclipses?
Can you guess this note? Perfect Pitch and Physics
8:23
What is perfect pitch, or absolute pitch? Can it be learned?
Mantis Shrimp Punch at 40,000 fps! - Cavitation Physics
6:14
The mantis shrimp punch is fast enough to boil water!
Strange Unexplained Cosmic Rays (ft PhD Comics)
6:57
Cosmic rays are particles from space.
This crystal can split light particles
6:05
How unusual non-linear crystals can entangle particles of light, or photons.
MIND-BOGGLING HIKER RIDDLE ft Anne Wojcicki
3:53
I ask Anne Wojcicki, founder and CEO of 23andMe to answer some logic and physics riddles.
NEW RESULTS! Cosmic Quantum Bell Test
10:32
How do you test quantum mechanics with ancient stars?
Zero G Ferrofluid Fail - (ft. e-penser & Veritasium)
10:48
The zero g plane, also known as a parabolic flight, or the vomit comet
Why outlets spark when unplugging - EMF & Inductors
6:30
Not mean to be tried at home!
Oxygen is magnetic?!
5:20
Liquid oxygen has unusual magnetic properties.
Can you solve the $20 riddle? ft SMBC Comics' Zach Weinersmi
10:31
I sit down with Zach Weinersmith from SMBC comics to ask him some physics trivia and logic
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