In a recent episode of Vsauce, host Michael Stevens asks, “Is soup cereal?” The question begins a longer conversation about different linguistic concepts like reduplication and retronyms. Reduplication…
In a recent episode, Vsauce host Michael Stevens explains whether the Earth is round and why the answer is all about perspective. Stevens looks at how those…
In a recent episode, Vsauce host Michael Stevens explores the idea of misnomers, or misleading names, with examples like peanuts, Halley’s Comet, and koalas. Stevens also suggests…
Vsauce host Michael Stevens (see previously) explores why humans are so morbidly curious in his latest video. He explains that there are many reasons why…
Vsauce host Michael Stevens explores what planet Earth is worth. He then comes up with possible ways that we could sell its goods to aliens,…
Vsauce host Michael Stevens explores the speed of dark. In the video, Stevens explains the somewhat complicated reasoning behind why shadows can arguably “break” the…
Vsauce host Michael Stevens breaks down what it means to be random, a commonly used — and almost as commonly misunderstood — word. In the…
Vsauce host Michael Stevens explores what would happen to everyone on the Earth if the planet hit the brakes in “What If The Earth Stopped…
Vsauce host Michael Stevens explains what the World Wide Web actually is in his latest video “What Is The Web?”, which is part of the…
Vsauce host Michael Stevens attempts to count every single thing in his latest episode. For the purpose of his argument, Stevens defines a “thing” as…