category: "explainer"

How Two Maps Tell the Story of Vietnam thumbnail
14:40

How Two Maps Tell the Story of Vietnam

Daniel Steiner

Tuesday, Oct 1, 2024

added Tuesday, Oct 1, 2024

Japan's Most Horrible Secret thumbnail
19:21

Japan's Most Horrible Secret

fern

Monday, Sep 30, 2024

added Tuesday, Oct 1, 2024

I used to hate QR codes. But they're actually genius thumbnail
35:13

I used to hate QR codes. But they're actually genius

Veritasium

Monday, Sep 30, 2024

added Monday, Sep 30, 2024

What's Inside the World's Most Secret Church? thumbnail
18:35

What's Inside the World's Most Secret Church?

Hoog

Saturday, Sep 21, 2024

added Monday, Sep 23, 2024

Why Scientists Are Puzzled By This Virus thumbnail
11:47

Why Scientists Are Puzzled By This Virus

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

Tuesday, Sep 17, 2024

added Tuesday, Sep 17, 2024

Paranoid Protestants | Seventh-day Adventists thumbnail
2:50:52

Paranoid Protestants | Seventh-day Adventists

Knowing Better

Wednesday, Sep 11, 2024

added Wednesday, Sep 11, 2024

How Wikipedia Got So Rich thumbnail
12:14

How Wikipedia Got So Rich

fern

Sunday, Sep 8, 2024

added Tuesday, Sep 10, 2024

Seattle's Map, Explained thumbnail
25:09

Seattle's Map, Explained

Daniel Steiner

Thursday, Sep 5, 2024

added Sunday, Sep 8, 2024

The Surprising Fate of Steel From 9/11 thumbnail
13:55

The Surprising Fate of Steel From 9/11

Stewart Hicks

Friday, Sep 6, 2024

added Saturday, Sep 7, 2024

Japan in 1960 was insane. thumbnail
26:37

Japan in 1960 was insane.

Spectacles

Thursday, Apr 11, 2024

added Sunday, Sep 1, 2024

Why Democracy Is Mathematically Impossible thumbnail
23:34

Why Democracy Is Mathematically Impossible

Veritasium

Tuesday, Aug 27, 2024

added Thursday, Aug 29, 2024

Why Nobody Throws The Best Pitch in Baseball thumbnail
18:29

Why Nobody Throws The Best Pitch in Baseball

Baseball Doesn't Exist

Thursday, Aug 22, 2024

added Saturday, Aug 24, 2024

How an Amusement Park Works thumbnail
22:03

How an Amusement Park Works

Wendover Productions

Thursday, Aug 22, 2024

added Thursday, Aug 22, 2024

Lockheed's Insane Attack Carrier: The CL-1201 thumbnail
14:21

Lockheed's Insane Attack Carrier: The CL-1201

Mustard

Thursday, Aug 22, 2024

added Thursday, Aug 22, 2024

The ELMO TRV-35 slides into your video feed thumbnail
46:16

The ELMO TRV-35 slides into your video feed

Cathode Ray Dude - CRD

Monday, Aug 19, 2024

added Monday, Aug 19, 2024

The Bread Tab Conspiracy: $93,000,000,000 Disappeared thumbnail
23:19

The Bread Tab Conspiracy: $93,000,000,000 Disappeared

CHUPPL

Thursday, May 9, 2024

added Tuesday, Aug 13, 2024

why you were forced to learn the recorder in school thumbnail
19:34

why you were forced to learn the recorder in school

Answer in Progress

Friday, Jul 26, 2024

added Wednesday, Jul 31, 2024

The Most Controversial Children's Book in History thumbnail
40:38

The Most Controversial Children's Book in History

Solar Sands

Saturday, Jul 27, 2024

added Wednesday, Jul 31, 2024

Passive infrared motion sensors: a two-bit camera powered by crystals thumbnail
16:13

Passive infrared motion sensors: a two-bit camera powered by crystals

Technology Connections

Thursday, Jul 25, 2024

added Monday, Jul 29, 2024

How backspin ACTUALLY works - in super slow motion thumbnail
15:50

How backspin ACTUALLY works - in super slow motion

Steve Mould

Sunday, Jun 30, 2024

added Tuesday, Jul 2, 2024

Why Scams Come From Florida Now thumbnail
26:26

Why Scams Come From Florida Now

CHUPPL

Sunday, Jun 30, 2024

added Sunday, Jun 30, 2024

This Disease is Deadlier Than The Plague thumbnail
10:53

This Disease is Deadlier Than The Plague

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

Tuesday, Jun 25, 2024

added Wednesday, Jun 26, 2024

How One Small Change Broke Wikipedia's First Link Rule thumbnail
20:33

How One Small Change Broke Wikipedia's First Link Rule

Not David

Friday, Jun 21, 2024

added Wednesday, Jun 26, 2024

What Jumping Spiders Teach Us About Color thumbnail
32:37

What Jumping Spiders Teach Us About Color

Veritasium

Thursday, May 30, 2024

added Tuesday, Jun 4, 2024

Dell Called It "The Showstopper" thumbnail
1:07:13

Dell Called It "The Showstopper"

Cathode Ray Dude - CRD

Monday, Apr 8, 2024

added Tuesday, Jun 4, 2024

The Engineering of Duct Tape thumbnail
10:44

The Engineering of Duct Tape

engineerguy

Tuesday, May 21, 2024

added Wednesday, May 22, 2024

The 517,431 Emails That Trained Siri thumbnail
8:22

The 517,431 Emails That Trained Siri

Half as Interesting

Friday, May 17, 2024

added Friday, May 17, 2024

Where People Go When They Want to Hack You thumbnail
34:40

Where People Go When They Want to Hack You

CyberNews

Sunday, May 12, 2024

added Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Decoding the Origins of the Backrooms Photo thumbnail
28:54

Decoding the Origins of the Backrooms Photo

Farrell McGuire

Sunday, May 12, 2024

added Monday, May 13, 2024

The Unbreakable Kryptos Code thumbnail
47:01

The Unbreakable Kryptos Code

LEMMiNO

Saturday, May 4, 2024

added Sunday, May 5, 2024

Why Swiss Money Looks Weird thumbnail
17:44

Why Swiss Money Looks Weird

IMPERIAL

Wednesday, Apr 17, 2024

added Thursday, Apr 18, 2024

How I Make MrBeast's Videos thumbnail
2:49:28

How I Make MrBeast's Videos

Dan Mace

Sunday, Apr 14, 2024

added Sunday, Apr 14, 2024

The Fall of Flight 123 thumbnail
25:01

The Fall of Flight 123

Nexpo

Friday, Mar 22, 2024

added Saturday, Mar 23, 2024

They Designed a Car Faster Than Formula 1 thumbnail
26:03

They Designed a Car Faster Than Formula 1

Driver61

Saturday, Mar 2, 2024

added Wednesday, Mar 6, 2024

The Battle for Central Park thumbnail
20:57

The Battle for Central Park

Hoog

Saturday, Feb 24, 2024

added Sunday, Feb 25, 2024

The End of the Glitter Conspiracy thumbnail
27:07

The End of the Glitter Conspiracy

CHUPPL

Friday, Jun 30, 2023

added Wednesday, Feb 21, 2024

How This Michigan Town Accidentally Buried Itself in Sand thumbnail
7:28

How This Michigan Town Accidentally Buried Itself in Sand

Half as Interesting

Monday, Feb 19, 2024

added Monday, Feb 19, 2024

Why Europe Has No Hollywood thumbnail
17:31

Why Europe Has No Hollywood

fern

Sunday, Feb 11, 2024

added Monday, Feb 12, 2024

Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED thumbnail
33:45

Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED

Veritasium

Thursday, Feb 8, 2024

added Friday, Feb 9, 2024

What Faking Cancer Looks Like thumbnail
28:12

What Faking Cancer Looks Like

fern

Sunday, Feb 4, 2024

added Sunday, Feb 4, 2024

What's the deal with the popcorn button? thumbnail
13:51

What's the deal with the popcorn button?

Technology Connections

Tuesday, Nov 21, 2023

added Saturday, Feb 3, 2024

The Insane Engineering of Re-Entry thumbnail
27:26

The Insane Engineering of Re-Entry

Real Engineering

Thursday, Feb 1, 2024

added Friday, Feb 2, 2024

Activision's Worst 007 Game thumbnail
42:35

Activision's Worst 007 Game

minimme

Wednesday, Jan 31, 2024

added Friday, Feb 2, 2024

How Nukes Are Transported thumbnail
9:50

How Nukes Are Transported

neo

Sunday, Jan 21, 2024

added Monday, Jan 22, 2024

Stealth: A Controversy thumbnail
1:22:12

Stealth: A Controversy

LazerPig

Saturday, Jan 6, 2024

added Sunday, Jan 7, 2024

Could This Change Air Travel Forever? thumbnail
14:08

Could This Change Air Travel Forever?

Mustard

Friday, Jan 5, 2024

added Friday, Jan 5, 2024

The step-by-step logic of old pinball machines thumbnail
43:00

The step-by-step logic of old pinball machines

Technology Connections

Friday, Dec 29, 2023

added Friday, Dec 29, 2023

The Truth About Limited Run Games thumbnail
1:01:08

The Truth About Limited Run Games

mrixrt

Wednesday, Sep 8, 2021

added Sunday, Dec 24, 2023

It's time to replace Comic Sans. thumbnail
22:28

It's time to replace Comic Sans.

Linus Boman

Saturday, Dec 23, 2023

added Sunday, Dec 24, 2023

How do Video Game Graphics Work? thumbnail
21:00

How do Video Game Graphics Work?

Branch Education

Thursday, Dec 21, 2023

added Sunday, Dec 24, 2023

The Rarest Motorcycle Engines - Pros and Cons thumbnail
12:26

The Rarest Motorcycle Engines - Pros and Cons

FortNine

Saturday, Nov 18, 2023

added Sunday, Dec 24, 2023

The Insane Engineering of Orbit thumbnail
30:10

The Insane Engineering of Orbit

Real Engineering

Friday, Dec 22, 2023

added Friday, Dec 22, 2023

Amazon's Infinite Money Glitch thumbnail
31:03

Amazon's Infinite Money Glitch

John Coogan

Saturday, Dec 16, 2023

added Friday, Dec 22, 2023

The Worst NASCAR Driver thumbnail
17:27

The Worst NASCAR Driver

EllyProductions49

Friday, Sep 15, 2023

added Friday, Dec 22, 2023

The Iconic Sounds of Star Wars thumbnail
1:01:07

The Iconic Sounds of Star Wars

Adam Savage’s Tested

Wednesday, Dec 20, 2023

added Thursday, Dec 21, 2023

The Evil Marketing of Shell thumbnail
27:04

The Evil Marketing of Shell

fern

Wednesday, Dec 20, 2023

added Thursday, Dec 21, 2023

How the US President Travels thumbnail
12:16

How the US President Travels

neo

Wednesday, Dec 6, 2023

added Wednesday, Dec 6, 2023

Plagiarism and You(Tube) thumbnail
3:51:10

Plagiarism and You(Tube)

hbomberguy

Sunday, Dec 3, 2023

added Tuesday, Dec 5, 2023

What if we aimed the Hubble Telescope at Earth? thumbnail
3:28

What if we aimed the Hubble Telescope at Earth?

xkcd's What If?

Wednesday, Nov 29, 2023

added Tuesday, Dec 5, 2023

I Was SCARED To Say This To NASA... (But I said it anyway) - Smarter Every Day 293 thumbnail
1:05:20

I Was SCARED To Say This To NASA... (But I said it anyway) - Smarter Every Day 293

SmarterEveryDay

Sunday, Dec 3, 2023

added Monday, Dec 4, 2023

Exposing a Global Health Scam thumbnail
21:45

Exposing a Global Health Scam

fern

Sunday, Dec 3, 2023

added Sunday, Dec 3, 2023

You can't bounce a ball under a table thumbnail
12:54

You can't bounce a ball under a table

Steve Mould

Thursday, Nov 30, 2023

added Saturday, Dec 2, 2023

PROJECT HORIZON - Secret Plan to Conquer the Moon thumbnail
12:29

PROJECT HORIZON - Secret Plan to Conquer the Moon

Kyle Hill

Tuesday, Nov 28, 2023

added Saturday, Dec 2, 2023

What caused The USS Thresher Submarine Disaster? 1963 | Short Documentary | Plainly Difficult thumbnail
14:45

What caused The USS Thresher Submarine Disaster? 1963 | Short Documentary | Plainly Difficult

Plainly Difficult

Saturday, Dec 2, 2023

added Saturday, Dec 2, 2023

Why the Dutch Have the Best Paper Money thumbnail
13:08

Why the Dutch Have the Best Paper Money

Hoog

Friday, Nov 24, 2023

added Saturday, Nov 25, 2023

What Got Harder as MythBusters Got Bigger? thumbnail
11:24

What Got Harder as MythBusters Got Bigger?

Adam Savage’s Tested

Sunday, Nov 12, 2023

added Friday, Nov 17, 2023

India is now a sports superpower thumbnail
14:19

India is now a sports superpower

Search Party

Wednesday, Nov 15, 2023

added Wednesday, Nov 15, 2023

Money’s Mostly Digital, So Why Is Moving It So Hard? thumbnail
20:18

Money’s Mostly Digital, So Why Is Moving It So Hard?

Wendover Productions

Wednesday, Sep 7, 2022

added Wednesday, Nov 15, 2023

Disrupt's $500,000 YouTube Scam thumbnail
8:56

Disrupt's $500,000 YouTube Scam

CalebIsSalty

Sunday, Nov 5, 2023

added Tuesday, Nov 14, 2023

How speedrunners beat Fallout 4 in 35 minutes (SPEEDRUN EXPLAINED - Any%) thumbnail
59:15

How speedrunners beat Fallout 4 in 35 minutes (SPEEDRUN EXPLAINED - Any%)

tomatoanus

Thursday, Aug 27, 2020

added Wednesday, Nov 1, 2023

why Japan's internet is weirdly designed thumbnail
15:15

why Japan's internet is weirdly designed

Answer in Progress

Thursday, Nov 24, 2022

added Wednesday, Nov 1, 2023

Why Do Mainframes Still Exist?  What's Inside One?  40TB, 200+ Cores, AI, and more! thumbnail
23:33

Why Do Mainframes Still Exist? What's Inside One? 40TB, 200+ Cores, AI, and more!

Dave's Garage

Saturday, Oct 28, 2023

added Sunday, Oct 29, 2023

Why The Hockenheimring is Abandoned in a forest thumbnail
8:47

Why The Hockenheimring is Abandoned in a forest

Perspective

Wednesday, Jun 21, 2023

added Tuesday, Oct 24, 2023

The Lost Art Of Cable Television thumbnail
45:32

The Lost Art Of Cable Television

NationSquid

Monday, Oct 23, 2023

added Tuesday, Oct 24, 2023

Why the Saudis are taking over sports thumbnail
15:52

Why the Saudis are taking over sports

Search Party

Tuesday, Oct 24, 2023

added Tuesday, Oct 24, 2023

How Ocean Shipping Works (And Why It's Broken) thumbnail
0:19

How Ocean Shipping Works (And Why It's Broken)

Wendover Productions

Wednesday, Nov 17, 2021

added Monday, Oct 2, 2023

The Fake Genius: a $30 BILLION Fraud. thumbnail
0:01

The Fake Genius: a $30 BILLION Fraud.

James Jani

Friday, Sep 1, 2023

added Thursday, Sep 28, 2023

I Asked An Actual Apollo Engineer to Explain the Saturn 5 Rocket - Smarter Every Day 280 thumbnail
0:58

I Asked An Actual Apollo Engineer to Explain the Saturn 5 Rocket - Smarter Every Day 280

SmarterEveryDay

Monday, Dec 26, 2022

added Saturday, Sep 16, 2023

STUXNET: The World's First Digital Weapon thumbnail
0:14

STUXNET: The World's First Digital Weapon

Disrupt

Thursday, Mar 2, 2023

added Saturday, Aug 19, 2023

The tech that nearly ruined Titanfall Speedruns (and how we fixed it) thumbnail
0:23

The tech that nearly ruined Titanfall Speedruns (and how we fixed it)

zweek

Friday, Jan 13, 2023

added Saturday, Aug 19, 2023

Grabbing Images From New Russian Satellite (Meteor M2-3) thumbnail
0:09

Grabbing Images From New Russian Satellite (Meteor M2-3)

saveitforparts

Monday, Jul 3, 2023

added Wednesday, Aug 16, 2023

The Densest City on Earth thumbnail
0:17

The Densest City on Earth

neo

Monday, Jul 24, 2023

added Monday, Jul 24, 2023

America's Forgotten Highways of the Sky - The Abandoned Airways thumbnail
0:46

America's Forgotten Highways of the Sky - The Abandoned Airways

Calum

Wednesday, May 31, 2023

added Wednesday, May 31, 2023

The INSANE Story of Aeroflot Nord flight 821! thumbnail
0:50

The INSANE Story of Aeroflot Nord flight 821!

Mentour Pilot

Saturday, May 20, 2023

added Saturday, May 20, 2023

MyHouse.WAD - Inside Doom's Most Terrifying Mod thumbnail
0:01

MyHouse.WAD - Inside Doom's Most Terrifying Mod

Power Pak

Thursday, May 11, 2023

added Thursday, May 11, 2023

Crush Depth: The Nightmarish Loss of USS Thresher thumbnail
0:29

Crush Depth: The Nightmarish Loss of USS Thresher

Brick Immortar

Sunday, Apr 9, 2023

added Sunday, Apr 9, 2023

The Wasted Potential of the Far Cry Franchise thumbnail
0:02

The Wasted Potential of the Far Cry Franchise

MarcoStyle

Tuesday, Feb 14, 2023

added Tuesday, Feb 14, 2023

Cursed Units thumbnail
0:18

Cursed Units

Joseph Newton

Tuesday, Jan 3, 2023

added Tuesday, Jan 3, 2023

Making the stinkiest chemical known to man thumbnail
0:43

Making the stinkiest chemical known to man

NileRed

Saturday, Dec 24, 2022

added Saturday, Dec 24, 2022

The Continuity of Splines thumbnail
0:01

The Continuity of Splines

Freya Holmér

Wednesday, Dec 7, 2022

added Wednesday, Dec 7, 2022

The Far Cry Campaign You CAN'T Play thumbnail
0:42

The Far Cry Campaign You CAN'T Play

Raycevick

Saturday, Nov 19, 2022

added Saturday, Nov 19, 2022

This camera turns your photos into frames from a movie. thumbnail
0:09

This camera turns your photos into frames from a movie.

GxAce

Thursday, Nov 17, 2022

added Thursday, Nov 17, 2022

I ate at every Rainforest Cafe in the Country thumbnail
0:36

I ate at every Rainforest Cafe in the Country

Eddy Burback

Thursday, Jun 30, 2022

added Thursday, Jun 30, 2022

Segmented Displays thumbnail
0:13

Segmented Displays

Posy

Saturday, Apr 30, 2022

added Saturday, Apr 30, 2022

The Biggest Cheater In Guitar Hero History Was Finally Caught thumbnail
0:27

The Biggest Cheater In Guitar Hero History Was Finally Caught

Karl Jobst

Monday, Jan 31, 2022

added Monday, Jan 31, 2022

The Strangest Aircraft Ever Built: The Soviet Union's VVA-14 thumbnail
0:11

The Strangest Aircraft Ever Built: The Soviet Union's VVA-14

Mustard

Friday, Jul 16, 2021

added Friday, Jul 16, 2021

Naughty Dog's Game Design is Outdated thumbnail
0:52

Naughty Dog's Game Design is Outdated

NakeyJakey

Thursday, Oct 1, 2020

added Thursday, Oct 1, 2020

Running 43km along a hidden railway line thumbnail
0:23

Running 43km along a hidden railway line

Beau Miles

Sunday, Nov 17, 2019

added Sunday, Nov 17, 2019

The Incredible Japanese Prison Break thumbnail
0:25

The Incredible Japanese Prison Break

Kento Bento

Tuesday, Oct 1, 2019

added Tuesday, Oct 1, 2019

The Universal S thumbnail
0:18

The Universal S

LEMMiNO

Saturday, Aug 10, 2019

added Saturday, Aug 10, 2019

The Dark Knight — Creating the Ultimate Antagonist thumbnail
0:11

The Dark Knight — Creating the Ultimate Antagonist

Lessons from the Screenplay

Tuesday, Aug 23, 2016

added Tuesday, Aug 23, 2016

The Universe in 4 Minutes thumbnail
0:04

The Universe in 4 Minutes

exurb1a

Monday, May 23, 2016

added Monday, May 23, 2016