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In late 2016, United States diplomats working in Cuba began reporting health problems: persistent headaches, vertigo, blurred vision. They were dizzy. They...
2021-11-20 13:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostScience without the gobbledygook now has a gift store where you can get T-shirts, stickers, mugs, socks and so on w...
2021-11-17 06:26:06 +0000 UTC View PostI'm quite used to reading headlines that don't make sense, and I guess so are you. However, sometimes I come across a headline that doesn't make any sense, even though it should. And that really an...
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Physicists have so far discovered twenty-five elementary particles that, for all we currently know, aren’t made up of anything else. Most of th...
2021-11-13 13:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostIn the past years I have worked on a new book, which is 2021-11-12 10:07:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Yes, I know my channel is a wild mix of topics, but I promised myself that I wouldn't let it get boring! So on the coming Saturday, we're back to particle physics and I answer a question that I mus...
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Plastic is everywhere, and we have all heard it’s bad for the environment because it takes a long time to biodegrade. But is this actually true? If I loo...
2021-11-08 17:58:01 +0000 UTC View PostIt's often hard to find reliable yet brief information about matters relevant to science policy and environmental protection. For this reason, one of the things I hope to achieve with my YouTube ch...
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A lot of you have asked me to do a video about the delayed choice quantum eraser, an experiment that supposedly rewrites the past. I have...
2021-10-31 12:10:31 +0000 UTC View PostYes, I have some favorite topics, and not so surprisingly it's those that I work on myself. So this weekend I'll talk about quantum mechanics again, and this time pick up a topic that I have gotten...
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Does Captain Kirk die when he goes through the transporter? This question ha...
2021-10-23 16:13:56 +0000 UTC View PostThis weekend I'll talk about a topic that I took out of my new book, not because it wasn't interesting, but because I just can't seem to make up my mind on it. What happens with Kirk when he goes t...
2021-10-20 15:06:29 +0000 UTC View PostSo Captain Kirk flew to space! What a time to live in. I came to physics through science fiction and naturally I've always been fascinated by space travel. Where would we go and how would we get th...
2021-10-14 04:57:28 +0000 UTC View PostI find it fascinating what ideas people once believed in, and how we moved past them. Telepathy, astrology, animal magnetism, homeopathy, multiverses... those are all now understood as pseudoscient...
2021-10-06 16:35:45 +0000 UTC View PostAs I told you in December last year, one of my plans for 2021 has been to cover a larger variety of topics in my channel. Of course this brings the problem that I will be talking about subjects som...
2021-09-29 15:53:49 +0000 UTC View PostIn the past weeks we've talked a lot about new developments in physics, but let's not forget the basics! Upcoming this weekend, I answer two questions that I get a lot: Where did the Big Bang happe...
2021-09-22 09:15:59 +0000 UTC View PostSo this Saturday will be a little different, because we're planning on two videos! The one video is from my recent trip to London where I met with Rohin Francis who some of you may know from his ch...
2021-09-15 16:46:17 +0000 UTC View PostLast year I made a video about black holes in which I talked about the Penrose-Hawking singularity theorems. I remarked that I think Penrose should really have gotten a Nobel Prize for it. Imagine ...
2021-09-08 11:48:39 +0000 UTC View PostFirst of all a warm welcome to the new Patreons! Your support helps me to pay the videographer and the factchecker with whom I work on videos whose topics are not in my own research area. Without y...
2021-09-01 16:43:20 +0000 UTC View PostThis week I have been traveling, the first time since pre-COVID! A video will come out of this hopefully soon. But this weekend I want to tie up some lose ends in my quantum mechanics series, namel...
2021-08-26 04:16:17 +0000 UTC View PostAs you saw last weekend, I tend to overthink seemingly simple explanations... The problem is, a lot of superficially plausible ideas don't make much sense if you look at them a little closer. As a ...
2021-08-18 11:48:50 +0000 UTC View PostScience communication is difficult. One thing that I see a lot is that physicists settle on an easy-to-understand explanation that, unfortunately, doesn't really explain anything and leaves people ...
2021-08-12 05:48:02 +0000 UTC View PostSome technologies come and go, but others go and come. One technology that's been around for a long time, fell out of view, but is now coming back again is supersonic or even hypersonic flight. Is ...
2021-08-04 05:31:13 +0000 UTC View PostLast year I was thinking about where my YouTube channel should go, and one of the most important points on my list was that I don't want it to become boring for myself. So this is why you've seen a...
2021-07-29 04:34:34 +0000 UTC View PostI haven't told you for some while what I've been up so, so this weekend I tell you something that recently annoyed me. A few months ago, I was asked to write an opinion piece for Physics Magazine, ...
2021-07-21 12:46:27 +0000 UTC View PostWe have already talked a few times about how to make sense of headlines in physics, about quantum hype and data anomalies and alien discoveries that weren't. This week I want to talk about a topic ...
2021-07-14 14:03:28 +0000 UTC View PostThe activity of the sun has periodic ups and downs and we have just begun a new cycle. Solar activity is projected to peak around 2025. In this week's video we will look at the risk of solar storms...
2021-07-07 16:58:15 +0000 UTC View PostI am working on a new book that will cover all the most exciting topics in the foundations of physics (according to my own biased opinion). As it goes, there is always extra material that doesn't f...
2021-06-30 06:01:47 +0000 UTC View PostI have always been fascinated by extrasensorial perception in science fiction and fantasy novels, in particular telepathy. What would a world look like in which telepathy was real? Well, you may sa...
2021-06-23 15:05:51 +0000 UTC View PostSpace is big and they're many fascinating things out there to talk about, but this week we'll be talking about a space topic that isn't all that far away from home: Asteroids. Or more specifically,...
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