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Video explorations of the many fascinations of PhD materials


02:50
Too Small To Be Real?
06:10
Sand Storm On The Moon | The Mystery and Danger of Moon Dust
05:09
What is Fire?
09:17
Carbon Dioxide Fever
07:01
What's Inside A Quantum Dot?
06:47
Why Gold is Red and Blue
01:41
A Very Vanadium Thanksgiving
10:34
How To Escape From A Black Hole | On Hawking Radiation
07:23
Funky Chemicals | On The Science of Stink
06:07
Never Ever Mix These | On the Deadly Reaction of Bleach and Ammonia
10:07
The Big Bang Of Biology | On The Cambrian Explosion
07:17
Mystery Moon Shot | What Landed On The Moon in 2022?
12:56
Technology's Crown Jewel | How One Company Quietly Dominates The Digital World
07:30
Shot in the Dark | New Images from the James Webb Space Telescope
10:39
Why I Changed My Mind On UFOs
13:24
Earth: More Killer Than Mother | On The World's Deadliest Rocks & Minerals
10:26
Here Comes The Quantum Computer
01:21
Major Announcement
10:44
Secret Weapon | How Rare Earth Metals Run The World
10:56
Can Objects Have Soulmates? | On Quantum Entanglement & Spooky Action At A Distance
10:39
Now I Am Become Death | J. Robert Oppenheimer & The Destroyer of Worlds
10:14
Alien Stray Bullets | The Mystery of The Oh-My-God Particle
10:50
Qualifier | PhD Exam & Rite of Passage
04:24
Musical Interlude | Vanadium Song by Christopher Rankin
12:05
Fluoride | Chemistry & Controversy
09:30
Swimming Through Quicksand | On Non-Newtonian Fluids
08:34
Glass of Metal | On Liquid Solids
08:41
Nothing is Something | On Virtual Particles & The Casimir Force
11:00
Your Head Is Older Than Your Feet | On Time Dilation & Einstein's Relativity
10:32
What Do Computers Dream About? | On Artificial Imagination
10:31
How Is A Laser Different From A Flashlight? | From Cat Toys To Directed Energy Weapons
11:57
The Devil Was Here | The Shadow of Edward Bernays
11:27
Vampire Wave | On Rogue Waves & Rogue Holes
10:26
Soap as Magic
11:23
The Maddest Scientist | From Nikola Tesla to Egon Spengler
10:08
Electric Plastic
10:24
Lifting with Light | On Light Traps and Optical Tweezers
09:16
Oil and Water Become One | How to Mix the Unmixable
18:51
Rasputin | Antichrist and the Tsar
02:22
Lost My Voice | Laryngitis Attacks
09:08
Antisomniac | Pushing The Boundaries Of Sleep
16:18
The Biggest Beef in Physics | On Robert Oppenheimer & The Infamous Edward Teller
12:26
Diamonds Are Boring | Rare and Exotic Forms of Carbon
10:24
Psychosis | The Mystical Malady
13:36
Metal Fatigue | Even Materials Get Tired Sometimes
07:48
Secrets Of The Machine: On The Antikythera Mechanism
10:18
Adamantine: The Mystery of Damascus Steel
08:25
Water is Weird: On the Many Anomalies of H2O
12:46
The Devils Breath: On the World's Scariest Chemical
10:35
Is Pain Just Data? On The Biology and Philosophy of Suffering
08:54
Who Built The Building Blocks? On The Origin of Life, Miller-Urey Experiment & Panspermia Hypothesis
09:20
Brain Sand In The Third Eye: Calcification of the Pineal Gland
18:22
Brainwasher: On the Science of Mind Control
10:06
Demon Haunted World: On Carl Sagan and CS Lewis
06:32
The Brain is a Dope Dealer: On Dopamine and the Chemistry of Motivation and Pleasure
07:22
Countdown: On The James Webb Space Telescope
08:42
Transparent Aluminum: On the Alchemy of Materials Science & Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
27:28
Ether Dome: Anesthetics, Consciousness & The Hardest Physics Problem of Them All
21:11
Vine of the Dead: On Ayahuasca
08:49
Fractured Dimension: On Fractal Geometry and the Art of Science