How to Get Started, Doing Things that Don't Scale, and Press (How to Start a Startup 2014: 8)

Today in the gym, when my wife was doing dumbbell curls, I started wondering. See, she’s putting a force on that dumbbell upwards, right? But does that force stay constant as she moves the dumbbell up, or not? Does it change? And if it does change, how do…

Every man, woman, and child. The world’s largest buyer of coffee, the US, has to import nearly all of this as the coffee trees from which caffeine is harvested will only grow at commercial levels between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn in…

Changing the pH of a solution can affect the solubility of a slightly soluble salt. For example, if we took some solid lead(II) fluoride, which is a white solid, and we put it in some distilled water, the solid is going to reach an equilibrium with the io…

I think that in a former life, I must have been a fish. I won’t say what kind, but certainly was not a goldfish. Oh, the freedom! I feel so free. I just wish I could be naked, but I can’t be. But I just love that free. Swimming for me is like a second fo…

Hey, Vsauce. Michael here. And I’m home for the holidays. I’m in my parents’ basement, using a different camera than usual. But you know what is always different? Fingerprints. The palms of our hands and the soles of our feet are weird. They are covered w…

We’ve learned in other videos that the atom is, in fact, made up of even smaller constituent particles, which is pretty amazing because atoms are already unimaginably small. Those particles are the protons, which have a positive charge; you have your neut…