How I reached 1 Million Subscribers on YouTube -- And you can, too.

We’ve made it to 1 million subscribers! Thank you all for making this happen. To honour the occasion, I want to summarize some of my thoughts about how YouTube works and what works on YouTube.



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Quantum Computing at Room Temperature?

Today we’ll talk about raisins. Yes, raisins. Quasars with dark matter halos, pink diamonds, the last moments of a dying satellite, a new type of qubit, maybe, how to measure the length of the day with lasers, a new treatment method for brain cancer that’s got something to do with quantum mechanics, whether climate change drives migration, and of course, the telephone will ring.

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NEW: We now also have a podcast!

Does the Universe have a Purpose?

If people knew one thing about Steven Weinberg, it’d be a quote from one of his books: “The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.” In this video, I want to speculate about what he might have meant. Is the universe pointless?



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Possible signs of life on an exoplanet

Today we talk about the possibly first evidence for life on an exoplanet, with some caveats, chaos at the centre of the Milky Way, earthquake lights, a really old rock, noise cancellation for qubits, good news about air pollution, wifi that can see through walls, origami robots, the 2024 Breakthrough Prizes, and of course, the telephone will ring.

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A written version of our weekly Science News goes out on Substack
NEW: We now also have a podcast!

Don't trust me, I'm an influencer

In this video, I talk about how we talk, or how we communicate information on social media in general. Why is it so difficult to communicate on social media, what’s a parasocial relationship, and what are the problems with it?



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Climate scientist boasts about fudging own paper

Today we talk about a bubble of galaxies, a climate scientist who made his own paper worse, double magic oxygen, a chemical reaction slowed down 100 billion times, maxwell’s demon in biology, intelligent life on earth, the launch of a new X-ray space mission, drone racing, and of course the telephone will ring.

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All you need to know about web3

What is web3? I've tried to figure it out and here is my summary of what I have learned. Tbh I have been a little befuddled by what's going on. Let me know what you think about all that in the comments.



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Capitalism is good. Let me explain

Is capitalism the reason the world is going to hell in a hand basket? Or is it going to save us? What is capitalism anyway? How does money work and when do free markets fail? This video is a brief summary of a dip I did into microeconomics literature in a dark hour of my life.



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