As part of THE GREAT GIFT EXCHANGE, Physics Girl is transported to a whimsical “Wrapshop” to wrap a charitable gift for creator Alex Wassabi. With help from The World’s Most Famous Gift Wrap Artist, Physics Girl creates an EXPLOSIVE gift...

Artist and educator Allison Smith shares her thoughts and library of books about art made in adverse circumstances. Featured are Vladimir Arkhipov's project Home-Made, archiving Russian artifacts made during Perestroika, and Trench Art,...

Last week I posed a video with 5 awesome physics party tricks. This week, Jabril from SEFD came on to help explain the experiments as we test them out for the first time and work through some of the amusing kinks in the process. Any...

Wine legs aka wine tears or wine fingers are stranger than they seem.

When you mix red and green, what do you get? White light is all of the colors, right? So, how do computer screens show you every wavelength of light? Or do they?

Over the past 3 years, 60 artists have offered art assignments, and thousands of artworks have been made in response. Here's a brief glimpse of what we've all made together over the course of this series so far. So KEEP ASSIGNMENTING!

What art that brings you comfort right now? What art do you want to be thinking about? In this episode, we make a book of art by Alec Soth, Miyoko Ito, Giorgio Morandi, Vija Celmins, Sam Gilliam, Sheila Hicks, and Wayne Thiebaud. Make...

Dianna from Physics Girl makes DIY crazy vortex ring shapes with Grant Sanderson from 3blue1brown

Variable Frequency Drives Explained - VFD basics. In this video we take a look at variable frequency drives to understand how they work in electrical engineering and power electronics. We look at where and why to use a VFD or VSD,...

Making two useless boxes into a metronome. Will it work?

We visit Fritz Haeg at his home and studio in Los Angeles and receive the assignment to make a rag rug! But not just any rag rug--one that you make over time and do something on.

This video looks at how you can build a very loud meteronome

How does a car battery work, learn from the basics where we use and battery and how batteries work.

Making a cast of my hand to use as a mold for resin casting.

Hi friends! Bella Bloom thinks blowing bubbles is fun, she loves seeing how many she can make in the back yard! Today, Bella is making her very own bubble wand and bubble solution! She can’t wait to play with her new creation...

Tic tacs have the strangest behavior when you bounce them on a very hard surface. What is going on?! Find out the physics.

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Is used a "Touch Board" from Bare Conductive and my own woodworking/electronics skills to make this project. It's basically a touch keyboard. But instead of a regular piano-type keyboard, the notes are activated when a small metal button...

Military grade joystick meets Arduino LoRa meets really lame wheeled robot

How does a Padlock work, learn from the basics how a padlock works

How fast is the internet? How fast can we send data? This easy DIY experiment allows you to control light with water! Drill a hole in the bottom of a 2 liter bottle, fill the bottle with water allowing the water to stream out the hole,...

The exciting conclusion to the Useless Box metronome build!

Making a robot and attaching a marching band metronome to it.

In this video, we're going to learn about cars and their starter motors. We'll explore the purpose of a starter motor and learn why cars have them. This is a basic video about cars and their starter motors, so if you're looking for more...