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Q&A With Grey: 500,000 Subscribers Edition
Q&A With Grey: 500,000 Subscribers Edition
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Hello Internet,
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Here we are: 500,000 subscribers -- well, actually... by the time I finished this video
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it's a bit more than that -- but who knew that after I promised to do a Q&A that the
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pope would resign?
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Anyway...
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When I uploaded my first explanation video just over two years ago now, I would never
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have expented this: over half a million subscribers and 16 videos with over a million views. Who
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knew rapidly spoken educational videos could be so popular?
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Thank you, Internet.
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Now, as promised -- though slighly behind schedule -- it's time to answer some of your
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questions.
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## "What's your educational background?" Rodrigo, Campo Grande, Brazil
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I went to school in New York where I earned two college degrees, one in physics and one
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in sociology. After that I moved to London and earned a PGCE in Science Education, and
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became a qualified physics teacher in England.
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## "How long does it take to create a video?" Tracey, Ohio
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I've tracked my time to get an accurate answer and every minute of final video you see takes
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me between 10 and 20 hours of writing and animating to make. So a typical 5 minute video
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is 50 to 100 hours of work.
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While that's a lot, it doesn't include the research phase which is difficult to quantify
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-- some of the videos I've made I'd been collecting notes on for more than a year before starting.
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## "What was you favourite video make?" Brittany P, UK
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The 2012 video was the most fun by far -- mainly because I didn't have to do a lot of complicated
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research and I got to complain about things I don't like.
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## "What change would you make to the education system?" Lumbajack Gangsta, Austin, TX
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Instead of grouping kids by age, I'd group try grouping them by ability instead.
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The idea that just because a kid is 14-years-old they're ready for trigonometry is weird. No
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other part of human society oranizes itself this way and for good reason: it artificially
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slows down the best and brightest.
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## "What is do you think should be in the curriculum but isn't?" Jamaal, Arizona
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Computer programming. I was kind of shocked and horrified when I started teaching in the
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UK to discover there were no real computer programming lessons.
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Of course, there are only so many classes in the day, and everyone wants their pet subject
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taught in schools, so the equally important question is what to get rid of to make room
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for computer programming and, without the slightest hesitation I'd ditch the foreign
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languages classes -- after all, computer programming is getting us closer and closer to a universal
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translator anyway.
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## "What do you do when you receive pennies?" johnjac, Owasso
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I die a little inside thinking about how political systems can distribute tiny costs across large
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numbers of people to the benefit of a few.
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## "What's your favorite element?" Rasmus, Denmark
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I don't have a favorite but I'm irrationaly fond of Tungsten mainly because my wedding
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ring is made out of it.
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## "What's the story behind your logo?" Joshua B.
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It's basically a personal flag for my love of science and technology.
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When I first started this channel, I thought that I would make videos mostly about those
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two things, but for various reasons, that hasn't happened yet.
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And besides, it's not like there's a shortage of good science channels on YouTube.
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By the way, If you really like the logo, you can get it on T-Shirts and now coffee mugs
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-- which is particularly appropriate as coffee is the fuel that without which these videos
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could not be made.
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## "What do you do in your free time?" Sam L, Higginsville, MO
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I like to horseback ride through the mountains.
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Nah, it's mostly just reddit.
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Speaking of which...
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## "Would you rather fight 100 duck-sized horses or 1 horse-sized duck?" techtakular,
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Alex, va
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One horse-sized duck. The cube-squared law means the legs of a horse-sized duck probably
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wouldn't be structually sound. Easy fight.
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## "Are there going to be more "politics in the animal kingdom" videos?" Oli
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Yes, I'm sorry, I know this playlist is unfinished and, if any of the videos videos I've ever
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made can be said to be important, it's these.
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I promise at least one more about the single transferable vote, but I don't make any promises
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about when that will happen.
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## "Do you think third parties will ever gain ground in the United States?" Kerl, Florida
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No.
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The problem isn't politics or voter apathy, it's the system that creates the politics
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and voter apathy.
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The US election system is pretty much the worst in the civilized world -- often voting
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for a 3rd party isn't just a waste it's also a vote *against* your own best interests.
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3rd parties really can't thrive under those conditions.
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## "What's one technology you wish to see before you die?" zigonick, MO, USA
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Immortality technology.
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## Where do you get your ideas?
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It's been my experience that creative projects are self-sustaining. The more you write, the
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more things you want to write about and the more you program the more programming ideas
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you have.
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For me each video spawns more videos. The daylight saving one, for example, originally
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contained spots for information about longitude and time zones and the seasons that got cut
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but will probably become their own videos at some point.
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Also, I listen to a monstrous number of audiobooks and podcasts. If you're interested, you can
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see some of my favorites here. These help me keep in touch with the wider world and
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expose me to ideas and information that I would not have come across on my own.
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## "If you could live at any time in history when would it be?" Bonnie, Scotland
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I wouldn't.
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Allow me to summarieze all of human existance with this single graph.
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## "What's the best way be successful on YouTube?" Joe Kowalski, 44074
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Make videos people want to watch.
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I'm not trying to be glib here but when asked this question I see many YouTubers talk about
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the importance of upload schedules and managing your social media and colloborations, and
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my experience says that's completely backwards.
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If your videos aren't interesting, no one will care that you upload them regularly.
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And twitter followers don't get you views, views get you twitter followers and people
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who want to collaborate with you.
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I know it's not very helpful advice, but it's the most truthful advice I can give.
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## "What is the most interesting fact you've ever been told." Stu1278, England
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It's difficult to pick just one from an entire lifetime, but last year Veritasium visited
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me in London and walked me thorugh the process by which trees get water from their roots
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to their leaves.
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That sounds really boring but it was one of the most mind-blowing conversations I've had
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in a long time.
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## "How often do you engage with profesionals while you research?" theLarom, Washington,
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DC
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For me, being confused and frustrated with a topic is a vital part of figuring out how
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to explain it to others so I'd say 95% of research I do on my own.
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If I'm really out of my depth on a topic -- like the debt video and the pope video -- I try
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very hard to find an expert to look over the final draft of my script but time constraints
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and finding trustworthy experts is sometimes a bit difficult.
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## "What is your favorite internal organ?" trint99, DFW, TX
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The Brain -- because it's the one that's me.
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## "Is there any part of science do you want to be proven wrong?" Jrod N, Massacusetts
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Yes, the current interpretations of the ultimate fate of The Universe all make me sad.
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## "Can you answer 10 questions in under 30 seconds?" YouReadMeName
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## 1: "What is your favorite scientific study ever published?" Marie, Reno, NV
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Unskilled Are Unaware: Further Explorations of (Absent)
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Self-Insight Among the Incompetent
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Link in the description.
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## 2: "Hogwarts house?" Zeinoun Awad, Lebanon
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Ravenclaw. (I'd hope)
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## 3: "Celsius or Fahrenheit?" Kubez
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Fahrenheit.
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##4: Kirk or Picard
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Picard.
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## 5: "Do you wear glasses?" Spartacus McFancy Pants
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Uh, yeah.
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## 6: "Favorite empire?" Caleb Glickman, USA
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The second one. Those monks were awesome.
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## 7: "How can a country be totally self sufficient -- as in no imports or exports?" Amberjack1973
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Simple, resort to a midevil level of technology.
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## 8: "Favourite sport?" soccernhlfan, Canada
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No.
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## 9: "Should science play a bigger role in politics?" Dip, London, UK
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What, you mean the method by which we determine truth? Yeah, I think it should.
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## 10: "Can you answer 10 questions in under 30 seconds?" YouReadMeName
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Apparently.
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Alright, thanks to everyone who submitted questions -- it's been fun, Internet.
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