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Everyday physics & science demos Videos Recommended on Hacker News (166)
Everyday physics & science demos is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 166 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2009 and 2026 — 341 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.
Physics in everyday life: science demonstrations, Steve Mould, Smarter Every Day, slow-motion experiments, optics, sound and acoustics, fluid dynamics, counterintuitive science, citizen experiments.
Why HN keeps sending people here — on AT&T Archives: Similiarities of Wave Behavior (Bonus Edition): “By far the best introduction to the subject of waves of any sort.” — an HN commenter, 2019.
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0 mo on HNDoes Hot Water Freeze Faster Than Cold Water?
Sciencium
0 HN recommender · 2020–2026
0 mo on HNAirflow across a wing
Cambridge University
0 HN recommender · 2021–2025
0 mo on HNQuantum Levitation
Association of Science and Technology Centers
0 HN recommender · 2012–2023
0 mo on HNTacoma Bridge Collapse: The Wobbliest Bridge in the World? (1940) | British Pathé
British Pathé
0 HN recommender · 2015–2026
0 mo on HNScientists Make Easter Island Statue Walk | National Geographic
National Geographic
0 HN recommender · 2019–2024
0 mo on HNRailroad tank car vacuum implosion
Tom Brattain
0 HN recommender · 2014–2023
0 mo on HNListening radio with grass
ateijeiro0
0 HN recommender · 2017–2026
0 mo on HNAlvin Lucier - I Am Sitting in a Room
A channel
0 HN recommender · 2020–2023
0 mo on HNFluorescent Lights under High Voltage Power Lines!
emfhomesafety
0 HN recommender · 2012–2021
0 mo on HNWorld's Strongest Magnet!
Veritasium
0 HN recommender · 2023–2024
0 mo on HNThe Greenhouse Gas Demo
Erik Christensen
0 HN recommender · 2016–2022
0 mo on HNThe Counterintuitive Physics of Turning a Bike
minutephysics
0 HN recommender · 2018–2023
0 mo on HNA laser pointer at 2 billion fps makes the speed of light look... kinda weird
AlphaPhoenix
0 HN recommender · 2025–2026
0 mo on HNCrazy pool vortex
Physics Girl
0 HN recommender · 2014–2024
0 mo on HN20Hz to 20kHz (Human Audio Spectrum)
adminofthissite
0 HN recommender · 2016–2025
0 mo on HNSpinning Sphere of Molten Sodium
Veritasium
0 HN recommender · 2020–2022
0 mo on HNam radio tower power
Aaron
0 HN recommender · 2020–2023
0 mo on HNZero Mass Water -BUSTED!
Thunderf00t
0 HN recommender · 2018–2025
0 mo on HNMicrowaving Grapes Makes Plasma
Veritasium
0 HN recommender · 2020–2024
0 mo on HN100 car batteries wired in parallel!
styropyro
0 HN recommender · 2023–2024
0 mo on HNEEVblog #646 - Gravity Detection Using A Frequency Counter!
EEVblog
0 HN recommender · 2014–2023
0 mo on HNHow noisy is a wind farm?
The Telegraph
0 HN recommender · 2019–2025