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Why It's IMPOSSIBLE To Throw a Disc Golf Disc Straight - Smarter Every Day 313

Is This Gyroscopic Precession Demonstration Perfect? - Smarter Every Day 312 & Sticker Team Announcement!

I have long tried to understand Gyroscopic Precession... and if I'm honest been a bit annoyed by the fact that I can't quite understand the bicycle wheel demonstrations. This simple little expriment in the garage is an attempt to understand gyroscopic precession in a little different way. It's not perfect... but it certainly helps me understand things a bit better without having to do cross products!

Thank you so much for supporting on Patreon! You're the reason I can make the videos I...

2025-2026 Supporter Update & Sticker Announcement!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

I've had quite an eventful 2 months, and I wanted to give you an update on all things that are going on with my personal life and Smarter Every Day. I also wanted to give you this year's sticker team announcement! I hope you love it! This is a Supporting Patron-only video, so I've password protected it. Please don't share this with anyone, and I'd appreciate it if you keep what we discuss in the video private do to the personal-life nature of some...

Refueling a NUCLEAR REACTOR - Smarter Every Day 311

Thank you so much for supporting Smarter Every Day on Patreon! As mentioned towards the end of this video we're about to do the Patreon Sticker team this year so I'm excited to share that with you!

Here we continue our Nuclear Power Deep Dive with an incredible look into how a nuclear power plant is refueled. This video is a dream come true, and there's so much to learn here.... but there's more to come! We'll look into exactly what's happening in the reactor and go into great detail...

Ideas for the 2025 Sticker Team?

Hey! We're making this year's stickers for the 2025 Smarter Every Day Sticker Team. I'd love to hear your ideas! We of course started the Nuclear Power series this year... but I would love to know any team ideas for this year! Thank you so much for supporting.
Regards,

Destin

Pompeii Changed the Way I Think About the Roman Empire - Smarter Every Day 310

I believe a lot of us think about Ancient Rome... I certainly do. Two years ago Tara and I visited Pompeii as a part of our 20th anniversary. It was a huge deal for us, and we're incredibly grateful to have had the opportunity. This particular tour has absolutely changed how I think about the day-to-day life in the Roman Empire more than any other experience or piece of content I've ever consumed. I've continued to think about these few hours with Ciro for quite some time now and I thought...

Destin's First University Lecture

Thank you so much for supporting me on Patreon.

It really really makes a difference... for example, you're helping me pursue the PhD, which is AMAZING. It's actually quite difficult and a bit hard to balance making Smarter Every Day, the pursuit of the degree...and try to be a good father and husband. The prioritization matrix in my head is relatively simple, with family being first.... then SED and PhD mixed in somehow.

I don't talk much about how hard I'm working on all thi...

Entering a Nuclear Power Plant

This video is an amazing look in to what Nuclear Plant Workers need to learn to enter a Nuclear Power Plant. I didn't know about Alpha, Beta, and Thank you very much for everyone who supports on Patreon! I'm incredibly excited about this series, and I'm grateful for your support!

I Tried Hard To Make Something In America (The Smarter Scrubber Experiment) - Smarter Every Day 308

Welp.. this is going to be interesting.

I'm grateful that you, the Patrons of Smarter Every Day, have long been aware of this project and have been so supportive. I'm excited to see if we can tool this thing up... but I'm simultaneously scared that we might not be able to figure it out well.

Thank you for being so supportive and making this project happen! I now know how to CNC machine, I know more about stamping and injection molding.... all kinds of things. I'm grateful for ...

The Mystery of Impact Flashes - Smarter Every Day 307

Thank you so much for supporting on Patreon! This was an absolutely awesome rabbit hole to go down. What do you think is going on? I'll be reading the comments here on Patreon (and commenting over the next couple of days). I'll definitely be planning for and updated video on this phenomenon. I'm thinking I need to do this in a vacuum FOR SURE.

I'm about to tell the email list....

Please forgive me if this is an annoying post. I wanted to let you know that I'm about to tell the email list about the Smarter Scrubber... and I wanted to tell you (the Patrons) first in case you were hoping to get one. The email list is approximately 100,000 people, so I'm thinking we may run out of inventory once I blast it out. I was going to give you a heads up a couple of days in advance in case you were thinking about it. The attached video is an edit I made to the original video I...

CAD Files from Nuclear Power Video

I made a HUGE number of 3D models for the nuclear power video. I have NO IDEA what you might want to do with these files, but I put so much work into them I thought you might enjoy doing something with them! I've included the original Autodesk Inventor files if you're someone who uses Inventor. I've also included the files in STEP format so you can edit them.

You'll find a motor mount file in the models. It is made to use this motor: 2025-02-05 21:57:13 +0000 UTC View Post

NEW VIDEO! World's First Nuclear Power Plant

For years I've wanted to do a series exploring Nuclear Power.  It's time. I recorded this video about a year ago in the wilderness of Idaho at Idaho National Labs.  I'm VERY EXCITED about this series, and I hope you are as well.  For the first video, my goal was to understand the fundamentals of how a nuclear power plant works.  I believe EBR-1, Experim...