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Memorial Day family photos

I hope your Memorial Day photos are more successful than mine! http://imgur.com/a/Pluhj

A Swing for Mary!

A wheelchair accessible swing is an interesting physics/engineering problem! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDB4b5PF9_g

7 Holes in the Space Station - Smarter Every Day 135

Some guy from Alabama put 7 holes in the Space Station..... in order to provide you with really awesome twitter photos from Space.

Acoustic Levitation in ULTRA SLOW MOTION - Smarter Every Day 134

This might be some of the most amazing footage I've ever personally captured.

Well, this is happening....

Hey guys I did a brief video that'll be played on American Idol this Wednesday. It's a brief commercial for a Ford Focus, but I do a demonstration of acoustic levitation. It's quite interesting. I'm going to turn it into a SED that I'm going to upload on the same day. Here's a shot of an out-of-place Destin on the set.

The Backwards Brain Bicycle

Thank you for supporting me on Patreon guys. If you've been a Patron for a while you've know about this skill that I've been cultivating because I've posted about it a couple of times. I've been working on this particular video for a really really long time. I hope you enjoy the finished product. Feel free to pass this one along to anyone who you feel might benefit from a little self inspection to determine if they have a cognitive bias. On another note, I'm currently on my way to LA to shoo...

Raw images right out of the camera.

Hey guys... I was driving near Ocotillo CA on my way back to the airport and I quickly pulled over and took these photos. Straight out of the camera.... I hope you like them. Please feel free to use them as your background or print them out... whatever you'd like. Since they're pretty much the prettiest photos I've ever taken I would ask that you don't share them. Again, straight out of the camera. I didn't even rename the files. Regards, Destin PS. Thanks for being a Patron. You're mak...

Stuff on the cutting room floor...

Sometimes the problem is that you have TOO MUCH good footage. It's a really good problem to have, but it breaks your heart a little bit to see cool stuff not get included in the video. Checkout this beautiful sunrise intro scene that I've decided NOT to use in the next video.

The High Five page

Dearest Patrons, I got to thinking about it and decided to make a more personal way to show my appreciation to people on the internet. I decided to make a "high five page" and upload high fives when I'm in interesting places. If someone does something awesome I would just go to the page, pick out a high five and send it to them. Here's a few just to start. http://www.smartereveryday.com/highfive This might be...

Unlisted video for Mary

There's a little girl named Mary who is sick in the hospital at the moment. She has something called Spinal Muscular Atrophy. She watches Smarter Every Day and I know her Dad well so I dropped in and saw her the other night. I didn't realize it was quite as serious as it is. She's currently intubated and trying to get strong enough to get the breathing tube out. We made an unlisted video for her. If you feel like commenting on the video, say something encouraging for Mary. 2015-04-05 01:41:14 +0000 UTC View Post

WE HAD A BABY!

Note: The dollar value shown on this Patreon page is wrong. The actual donated amount is much lower than this. We had a Baby... Here's a collection of my thoughts.

How to Fly a Spaceship to the Space Station.

I interviewed Scott Kelly in his spaceship. It was awesome.

Welcome new patrons and check out this animation!

Hey guys! There have been many people in the last week who made the transition over from Subbable. Thanks! One cool thing about Patreon is that I can communicate with you more consistently and give you aheads up on things that are about to happen. The attached video is not-for-distribution and for-patron-eyes-only. It's something I'm working on with an animator (youtube username EisenFeuer) to be incorporated in a video I hope to release in the next few days. I'm explaining the orbital me...

Awesome Planetary Infographic / Data Visualization

Planetary Size, Gravity, and Density. An Original Infographic! (WITH REAL DATA!!) I haven't posted this anywhere besides the SED Facebook page and the Twitter account yet. Feel free to post it wherever you'd like to cash in on those sweet sweet "internet points." If you post it somewhere please link me so I know where all it ends up! 1.3Mb File is attached. Fill size image: http://i.imgur.com/PWM7Eoq.png Thanks again ...

Coffee Video Chat tonight! (Thursday)

Hey guys! We were frozen in and not allowed to go to work today which means I had time to do other stuff and get ready for a coffee chat tonight! It'll be at 7PM Central time. I hope you can make it!! The URL is below. http://www.spreecast.com/events/early-march-new-baby-spreecast

World's Most Amazing Archer in Slow Motion

All these years I've lived only a few miles from Byron Ferguson and never knew it!!

Opinions on Title of the next video?

Do any of you guys have an opinion for the Title of the video I'm about to upload? It's an amazing archer shooting very tiny things... and I captured it in slow motion. Here's what I"m thinking so far: World's best archer? In SLOW MOTION - Smarter Every Day WORLD'S BEST ARCHER? Slow Motion - Smarter Every Day World's Best Bow Shot In SLOW MOTION Best Archer in the World? SLOW MOTION Unbelievable Archery in SLOW MOTION Your thoughts?

It's a girl!!

Hey guys! We had our 4th child! My wife didn't want me to upload a picture of her, but I vetoed her because I thought she was so pretty. Our daughter is pretty too!

Met the milestone!

Hey guys, A lot of you are new to Smarter Every Day on Patreon. Thanks for jumping on board! We also just met our $4k milestone! I'm going to go to the science! I plan on using this money to make frequent trips to Houston to start out. Thank you! Here's a high five! Hopefully it isn't sideways on your side of the internet. Also, I know I've been behind on posters and stuff. It's coming! Also, do you guys have a preferred date/time to do a coffee chat? Expect an update from our pregna...

SMARTER EVERY DAY AND SPACE!!!! - 129

Smarter Every Day Space series.

I'm working on a video to announce a really cool series about Space on Smarter Every Day. The series is going to be awesome. I would appreciate any help you'd offer to promote it once it comes out.

At NASA

Guys, I just drove 12 hours to Johnson Space Center in Houston. I hope to have some good things to show you from this adventure coming soon.

Headed to Houston

I'm driving to Houston on Monday. Does anyone live in Houston? I'm not sure what my schedule will be but I thought I'd ask!

Facebook Freebooting

Free Audio Book ⇒ http://bit.ly/AudibleSED POST TO FACEBOOK! ⇉ http://bit.ly/FbFreeboot OR http://on.fb.me/1BVWCd1 Tweet this: http://bit.ly/TweetFreebooting Is it freebooted? Read this: 2015-01-20 19:52:16 +0000 UTC View Post

Spaghetti Infographic

Here's an infographic on how spaghetti snaps into three pieces! I will upload it to my facebook page this evening, but until then feel free to post it wherever you'd like and get the jump on me! Image attached as a file. Thanks again for your support. Regards, Destin

I fixed my wife's Jeep.

I know you guys probably don't own a 2003 Jeep Wrangler... but my wife does.... and the clutch interrupter switch was broken. This video is the result of months of trying to sort out an ignition problem. I really hope this fixes it! There were no good videos on the web about this switch so I decided to contribute to the body of auto-repair knowledge that is YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgZ0CDY1Xyg

Here's a video about why you were blasted 20 emails... Sorry!

I thought it was really cool of Patreon Headquarters to contact me and want to explain this to us! I hope you share my appreciation. Here's a video about why you were blasted 20 emails... Sorry! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-Q1Cmuu8nI

Secret of Snapping Spaghetti in SLOW MOTION

Forever more every time you grab a piece of dry spaghetti you will have an irresistible urge to break it.

Merry Christmas! Wow... My videos have come a long way

A long time ago I decided to start making videos just because it was fun. I made this before I understood the full ramifications of putting things on the internet. The year after I made this video Santa called me out from the top of the truck and asked me if I was going to make a video again that year. This was probably my first brush with people recognizing my work and mentioning it to me "in the real world". I've kept this video private for many years now, but figured you might be interest...

December Unlisted Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od7bhijA2Lg