Psst, hey, large information right here at Popular Science: We’re back on YouTube. Wait, let me say it louder: POPULAR SCIENCE IS BACK ON YOUTUBE. Whew, that felt good.
As you might have gleaned from my solely mildly irritating use of all caps, I’m thrilled to not solely announce the relaunch of Popular Science on YouTube, but additionally introduce the workforce main the channel.
Reader, say good day to Kevin Lieber and Matt Tabor. If you’ve spent any time on YouTube prior to now decade or so, you’re in all probability already aware of their work. Kevin and Matt are the workforce behind the esteemed Vsauce2 channel, which has amassed 4.5 million subscribers and almost 800 million views since launching in 2010. Now they’ve joined the employees at Popular Science, and we’re tremendous excited to have them on the workforce! Let me inform you why.
Kevin and Matt love Popular Science as a lot as you do. One of essentially the most unbelievable issues about main Popular Science is the response I get when folks ask what I do for a residing. When I say “I’m the editor-in-chief of Popular Science,” the glazed over look all of us get when making small speak disappears and is changed with a sudden twinkle, a spark of oh cool. And then, I’ll hear one thing like “Wow, I love Popular Science” or “I LOVED Popular Science as a kid,” adopted by them telling me about their favourite story from the previous 150 years. Kevin and Matt share that giddy enthusiasm and shall be bringing you movies that seize the spirit of why we’ve maintained a loyal viewers for greater than a century.
I requested Kevin to share why he wished to hitch us: “Popular Science has analyzed and entertained since before the telephone was patented. Eight generations have relied on this publication to understand what’s happening in the world and what’s about to happen in the world. My family subscribed to the magazine when I was a kid, and now I’m merging that incredible legacy with my experience on YouTube.”
We’ll quickly be rolling out 4 new collection varieties:
- Technology: A present analyzing the promise of previous expertise (each failed and realized) and its implications on the long run.
- Documentaries: A collection of deep-dives in science subjects that makes use of each self-discipline inside the sciences, social sciences, and humanities
- Visualizations: A collection of dynamic laptop animated visual-scale comparability movies that contextualize necessary ideas in science
- And lastly, Stories: A storytelling collection that unravels the unbelievable unknown context surrounding essentially the most compelling tales in science historical past
In a lot of our movies, we’ll be digging via our intensive archives for inspiration, unearthing the tales that make us say “wow,” “coooool,” or “HUH?” and giving them a contemporary spin. For instance: In the March 1987 difficulty of Popular Science, author Jim Schefter lined the Butler in a Box, an early precursor to Siri and Alexa. The inventor, Gus Searcy, was knowledgeable magician who owned a 7-Eleven at age 21, had a world champion frisbee-catching canine, invented a cannon to feed fish from a submarine, and, by some means the least stunning tidbit, wrote a motivational e book. A wow, coooool, HUH story multi function. Plus Kevin purchased a Butler in a Box on eBay and it was a complete factor. You know what? Just watch the video.
The nod to our historical past will also be discovered within the new brand for our YouTube channel. Much like what you’ll discover within the upcoming movies, the design is a nod to our previous (assume approach back to the Nineteen Twenties-era covers) with a powerful present-day affect.
If all of this sounds attention-grabbing to you (and duh, it ought to), subscribe on YouTube. And do not forget that you will discover fascinating Popular Science written tales on PopSci.com and in our newsletters. And you need to undoubtedly nonetheless tune in to our delightfully bizarre podcasts on YouTube (or wherever you get your podcasts) at their new house. See you sooner or later.