I get candid with Grayson Brulte, autonomous vehicle expert, as we discuss the potential ethical iss...

Watch as a Peruvian Shaman performs his icaro—or healing chant—in its entirety, from my Ayahuasca ce...

With just seven days until my Ayahuasca ceremony, I fill out a recommended personality survey—which...

I explore how psychedelics can improve mental health in my interview with cancer survivor Gail Thoma...

Is there a way to experience the effects of psychedelic drugs without having to ingest anything? Wat...

Expert Melissa Russano elicits a false confession from one of our test subjects in this fascinating,...

I sit down with Jeffrey Deskovic, a real-life victim of a false confession conviction.

Check out this extended cut of my challenging experience as a human lab rat in a giant, 60-foot real...

I interview Shirley Dygert, a first time skydiver, and her tandem skydiving instructor, Dave Hartsoc...

In San Diego, real-life superheroes walk the streets as part of the Xtreme Justice League. I chat wi...

Check out the final stage of our power of suggestion test, where we try to convince our subjects tha...

I go deeper into accessory-assisted placebos by discussing sham acupuncture—and getting stuck with a...

I attempt to discuss placebos, but my furry co-star keeps stealing the scene.

Let’s do a little test. I’ll play two tones and you see if you’re one of the few people who can noti...

Derek Paravicini, a blind, autistic pianist and musical savant, sits down with me at the keyboard an...

Jazz pianist Dave O’Brien and his student Derek Paravicini play an impressive piano duet for me.

Research Physiatrist Marcie Bockbrader talks to me about a brain-computer interface project that is...

I interview principal research statistician David Friedenberg about his role in analyzing all the da...

With the help of Cecile Sarabian, Dr. Andrew MacIntosh and some fake poop, Michael observes levels o...

Kyoto University Ph.D. candidate Jie Gao shares her research involving Chimpanzees and the schoolyar...

Michael and Dr. Terrence Deacon discuss the connection between language and the physical brain.

We edited the fake Los Angeles parks PSA from our Moral Licensing demonstration!

Michael wrestles with two moral dilemmas in VR, designed by researchers Dr. Erick Ramirez and Dr. Sc...

Michael uses a series of coin flips and a large group of people to demonstrate the “wisdom of the cr...

Michael recruits local Vsauce fans for his Brain experiment, and fields questions in a Q&A setting.

Michael shares memories with his mom, who has saved everything from his childhood - from report card...

Michael takes Dr. Chris Eliasmith on a tour through his high school, including his forensics team’s...

Michael conducts his own version of the famous “jelly bean jar” experiment and reveals the statistic...

Michael learns the true story behind Stanford Prison Experiment guard Dave Eshleman’s “John Wayne” m...

Michael learns more about Ben Blum’s cousin Alex and his personal transformation after participating...

Michael meets with Caitlin Doughty and learns about a death-positive culture in Indonesia, where rel...

Michael meets with psychologists Dr. Jeff Greenberg and Dr. Sheldon Solomon to discuss how death aff...

Michael visits Alcor life extension and learns about the first person to ever be frozen using cryoni...

Michael visits Alcor life extension and learns about the family behind – and preserved by – cryonics...

Michael discusses the philosophy of death, and its changing definition, with Dr. Max More, CEO of Al...

Michael and Dr. Douglas Vakoch discuss Barnard’s Star, the closest star to our solar system, within...

Michael and Dr. Steven Vance discuss the famous “Golden Record”, which was sent aboard NASA’s Voyage...

Stevens talks about fear and if there exists an innate fear of which all people are afraid.

I asked a group of colleagues who worked with me on the series to sit down at Vsauce HQ and watch th...

What happens when your brain is deprived of stimulation? What effect does being cut off from interac...

We are all unique individuals. We follow the beat of our own drum. We wouldn’t throw our own beliefs...

We humans love to build, create, and organize. So why do we also love to destroy things? Can violent...

So you say you love your computer or smartphone...but can it love you back? As we become more depend...

We may value having Freedom of Choice, but are we actually happier when we have limited choices...or...

How much of the sensations we feel is determined by our physical bodies? Maybe our minds play a bigg...

How much do we communicate through facial expressions? Are our expressions affected by our moods, or...

What makes you, you? If even the most basic parts of you, like your memories or your past, can be fo...

Would you reroute a train to run over one person to prevent it from running over five others? In the...

Do psychedelic drugs really bring about self-healing and personal enlightenment? New research says...

Psychology. Neuroscience. Drugs. All can be tools of interrogation. In this episode, an expert s...

Technology isn’t just changing our lives. It’s literally changing our brains -- and maybe for the b...

What makes a hero? Dr. Philip Zimbardo, the psychologist behind the infamous Stanford Prison Experim...

Exactly how do placebos work? Researchers believe that, through the power of suggestion, placebos m...

Scientists can’t dissect living people’s brains to study their function. But by examining the behavi...

Our nervous system is fundamentally electric. We move our arm by sending a signal to the muscles tha...

Humans are the only Earthlings with complex language. But at what cost was that ability acquired? In...

How are our moral decisions influenced by factors we’re not aware of? A phenomenon known as Moral Li...

There are 100 billion individual neurons in the human brain. Working together, they allow us to make...

Normal people can become monsters, given the right situation. That’s the standard narrative of the S...

If I could live forever, should I? How does being reminded of our own mortality affect us psychologi...

Are we alone in the universe? Even if we could contact aliens, what would we say? How would we say i...

How can a lie become true? In this episode, Dr. Aaron Blaisdell and I create a game show that is act...

In this episode I visit a researcher who is studying memory by using machine learning and neuroimagi...