Working for Veritasium

In 2021 I was recruited by Derek Muller, of youtube's top science channel Veritasium, to contribute script content and demonstration equipment to the video "Risking my life to Settle a Physics Debate." In this video, Derek drives a car that is powered by the wind – yet – travels faster than the wind. The physics seems so impossible that many of us were asked to help explain how it is all possible. In this talk, I provide a backstage pass to see how these videos are made, explain my role in the project, and which explanations were written by me. I also demonstrate my prototype toy version of the "Black Bird" vehicle, built with found materials, that can be replicated in any high school or middle school classroom.