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Vsauce is the best "normal conversation" destroyer

Whenever I watch a Vsauce video, I kinda sorta forget where we actually started.

"When you look at beautiful autumn colors, you are looking at stress. But the bigger the fight the trees put up, the more energy they put into their defenses at the very end, the more brilliant their colors will be. Winter will eventually come, but scientifically, the brightest, deepest, most remarkable colors... come from not giving up, too easily or quickly." One of the best and most motivational quotes I've heard in my life

Scientifically, the brightest, deepest, most remarkable colours come from not giving up to easily or quickly. - That line is purely beautiful!

Archimedes: writes some complex & useful calculus stuff a random monk: This is worthless!

imagine having a friend like michael to just tell you cool facts all day..

In tears, what a ending

9:25 love how serious he looks after that

seeing him rolling in the snow made me really happy

And as always, thanks for watching **has a seizure**

idk why but when i was 15 or something and i watched the ending of this video when michael talked about the brightest colours for leaves in autumn come from stress and not giving up- it hit so hard i cried. I downloaded this whole video onto a USB afterwards and put that song on my playlist too. back here as a 22 year old now and I won't lie, it didn't hit as hard as I hoped it would considering I haven't seen this in like 8 years- but it still warmed my heart and means all the same to me. what a video. never give up.

Already was surreal watching this as an adult when I originally watched this when it first came out when I was in highschool. But hearing you mention ze frank 8 years before I even heard of the guy is even more surreal.

he finally snapped at the end... happens to the best of em

9:14 you may not like it, but this is the male human body at peak performance.

9 YEARS AGO

My first love broke my heart in 2008. I’m single, never felt anything near what I felt with her. Her nickname for me was Tree. So I have been returning to this video for years now.

god that monk really fucked up

Imagine erasing the concept of math.

I've listened to his last statement (8:39) about five times now and it honestly hasn't failed to send me into tears

Cant believe this video is 10 years old. I didn’t want it to end. We need more content like this today. Miss you Michael. Vsauce forever!

Michael: *flops and spins in snow* His neighbors: dafuq he doing over there

Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude - Anne Frank

Actually such a powerful video with a powerful message about how mistakes happen to everyone and how you can overcome them. Love it!!

8:54 (onwards) - why do I find this the most wholesome scene in the entire channel... :)

We don't make mistakes just happy little accidents. -Bob Ross

"Mistakes in popular songs" England is my city

I always find myself coming back just to watch the ending of this video. Thx Michael

I come back every once in a while just to rewatch and remind myself that beautiful part about autumn leaves and to see Michael playing in the snow...

"Mistakes are everywhere, they surround us like air" *looks at the class while presenting this video*

should have started with "hey michael, vsauce here"

0:01 that genuinely scared me

This is my favorite video about mistakes. Feels like a therapy session. I watch it when I need to remind myself to not give up.

Vsauce, homeless here. Holy shit 3yeRs later and 11k likes? Never saw this coming lol

Michael: H E Y V S A U C E Me:Tf Michael, scared the shit outta' me.

Imagine Tom Scott and vsauce doing a collaboration

The "regret" part really lightened me up.. I'm fighting my emotions for a while now and this video put my struggles into another perspective

I want 30 minutes of Michael playing in the snow with that song in the background

Michael ran off, and was never seen again. But some say they see him, running around, playing in the snow, and spreading his knowledge to the trees. Might we see him again? Only time will tell. Edit: it's been two years and I can now tell that RU-vid has the worst algorithm for everything that may or may not need an algorithm. seriously, what to heck? I understand wanting to give newer comments recognition, but that's what sorting by new is for. you can find comments with over 1k likes below comments with 1 like and it doesn't make any sense.

Michael's greatest trait is how both knowledgeable but empathetic and kind he is. He's not cold, clinical or egotistical like most people who are very knowledgeable. He manages to take mundane or strange topics and re-contextualize them in such a way to give the viewer a warm, fuzzy feeling inside. Facts may not care about your feelings, but Michael always does.

I come back to this video all the time, thank you Michael for everything you do

"we don't make mistakes. Just happy little accidents" ~ Bob Ross

9:12 Only the most logical course of action after giving everyone an existential crisis.

This is the most beautiful video. I love coming back to it over the years

5:29 i swear my jaw dropped faster than the speed of light

Who would win? A genius mathematician philosopher. One moncc boi

FINALLY, an explanation of the Canadian flag's symbolic red leaf.

I keep coming to this video several times a year, it has so many powerful messages.

Hearing you talk about such deep ideas then run around like a crazy man in the snow immediately after had me laughing out loud and has made my night! You are so great!

Michael: After I tell these people that some soldier saved hitler and that leaves are pretty because of stress I shall go flop around in the snow

"Mom, the weird neighbor is playing in the snow again."

This tree carving metaphor is literally one of the wisest things I have ever heard. It's been almost ten years since I first heard it in this video and since then this thought has been supporting me in the darkest moments of my life. I wish more people heard it, maybe it would've helped them too. Such a simple thought, but so precisely put, it's just wonderful.

I love this video, it's my favorite and has marked me until today and helped me a lot, thank you Michael

So nice to see you being all goofy in the snow at the end. Constant seriousness is a mistake.

9:10 I love this man Currently rewatching all his old videos as I don't have premium 😥

really profound video, especially the bit about regrets. thanks Michael.

The last song is one of my favorite songs that makes this video much more precious in my eyes thorough the years

0:08 Holy fuck I just flew out of my chair

No mistakes, only happy accidents

Every time I watch your videos again it feels like first time watching it, most of them makes me cry. It's good to have existential crisis for once a month

3:40, that stupid monk

“Son, the condom broke. You’re a mistake” VSauce:

I think Vsauce is becoming now more than just science, it's also philosophy. And it's cheering to the heart, it's appeasing and give this feeling that life is such a great thing you shouldn't waste any of it. I love this channel, and I really want to thank you Micheal for all this amazing work you've done over the years !

a video I come back to again and again Thank you so much for making such good content!

I love this man so much. Goofy, inspirational, and caring.

There’s something innocently beautiful about the ending of this video. My favourite ending to any of these videos.

Roses are red Violets are blue You can’t find this video It can only find you

This video got really beautiful towards the end, thank you 🥲

Michael is so talented. This video is a masterpiece (like almost all of his videos)

Not gonna lie, those ending metaphors with the trees keep me coming back to this one, even if only for motivation.

Micheal playing in the snow is honestly the most adorable thing I’ve ever seen this year.

this is a contender for my favourite videos on this platform

This one had an emotional connection with me. Especially that ending. I needed to hear that, thank you Michael.

My parents always used to say I was a mistake

“Winter will eventually come. But scientifically, the brightest, deepest, most remarkable colors come from not giving up too easily, or quickly.” Beautiful

Michael changes topics even faster than I change topics when my mom asks me about my grades

You're videos make me feel so good

It's been many years and I still find myself coming back to watch the ending of the video where Michael is playing in the snow. The combination of everything just gives me such a good feeling that I can't explain, it sums up how Michael and this entire channel has influenced me over time, and there won't ever be anything like this any where else on RU-vid. Thankyou for everything you've made for us over the years, I want you to know that you are one of a kind and appreciated by many.

Hey, Vsauce. Michael here. The title of this video is misspelled in honor of mistakes. Mistakes are everywhere, they surround us like air. To err is human. Faults, flaws, faux pas, fumbles and fallacies are as much a part of who we are today as the stuff we've gotten right. For instance, if a knight knocked your knuckle or knifed your knee, why would there be so many "k"s? Well, the "k"s are silent by mistake. The original old English forms of these words were pronounced with "k" sounds. K-nife, k-night, k-nee. But that's a bit of a mouthful to say and because reading and writing weren't as common hundreds of years ago, people just pronounced words the way they want to do, regardless of spelling. Spelling is fun. Warren G knows what I'm talking about. In the fourth verse of his "What's Next", he asks what's next. What's next, what's N-X-E-T. Spelling isn't the only thing we get wrong. The history of science is a graveyard of dead an abandoned ideas. Fritz Machlup coined the phrase "Half-life of knowledge". The amount of time it takes for half of the knowledge within a field to be superseded by new, better ideas or to simply be shown untrue. Donald Hebb famously estimated that the half-life of knowledge in psychology is just five years. Humans are awesome, don't get me wrong, but we tend to believe that what we currently think we know about the universe is reasonably correct, even though statistics aren't on our side. Previous generations incorrectly thought the exact same thing about what they used to think was true. My favorite examples of the ubiquity of mistakes are production errors in popular songs. They're like humbling Easter eggs, just waiting to be found. For instance, Buffalo Springfield's "For What It's Worth". 26 seconds in the "be" in the lyric "beware" is clipped, as is the "p" in "people" at 1:24 minute. Once you hear the mistake, it's tough to unhear it. In "Hey Jude" Paul McCartney misses a chord. And if you listen closely you can clearly hear him say "F**ing hll". Seriously, it's in the actual song. Go listen to it. In fact, there's an entire website that chronicles mistakes in Beatles' songs. Take a look at this 700-year-old prayer book. A monk wrote it on fresh, clean paper. I'm kidding, of course. He scraped the ink off an older manuscript, cut the pages and rotated them before writing all over them. A mistake? Well, kind of. Recent multispectral images of the prayer book have revealed that the old manuscript he erased was a previously unknown copy of a work by Archimedes. It was called "The Method" and laid out the heart of calculus thousands of years before Newton and Leibniz. If that one monk hadn't erased that one book, would we be hundreds, thousands of years mathematically and technologically more advanced today than we currently are? It's hard to say. All that is certain is that we would continue to make ridiculous mistakes, like the Mars Climate Orbiter. This 327.6 million dollar expedition burned up in the red planet's atmosphere because when calculating flight maneuvers NASA used the agreed-upon metric units while Lockheed Martin used the imperial system. This is Neil Armstrong taking humankind's first steps on the Moon. It's about the best footage we have. The original tapes containing the highest quality recording of that moment have been lost. They were probably recorded over by later test missions. Ten years ago Sergio Martinez became lost in the woods while hunting outside of San Diego. Hoping to attract the attention of rescuers, he lit a small fire. But that fire quickly got out of control and became a giant Cedar Fire. It destroyed 300,000 acres of land, 2,322 homes and killed 15 people. The man carrying a wounded soldier in this painting, based on a photograph taken during World War I, is Henry Tandey, an English recipient of the Victoria Cross. Four years after the event in this image Tandey caught a wounded German soldier in his gun sights. But rather than kill the man, Tandey took pity on his wounded state and spared his life. The German he allowed to live was this man. Later the man whose life he spared wore his mustache shorter but still had the same name, Adolf Hitler. In 1918 did Henry Tandey miss a chance to kill Hitler? Detailed researchers found that the exact days their units were in the same location don't quite match up. The story is apocryphal but what is known is that Hitler owned a copy of the painting of Tandey, and in 1938, when meeting with Neville Chamberlain, Hitler pointed to Tandey and told Chamberlain: "That man came so close to killing me in 1918 that I thought I should never see Germany again." So, who's wrong? Maybe Hitler confirmed the story merely because he hoped to make up extra evidence that providence had kept him alive to pursue his goals. Either way, someone is mistaken. Missed opportunities are a bummer. Obsessing over them is not healthy but regret is a powerful emotion. How do you deal with regret, with guilt? Can you? In the early morning hours on a bench outside a hotel in Anaheim this summer Ze Frank told me something I am going to paraphrase. I love this metaphor. Stuff in your past is like a carving on the bark of sapling. Over time, the scar, the carving won't go away. Because of the way trees grow it won't go up or down much either, it'll just stay right where it began. It might even get darker. But it won't get bigger. You, however, can. You can keep growing, doing more things, more branches, being more things. The wound won't get smaller but you can make it a smaller part of who you are. Maybe regrets are like that. They stick around forever like arborglyphs. Or maybe they make like a tree and leaf. A red or purple leaf in the autumn. As days get shorter and chlorophyll production decreases, the yellow and orange carotenoids, which are always in leaves, appear as the green fades. But red and purple leaves are the interesting ones. As winter approaches it would seem to be a good time for trees to conserve energy but some trees do the opposite. Instead of giving up, they spend extra energy producing anthocyanins to turn their leaves red and purple hues. These colors protect their leaves from sun damage before their nutrients can all be used and may also be a defense against insects looking for a parasitic home. A way for the tree to tell the insects: "Yes, I am in part dying but not without a fight. I am still very much vital." Drought and even tourniquets applied by man can bring about these colors prematurely. When you look at beautiful autumn colors, you are looking at stress. But the bigger the fight the trees put up, the more energy they put into their defenses at the very end, the more brilliant their colors will be. Winter will eventually come. But scientifically, the brightest, deepest, most remarkable colors come from not giving up too easily or quickly. And as always, thanks for watching.

Rewatching these videos 10 years later you are reminded what masterpieces these videos are

this is my favorite vsauce video the ending is just so wholesome 🥹

I regret not seeing my great grandmother on the night of her passing, I had the opportunity to but chose not to, it has haunted me since, and that tree analogy helped me, thanks Michael's friend.

that munk just became hated by many

Vintage Vsuace man, finally enough times past that I can watch all these old videos again and they feel brand new

I love this guy. Please never change.

This has always been my favourite Vsauce video, Michael Rolling in the snow to that song in the end is beautiful really

I can’t tell if this is a science channel or philosophy channel now

This man just makes everything that much better ^^ I never Not have a warm feeling from that intro etched in my brain so long ago :)

Binging on older Vsauce videos is like watching art. In the sense that it can not be remade. Copied or taken inspiration from, yes. This is content making perfection.

0:21 THIS MAN JUST DROPPED THE SICKEST BARS OF THE 21st CENTURY

"We don't make accidents, only happy mistakes" -Rob Boss

Thank you for that last song. You made it very easy to find

That clip of Michael writhing in the snow just earned this video another like. Seriously, I roll in the snow every oppurtunity I get.

God damit monk.

This man is a treasure of humanity we must protect him at all costs

This is probably my favorite Vsauce video hands down

I would honestly pay to have Michael have real time conversations with me, he seems like he always has stories to tell and he's the only person that has thanked me for years

Beginning of Video: Mistakes End of Video: Tree Determination and going insane in the snow

I swear he comes up with the weirdest forms of clickbait ever.

Michael playing in the snow at the end of the video just gives me life

I like these types of vids from vsauce so much. They are not over filled with scientific stuff that i dont understand