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An infinite DNA glitch saved millions [video]
- djmips 2y agoI would rather just have the science facts without going into personal details about the primary inventor.
- uikoleawrfgolmp 2y ago[flagged]
- sdf4j 2y agoI read “infinite NDA” and built up a crazy story while the video was loading.
- gjs4786 2y agoThe guy was so annoying he helped "save millions", but we're still going to tell you how much of a douchebag he was
- creaktive 2y ago“This video was sponsored by: Erowid”
- yawnxyz 2y agoThanks for that rabbit hole! They're some interesting characters: https://www.erowid.org/culture/characters/erowid_earth/ https://www.erowid.org/culture/characters/erowid_earth/
- Terr_ 2y agoFor the folks who don't care for video, it's about the history behind Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) and how it changed the process of DNA testing.
- exclipy 2y agoI'm a bit disappointed with how clickbaity the title became for this video.
- firtoz 2y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2xHZPH5Sng https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2xHZPH5Sng - "Clickbait is Unreasonably Effective" | Veritasium
- ninkendo 2y agoI must be an outlier but I find a lot of the things the veritasium guy does as being extremely annoying to the point that I mostly avoid his videos. And it’s a shame because I know he produces a lot of really high quality stuff. He’s talked before about how it’s better for learning if you first try to answer a question, get it wrong, then are taught the right thing. So he starts a lot of videos by asking random people on the street a question and we get to watch all of them give super wrong answers. Then he spends some time saying “a lot of people think X but really X is wrong!” I really really really hate the whole “let’s all laugh at these dumb people” dunking that this encourages. I know he has his reasons that it increases the retention rate of knowledge if you get it wrong first, but to me it just comes off as smug. It gets to the point that a lot of the time he’s just poorly specifying a question, leaving it ambiguous, and when people are “wrong” it’s as much his fault as theirs. Likewise with the clickbait… he can talk about how “unreasonably effective” it is, but I fucking hate clickbait with a passion and any time one of his videos has a “no way that’s true” headline, it’s almost always not, or at least only true on some mundane technicality. I’ve been burned enough times clicking his videos that I just ignore him now. Clickbait may be unreasonably effective at getting any random person to click his videos, but to me after enough times I’ve learned to not watch his stuff because of the incessant clickbait. There’s more than enough quality educational stuff on YouTube, I don’t need to indulge smug people like him.