Yeah, I’m talking about another YouTube channel. Sorry, not sorry. At least this one is educational! Well, my kind of educational, meaning random interesting facts. AsapSCIENCE produces a few different types of videos. Mostly, I watch the What If (and other question based) videos and songs, but there are also the other illustrated science videos and The Lab.
The What If videos include What if The World Went Vegetarian? and its counter, What If You Only Ate Meat? Not all of their question based videos had “What If” in the title. An example of this is Can Plants Think? All of these have drawings to accompany the script. Other scripted videos don’t have questions in the title, like How To Learn Faster and the Amazing Facts collection (part 1 here).
They also have an interesting song selection, such as The Periodic Table Song (which was actually my introduction to AsapSCIENCE), The Science Love Song, and Science Wars, in case you want a science-y Star Wars medley cover, because why not? I would include some links to The Lab videos, but I haven’t actually watched any of those.
They have another channel, Greg and Mitch, where they have more real life activities and less script, like their video How To Eat Bugs, where they made food out of bugs and tried it. This video is actually a companion to one of the AsapSCIENCE question based videos, Should We All Be Eating Insects?
Most of their videos aren’t specifically funny, but I find them amusing anyhow, possibly because of the illustrations. More importantly, I find their work interesting, since random facts and statistics are my kind of thing, and, as a writer, What If questions are always important. It’s interesting to see What If questions actually being answered scientifically, whereas most of us just ask them because they’re amusing to ponder.
