AsapScience
| AsapSCIENCE | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Presentation | |
| Hosted by | Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown |
| Genre | Education, Science |
| Language | English |
| Production | |
| No. of episodes | 104 |
| Publication | |
| Debut | 6 June 2012 |
| Provider | YouTube |
| Website | http://www.youtube.com/AsapSCIENCE |
AsapScience, stylised as AsapSCIENCE, is a YouTube channel created by two Canadians, Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown. The channel produces weekly videos that touch on many different topics of science.[1]
The channel has a secondary channel, AsapTHOUGHT, which has videos that discuss several issues, and some of which are science related.
Channel
AsapScience videos are about science, with many episodes, such as How Much Sleep Do You Actually Need?, discussing functions of the human body. Each video's scientific concepts are conveyed using coloured drawings on a whiteboard and voice-over narration. As revealed in a behind-the-scenes video, Mitchell voices and composes the background music for the videos.[2]
The most viewed video of the channel currently is What Colour is this dress?, which has over 17 million views.[3]
Some of AsapScience's videos are featured in websites such as The Huffington Post[4] and Gizmodo.[5]
Collaborations
AsapScience has collaborated with Vsauce3 on 4 videos, The Scientific Secret of Strength and Muscle Growth and What if Superman Punched You?, Can We Genetically Improve Intelligence? and Can You Genetically Enhance Yourself?.
One of the videos, Could We Stop An Asteroid?, featured Bill Nye, who discussed different ways humanity could stop an asteroid if one were on a collision course for Earth.[6]
On 2 February 2014, AsapScience announced that they have collaborated with CBC News to produce one video daily related to sports, for 19 days starting from 6 February.[7][8]
AsapScience also appeared in IISuperwomanII's '#LEH' and 'IVIVI' .
Statistics
As of November 5 2014, AsapScience and AsapThought has over 3 million subscribers combined.
| Subscribers | Views | |
|---|---|---|
| AsapSCIENCE | 3,130,725 | 294,272,818 |
| AsapTHOUGHT | 298,370 | 5,477,010 |
| Total | 3,429,095 | 349,043,228 |
See Also
- Vsauce
- Veritasium
- MinutePhysics
- Numberphile
References
- ↑ "AsapSCIENCE". YouTube. YouTube. Retrieved 24 August 2014.
- ↑ "The Science of AsapSCIENCE - Behind The Scenes". YouTube. YouTube. Retrieved 24 August 2014.
- ↑ "What Colour is this dress -". YouTube. YouTube. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
- ↑ "Asapscience". The Huffington Post. The Huffington Post. Retrieved 24 August 2014.
- ↑ "Asapscience". Gizmodo. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
- ↑ Lynch, EDW. "Bill Nye Explains How We Could Stop an Asteroid On AsapScience". Laughing Squid. Retrieved 24 August 2014.
- ↑ "Amazing Olympic Facts". Youtube. Youtube. Retrieved 24 August 2014.
- ↑ "How Have Olympians’ Bodies Changed Over The Years? AsapSCIENCE Explains". www.cbc.ca. CBC News. Retrieved 24 August 2014.
- ↑ "AsapSCIENCE". Youtube. Youtube. Retrieved 24 August 2014.
- ↑ "AsapTHOUGHT". Youtube. Youtube. Retrieved 24 August 2014.