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Veritasium is a science-and-engineering YouTube channel created by Derek Muller (Australian-Canadian science-communicator with a PhD in physics-education from the University of Sydney), focused on producing substantial documentary-style science-and-engineering explainers covering physics, engineering, mathematics, technology, plus broader science-and-engineering topics. Founded in 2011, the channel has grown to ~16+ million subscribers as of 2024 with substantial science-research-community engagement plus broader STEM-curious general audience reach.\n\nThe editorial approach combines substantial documentary-style production with substantial expert-interview-and-research-collaboration (with Derek Muller engaging substantial professional researchers, engineers, and academic-experts across episodes), substantial production-quality with substantial location-shooting and physical-experiment demonstration (the distinctive Veritasium aesthetic emphasising substantial real-world experimental-and-observational content), plus substantial cross-disciplinary editorial range. Major Veritasium videos have covered the foundational "Misconceptions about Temperature" PhD-research-derived content, the substantial post-2017 "World's Roundest Object" and broader physics-and-engineering content, the substantial post-2020 mathematics-and-physics content cluster including substantial coverage of Bell's theorem, retrocausality, the broader fundamental-physics topics, the substantial 2024 "Why You Can't Pull a String Through Your Hand" plus broader content. The substantial post-2020 Veritasium 2 secondary channel plus the substantial Sciencium tertiary channel extend the broader Derek Muller channel-network.\n\nFor a globally-mobile professional with science-and-engineering-curious interests, Veritasium provides substantive accessible science-and-engineering documentary content with substantial production-quality. Indian-learner engagement is substantial particularly among Indian English-speaking science-and-engineering students plus the broader Indian English-language STEM-curious educated audience. The substantial post-2022 Veritasium discussion of editorial-standards-and-sponsored-content disclosure reflects broader popular-science-creator-publication transparency discussions.