Henry Reich

New video: The Physics of Fogbows

New video about the fascinating phenomenon of white/colorless rainbows, aka fogbows!

Thanks as always for your support,

Henry

New Video: Common Moon Mistakes!

A new video about the most common mistakes people make when illustrating the moon. A warning - once you see some of these, you can't unsee them!

Thanks as always for your support,

Henry

Patreon exclusive bonus content: more moon mistakes

A discussion with Josh, editor/producer/etc for MinutePhysics, about some extra math & physics that didn't make it into the main video. Thanks as always for your support!

New Video: Why Do Wind Turbines Have Three Blades?

Pretty much all modern wind turbines have three blades. But why? We've made a quick explainer on why three is the best choice.

Thanks as always for your support!

New Video! Draining the oceans...

This video was inspired by my time trying working on the xkcd "What If?" video about draining the oceans and struggling to actually visualize ocean basins accurately.

I put enough into the visuals there that never got used and figured the background details would make a good MinutePhysics video. Thanks as always for your support!

He...

New video: water that's impossible to freeze

This video script was sitting around my drafts folder for a long time, finally managed to get it out the door.

This is one of the things that feels like it's not worth making if I'm not posting videos regularly, since if I haven't posted for a few months I often feel like I want the video to be more serious or cool or important or somethi...

New Video - White Balance is Broken (and how to fix it)

It was super fun to make all the photography demos and examples for this video and see how nonlinear white balance really is.

Thanks as always for your support!

Henry

The Longest Video I've ever made!

This video is only possible because of your support on patreon - it's about 10 times longer than a regular MinutePhysics video, and probably took about 10 times as long to make.

I had a lot of fun, and our new MinutePhysics producer/editor Josh did a TON of amazing work on this video. I hope you enjoy it!

Thanks as always,

Henr...

Early/discount access: Physics of Harmony T-Shirt

I'm posting a video tomorrow about the physics of harmony (it's the longest MinutePhysics video ever!), and decided to turn part of the video into a t-shirt because the image was so cool and I think it's the sort of thing both physics AND music nerds might like. It's available as either a black or off-white shirt, the art is the same.

I wa...

New Video: the Shadow Blister Effect

This video was so much fun to make.

Also, an update: this is the first video with the new producer/editor that we hired recently, and I am delighted to say that Josh has been doing an amazing job!

Thanks as always for your support,

Henry

New Video, featuring guest illustrations!

This video was illustrated by the team at MinuteEarth who had some fun with Star Trek-inspired visuals. And I had WAY too much fun pretending to be a computer.

Thanks as always for your support!

Henry

Quick favor

Hi there,

I'm going to be sending all active paid patrons something in the mail as a thank you in the next week or two, so please make sure your mailing address in your account settings or for MinutePhysics in particular - 2025-05-22 18:14:15 +0000 UTC View Post

MinutePhysics is hiring

I wanted to share the word that I have an open position for a producer for MinutePhysics. I’m looking for someone with a math/physics-ish background and experience writing & video editing. Ideally US-based... but the world is a big place.

Application Link: minutephysi...

The Teleprompter Paradox (new video)

Thanks as always for your support!

Henry

Cameo in Steve Mould "Lever Paradox" video

Steve first showed me this "paradox" a few years ago, and when he finally made a video about it, I was delighted to make a few small MinutePhysics sections for him. This is the kind of thing that patreon support facilitates, so thank you!

The first MinutePhysics portion 2025-02-04 15:49:13 +0000 UTC View Post

Getting drawings prepped for shipping

It's December, and I'm signing drawings and getting them in the final stages of being prepped for shipping! We've also added an embossed MinutePhysics logo to each drawing and the official "number" of the video so that you know where it came from (see photos below). Here's ...

The Chart Missing from All Spreadsheet Software

A new video, inspired by me trying to plot something and being unable to.

And there's one week left to get an original MinutePhysics drawing! Support me here on Patreon at the Special Relativity level or above and I'll send you one.

Thanks as always for your support,

Henry

ps I realized after uploading that because I didn...

Welcome new patrons (& update)

I want to say a huge thank you to everyone who's now supporting me here on Patreon. It's especially delightful and poignant to read the many messages and comments with stories about what MinutePhysics means to you, in so many different ways. Your continued support is going to facilitate my future videos, including some particularly ambitious pro...

The periodic table in 2D

Welcome to so many new patrons, thank you so much for your support! This is a video I had a lot of fun making.

Henry

Video Announcement: I'm giving away 14 years of drawings

I mentioned this yesterday in a post to Patreon supporters, but here's the video about my drawing giveaway (and a look at all the drawings, too!)

I'd love to send you a drawing.

Henry

I'm giving away my drawings.

Hi, this is Henry.

I’m going to make a special announcement tomorrow, and I wanted to let you know early: I’m giving away all of the original drawings from my videos to Patreon supporters!

Tomorrow I’ll release an announcement video to the wider world, but I wanted to give you the first chance to get a drawing ...

A video I'm working on...

Thought you might be interested to see these rough sketches from a video I'm working on. The periodic table is not understood as well as I thought!

Henry

New Video: The moon's weird orbit

The moon's orbit is weirder than you think.

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Henry

New Video!

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Henry

NEW VIDEO - The Color Temperature Paradox

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Henry

New video: Where's the best eclipse in the solar system?

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NEW VIDEO about why Eclipses Travel TOWARDS the EAST?

If you're close enough, go try to see the American eclipse on April 8!

Thanks as always for your support.

Henry

NEW VIDEO - Why aren't there eclipses every month?

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NEW VIDEO : The Last Eclipse in History

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NEW VIDEO - Explaining Ghostly Eclipse Photos

A lot of people took pictures of the recent solar eclipse in North  America and got photos where there’s a ghostly image of the eclipse  floating in the sky nowhere near where the sun is.

Thanks as always for your support, and look out for two more videos in the next two weeks!