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AsapScience, stylized as AsapSCIENCE, is a
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channel created by Canadian YouTubers Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown. The channel produces weekly videos that touch on many different topics of science. AsapScience is one of the largest educational channels on YouTube. Some of the songs they have created include The Digits Of Pi and The Periodic Table Song.


Team

* Mitchell "Mitch" Moffit, born , creator and host * Gregory "Greg" Brown, born , creator and host Moffit and Brown are an openly gay couple who met while studying biology at the
University of Guelph , mottoeng = "to learn the reasons of realities" , established = May 8, 1964 ()As constituents: OAC: (1874) Macdonald Institute: (1903) OVC: (1922) , type = Public university , chancellor ...
. They made their sexualities and relationship public online in 2014, two years after starting their channel, in response to derogatory comments and in order to be visible role models for young gay people interested in science. * Kendra Y. Hill, manager * Max Simmons, illustrator * Luka Sarlija, editor


Channel

AsapScience videos are about science, with many episodes, such as ''How Much Sleep Do You Actually Need?'', discussing functions of the
human body The human body is the structure of a Human, human being. It is composed of many different types of Cell (biology), cells that together create Tissue (biology), tissues and subsequently organ systems. They ensure homeostasis and the life, viabi ...
. They sometimes make songs explaining science such as ''Science Love Song'' and ''Periodic Table Song''. 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, while Greg is the primary illustrator. The most viewed video of the channel currently is ''Do You Hear "Yanny" or "Laurel"?'', which has 64 million views. Their videos have been featured in websites such as
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and
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. In March 2015, Moffit and Brown released their first book, ''AsapSCIENCE: Answers to the World's Weirdest Questions, Most Persistent Rumors, and Unexplained Phenomena''.


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?'', features
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, who discusses different ways humanity could stop an asteroid if one were on a collision course for Earth. On February 2, 2014, AsapScience announced that they have collaborated with
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to produce one video daily related to sports, for 19 days starting from 6 February. AsapScience also appeared in several videos with IISuperwomanII. They had a one-time collaboration with Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell on the ''What Is The Most Dangerous Drug In The World?'' video which aired on November 16, 2017. In December 2017, AsapScience appeared on
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's YouTube channel
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. In 2020, alongside Psych IRL and others, AsapScience featured in a YouTube original series ''Sleeping With Friends'', a competition in which participants aim to get the best night's sleep.


Religion

On March 16, 2017, AsapScience released a video regarding the existence of God and whether it could be proven through the use of math, titled "Can Math Prove God's Existence?" The video sparked a lot of controversy and received a channel-highest dislike percentage of more than 45%.


Statistics

As of 26 June 2022, ''AsapScience'' and ''Greg and Mitch'' have over 11 million subscribers combined.


Other work

In February 2016, Mitch was announced as one of the 16 HouseGuests on '' Big Brother Canada 4''. He placed 11th and was evicted on day 42 in a 5-3 eviction vote. He was the first member of the Final Jury that decided the winner of the game.


See also

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Vsauce Vsauce () is a YouTube brand created by educator Michael Stevens. The channels feature videos on scientific, psychological, mathematical, and philosophical topics, as well as gaming, technology, popular culture, and other general interest subj ...
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Veritasium Derek Alexander Muller (born 9 November 1982) is an Australian-Canadian science communicator, filmmaker, and television personality, who is best known for his YouTube channel Veritasium. Muller has also appeared as a correspondent on the Net ...
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MinutePhysics MinutePhysics is an educational YouTube channel created by Henry Reich in 2011. The channel's videos use whiteboard animation to explain physics-related topics. Early videos on the channel were approximately one minute long. , the channel has over ...
*
Numberphile ''Numberphile'' is an educational YouTube channel featuring videos that explore topics from a variety of fields of mathematics. In the early days of the channel, each video focused on a specific number, but the channel has since expanded its s ...
* Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell *
Vi Hart Victoria Hart (born 1988), commonly known as Vi Hart (), is an American mathematician and YouTuber. They describe themselves as a "recreational mathemusician" and are well-known for creating mathematical videos on YouTube. Hart founded the virt ...
* Wendover Productions *
Mark Rober Mark B. Rober is an American YouTuber, engineer, inventor, and educator. He is known for his YouTube videos on popular science and do-it-yourself gadgets. Before YouTube, Rober was an engineer with NASA for nine years, where he spent seven y ...


References

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