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the strange science of being human

Mind Marker

Strange stories. Real science. One marker.

Your brain does weird things — history proves it. Mind Marker tells the strangest true stories about the human mind, researched from real sources and drawn by hand. Well… by marker.

this guy draws them all

The Mind Marker mascot — a brain-headed character sprinting with a giant red marker, leaving a red spiral trail, doodle icons floating around
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Fresh ink from the channel. Every video is a true story, checked against real sources before a single line gets drawn. Tap a sheet to watch it on YouTube.

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Three ways your brain gets weird

Every Mind Marker video belongs to one of three families — the pillars of the channel.

Doodle triptych: a crowd dancing under a street lamp, the brain-headed mascot holding up a giant red marker, and a giant brain with gears under a magnifying glass

Strange But True

Real stories so bizarre they sound invented — dancing plagues, laughing epidemics, a man certain he was dead. Every one documented, every one true.

Your Brain On…

The hidden psychology of an ordinary day — why time speeds up as you age, why your phone vibrates when it didn't, and what your brain is doing behind your back.

Brain Numbers

Your mind, measured — the handful of numbers that quietly run your memory, your friendships and your feelings, each one with a story attached.

from the pilot: 5 numbers your brain runs on

150

real friends is roughly the most your brain can keep track of — Dunbar's number.

4

things is all your working memory can hold at once. The fifth one pushes one out.

90s

is how long an emotion actually lasts in the body — the rest is the story you replay.

0.1s

is all your brain needs to judge a face. First impressions are faster than thought.

10,000h

of practice is the famous price of mastery — the long road behind every "natural".

Mind Marker mascot face — a smiling brain holding a red marker

Your brain does weird things. History proves it.

Mind Marker is a daily doodle channel about the strange science of being human — one true story, one marker, every single day.

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