Alex Nickel

Alex Nickel is the creator of Technicality (www.youtube.com/technicality), an educational YouTube channel about science, humanities, and anything he finds fascinating. Nickel has researched, scripted, filmed, hosted, and edited over 70 episodes on everything from psychology to history to physics. Technicality has gained over 50,000 subscribers and millions of total views. He has been written about on websites like Huffington Post and Mashable, given a TEDx Talk, and worked with YouTubers such as Physics Girl, Tom Scott, Counter Arguments, and many others. Technicality videos have been shown in middle school, high school, and university classrooms all over the world. Nickel is also the author of "Behold This Compost: How City-Wide Compost Programs Work and Why We Need Them Now, More Than Ever," a book about anthropogenic climate change, environmental sustainability, and the logistics of city-wide compost programs. The book is available to purchase at beholdthiscompost.com.