Let's make this birthday one to remember.

42 years old (Born on November 09, 1982)

Happy birthday, Derek Muller! From blowing minds on Catalyst to dropping truth bombs on Veritasium, you've made physics cooler than ice cream in Antarctica. Your knack for turning complex science into 'aha!' moments has us forever Googling "did Derek really just break the internet again?"

Congrats too on another stellar year of epic demonstrations—from surprising even longtime subscribers with fascinating revelations to taking YouTube by storm (your laser-pointer experiments alone probably caused global productivity dips). May your birthday be filled with explosions—but only of joy and cake crumbs! Keep rocking that lab coat; you're truly element-ary, dear Watson...I mean Muller!