Alex Nickel
About Alex Nickel
ALEXNICKEL.COMI’m an endlessly curious learner who loves to share knowledge with others in unique and engaging ways.As the creator and host of the educational YouTube channel Technicality (www.youtube.com/technicality), I make videos about science and humanities. In ~6 years, I have reached over 55,000 subscribers, achieved millions of total views, and received recognition from Huffington Post, Mashable, and Network TV. Technicality videos have been shown in classrooms and universities all around the world.I'm a published non-fiction author; my book "Behold This Compost: How City-Wide Compost Programs Work and Why We Need Them Now, More Than Ever" delves into anthropogenic climate change, environmental sustainability, and urban compost programs. It was released in November 2019 and is available to order now at http://beholdthiscompost.comI am the co-creator of the educational streaming service, Nebula. Including content from Technicality, Wendover Productions, Lindsay Ellis, TierZoo, and many more creators, Nebula provides users with an ad-free way to consume and support their favourite creators. We recently surpassed 100,000 paid subscribers and have been written about in publications like Tubefilter and iMoreI am the showrunner, writer, host, and creator of the Nebula Original Series "Alex Goes Bananas," in which I discover, react to, and explain pop-culture from the late 1990s and early 2000s. My fall 2018 semester was spent in rural Vermont at The Mountain School, an academically rigorous semester school for high school juniors. There, I worked on a farm daily, explored our relationship with nature, and studied some of history’s greatest thinkers in classes like Humanities, English, and others.