Kyle Hill (YouTuber)
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Kyle Hill | |
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| File:Kyle Hill by Gage Skidmore.jpg Hill in 2018 | |
| Alma mater | Marquette University |
| Occupation | Science communicator |
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| Channels | |
| Years active | 2011–present |
| Subscribers | 2.6 million |
| Views | 416 million |
| Last updated: May 2025 | |
| Website | https://www.kylehill.net |
Kyle Hill is an American science communicator and YouTuber who is the host of Because Science.
Early life and education
[edit | edit source]Hill graduated from Marquette University.[‡ 1]
Career
[edit | edit source]Hill is a science editor for Nerdist, on whose YouTube channel he hosts Muskwatch.[‡ 2]
Writing for Scientific American, Kyle Hill praised the 2013 game The Last of Us for its plausibility, basing its zombification process on a fictional strain of the parasitic Cordyceps fungus, a real-world genus whose members control the behavior of their arthropod hosts in "zombielike" ways to reproduce.[‡ 3]
In September 2016, it was announced that Hill would host the television series MythBusters: The Search.[‡ 4]
Because Science
[edit | edit source]Kyle Hill hosted Because Science, an educational series produced by Nerdist Industries that features explanations of the science and physics behind fantasy figures.
Personal life
[edit | edit source]In 2021, Hill publicly revealed that he was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome.[‡ 5]
References
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External links
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