Cody Reeder

Cody Don Reeder (also known as CodyDon Reeder or just Cody Reeder), as well his official Facebook page, list his name as "Cody Don", he is listed as "CodyDon" in other articles, as well as on his YouTube and Twitter. He is simply listed as Cody Reeder on the Mars One Project's pages, as well as both "Cody Don" and just "Cody" in Newsweek and CNET. }} is an United States educator, scientist, mechanic and YouTube personality. He runs the popular YouTube channel Cody'sLab.
His channel features educational videos and vlogs spanning a wide range of topics, including chemistry, physics, astronomy, biology, metallurgy and geology, mining and gold panning, soil science and horticulture. Some videos form larger series; some examples include a series on recovering and refining rare metals like platinum from everyday sources, to whether unusual liquids can be flushed – or used to flush – down a toilet.
As of January 2021, Cody'sLab has c. 2 million subscribers, and a combined c. 295 million views.About. Cody'Lab. YouTube. Retrieved 21 Jan 2021. His most viewed video, which features Reeder flushing an isolated toilet filled with 240 lbs of mercury, has c. 10 million views. He is also known for collaborating with Grant Thompson on several videos on the King of Random channel, prior to Thompson's death.
His channel has been favorable compared to MythBusters, albeit some have commented on the potentially hazardous substances (like mercury) involved in some of his experiments.
The 2020 Great conjunction, timelapse made over 90 days by Cody'sLab.
Having joined YouTube in 2011, Reeder initially began posting videos of his experiments to show to his grandmother: "I would do science experiments all the time anyway ... Then other people started watching them", he explained in a 2017 interview.
His channel Cody'sLab reached 100,000 subscribers in October 2015. Having not received his YouTube Creator Awards six months later, Reeder celebrated reaching 250,000 subscribers by forging a homemade play button out of genuine silver. He reached 1,000,000 subscribers in early 2017.
Reeder first gained considerable media attention in 2016, after posting a video of himself drinking water containing a small, diluted amount of cyanide. The purpose was to prove how the dose makes the poison. While emphasizing that the amount he consumed (17 mg) was considerably smaller than any lethal dose, Reeder said he did experience certain effects such as rapid breathing. This video, among others, has since been removed from his channel. Similar experiments however, such as him drinking heavy water, "Dihydrogen monoxide parody" (tongue-in-cheek), and breathing in all the noble gases, remain available as of January 2021.
In 2017, his channel was suspended for two weeks, following received strikes. The reason was suspected to be a video on the science behind how small bugs (fruit flies) can survive being microwaved, while larger cannot. Preceding the suspension, an increase in flagged videos and concern that his account may be deactivated, prompted Reeder to create a back-up channel. An article on TubeFilter blamed "overzealous viewers" for generating the automatic strikes, writing that Reeder's channel is both "wholesome and family-friendly", and commenting on how YouTube's strike system also affects those "who stay well within the bounds of acceptable content".
In a 2019 video explaining a period of channel inactivity, Reeder mentioned how some of his videos, although intended to be used for educational purposes, had been flagged by YouTube, showing a warning he received for a video on making gunpowder from urine. In the same video, Reeder explained how he also had been visited by United States government agents, after publishing several videos on isotope isolation and nuclear radiation. The agents, equipped with geiger counters, did not find anything of concern, and Reeder himself said that they were only trying to help him not get in trouble in the future.
Reeder was born and raised near Grantsville, Utah.
==In the media==
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