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| Kyle Hill | |
|---|---|
 Hill in 2018 | |
| Personal information | |
| Nationality | United States |
| Occupation | Science communicator |
| Website | https://www.kylehill.net |
| YouTube information | |
| Channel | |
| Years active | 2011–present |
| Subscribers | 2.6 million[1] |
| Views | 416 million[1] |
| Contents are in | English |
| Associated acts | Nerdist |
Last updated: May 2025 | |
Kyle Hill is an American science communicator and YouTuber.
Early life and education
[edit]Hill graduated from Marquette University.[2]
Career
[edit]Hill is a science editor for Nerdist, on whose YouTube channel he hosts Muskwatch.[3]
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.[4]
In September 2016, it was announced that Hill would host the television series MythBusters: The Search.[5]
Personal life
[edit]In 2021, Hill publically revealed that he was diagnosed with autism.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "About Kyle Hill". YouTube.
- ^ https://www.kylehill.net/bio
- ^ "Muskwatch w/ Kyle Hill & Dan Casey – YouTube". YouTube. Retrieved 2017-07-21.
- ^ Hill, Kyle (25 June 2013). "The Fungus that Reduced Humanity to The Last of Us". Scientific American. Retrieved 22 June 2018.
- ^ ""MythBusters: The Search" unveils host". RealScreen. Retrieved April 20, 2017.
- ^ Kyle Hill (April 10, 2021). Autism is my superpower. YouTube.
External links
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