Category Archives: History

Why do we call blue ‘blue’ when in other languages it’s like ‘azure’?

Why do we call blue ‘blue’ in English? And what can a gallery tell us about a very special name for the colour in other languages? I was one of 20 Creative Collaborators across the country selected to make social … Continue reading →

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Where does punctuation come from?!

n this episode I trace the punctuation we use every day as far back as I can. ❓Is the question mark actually a word? ❗️Where did the exclamation mark come from? 🔴 Is the full stop the oldest punctuation? 🏛️ … Continue reading →

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The search for the biggest shape in the universe.

[…] “Search For Largest Polyhedra” by Donald Grace https://www.ams.org/journals/mcom/196… Thanks to Bill Hedges at Cosmic Films Studio in Nebraska, USA for having us to film our sci-fi adventure. Check out Bill’s Cosmic Cat series: / @williamhedges1519 Thanks to Laura Taalman … Continue reading →

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The New York Aristocrat who Re-Shaped American Music

Get 40% off an annual Nebula subscription by going to https://nebula.tv/polyphonic Check out my Volksgeist’s original Danger Music here: https://nebula.tv/dangermusic If you think this video was worth $2: https://ko-fi.com/polyphonic — Pre-order my book Century of Song now! Barnes and Noble: … Continue reading →

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Rory Stewart and Mary Beard on Power and Politics | Intelligence Squared

Who gets to win power and how do they keep it – and lose it? Who is excluded from power? Does power always corrupt or are there examples of leaders who have maintained their integrity while in authority? How does … Continue reading →

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The STEM Naming Double Standard is kinda unfortunate…

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A thread of spectacular colorized photos from history, pt. 2

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A simple paper worth a trillion dollars

The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine (1998) http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/paper… Attention Is All You Need (2017) https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762 Thank you to Yossi Matias, Google’s head of research, for speaking with me. Subscribe to my channel to see more videos like … Continue reading →

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Snoopy’s creator Charles Schulz and the real Snoopy.

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Thread of surreal archeological discoveries

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Egyptian Numeral System | History of Numbers | Episode 6

Welcome to our journey through the history of numbers. We are going through the history of numbers how numbers evolved over the time . We looked at use of fingers and pebbles for counting use of sticks and stokes on … Continue reading →

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The Sizes Of History

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