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Researchers Discover 1,000-Year-Old Burial of Elite Nonbinary Warrior | My Modern Met

A reconstruction drawing of the Iron Age grave of a nonbinary individual. (Photo: Veronika Paschenko/University of Turku) This discovery of a nonbinary burial is important for understanding Scandinavian notions of gender hundreds of years ago.   In 1968, workers digging … Continue reading

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Your Brain Stays Half Awake When You Sleep in a New Place

Turns out that your brain is on “night watch.” Have you ever woken up after sleeping in a new place and felt as if you hardly slept at all? This phenomenon is called the First-Night Effect (FNE), referring to the … Continue reading

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Water Turned Into a Golden Metallic Substance Using New Experiment

[…] Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about a new experiment that turned water into a golden metal Press release: https://www.helmholtz-berlin.de/pubbi… Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158… Philip E. Mason’s video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vdz18… […]

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Khan Academy and the Effectiveness of Science Videos

My PhD: http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/super/… It is a common view that “if only someone could break this down and explain it clearly enough, more students would understand.” Khan Academy is a great example of this approach with its clear, concise videos on … Continue reading

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Why you can expect to live past your life expectancy

This is our submission to the #VeritasiumContest Length restriction is one minute, so apologies for the brevity. I’ll have a longer video about life expectancy and how COVID affected it later. Info about the contest is here: here https://www.veritasium.com/contest Contact … Continue reading

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How to Communicate Across the Quantum Multiverse

[…] In the Many Worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, the universal wavefunction is the reality, encompassing all possible histories and futures and all exist. But we are only sensitive to a slice of the wavefunction corresponding to our “world”, and … Continue reading

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Studying the Brain with… Quantum Mechanics?

Quantum mechanics may not seem like it has anything to do with human psychology, but some psychologists are starting to borrow concepts from the field to help make human behavior more predictable. Hosted by: Hank Green […]

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Everything is Connected — Here’s How: | Tom Chi | TEDxTaipei

Tom Chi認為「萬物都有相關聯」或「事出必有因」的說法,其實不只是純粹哲學的形上思考,而是有各種科學根據證明這個理論的。而找出這個現象象徵的意義是什麼,或許就能解開人類之所以存在的秘密….? Tom Chi has worked in a wide range of roles from astrophysical researcher to Fortune 500 consultant to corporate executive developing new hardware/software products and services. He has played a significant role in established projects with global reach … Continue reading

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The Simplest Math Problem No One Can Solve

The Collatz Conjecture is the simplest math problem no one can solve — it is easy enough for almost anyone to understand but notoriously difficult to solve. This video is sponsored by Brilliant. The first 200 people to sign up … Continue reading

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Consciousness: how the brain chemical ‘dopamine’ plays a key role – new research

Drugs which act through the brain chemical dopamine may one day help restore consciousness in people who have lost it. Barbara Jacquelyn Sahakian Barbara Jacquelyn Sahakian is a Friend of The Conversation. Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology, University of Cambridge Christelle … Continue reading

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