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BBC Radio 4 – Your Place or Mine with Shaun Keaveny, Tim Peake: The International Space Station, Space
Will Shaun trade his shacket for a spacesuit, leaving Earth far behind him? Astronaut Major Tim Peake wants to take Shaun on a wonder-filled trip to the International Space Station. It’s a chance to really get away from it all, … Continue reading
The Image NASA Didn’t Want to Receive from the Deep Impact Probe
Supercut of how NASA crashed into Tempel-1 and visited Wild-2 with the Deep Impact and Stardust probes. What other videos do you want to see about space? Make your suggestions on the Astrum discord: / discord […]
AI Is Dangerous, but Not for the Reasons You Think | Sasha Luccioni | TED
AI won’t kill us all — but that doesn’t make it trustworthy. Instead of getting distracted by future existential risks, AI ethics researcher Sasha Luccioni thinks we need to focus on the technology’s current negative impacts, like emitting carbon, infringing … Continue reading
What Did the Real Antikythera Mechanism Do And Who Actually Made It?
In 2023’s Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, the latest entry in the iconic adventure film series, everyone’s favourite swashbuckling archaeologist/grave robber hunts after the titular dial, a mechanism invented by Ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes to predict the appearance … Continue reading
How to Think Computationally about AI, the Universe and Everything | Stephen Wolfram | TED
Drawing on his decades-long mission to formulate the world in computational terms, Stephen Wolfram delivers a profound vision of computation and its role in the future of AI. Amid a debut of mesmerizing visuals depicting the underlying structure of the … Continue reading
Rotary Phones: the Call of History
From the late 1910s well into the 1980s, telephone networks were dominated by analog, rotary-dial-operated switching systems, which at their peak reached astonishing levels of electromechanical sophistication. In this video we examine the history and inner workings of rotary dials … Continue reading
Taking the ‘fossil fuels’ out of fuel cells. Revolutionary new technology.
PFAS, or ‘Forever Chemicals’, are found in all sorts of everyday products, from non-stick pans to stain resistant carpets and fire fighting foams. They’re also used to make separator membranes in billions of fuel cells, batteries and other devices. But … Continue reading
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