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Little Amal: An Enormous Puppet Is Traveling 8,000km to Shine Light on the Refugee Crisis | Colossal
Photograph by Bevan Roos. To draw attention to the ongoing refugee crisis, an oversized puppet will traverse 8,000 kilometers on a route starting at the Turkey-Syria border. From April to July 2021, “Little Amal” will travel across Greece, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, … Continue reading
How Special Relativity Makes Magnets Work
MinutePhysics on permanent magnets: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFAOXd… Subscribe to Veritasium: http://bit.ly/SuBVe Support Veritasium- get a t-shirt: http://dft.ba/-vetshirt Subscribe to MinutePhysics: http://bit.ly/1eVPynh Magnetism seems like a pretty magical phenomenon. Rocks that attract or repel each other at a distance – that’s really cool … Continue reading
Accidentally Wes Anderson, the Book| Kottke
Inspired by the symmetry and color palettes of Wes Anderson’s movies, the Instagram account Accidentally Wes Anderson has been collecting and featuring photos from folks all over the world that would look out of place in The Royal Tenenbaums or The … Continue reading
Matagi Mālohi: Strong Winds
Matagi Mālohi: Strong Winds “Matagi Mālohi tells the story of our journey to uplift our people and shape a narrative that paints us not as victims of the climate crisis but as the leaders, the healers, the nurturers, the artists, … Continue reading
Reinhard Genzel: “Completely unexpected and, wow, I’m on cloud 17.”
In keeping with the times, Reinhard Genzel was in the middle of a virtual conference when he was surprised by the call announcing, “This is Stockholm!” In this interview with Adam Smith he briefly summarises his 40 year effort to … Continue reading
Andrea Ghez: “It amazes me every time I go to the telescope”
“It’s a passion for the universe!” That’s how Andrea Ghez succinctly sums-up her motivation for becoming an astrophysicist in this conversation recorded with Adam Smith shortly after she heard the news of her Nobel Prize in a 2am call from … Continue reading
Roger Penrose: “I had this strange feeling of elation”
In this phone interview with Adam Smith, recorded just after the announcement of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics, Roger Penrose recounts the story of how a particular crossroads held the key to his seminal 1965 paper on the theoretical … Continue reading
Group theory and why I love 808,017,424,794,512,875,886,459,904,961,710,757,005,754,368,000,000,000
Errors: *Typo on the “hard problem” at 14:11, it should be a/(b+c) + b/(a+c) + c/(a+b) = 4 *Typo-turned-speako: The classification of quasithin groups is 1221 pages long, not 12,000. The full collection of papers proving the CFSG theorem do … Continue reading
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 | Proving that the centre of the Milky Way is a BLACK HOLE!
The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2020 was awarded to Sir Roger Penrose, Prof. Reinhard Genzel and Prof. Andrea Ghez for their contribution to our understanding of black holes! That’s right, your favourite, MY favourite – BLACK HOLES! They won … Continue reading
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