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Artist Merges Famous Faces To Create Confusing Celebrity Mashups
Can you tell which celebrity combinations you’re looking at? Zendaya and Beyonce At first glance, these photos look like standard celebrity portraits, however, they might make you do a double-take. French digital artist Benji (aka @morphy_me) takes two famous … Continue reading
Has the threat of Trump really gone? – Timothy Snyder
Timothy Snyder is an American author and historian. He is a professor of history at Yale University and a fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. (Subscribe: https://bit.ly/C4_News_Subscribe) He talks to Krishnan about the future of Trump and … Continue reading
New Addington: The Tram Stop They Took 50 Years to Build
How New Addington wound up in the middle of nowhere. https://ko-fi.com/jagohazzard
How The COVID-19 Vaccine Could Lead To A Cure For Cancer | Answers With Joe
The mRNA technology behind the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are groundbreaking, but their potential goes way beyond COVID-19. They have the ability to help the body fight a multitude of diseases, from enzyme deficiencies, to diabetes, and even, yes, cancer. … Continue reading
Scientists have taught spinach to send emails | Euronews Living
It sounds too weird to be true, but engineers at MIT have developed nanotechnology which can be embedded in plants. Through nanotechnology, engineers at MIT in the US have transformed spinach into sensors capable of detecting explosive materials. These plants … Continue reading
Walter Isaacson: The History Of The Future
The history of computers is a history of competition and collaboration: Innovators have worked together, but also clashed over the place of computers in society and how they should function. Those clashes—between privacy and openness, businessmen and bohemians—continue to this … Continue reading
Artificial Intelligence | Roger Penrose, Kate Devlin, Martin Rees, Nigel Shadbolt & more
Roger Penrose, Kate Devlin, Martin Rees, Nigel Shadbolt, Marta Halina & David Malone discuss the rise of artificial intelligence. Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 00:38 – Roger Penrose 05:09 – Martin Rees 09:21 – Kate Devlin 12:16 – Marta Halina 18:15 – … Continue reading
Introduction to Tuning Forks from the National Museum of American History
Meet Steven Turner, curator at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, as he discusses the Smithsonian’s scientific instrument collection. This video focuses the science behind and uses for tuning forks, including demonstrations of tuning forks on resonators, the Grand … Continue reading
YInMn Blue, the First Shade of Blue Discovered in 200 Years, Is Now Available for Artists | Open Culture
Photo via Oregon State University “Color is part of a spectrum, so you can’t discover a color,” says Professor Mas Subramanian, a solid-state chemist at Oregon State University. “You can only discover a material that is a particular color”—or, more … Continue reading
How did the universe begin?
In this video I go through the different theories which physicists have for how the universe began. To learn more about inflation and the inflaton field, this is an excellent starting point: https://arxiv.org/abs/0907.5424 Here is more about the Ekpyrotic Universe: … Continue reading
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