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American Reacts to Philomena Cunk on America
Get ready to embark on a side-splitting adventure as we take an American’s first look at the incomparable comedic genius of Philomena Cunk! If you’re not familiar with Philomena Cunk, she’s the fictional, brilliantly dim-witted TV presenter portrayed by the … Continue reading
Scientists Have Accidentally Discovered a New Formula for Pi
This new formula is something else 😳 […] Ramanujan video: • Solving Mathematics in ‘The Man Who K… Note, at 9:27, the n values should be minus 1 and the expression on the righthandside should be multiplied by 4. What … Continue reading
HUGE Magnet VS Copper Sphere – Defying Gravity- Will a Neodymium Magnet Float Inside?
10 Oct 2024 In this video, I test the interaction between a neodymium magnet and a copper sphere using the principles of Lenz’s Law. By experimenting with this setup, I explore whether a magnet can float or move differently inside … Continue reading
Is THIS Even a Language‽
We greatly apologize for the parts of this video with poor audio quality! we did what we could to improve it, and will continue to improve in the future. To understand how we started this conversation and get an explanation … Continue reading
The future of ultrafast electronics
Physicist Matthias Kling studies photons and the things science can do with ultrafast pulses of X-rays. These pulses last just attoseconds – a billionth of a billionth of a second, Kling says. He uses them to create slo-mo “movies” of … Continue reading
Visualizing the Nucleus
Physicists Rolf Ent from Jefferson Lab, Newport News, VA, and Richard Milner from MIT, together with animator James LaPlante from Sputnik Animation, Portland, ME, have created a 10 minute video that includes new animations of the atomic nucleus. For … Continue reading
How AI Solved Protein Folding and Won a Nobel Prize
23 Oct 2024 This is the inside story of how AI cracked the protein folding code. In 2024, David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for these advances in computer-assisted protein design and structure … Continue reading
Secrets Of Roman Bath | Guided History Tour
We begin our journey in the Mendip Hills before exploring the Roman Bath complex of Aquae Sulis. […]
Linguist Answers Word Origin Questions | Tech Support | WIRED
22 Oct 2024 Linguist Gareth Roberts joins WIRED to answer the internet’s burning questions about the etymologies of English words. How did the first languages first form? Was there once a single common language that all the others evolved from? … Continue reading
What’s the ‘were’ in werewolf? | SPOOKY ETYMOLOGY
23 Oct 2024 #etymology #ghoststories #halloween In this episode of Words Unravelled, Rob and Jess dig into the spooky origins of Halloween words. From ‘ghosts’ and ‘ghouls’ to ‘warlocks’ and ‘witches’, they uncover the hauntingly fascinating roots of supernatural lingo. … Continue reading
