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A quick eytmology of York

 

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Why Faster Than Light Breaks The Universe

This week we’re answering some common questions about the speed of light and why its the absolute speed limit for information in the universe. Veritasium’s Video:    • Why No One Has Me…   Sabine’s Video:    • I Think Faster Th…   0:00 Can Anything Go Faster than Light? 0:48 Why Faster … Continue reading →

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Nuclear Physicist REACTS to Cleo Abram The Big Lie About Nuclear Waste

Nuclear Physicist REACTS to Cleo Abram The Big Lie About Nuclear Waste Check out Cleo’s Channel – / @uc415bopucgsamy5… Full Original Video – • The Big Lie About… For Full uncut reactions, as well as supporting the channel, join my … Continue reading →

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Hear the Beatles’ ‘Blackbird’ Sung in the Indigenous Mi’kmaq Language | Open Culture

in Language, Music | July 6th, 2023 To raise awareness of her native language, 16-year-old Emma Stevens sang a version of The Beatles’ 1968 classic “Blackbird” in the Mi’kmaq language, an Eastern Algonquian language spoken by nearly 11,000 in Canada … Continue reading →

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3,900 Pages From Paul Klee’s Personal Notebooks Are Now Online | My Modern Met

By Margherita Cole on July 6, 2023                 This post may contain affiliate links. If you make a purchase, My Modern Met may earn an affiliate commission. Please read our disclosure for more … Continue reading →

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Why White People are Called Caucasian (Illustrated)

(7:14 – Main Presentation) Nell Painter combines the discursive meanings of scholarship with the visual meaning of painting, to answer, literally, why white people are called ‘Caucasian,’ what that looks like, and how they all relate to our ideas about … Continue reading →

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How This One Question Breaks Computers

[…] Sources https://matjaz.substack.com/p/why-are… https://www.khanacademy.org/computing… https://www.udacity.com/course/intro-… The Nature of Computation – Cristopher Moore […]

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The Evolution and Meanings of Human Skin Color | Nina Jablonski

Variation in human skin color has fascinated and perplexed people for centuries. As the most visible aspect of human variation, skin color has been used in the past as a basis for classifying people into “races.” In this lecture, Leakey … Continue reading →

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The ‘sworn virgins’ of Albania who trade femininity for freedom | Aeon Videos

For the ‘sworn virgins’ of Albania, dressing and acting like men offered a degree of autonomy in a deeply patriarchal society ‘God has created both male and female, and both should be free.’ Part of a Balkan tradition that dates … Continue reading →

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The hidden world of LOONEY TUNES’s background art

00:00 It’s hidden in plain sight 01:36 The art of Looney Tunes 02:10 The artists behind the art 02:50 The genius of Maurice Noble 03:30 The wonky style of Looney Tunes 04:16 Characters and story shape the art 05:53 The … Continue reading →

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