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Evidence ancient Babylonians were far more advanced than we thought – BBC REEL
Plimpton 322 is the name given to a 3,800-year-old clay tablet discovered in Iraq in the early 20th Century by archeologist Edgar J Banks, the man believed to have inspired Indiana Jones. Over time this tablet has become one of … Continue reading
Japan’s ancient secret to better cognitive memory – BBC REEL
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Tagged design, has now been abandoned around the world. But in Japan, Life, mathematics, once a common tool in many countries, The centuries-old abacus, thousands of students are still taught proficiency on the abacus. Advocates argue that sliding the beads up and down with your fingers and then thinking with your brain creates a mind-body connection
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This Problem Broke Math (and led to Quantum Physics)
A general solution to the cubic equation was long considered impossible, until we gave up the requirement that math reflect reality. This video is sponsored by Brilliant. The first 200 people to sign up via https://brilliant.org/veritasium get 20% off a … Continue reading
Less is more: Why our brains struggle to subtract
When solving problems, humans tend to think about adding something before they think of taking something away – even when subtracting is the better solution. Experiments show that this newly discovered psychological phenomenon applies across a range of situations from … Continue reading
SOME OF MY FAVORITE NUMBERS
PLAY IN 4K TO AVOID NOISE COMPRESSION Featured in Pictoplasma, Festival du Film d’Animation de Savigny, Tokyo Short Film Festival, Berlin Flash Film Festival, Linoleum, Supernova, Toronto Animated Image Society, and other festivals. Music and sound by Dory Bavarsky/Full Color … Continue reading
Solving the mystery of the impossible cord.
STEVE MOULD FACE REVEAL! Check out Steve’s 10^6 subscriber Q+A with me cosplaying as Steve. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLADz… UPDATE: We have a proof that if a cable goes back and forth under a handle an equal number of times it can always … Continue reading
This Object has Infinite Surface Area, but Finite Volume
[…] *Creator* Jade Tan-Holmes *Script* Sheila Miller and Jade Tan-Holmes *Animations* Daniel Kouts http://danielkouts.com/ *Sound Design and Music* Junior Arruda https://www.youtube.com/c/iamaduo https://www.epidemicsound.com/ https://open.spotify.com/artist/1D30m…
How firefly flashes illuminate the physics of complex systems | Aeon Essays
Solving the mystery of how and why fireflies flash in time can illuminate the physics of complex systems In the still of the Tennessee night, my colleagues and I are watching thousands of dim little orbs of light, moving peacefully … Continue reading
How is a light photon affected by Gravity?
How is a light photon affected by Gravity? Without invoking General Theory of Relativity, we can use an alternate method to see how the energy of a light photon is affected by gravitational field. Since light has Energy, by virtue … Continue reading
Why is quantum mechanics weird? The bomb experiment
[…] I have done quite a few videos to demystify quantum mechanics. In this video I want to explain just why quantum mechanics is weird. Is it entanglement or superpositions? Schrödinger’s cats? Not quite, really. But the famous Elitzur-Vaidman Bomb … Continue reading
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