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Truth vs Reality: How we evolved to survive, not to see what’s really there | Donald Hoffman
Galileo was quite controversial, in part, because he argued that Earth moved around the sun, despite people’s senses deluding them that the world was static. Evolution may have primed us to see the world in terms of payoffs rather than … Continue reading
String Theory
How can we reconcile gravity with quantum physics? Why are there different types of particles? How can we verify the existence of additional dimensions? All these answers in 16 minutes! 0:00 – Introduction 2:17 – Strings and vibrations 4:03 – … Continue reading
Ultimate Mathematical Shapes Tier List
Brilliant: http://brilliant.org/tibees SURFER: https://www.imaginary.org/program/surfer Subscribe to my channel to see more videos like this: https://www.youtube.com/user/tibees Thanks to Oliver Schoen for his work on animations & script. My previous video about the Barth Sextic: https://youtu.be/UVfR9u1TGW0 […]
Mathematics and sex | Clio Cresswell | TEDxSydney
[…] Mathematics and sex are deeply intertwined. From using mathematics to reveal patterns in our sex lives, to using sex to prime our brain for certain types of problems, to understanding them both in terms of the evolutionary roots of … Continue reading
The Brewer Who Secretly Revolutionized Statistics | Great Minds: William Gosset
When you have a study with a small sample size, how do you know that the results represent the broader population? Well, thanks to a brewer who needed to assess beer quality in the early 1900s, we now have a … Continue reading
99% Of People Don’t Know This Math Secret
This little trick makes math calculations much easier. Sources/references (March 2019) https://twitter.com/stephens_ben/stat… https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/hea… https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-n… http://www.ravimohanmishra.com/2014/0… Updated reference June 2021 Pink Pencil Math did a video on TikTok which has over 18 million views. Definitely watch it! https://www.popsugar.com/smart-living… https://www.tiktok.com/@pinkpencilmat…
The Shape No One Thought was Possible
The shape that has its own world record but that no one thought could exist. Try Brilliant for yourself at https://brilliant.org/tibees SURFER program: https://imaginary.org/program/surfer Barth Sextic 3D printed sculpture: https://imaginary.org/hands-on/four-m… The Golden Ratio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_…%5B…%5D
Theoretical physicist Chiara Marletto: ‘The universal constructor could revolutionise civilisation’
The best physics arguments are very philosophical’: Chiara Marletto. Photograph: Sophia Evans/The Observer The scientist on why studying elementary particles is only one way of explaining phenomena, how the 3D printer could change the world, and her optimism about women … Continue reading
All Tube Stations Have Fifteen Floors
A mention in the Tufnell Park video that I made last week caused some confusion … how could 110 steps be the equivalent to a 15 storey building? Ah! Yes, so I went out to explain a running gag that … Continue reading
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Easy fraction trick you should know
This fraction trick is so easy – but you probably don’t know it…because, let’s face it, you were stuffing around and not paying attention in school! It’s OK – blame your teacher I guess! That’s OK – youtube and tecmath … Continue reading
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