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Wander Episode 1 – Richard E Grant at the V&A Museum – Part 1

CREATIVE JUICE BY RIBENA SUPPORTS WANDER: Episode 1 – Richard E Grant reads his favourite passage from ‘Alice in Wonderland’ at the Victoria & Albert Museum – Part 1 Walk through beautiful spaces accompanied by the world’s favourite voices. An … Continue reading

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Why Nature Loves Hexagons

From spirals to spots to fractals, nature is full of interesting patterns. Many of these patterns even resemble geometric shapes. One of the most common? Hexagons. Why do we see this six-sided shape occur so many times in nature? This … Continue reading

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The Golden Ratio Is BS (Kinda) | Answers With Joe

The Golden Ratio is a mathematical construct that has been observed all throughout nature, architecture, and art. And some think it’s a universal constant, and divine. But… is it? Or are we only seeing what we want to see?

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Flocking Behavior of Birds (Boids Algorithm) – Smarter Every Day 234

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GET SMARTER SECTION Read the website of the man that originally came up with the algorithm, Craig Reynolds http://www.red3d.com/cwr/boids/ Boids on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boids Experiment with the Boids Algorithm on Ben Eater’s website https://eater.net/boids ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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The Hidden Assumption Behind All Numbers

 

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Has physicist’s gravity theory solved ‘impossible’ dark energy riddle? – Guardian

Hannah Devlin Science correspondent   Prof Claudia de Rham’s ‘massive gravity’ theory could explain why universe expansion is accelerating.   Cosmologists don’t enter their profession to tackle the easy questions, but there is one paradox that has reached staggering proportions. … Continue reading

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1, 2, 3, 4 Stories About Math

From geometry to personal finance, there is one common denominator that links the stories in this reel—they are all about math.

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Root 2 and the deadly Marching Squares

Witness how some marching squares destroy square root of 2’s hope to be a rational number. A mathematical story with some killer twists and turns you’ll never see coming.

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Calculus explained through a story

Tibees 285K subscribers SUBSCRIBED Here is a look at the essence of calculus through the story of Bob. We use differentiation to find the slope of a curved line and then use ‘integration’ to find the area of an irregular … Continue reading

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A Photographic Survey by Jessica Wynne of Chalkboards Filled by Mathematicians

Photographer and Fashion Institute of Technology professor Jessica Wynne has spent the last year documenting the numbers, symbols, and models drawn by mathematicians onto chalkboards. The photos capture the thought processes and physical efforts of professionals in a medium that … Continue reading

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