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Roger Penrose Confesses About Consciousness

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Why A4 paper is designed as 297mm x 210mm?

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The (real) beauty of the Parthenon

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Proof our planet isn’t flat

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Fractals are kind of… amazing?

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The ball gets bigger with each collision.

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Game Theory of Power-to-the-Powerful

This video explains game theory of power-to-the-powerful. It looks at questions such as: What does it mean to “have power”? What is game theory? How do competition and cooperation coincide? What can we do about power-to-the-powerful? Image credit for John … Continue reading

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The Professor’s Song Tom Lehrer

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Ancient trick to calculate ANY square root

An ancient formula is astoundingly accurate. Why didn’t we learn this in school? 0:00 history 2:32 calculations 7:22 sqrt 2 10:19 intuition Babylonian tablet YBC 7289 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YBC_7289 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi… https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi… Babylonian numerals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon… https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi… Josell7, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/… via Wikimedia … Continue reading

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Reuben | The TONNETZ – the 300-year-old map of musical harmony

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