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Unendurable Line: A Fun Short Film Tracks the Movement of Everyday Objects as a Real-Time Graph | Colossal

Posted on September 8, 2017 by agogo22

There’s simply no compelling way to describe this unusual short film from director Daihei Shibata which attempts to plot the movement of everyday objects such as a light switch or a spring as a real-time graph. Sibata explains this as … Continue reading →

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Learn Anything In Four Steps With The Feynman Technique | Later On

Posted on May 14, 2017 by agogo22

  No author is provided, but this post has some good pointers: With the Feynman Technique, you learn by teaching someone else a topic in simple terms so you can quickly pinpoint the holes in your kno… Source: Learn Anything … Continue reading →

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Hidden Figures: NASA’s African-American Computers — Margot Lee Shetterly: Research. Write. Repeat.

Posted on September 8, 2016 by agogo22

You’ve heard the names John Glenn, Alan Shepard and Neil Armstrong. What about Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson, Dorothy Vaughan, Kathryn Peddrew, Sue Wilder, Eunice Smith or Barbara Holley? Most Americans have no idea that from the 1940s through the 1960s, … Continue reading →

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