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

Posted on November 4, 2025 by agogo22

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The (real) beauty of the Parthenon

Posted on October 15, 2025 by agogo22

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Proof our planet isn’t flat

Posted on October 12, 2025 by agogo22

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Fractals are kind of… amazing?

Posted on October 9, 2025 by agogo22

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The ball gets bigger with each collision.

Posted on August 12, 2025 by agogo22

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Game Theory of Power-to-the-Powerful

Posted on August 9, 2025 by agogo22

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

Posted on July 31, 2025 by agogo22

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Ancient trick to calculate ANY square root

Posted on July 15, 2025 by agogo22

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

Posted on July 5, 2025 by agogo22

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Astonishing discovery by computer scientist: how to squeeze space into time

Posted on June 26, 2025 by agogo22

This year, computer scientist Ryan Williams showed an astounding connection between space and time. He thought it was too strange to be true. But, it is. It’s about space, time, fundamental constraints, a 50-year-old mystery, and magical pebbles that resolved … Continue reading →

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The Obviously True Theorem No One Can Prove

Posted on June 24, 2025 by agogo22

[…] A huge thank you to Steven Strogatz, Alex Kontorovich, Harald Helfgott, Senia Sheydvasser, Jared Duker Lichtman, Roger Heath-Brown, Kevin Ford, Carl-Fredrik Nyberg Brodda, Kaneenika Sinha & Shehzad Hathi for their invaluable expertise and contributions to this video. Look out … Continue reading →

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Why only ONE ancient CIVILIZATION invented the true number ZERO!

Posted on June 22, 2025 by agogo22

This is a lecture about a chapter of my world history book called: “In Search of the Sublime – A world history of humanity’s relentless pursuit of scientific truth, moral excellence, and enlightenment.” Read the book for FREE at: worldhistorybook.com … Continue reading →

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