Thanks to Audible for sponsoring this video. Get your 30 day free trial at https://www.audible.com/pursuitofwonder or text pursuitofwonder to 500-500. A short story about a group of individuals who find themselves in a game of chance of which they can’t escape. If you are interested in supporting the channel, you […]
Read the story: https://aperture.gg/blogs/the-universe/the-entire-history-of-humanity-in-10-minutes Merch: https://aperture.gg/merch From sharing the earth with many other human species merely as hunter gatherers trying to brave the elements, to building rockets, creating the internet, and now with our eyes set on Mars, the history of humanity is one that’s filled with determination, cooperation, and […]
If you’re not familiar with worms, you probably thing of them as just worms. But boy are you NOT correct. Worms are everywhere. They’re some of the smallest and largest animals in the planet. They live in every habitat imaginable, from deep sea hydrothermal vents to insides of animals as […]
Quantum Gravity Research (QGR) research scientist Fang Fang discusses geometric frustration as it relates to QGR’s work on Emergence Theory. Lecture summary: This lecture talks about three different ways of resolving the geometric frustration for tetrahedra to tile the 3D space. It focuses on one of the solutions: rotational transformation […]
In a matter of days, a nearby volcano will erupt, spewing debris and lava, and decimating your city. You know that fighting fire with fire usually makes things worse, but maybe you could fight fire with ice. What happens when lava suddenly cools down? How much ice would you need? […]
LINKS: Optic Science of Rainbows: http://www.atoptics.co.uk/bows.htm Wiki article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow Flying through rainbow (first video): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yU-K-dpflgo Flying through rainbow (second video): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNBHm8W90lU Petrichor (the smell of rain): http://www.wordsmith.org/words/petrichor.html Why do wires knot so easily? http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/content/latest-questions/question/1824/ Scientific paper on random knotting of an agitated string: http://www.pnas.org/content/104/42/16432.full Also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrichor Music courtuesy of Jake […]
Cats, cats, cats- the little freaks that run your household are just one of 39 species of cats. Today, we will be diving into some of the species, some I bet you didn’t even know existed. This is episode 3 of The History of Cats… That We Know Of! A […]
Quantum Gravity Research (QGR) head scientist Dr. Fang Fang discusses the E8 to 4D Quasicrystal as it relates to QGR’s work on Emergence Theory, a new quantum gravity theory deep in the works. Presentation summary: This lecture explains how the 4-dimensional quasicrystal (Elser-Sloane QC) is achieved with Hopf mapping from […]
Thanks to The Great Courses Plus for sponsoring this video. Signup for your free trial with them today at: http://ow.ly/Z4ZV30pygjw In this video, we delve into 3 essential mysteries that sit inside every moment and realize how little we know about anything and everything. And perhaps why that’s ok. If […]
Automation in the Information Age is different. Books we used for this video: The Rise of the Robots: http://amzn.to/2sFQTed The Second Machine Age: http://amzn.to/2szATee Study about job automation in the next two decades: http://bit.ly/1mj2qSJ OUR CHANNELS ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ German Channel: https://kgs.link/youtubeDE Spanish Channel: https://kgs.link/youtubeES HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT US? ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ This […]
