Our energy future depends on nuclear fusion, says Michel Laberge. The plasma physicist runs a small company with a big idea for a new type of nuclear reactor that could produce clean, cheap energy. His secret recipe? High speeds, scorching temperatures and crushing pressure. In this hopeful talk, he explains how nuclear fusion might be
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Former Harvard professor and best-selling author Todd Rose explains the problem with prestigious colleges and how the future of higher ed could be bright. Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/c/bigthink Up Next ► How can cognitive science inform the future of education? https://youtu.be/rbhQ_euH7Ac Education is and always will be the great equalizer –
Nobel economist Robert Shiller reveals how manipulation and deception are integral to how markets function – they are designed to systematically exploit our psychological weaknesses and ignorance. So what can help arm us against these tricks and traps? For too long, we have believed that markets are generally benign institutions, geared to deliver us material
Thanks to Alessio from Italy for creating this problem and sending it to me! A cyclist and a series of motorcycles are racing to the top of a long climb, and the cyclist doubles back. Given how many motorcycles passed the cyclist, can you figure out the motorcycles’ speed? (precise wording in video, too long
Tadashi Tokieda is talking about Borromean links again – this time using ribbons. More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ More Tadashi videos: http://bit.ly/tadashi_vids Knots: http://bit.ly/Knot-a-Phile Video by Brady Haran and Pete McPartlan (animations by Pete) Music by Alan Stewart Support us on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/numberphile NUMBERPHILE Website: http://www.numberphile.com/ Numberphile on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/numberphile Numberphile
Professor Brailsford on why he’s updating his OS and Hardware while in isolation (with remote support from Dr Bagley) EXTRA BITS (Sean & the Prof chatting about all sorts!) : https://youtu.be/DzTQEXtuWGU Contact Tracing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgIg90cFRVw The Great 202 Jailbreak: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVxeuwlvf8w https://www.facebook.com/computerphile Tweets by computer_phile This video was filmed by Professor Brailsford & Sean Riley and edited
How do we see yellow when there is no yellow light there? #shorts Support Physics Girl videos → https://www.patreon.com/physicsgirl Special thank you to our X-Ray tier patrons: Carlos Patricio, David Cichowski, Eddie Sabbah, Fabrice Eap, Gil Chesterton, Isabel Herstek, Margaux Lopez, Matt Kaminski, Michael Schneider, Patrick Olson, Vikram Bhat, Vincent Argiro, wc993219 Music provided by
Guest Starring Mamrie Hart: https://www.youtube.com/user/YouDeserveADrink Austin Evans: https://www.youtube.com/user/duncan33303 Watch the making of: https://youtu.be/5WHnX7dFmnY Iceberg dead ahead! Sure, luck brought Jake (me) to the deck of the most prestigious ocean liner on her maiden voyage…and into the arms of the love of his life…but that luck has clearly run out. We must race to find a
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Many technologies have promised to revolutionize education, but so far none has. With that in mind, what could revolutionize education? These ideas have been percolating since I wrote my PhD in physics education: https://ve42.co/phd I have also discussed this topic with CGP Grey, whose view of the future of education differs significantly from mine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vsCAM17O-M
I visited Svalbard’s Global Seed Vault, built specifically for doomsday. Follow Johnny for more photos and videos from his travels on Facebook: https://goo.gl/l0x5cA and Instagram: https://goo.gl/CduwlO Subscribe to the Vox Borders newsletter for weekly updates: http://www.vox.com/borders-email In this video I visited Svalbard’s Global Seed Vault, founded by the Crop Trust group in 2008. Over 135,000
At the JET reactor at Culham Centre for Fusion Energy — http://ccfe.ac.uk — I talk to the engineers about fusion power, being the hottest place in the solar system, deliberate disruptions, and about the surround-sound speakers that give a diagnostic test you might not expect. Thanks to everyone at CCFE! They hold occasional open days:
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Trinidad’s Pitch Lake is a huge, oily, and filled with millions of tons of asphalt. It may not sound like a great place to live, but the lake is teeming with microscopic life! And learning more about these organisms could give us insight into how life could exist on other, less hospitable worlds. Hosted by:
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View full lesson here: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/a-brief-history-of-plural-word-s-john-mcwhorter All it takes is a simple S to make most English words plural. But it hasn’t always worked that way (and there are, of course, exceptions). John McWhorter looks back to the good old days when English was newly split from German — and books, names and eggs were beek,
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Our bodies get Vitamin D from the sun, but as dermatologist Richard Weller suggests, sunlight may confer another surprising benefit too. New research by his team shows that nitric oxide, a chemical transmitter stored in huge reserves in the skin, can be released by UV light, to great benefit for blood pressure and the cardiovascular
Humans won’t survive if we stay on Earth. Michio Kaku explains. Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/c/bigthink Up Next ► Michio Kaku: 3 mind-blowing predictions about the future https://youtu.be/tuVuxKTJeBI On Earth, extinction is the norm: 99.9% of species eventually go extinct. Even worse, the laws of physics have destined our planet for destruction.
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Thank you for 100 million views! To celebrate, here’s a puzzle related to 100 million, sent by Karin. Find a sequence of 100 million consecutive non-prime numbers. That is, every number is composite—not a single number is a prime number. The method can actually be generalized for arbitrary lengths too! Watch the video for the
Tadashi discusses pressure and lift… with a toy of course! More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ Lift and wings on Sixty Symbols: https://youtu.be/PF22LM8AbII Tadashi Playlist: http://bit.ly/tadashi_vids You can buy version of this toy on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2MLfpSC (affiliate link) Numberphile is supported by the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI): http://bit.ly/MSRINumberphile We are also
Pointers are an essential element of computing. Dr Steve Bagley explains how everything rests on pointers. Password Cracking: https://youtu.be/7U-RbOKanYs Loops vs Recursion: https://youtu.be/HXNhEYqFo0o Many thanks to Microsoft Research UK for their support with the ‘Essentials’ mini-series. http://www.facebook.com/computerphile Tweets by computer_phile This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley. Computer Science at the University of
Watch the bonus material cut from this video and get 26% off an annual subscription to CuriosityStream and Nebula at https://www.curiositystream.com/minutephysics The Solution to the Windmill Paradox. This video is about the tradeoff of Windmills: the fact that the more kinetic energy you extract from the wind the slower the wind goes, the less wind
Newcomb’s Paradox has confounded philosophers, mathematicians, and game players for over 50 years. The problem is simple: You can take Box A, which contains $1,000, *and* Box B, which contains either $0 or $1,000,000, or you can just take Box B. The right choice seems obvious — but there’s a catch. Before you play, an
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How Schlieren imaging works in color, black and white and slow-mo. Get a free audiobook with a 30 day free trial at http://www.audible.com/veritasium Special thanks to Patreon supporters: Tony Fadell, Donal Botkin, Curational, Jeff Straathof, Zach Mueller, Ron Neal, Nathan Hansen, Corvi Support Veritasium on Patreon: http://ve42.co/patreon Filming by Raquel Nuno Sound Effects by A
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