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Want to connect with a depressed friend but not sure how to relate to them? Comedian and storyteller Bill Bernat has a few suggestions. Learn some dos and don’ts for talking to people living with depression — and handle your next conversation with grace and maybe a bit of humor. Check out more TED Talks:
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Which perimeter is larger: the square or the circle? It sounds easy but many students find this problem to be surprisingly hard! Can you solve it? Special thanks this month to: Richard Ohnemus, Shrihari Puranik, Kyle, Michael Anvari. Thanks to all supporters on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/mindyourdecisions Math StackExchange https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1188845/does-the-square-or-the-circle-have-the-greater-perimeter-a-surprisingly-hard-pr Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/user/MindYourDecisions?sub_confirmation=1 Send me suggestions by email
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Who cares about privacy? – Professor Derek McAuley chats about the various problems with privacy online. http://www.facebook.com/computerphile Tweets by computer_phile This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley. Computer Science at the University of Nottingham: http://bit.ly/nottscomputer Computerphile is a sister project to Brady Haran’s Numberphile. See the full list of Brady’s video projects at:
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Why the US has so many undocumented immigrants. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO Immigration looked very different before 1996, when President Bill Clinton signed the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA). The law was supposed to stop undocumented immigration by increasing enforcement and punishing people for being in the US undocumented. Instead, it
Thanks to all the folks at the Institute for Computational Cosmology! You can find out more here: http://icc.dur.ac.uk/Eagle/ or in their Reddit AMA here: https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/2sifgc/science_ama_series_we_are_cosmologists_working_on/ I’m at http://tomscott.com and http://twitter.com/tomscott
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In this fun episode of SciShow, we’ll take you to a uranium deposit in Africa where, eons ago, a unique set of conditions came together to form the world’s only known natural nuclear reactor! Sound crazy? Join us! No radiation suit required! Hosted by: Hank Green. ———- Check out SciShow’s podcast SciShow Tangents at http://www.scishowtangents.org
The Acheulean handaxe was the most common tool of early humans, but we still don’t know what the heck they used it for. LEARN MORE ************** To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: – Acheulean handaxe: large, chipped stone objects which represent the oldest, most common, and longest-used formally-shaped working
Follow us for more sciencey content. Sources & further reading: https://sites.google.com/view/kgs-tiktok-sources You might think a tiny black hole is cute, but it turns out that it’s just as deadly as all the other black holes. So please consider this, before you wish for one as a birthday present. #inanutshell #kurzgesagt #kurzgesagt_inanutshell #spacefacts #spacenerds #astrophysics #astronomy
Investigate the possibility of scanning the human brain and uploading our minds and consciousness to a digital world. — Imagine a future where nobody dies— instead, our minds are uploaded to a digital world. There they could live on in a realistic, simulated environment with avatar bodies, calling in and contributing to the biological world.
Why do we hurt? Do we actually experience pain, or is it merely illusion? In this video, Lorimer Moseley explores these questions, and position the pain that we feel as our bodies’ way of protecting us from damaging tissues further. He also looks at what this might mean for those who suffer from chronic pain.
Jacqueline DiBiasie-Sammons is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics at the University of Mississippi. Watch her full TED Talk: https://youtu.be/0OuURF5_5Pw
Economist Tyler Cowen on understanding human behavior using psychology.
Architect Sarah Wigglesworth will explore the cultural challenges that architecture can and should be addressing and where we have erected barriers to doing so. Sarah argues that architects are relatively powerless within the broader forces that shape our cities, arguing for an architecture in which people will have greater control of the built environment around
PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to: http://to.pbs.org/DonateSPACE ↓ More info below ↓ Check out the new Space Time Merch Store! https://pbsspacetime.com/ How did life on Earth get started? Did life on Earth originate on another planet? Either Mars, or in a distant solar system? Could Earth
I couldn’t believe the answer when I solved this one! Start with a unit square (a rectangle with both sides equal to 1, call it R1). Attach a rectangle of area 1 to its right side, then attach a rectangle of area 1 to its top. The border of this new shape is another rectangle,
It’s not because they’re drunker than you are. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO Asian flush, also widely known as Asian glow, is when Chinese, Japanese and Korean people turn red after drinking alcohol. What causes Asian glow? Genetics, basically. Around 36% of Northeast Asians are deficient in one of the enzymes that metabolizes alcohol, due
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What do astronomers look for when they study exoplanets for signs of alien life? Hank explains how space telescopes are already yielding tantalizing clues of what other worlds might hold — including water! — and how the next generation of technology will be able to reveal to us. Like SciShow? Want to help support us,
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Can you win a game of quantum foosball— using a giant electron instead of a ball? Explore how to use quantum mechanics to your advantage. — After a long day working on the particle accelerator, you and your friends head to the arcade to unwind. The lights go out for a second, and when they