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How do you get people – including yourself – to do what you want?! Meeting expectations or changing habits is hard – whether it’s New Year’s resolutions or deadlines at work. But, as bestselling author Gretchen Rubin explains, it’s a lot easier if you know which of four main ‘tendencies’ you have. Once you know
Sign Up on Patreon to get access to the Space Time Discord! https://www.patreon.com/pbsspacetime The universe is going to end. But of all the possible ends of the universe vacuum decay would have to be the most thorough – because it could totally rewrite the laws of physics. Today I hope to help you understand exactly
Numbers like e and Pi cannot be made using normal algebra. Featuring Australia’s Numeracy Ambassador, Simon Pampena. Extra footage: http://youtu.be/dzerDfN2E7U More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ Discussing transendental numbers, algebraic numbers, pi, e and other stuff. Simon’s website: http://www.numbercrunch.com.au/ Root 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sKah3pJnHI Pi Playlist: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4870492ACBDC2E7C NUMBERPHILE Website: http://www.numberphile.com/ Numberphile on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/numberphile
Many people requested this one. It was asked to 9th grade students in India who had only learned geometry, so you are supposed to solve it without using trigonometry. I thank Anand Gautam for discovering the incredible solution! Polish translation credit: Tłumaczenie: Przemyslav Znajdź mnie tutaj: https://forum.cdaction.pl/blogs/blog/64401-ma%C5%82a-wie%C5%9B-po%C5%9Brodku-niczego/ You can also solve the problem with trigonometry.
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Quick Sort is a popular sorting algorithm, but how does it work? Alex continues our exploration of sorting algorithms with a quick look at quick sort. Original ‘get sorted’ film: http://youtu.be/kgBjXUE_Nwc Cookies: http://youtu.be/LHSSY8QNvew Alex’s code that generated the data for the tests on the original ‘get sorted’ video: https://github.com/apinkney97/Sorts Alex’s graph of all the results
Beyond molecules and atoms, how far down can we see below the wavelength of visible light? What is the smallest possible scale in the universe? Frog animation by Matt Burns Facebook: http://www.physicsgirl.org/facebook Twitter: http://www.physicsgirl.org/twitter Updates: http://physicsgirl.org Help us translate our videos! http://www.youtube.com/timedtext_cs_panel?c=UC7DdEm33SyaTDtWYGO2CwdA&tab=2 Thanks to Kyle Kitzmiller for filming. Image Credits: SEM Images: Dartmouth Electron Microscope
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You can read Hawking’s “A Brief History of Time.” You can study classical literature. You can read religious texts that detail how we got here and what we’re supposed to do now. … or you can gather up a bunch of junk from your bedroom and use it to unpack the majesty of the human
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In Brienz/Brinzauls, a small village in the east of Switzerland, there’s a village slipping into a valley and a road that’s surprisingly dangerous. Thanks to everyone I interviewed: pull down the description for links and more details! CCTV footage from Geopraevent, used with permission: https://www.geopraevent.ch/ More details on the Brienz radar: https://www.geopraevent.ch/project/rockfall-radar-brienz/ CSD Engineers: https://www.csd.ch/en
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Salvia divinorum, despite sounding like a spell from the world of Harry Potter, can’t turn you into an inanimate object, make you leave your body, or set your feet on fire. However, it can make you FEEL like all of those things are happening. This little plant is a hallucinogen – one so powerful and
Do your organs grow as you get older? A simple question that we unpack in this week’s episode of Big Questions. A weekly show where we endeavor to answer one of your big questions. This week, Jen Alexander asks, “Do your organs grow with you?” — Mental Floss Video on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/mf_video Select Images and
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Why do we fixate on the things we can see immediately when we crave change? In this passionate talk Robert Greene shares the key to transforming ourselves and also talks about his own personal transformation and his path to becoming a bestselling author. About Robert Greene Robert Greene is the internationally best-selling author of The
Check out our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/teded View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-don-t-perpetual-motion-machines-ever-work-netta-schramm Perpetual motion machines — devices that can do work indefinitely without any external energy source — have captured many inventors’ imaginations because they could totally transform our relationship with energy. There’s just one problem: they don’t work. Why not? Netta Schramm describes the pitfalls of
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Bill Gross has founded a lot of start-ups, and incubated many others — and he got curious about why some succeeded and others failed. So he gathered data from hundreds of companies, his own and other people’s, and ranked each company on five key factors. He found one factor that stands out from the others
Incredibly, You can cut the spinal cord, crush it, remove a segment, and it will regenerate. It is Axolotl An Axolotl can regenerate its lungs, heart, spinal cord and parts of its brain, if it suffers a head injury and heals without any scarring. In particular, The Axolotl is over 1,000 times more resistant to
Physics’ greatest mystery: Michio Kaku explains the God Equation Watch the newest video from Big Think: https://bigth.ink/NewVideo Learn skills from the world’s top minds at Big Think+: https://bigthink.com/plus/ ———————————————————————————- “It’s no exaggeration to say that the greatest minds of the entire human race have made proposals for this grand final theory of everything,” says theoretical
Renowned activist and author Michael Pollan argues that cooking is one of the simplest and most important steps people can take to improve their family’s health, build communities, fix our broken food system, and break our growing dependence on corporations. The event was chaired by Tim Lang, professor of Food Policy at City University London.