I debated which forum to put this thread in but I decided on this one since most of the videos should be about science and technology topics.
This is the thread for longer interesting educational net videos and audio files. I got the idea in this thread, which featured the below video about economics of crack.
"cause if we just told them, we can kick anybody's asses, they wouldn't buy us all the stuff we want. So we say 'area denial anti-access asymmetrical strategies' and their eyes glaze over, and they say 'will you build it in my district?' "
Great thread. I really liked the human computation talk; it's a simple idea that has profound implications and that are only really just being realised.
__________________ The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve. -Eugene Wigner
This is a general recommendation for all fans of "The Secret Life of Machines" to check out YouTube's holdings (searching on the show title or Tim Hunkin brings up a fair number of videos).
This is a general recommendation for all fans of "The Secret Life of Machines" to check out YouTube's holdings (searching on the show title or Tim Hunkin brings up a fair number of videos).
Also on Google video. See this thread for links. (ETA: On second thoughts, don't bother with that thread - the embeded google vids seem to be broken now. ) But do please watch "The Secret Life of Machines" in whatever format you can.
Yeah that's really cool. I remember learning about the double-slit experiment here (from Dragar) but I didn't remember that electrons appear to behave differently when observed. That's weird stuff.