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How to Turn Sound Into Light - Sonoluminescence
How to Turn Sound Into Light - Sonoluminescence
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Solution to the Grandfather Paradox
If you could travel back in time, and you killed your grandfather, would you be killing your future self? What do physics, complexity theory, and computer science have to say about this famous murderous time-travel paradox?
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Why Masks Work BETTER Than You'd Think
Thanks to the Heising-Simons foundation for their support: https://www.hsfoundation.org (their COVID-19 grants: https://www.hsfoundation.org/grants/covid-19-response-grants/ ) Check out https://aatishb.com/maskmath to explore and for...
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Why December Has The Longest Days
December has the longest solar days (noon-to-noon) because of the weird way a combination of the axial tilt of the earth and the eccentricity of its elliptical orbit conspire in December. Perihelion + Solstices = Long Days.
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I Had to Build a Custom Mute Switch for my Violin
This video is about how I designed and made my own custom mute guitar pedal for my clip-on mic and piezo pickup on my violin (fiddle). The mic is an AT Pro35 phantom powered XLR condensor microphone, and the pickup is a Fishman V200...
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Immovable Object vs. Unstoppable Force - Which Wins
Immovable Object vs. Unstoppable Force - Which Wins
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Are University Admissions Biased? | Simpson's Paradox Part 2
Simpson's Paradox Part 2. This video is about how to tell whether or not university admissions are biased using statistics: aka, it's about Simpson's Paradox again! REFERENCES: Original Berkeley Grad Admissions Paper:...
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Picture of the Big Bang (a.k.a. Oldest Light in the Universe)
Where does all the stuff in the universe come from?
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Should You Walk or Run When It's Cold?
Is it better to walk or run when it's cold out? If you run, then you have to deal with wind, wind chill, etc, but your body generates more heat. If you stay still, standing or walking slowly, you don't generate as much heat, but don't...
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The Arrow of Time feat. Sean Carroll
Why is the past different from the future? Caltech physicist Sean Carroll explains how the arrow of time is not an intrinsic property of physics, but rather an emergent feature.
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What is the Purpose of Life? (Big Picture Ep. 5/5)
This video is about how life arose and what its main function or purpose in the universe seems to be. Thanks to Sean Carroll for collaborating on it! This video is about how life arose and what its main function or purpose in the...
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Simpson's Paradox
This video is about Simpson's paradox, a statistical paradox and ecological fallacy where seemingly contradictory results are implied by a single set of data depending on how it's grouped. The paradox can arise in medical studies,...
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Why Are Airplane Engines So Big?
The answer to this question has everything to do with drag & kinetic energy vs momentum change (thrust) ie, a bigger engine fan allows for a larger air mass to be accelerated a smaller amount to give the same thrust as you'd get from a...
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What is Dark Matter
In this episode, we discuss Dark Matter, an exotic type of matter we know very little about, despite the fact that it makes up around 80% of all matter in the universe!