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"string theory lied to us and now science communication is hard" (www.youtube.com)

Dr. Angela Collier plays the Binding of Isaac: Rebirth and talks at length about what went wrong with string theory, and how that affected science communication.

Boiling water with Ice (diode.zone)

This is a jar full of only water (liquid and vapor). It boils at any temperature when you apply something cold enough to the top, like ice....

I need help understanding the dark-matter aspect of this (www.youtube.com)

I enjoy conjecture and CGI and what-ifs. But the idea of primordial black holes being dark matter? Huge gravitational wells repulsing things? I’m a layman, so this seems as implied by word choice and emphasis.

Advice for channel using GPT-4-Turbo for scientific paper summaries? (m.youtube.com)

So I’ve been working on an implementation of GPT-4-Turbo that’s designed to ingress entire papers into its context window and process them into summaries that would be understandable by someone with a highschool education (originally went for 8th grade max, but that led to rather patronizing results lol). The machine tells...

Cursed Units (youtu.be)

How Are Quasiparticles Different From Particles? (youtu.be)

I assume a lot of people here are familiar with PBS Spacetime, but if not you should check them out! This particular video is one of my favorites of theirs, because it's tangentially related to my field of research but also because they do (in my opinion) a really good job of explaining quasiparticles in an intuitive way

[Journey to the Microcosmos] Why Are Some Birds Blue? (youtu.be)

cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/7397962...

Room Temperature Superconductors - This Changes EVERYTHING! (youtu.be)

Watch electricity hit a fork in the road at half a billion frames per second (www.youtube.com)

In this video, I measure a wave of electricity traveling down a wire, and answer the question - how does electricity know where to go? How does “electricity” “decide” where electrons should be moving in wires, and how long does that process take? Spoiler alert - very fast!...

MIT 22.01 Introduction to Nuclear Engineering and Ionizing Radiation course on YouTube (www.youtube.com)

I'm 24 lessons in at this point and it's been absolutely fascinating. Highly recommended if you're interested in learning about how nuclear anything works.

new zealand earthquake today 2023 | new zealand earthquake latest news (youtu.be)

new zealand earthquake today 2023 | new zealand earthquake latest newsThis channel displays natural disasters that include:- Meteorological emergencies such ...

China! Typhoon Suqian struck Jiangsu Province, hurricane, cyclone (youtu.be)

China! Typhoon Suqian struck Jiangsu Province, hurricane, cyclonePanicTrack channel shows natural disasters that include...:- Meteorological emergencies such...

Some say the sky lit up before Morocco’s earthquake. It’s a real phenomenon. (wapo.st)

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What Supernova Distance Would Trigger Mass Extinction? | PBS Spacetime (www.youtube.com)

PBS Eons: The Invisible Barrier Keeping Two Worlds Apart (www.youtube.com)

PBS Eons: It's Becoming Very Clear That Birds Are Not Normal (www.youtube.com)

"A new discovery raises an important question: from an evolutionary perspective, who really has the stranger wings?"

Supermassive Black Holes and Types of Active Galactic Nuclei Explained | PBS Space Time (www.youtube.com)

How Close Are We to Immortality? (www.youtube.com)

Dry Ice from Sea Shells (www.youtube.com)

One of my favourite Carl Sagan videos (www.youtube.com)

If science could ever have been said to have a prophet… Carl Sagan was that man. All his words of warning and wisdom now seem even more disregarded than when he was with us. In a way I am sort of glad he dind’t have to witness these last 27 years to see how badly most everyone missed, or dismissed his entire lifes message.