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God and Grain: The French Revolution, Part I
Designed by the amazing Karen Kavett: http://www.youtube.com/xper...
In which John discusses the causes of the French Revolution and its i...
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Brotherhood 2.0: January 10, 2007
In which John calculates his carbon footprint and talks math with Daniel Biss.
Song: "Union Maid," by Old Crow Medicine Show
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3 hours ago
Buddha and Ashoka: World History #6
In which John relates a condensed history of India, post-Indus Valley Civilization. John explores Hinduism and the origins of Buddhism. He also get...
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1 day ago
Helicopter Physics Intro - Smarter Every Day 45
I would appreciate it if you share this by clicking here: http://on.fb.me/ChopperPhysics . Trust me, there's more to Chopper Physics than you thin...
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@Shift4chizzle only in really BAD cgi!
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Riemann Hypothesis 5
Part 5 (and last) of a general-audience talk on the Riemann Hypothesis
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1 day ago
The Day Today - IRA
Funny parody of broadcasting restrictions imposed during the 1980's.
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'Heliomonsters'
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2 days ago
My response to KONY2012.
I initially recorded this for Al Jazeera stream program covering the KONY2012 video. If u want to discuss more find me at @rosebellk on twitter i ...
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2 days ago
Cutting Polygons in Half (Tanton Mathematics)
The Brownie Puzzle video led to a curious general question. Rectangles, parallelograms, regular 2N-gons all possess a special point through which a...
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@athrough0 Yes, that's the answer I feel. All the tiny slithers radiating on opposite sides just need to have equal areas. And that is accomplished by fixing the direction of the curve at opposite points (of intersection) to be parallel.
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2 days ago
The false dichotomy of the afterlife
Just because we cease to exist when we die, that doesn't mean death is good.
Video transcript: http://zinniajones.com/blog......
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2 days ago
A Brownie Puzzle (Tanton Mathematics)
A cute brownie puzzle leads to a serious math question: Which polygons possess the same amazing "cut in half" property as rectangles?
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2 days ago
Swing dancing and Fourier transforms, Part II
Lindy hop + accelerometer + gyroscope data == pure fun. Lead's traces are blue, follow's traces are red.
Top plot: acceleration (magnitude) ove...
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3 days ago
ElemMath9: Multiples, and more names of numbers
After the even numbers, the multiples of 10 are particularly important. Their names are discussed, at least up to 100. Then we consider also multip...
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4 days ago
Re: Invisible Mercedes
Invisible Mercedes
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
Mercedes Fuel Cell Electric Car Publicity Stunt Invisible Video trick
Invisible Me...
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I thought the joke was you'd make any car 'invisible' by the careful placement of cleavage.
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4 days ago
Invisible Mercedes
When Mercedes wanted to promote its new fuel cell vehicle, instead of placing it squarely in front of everyone in the world, the company decided to...
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4 days ago
Radiation vs Radioactive Atoms
There seems to be confusion about what radiation is and where it comes from. Many people believe it is the radiation that comes directly from nucle...
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4 days ago
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Thank you for clearing that up. I couldn't put up with hearing the term 'radiation' being used in the news because I always thought (from my school days) the correct term was 'radioactivity' - and that 'radiation' simply referred to everything from x-rays to radio waves (including visible light)....
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How to derive the volume of an n-dimensional hypersphere (the long version)
I was trying to get a better intuition for "the curse of dimensionality" in machine learning, and needed to know the volume of a unit n-sphere -- s...
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4 days ago
An Evening with Leonhard Euler
A talk given by William Dunham, Professor of Mathematics at Muhlenberg College.
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5 days ago
BM3. Formal Proofs
Basic Methods: We define theorems and describe how to formally construct a proof. We note further rules of inference and show how the logical equ...
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5 days ago
"THE TRIAL OF LEE HARVEY OSWALD" (1964)(PART 3)
Part 3 of 3.
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ElemMath8: Addition in practice
To generate examples for addition, we recall the associative and commutative laws. This also introduces some pleasant counting problems relating to...
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6 days ago
Hyperbolic Geometry is Projective Relativistic Geometry (full lecture)
This is the full lecture of a seminar on a new way of thinking about Hyperbolic Geometry, basically viewing it as relativistic geometry projectiviz...
njwildberger • 254 views
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Thank you. This presentation (together with the one on triangle geometry) really works well as a summary for the UHG videos.
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6 days ago
Swing dancing and Fourier transforms
Pulse and bounce are key characteristics of lindy hop movement. But how do you know that you are pulsing enough? Easy: measure acceleration and tak...
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6 days ago
Swing dancing and Fourier transforms, Part II
Lindy hop + accelerometer + gyroscope data == pure fun. Lead's traces are blue, follow's traces are red.
Top plot: acceleration (magnitude) ove...
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6 days ago
How to derive the volume of an n-dimensional hypersphere in 3 minutes.
I was trying to get a better intuition for "the curse of dimensionality" in machine learning, and needed to know the volume of a unit n-sphere -- s...
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6 days ago
Interest as Rent for Money
Thinking about interest as the price of money. Looking at money from a supply and demand perspective
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6 days ago
The Business Cycle
The business cycle and how it may be driven by emotion
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6 days ago
Marcos Ojeda
Sal talks to Marcos about what he has been working on and why he joined the Khan Academy
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6 days ago
Elizabeth Slavitt
Sal talks to Elizabeth about why she joined the Khan Academy and what she hopes to accomplish here.
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@atheistmindtricks The logical progression of the 'self-paced learning' model of KA is that students will manage almost every aspect of their learning. But I'd guess schools will have to adapt to this slowly and not all-in-one-go. I think Khan has suggested SPL should aim to free-up classroom tim...
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1 week ago
Why Does The Earth Spin?
The Earth spins on its axis, completing a full revolution every day. By why does it do this? One of the most common misconceptions in physics is th...
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1 week ago
singingbanana code challenge 2012: solution and winners!
A description of how I broke the code: http://www.singingbanana.co...
Here's another excellent explanation from Rule The Web (...
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1 week ago
Rotational Inertia: The Race Between a Ring and a Disc
Part of NCSSM Online Physics Collection: This video deals with Rotational Inertia. http://www.dlt.ncssm.edu
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1 week ago
Erik Townsend: Expect A US Price Shock As Black Swans Come Home to Roost
American investor (and longtime CM.com member) Erik Townsend has spent the past several years living internationally, with an eye to which countrie...
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1 week ago
Wire Cutting Puzzle (TANTON Mathematics)
Here is a classic puzzle about cutting a piece of wire solved in an unusual- but natural - way. One just makes good use of the values of pi for non...
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1 week ago
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At 8:48 You said "three quarters'. You meant "three sevenths" I believe.
For the final challenge it occurs you could try induction: taking the circle and square we know their combined portion is in a certain ratio pi1 : pi2. Likewise for the square and triangle we should already have pi2: pi3. W...
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Greens Theorem Proof
A somewhat nonstandard proof of Green's Theorem. I sweep one significant technicality completely under the rug, but I think this proof gives the im...
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1 week ago
Differential Equations: Separation of Variables
This video provides several examples of how to solve a DE using the technique of separation of variables.
website: http://mathispower4u.com
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1 week ago
Answer to the spinning tube question
This is made with Google SketchUp 3D drawing CAD program
(check it out, it is really simple and royally free).
The add on that animates/interacts t...
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Answer to the spinning tube question
This is made with Google SketchUp 3D drawing CAD program
(check it out, it is really simple and royally free).
The add on that animates/interacts t...
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1 week ago
How Do We Know the Universe is Flat?
Special thanks to space fan http://www.youtube.com/tsjo... ! Your suggestion, while it didn't have the MOST votes, had enough to justify my d...
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1 week ago
BM2. Logical Equivalence
Basic Methods: We define tautology and contradiction and consider the conditions of logical equivalence and implication. Examples include DeMorgan...
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1 week ago
Exact First Order Differential Equations - Part 2
This video defines an exact first-order differential equation and then provides a second example of how to solve an exact differential equation.
Vi...
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1 week ago
Lagrange Multipliers - Part 2
This video will show how to determine the extrema of a function with three independent variables.
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Part 1 and this v. helpful in explaining the whole idea from scratch: we need 'parallel' planes for the functions [of 'x','y','z'] 'f' and 'g' and we shoot a normal through that point as the solution. A max/min on 'f' requires a zero derivative at this point -but with respect 'g' rather than thos...
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Lagrange Multipliers - Part 1
This video will show how to apply the method of Lagrange Multipliers to a function with two independent variables.
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