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3 hours ago
Sounds of Pi - Numberphile
Professor Philip Moriarty attributes some sounds to Pi in a discussion about its randomness and the Feynman Point.
OUR PI VIDEOS ---
ALEX BELLOS A...
numberphile • 302 views
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3 hours ago
Pi and Bouncing Balls - Numberphile
Professor Ed Copeland on a strange occurrence of Pi involving bouncing balls.
See his calculations at: http://www.flickr.com/photo......
numberphile • 303 views
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@xknowledgeisfreex
There are hundreds (ways, programs, books about it), for example for programmers like me:
4 * arctan(1)
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4 hours ago
Coveted Golden Crocoduck nominees 2012 (Part 1)
Here are three nominees for the 2012 coveted Golden Crocoduck. Please don't ask how you can vote -- voting begins in October and details will be an...
potholer54 • 7,266 views
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gorilla199 is pulling a Hoagland: he's tripping over data compression/reduction artefacts.
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2 days ago
The Return of the C0nc0rdance!
My new blog site: http://c0nc0rdance.com/
YouTube can suck it. By "it" I mean the world's supply of lemons, of course.
C0nc0rdance • 7,171 views
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3:40 great shot of thunderf00t, AronRa, HealthyAddict and RabidApe! Did you shoot it, c0nc0rdance?
Looking forward to your video about Libertarians -- nice to have something look forward to. (-:
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2 days ago
Astronomy Cast Ep. 254: Reflection and Refraction
Light can do some pretty strange stuff, like pass through objects and bounce off them; it can be broken up and recombined. In fact, everything we "...
astrospherevids • 874 views
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0:12:55 Yes! Impromptu imperiments on Astronomy Cast.
»I love lasers!« (-:
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3 days ago
Coke and Pepsi - Periodic Table of Videos
The recipe is changed for Coke and Pepsi (in the US). It is because of the chemical 4-methylimidazole, which would require the companies to put a c...
periodicvideos • 20,939 views
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@RokenIsDodelijkOfzo
What about it? There are regions where there's naturally occuring fluoride in ground water. Flouride is good for your teeth, I've heard.
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1 week ago
Nano Espresso
Professor Ed Lester is so obsessed with nanoparticle reactors that he made one from his office coffee machine.
Test Tube by video journalist Brady...
nottinghamscience • 6,531 views
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Reminds me of Gale Boetticher's coffee brewing assembly. Anybody watching »Breaking Bad«?
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1 week ago
Hypocritically Arrogant Dprjones
some atheists think "faith" is "arrogance." lol.
Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
in...
ThickShadescom • 718 views
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3:09 »I know more than you, dpr. Okay?«
I smirked.
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1 week ago
3.14159....
pie
jordanmjk0 • 250 views
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Nerd points and thumbs up for trying, jordanmjk0.
I tried to memorize π to the first Zero when I was younger. Now I'm just getting to the second Eight without peeking: 3.141 592 653 589 793 238. That's all I got.
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1 week ago
Galaxy Study - Deep Sky Videos
Phase II preparations are an important (but less exciting) part of using a world-class telescope.
VLT videos courtesy of ESO: http://www.eso.org/p...
DeepSkyVideos • 5,156 views
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Good luck, good seeing and clear skies for the observation!
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1 week ago
Dot Con 2012: Online Gaming Panel with Logan Bonner
Dot Con 2012 was an online convention celebrating nerd culture. On Sunday, February 26, 2012, gamer and game designer Logan Bonner moderated a pane...
TheBadAstronomer • 363 views
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Game design stopped being interesting to me when games began to look like 3D simulations.
With Doom, Marathon, Descent, Tomb Raider etc. the CPU had to do most of the work, and developers had to be extremely skilled. Now with ridiculously huge 3D cards, I'm more interested in OpenCL/SIMD. The r...
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2 weeks ago
An Atheist Community...?
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BionicDance • 2,322 views
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(cont.; typo above: line -> like)
There's even an effort to start an Atheist party (the Nonprophets interviewed two of their spokepersons). It's only logical to make ourselves represented in society and politics, and this is much easier with some kinds of organization, I think.
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2 weeks ago
The Randi Show - Cold Fusion and Carl Sagan
The Randi Show is a biweekly video podcast produced by the James Randi Educational Foundation. James Randi himself discusses news from the world of...
JamesRandiFoundation • 22,791 views
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Brian Dunning in the Skeptoid podcast #298:
»If Rossi has indeed managed to overturn physics, [...] he has not acted in a very scientific manner. He has refused to replicate his sales demonstrations under controlled conditions; he has threatened to sue people who elect not to invest in his mach...
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2 weeks ago
The Hebrew Name of God
An explanation of the customary circumlocution (substitution) of אדני (Adonai) and השם (HaShem) for יהוה (Yahweh).
Here is a link the the Delitzsc...
egwpisteuw • 537 views
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@egwpisteuw
That's demonstrably false, in more than one respect. See for an example »3.4.1(2) Atheism: Objections to Evidentialism« by Evid3nc3. watch?v=14JavH4Rk7k
(His other videos are pretty good as well).
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2 weeks ago
Message from Geneva - Sixty Symbols
A quick message ahead of our tour of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Please leave any questions or messages below.
Visit our website at http://...
sixtysymbols • 20,333 views
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Question: do we get so see some of the IT, e.g. data centres, Linux clusters, some insight into the software maybe?
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2 weeks ago
Special Magic Square - Numberphile
Magic squares are pretty interesting for Numberphiles any day of the week - but Roger shows us one with extra special "powers".
Professor Roger Bo...
numberphile • 18,792 views
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I'm intrigued -- and curious, Brady: did Professor Bowley mention how he came across this magic square?
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3 weeks ago
Brandon Hardesty on David Letterman
Brandon Hardesty (ArtieTSMITW) stops by David Letterman to show off his "AMAZING" trick.
movieman4life • 61,547 views
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Brandon looks and sounds exactly like Letterman!
Who's the funny bubble blower, by the way?
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3 weeks ago
Richard Dawkins - The Census Research Explained
Video by Peter Brietbart at BHA in London
Richard Dawkins explains the Ipsos Mori census research. For more information to to the two press release...
richarddawkinsdotnet • 50,379 views
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1 dislike by Tony Blair?
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3 weeks ago
Weekly Space Hangout - Feb. 16, 2012
The Weekly Space Hangout for Feb. 12, 2012 with special guest Alan Stern, Principal Investigator for NASA's New Horizons spacecraft on its way to P...
astrospherevids • 1,744 views
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Just signed the Change petition. Lot of luck.
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3 weeks ago
RE: Facebook Parenting: For the troubled teen
Response video. forgive me for the spots where I ramble off. I was pretty tired when I made this.
hb4l1f3 • 476,822 views
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@hb4l1f3
Show me such a definition.
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4 weeks ago
Explain this to me Atheist
cjae2631 • 399,223 views
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@45432jhasgafaf
Where did Allah come from?
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4 weeks ago
"Steakage" Ultimate Steak Sandwich for the Super Bowl Tailgate
Learn how to make a "Steakage" Ultimate Steak Sandwich Recipe! - Visit http://foodwishes.blogspot.......
foodwishes • 68,959 views
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Outstanding, except for the black pepper on the steak. That black pepper could burn and turn bitter, so I'd add the pepper after grilling those delicious looking steakages.
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4 weeks ago
Drunken Vlog 2-12-2012: SUSHI AND CLUBBING!
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BionicDance • 1,127 views
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Hope you got yourself some soy sauce dip with that sushi. Yum.
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1 month ago
Addicted to cheesy potatoes - Part 1
Woman is addicted to cheesy potatoes
johnwaynegacy • 55,023 views
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4:35 »startled?« The friggin' camera crew was there filming several angles (4;03), and she probably had a mic with her in the car.
Why does this have to be dramatized in such an imbecilic way?
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1 month ago
I screwed up
By apologizing for my Prop 8 video I hurt and insulted everyone who supports equal rights for everyone. I made a mistake and demonstrated poor jud...
HappyCabbie • 2,308 views
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»Bygones.« (Richard Fish, Ally McBeal)
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1 month ago
What Friends AREN'T For
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BionicDance • 2,324 views
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How about some middle ground: we'll stop gloating about progress on equal marriage rights, and therefor the'll stop gloating how they're exlcusively right, saved and moral.
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1 month ago
KNOW SAUL ALINSKY AND YOU KNOW BARACK OBAMA AND HIS REGIME
RULES FOR RADICALS.The Democrat`s Bible Bible .obama,alinsky,clinton,marxist
s,socialists,communists hager3030 • 3,068 views
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You guys getting upset about a Lucifer reference is almost as pathetic as radical Muslims getting upset about Salman Rushdie’s »Satanic Verses«.
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1 month ago
Carl Sagan: Science's Great Demotions [Part 1 of 2]
Excerpts from Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space. From the chapter titled The Great Demotions. I edited together the...
terryhi • 1,189 views
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9:20
That snapshot makes me watch »Cosmos« for a 7th time, all 13 episodes.
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1 month ago
Neil deGrasse Tyson - Powerful Speech on our relation to the Cosmos
I know this video has been floating around YouTube, but this can never get too much exposure. This man is absolutely incredible!
bailesie • 386 views
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»This man is absolutely incredible!«
I agree. Can't wait for a new »Cosmos« TV series with him in it.
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1 month ago
Weekly Space Hangout - Feb. 2nd, 2012
In this week's space hangout, we talked about the search for super earths, the non-discovery of life on Venus, new images from the far side of the ...
astrospherevids • 1,934 views
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Can we have a link to the video that Dr Gay is talking about at 14:55? Is it this one? watch?v=h6jAvwRHcQQ
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1 month ago
Our Brochures Are Not Blank, Ten Point Vision Finalist
Vote now for the best video: http://richarddawkins.net/c...
Learn about: "A Ten Point Vision of a Secular America: Restoring the Val...
richarddawkinsdotnet • 5,889 views
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I like what I've heard from that brochure.
Also: Hitchens’ list of commandments: watch?v=v-63cTYJDCA?t=6m14s
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1 month ago
Equality Freedom Respect, Ten Point Vision Finalist
Vote now for the best video: http://richarddawkins.net/c...
Learn about: "A Ten Point Vision of a Secular America, Restoring the Val...
richarddawkinsdotnet • 4,212 views
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If the goals of equality and freedom are reached, I ccould do without respect which, it seems, has to be earned individually and personally. Rather than respect I'd really like to see *tolerance* emerge.
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1 month ago
DE-CONVERSION; JUDAISM
I filmed a couple episodes for a new series called "De-Conversion" a couple months ago. The series was meant to be shown exclusively through a skep...
religiousantagonist • 6,192 views
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I liked J.J. Abram's take on ST-TOS/TNG (time travel and red matter aside). I'm a heretic that way. I feel so naughty.
Great interview!
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1 month ago
All the Awesome Things You Can Long Press on Your iPhone
Long pressing--that is, tapping and holding down on a part of your screen--provides a lot of handy shortcuts on your iPhone. Here's a look at prac...
lifehacker • 219,985 views
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@bessiemooo
So where's your video from 3 years ago, showing that functionality? Thought so.
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1 month ago
Thunderf00t vs. drcraigvideos: my views
Just my initial thoughts on this scuffle. I could be wrong about some things. If I am, let me know. As always, be civil!
DecKrash • 777 views
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@BoethianAcolyte »but I know that Craig has openly disavowed Platonism several times« -- I'm sure he did whenever he found it opportune. I was talking about facts of physics.
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1 month ago
The Purity Bear Explained
Response from the students who helped create the original video clip.
dayofpurity • 7,454 views
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Cuddly couple. Be safe.
@dakiller234
Kudos for getting over the first 0 digit there. I rarely manage to pull that off. (-: