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WNYC/NPR's Radio Lab presents Parabolas (etc.)

Radio Lab presents: Parabolas (etc.) A video inspired by the mathematician, Steve Strogatz. At the age of thirteen, Steve was astonished to find that pendulums and water fountains had a strange re...  
 
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sgoldstine (4 months ago) Show Hide
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I love the radio version of this segment, and am using it in a seminar I teach. While the video is pretty and soothing, it's misleading--most of those curves are NOT parabolas (and "etc." doesn't really fix that for me). The audio segment is so much better!
wannabetrooper263 (4 months ago)
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tuumba (4 months ago) Show Hide
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i for one welcome our new parabolic overlords
mehwateva1508 (5 months ago) Show Hide
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all i gotta say is... happy parabola.... sad parabola :P

(old polish maths teacher.. ha ha ha he was the best)
archfreakz (7 months ago) Show Hide
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thats pretty cool. never was much of a math person
xxGOBxxBLUTHxx (7 months ago) Show Hide
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I love this show.. I just recently got into it because my buddy showed me the War of the Worlds episode. So awesome :)
Katbotz (9 months ago) Show Hide
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Radio Lab is such a wonderful show.
ubermarklar (9 months ago) Show Hide
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parabolas! PARABOLAS EVERYWHERE!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRgGHHH H!!!!!!
gadflypro (10 months ago) Show Hide
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Perfect, you guys are by far the best examples of what Radio/Podcasting/mind expanding are supposed to be!

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