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Why Israel has so many Palestinian prisoners
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Invidious link: https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=9boE53Z\_lAg
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Billionaire philanthropy is not just charitable giving. It's an investment venture before anything else. Then it's about hoarding wealth, avoiding taxes and getting some positive PR for it. Support independent research and analysis by joining my Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/thehatedone Pr...
Private foundation is an institution with a very special status. They are tax exempt private organizations yet they are still allowed to invest into for profit companies. Foundations can hold corporate stocks and bonds and generate revenue this way.
There is only one major condition they have to fulfill to keep their tax exempt status - and that is to donate 5% of foundation's total assets on annual basis. So when you hear a billionaire donating their wealth to charity and it's going through a foundation, up to 95% of it can go into profitable investments. In practice, all foundations' assets in the US amount to more than $1 trillion. Yet, they donated only $90.88 billion in 2021.
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Çatalhöyük: a 9000 year old town - Ian Hodder (Stanford University)
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"Çatalhöyük: a 9000 year old town"
Relatore: Ian Hodder (Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University) Project Director of Çatalhöyük Research Project (www.catalhoyuk.com)
Abstract This talk describes the fascinating and important early town of Çatalhöyük in central Turkey. The site is important because of its large size and elaborate symbolism, including wall art and burials beneath the floors of houses. The speaker has been excavating at the site for 25 years using the latest scientific techniques. A very large team has been piecing together the detailed evidence of the site in order to understand how the society was organized, how it lasted so long, and what its rich symbolism means.
Martedì 24 luglio 2018, ore 20.30 Scuola Superiore di Catania Anfiteatro - Villa San Saverio
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MindMetricsHub
MindMetricsHub
Hello, everyone hope you all are having a nice day, i and a couple of my colleagues have made a discord server called MindMetricshub, we are a community that hope to foster knowledge sharing and discussion centered around human cognition, 2 of our members are currently norming some cognitive tests and one of them is hoping to create an assessment of g that's based primarily on games. We also offer about 7 different cognitive psychometric instruments namely:
Wechsler Adult intelligence scale fourth edition (WAIS-IV)
Stanford Binet Fifth Edition (SB-V)
Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence (WASI-2)
Reynolds Adaptive Intelligence Test (RAIT)
Kaufmanns Brief Intelligence Test - Second Edition Revised
Ravens 2 and PPVT-5 (from Pearson Q-global)
all these can be administered for a fraction of what they originally cost (this is our attempt to raise some revenue lol)If you are interested please join our server link below ( when you initially join there would be limited access to features in the server please be patient we will grant you access within a short time) https://discord.gg/6MfWhgnF
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History of Humankind - YouTube Channel
Sister channel to History of the Universe channel https://www.youtube.com/@HistoryoftheUniverse/videos
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Stereo smell | Deep Look
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Snake's tongue has two sensitive tips, called tines, which help the snake smell in stereo.
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3D Visualization Highlights 5,000 Galaxies Revealed by Webb
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This video, a scientific visualization of the galaxies captured as a part of the CEERS (Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science) Survey, showcases a large undertaking by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. It flies by thousands of galaxies, starting with those nearby and ending with less-developed galaxies in the very distant universe, including one never seen before Webb. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2023/new-3d-visualization-highlights-5000-galaxies-revealed-by-webb
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Walking shark
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Walking shark (Hemiscyllium Halmahera)
Mudskippers are another great example, here is a video about them by Stated Clearly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meKZQfwW6K0
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Richard Feynman - The World from another point of view
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Amazonian Piraha tribe's concept of experiential liminality
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Linguistics professor Daniel Everett explains the idea of "xibipiio," a way of life he encountered while studying the language of the Amazonian Piraha tribe. Everett, a former Christian missionary, was challenged to rethink his faith after learning the Piraha's concept of experiential liminality. \#linguistics
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Earth from Orbit: von Kármán Vortices
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Von Kármán vortices streaming around Guadalupe Island.
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Visible wake vortices demonstrate Crow instability
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Beautiful vortices in the wake of an F-15 pulling Gs, when the parallel vortices break down due to Crow instability, they break off into rings (toroidal vortices).
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Whale Fall Actively Devoured by Scavengers at Davidson Seamount | Nautilus Live
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A whale fall occurs when the carcass of a whale has fallen onto the ocean floor at a depth greater than 1,000 m (3,300 ft), in the bathyal or abyssal zones. On the sea floor, these carcasses can create complex localized ecosystems that supply sustenance to deep-sea organisms for decades. Wiki
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Fluent Aphasia
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A stroke survivor with fluent aphasia speaking with effortless speech but impaired meaning and poor comprehension.
On the other end, people with expressive aphasia struggle with language use but understand speech normally: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aplTvEQ6ew
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Superconductor Flux Pinning Experiment by Yamanashi Prefectural Maglev Exhibition Center
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Superconducting material can become pinned in place above a neodymium magnet. When those magnets are arranged in a track, the superconductor can follow that track even if it has loops and corkscrews.
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Split-brain experiments (old)
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After the right and left brain are separated, each hemisphere will have its own separate perception, concepts, and impulses to act. Having two "brains" in one body can create some interesting dilemmas.
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The Electromagnetic field, how Electric and Magnetic forces arise
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ScienceClic is an excellent #physics channel with visual explanations.
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Why don't quantum effects occur in large objects?
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Some basic quantum mechanics, the double slit experiment and why we don't see quantum effects in macroscopic objects like a tennis ball.
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Analog Computing
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An analog computer uses the continuous variation aspect of physical phenomena such as electrical, mechanical, or hydraulic quantities (analog signals) to model the problem being solved.
More examples of analog computing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szTtg302Hic
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8-bit computer built from scratch
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A playlist in which Ben Eater builds an 8-bit computer on breadboards.
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Sean Carroll: Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
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The many-worlds interpretation is an interpretation of quantum mechanics that asserts that the universal wavefunction is objectively real, and that there is no wave function collapse. This implies that all possible outcomes of quantum measurements are physically realized in some "world" or universe.
PBS Space Time playlist about many-worlds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzKWfw68M5U&list=PLsPUh22kYmNCAR1U8MD\_1ELQnl640zYqi
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Quantum Computers Explained in a Way Anyone Can Understand
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A brief introduction to how quantum computers work and what they can do.
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Timelapse of the Entire Universe
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All 13.8 billion years of history squished into 10 minutes. On this timescale, humanity has existed for less than one second.
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Brain Criticality - Optimizing Neural Computations (by hovering near a phase transition)
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This video is about the concept of critical point – how the brain might optimize information processing by hovering near a phase transition. \#neuroscience #chaostheory
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The Insane Biology of The Octopus
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Tundra's VR devlog (PD 'joint friction')
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Tundra makes great #VR devlogs mostly about #physics-based interactions.
This one is a delight to watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T\_m6oEmPj8I
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Recreating a working camera in Blender
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Emulating optics of a real camera to create photographs in Blender.
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Sam Harris: Final Thoughts on Free Will
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In this episode of the podcast, Sam Harris presents his full argument on the illusoriness of free will — and explores its ethical and psychological implications.
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Fluid dynamics feels natural once you start with quantum mechanics
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This is the first part in a series about Computational Fluid Dynamics where we build a Fluid Simulator from scratch.
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Lenia - a continuous cellular automata
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Lenia is a system of continuous cellular automata, a form of artificial life. It was derived from Conway's Game of Life by making everything smooth, continuous and generalized. \#cellularautomata
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What's a "selfish gene"?
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Explanation of The Selfish Gene, the gene's-eye view of evolution, which can be defined as the idea that the gene is the ultimate beneficiary of selection. Book: The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins (fun fact, the word "meme" originated in that book)
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Game of Life emulated in Game of Life
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A video of Conway's Game of Life, emulated in Conway's Game of Life.
web demo: https://oimo.io/works/life/ (scroll to zoom in/out)
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What Are The Hidden Rules Of The Universe?
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In physics, a symmetry of a physical system is a physical or mathematical feature of the system that is preserved or remains unchanged under some transformation.
History of the Universe : a great youtube channel with documentaries about the Universe.
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Journey to the Microcosmos: The Many Ways Microbes Eat, Get Eaten, and Poop
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Journey to the Microcosmos is a great youtube channel about the microscopic world. Description: Take a dive into the tiny, unseen world that surrounds us! With music by Andrew Huang, footage from James Weiss, and narration by Hank Green, we want to take you on a fascinating, reflective journey through the microcosmos.
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Rat Neurons Grown On A Computer Chip Fly A Simulated Aircraft
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25,000 neurons growing on a multi-electrode array form a living "brain," which is hooked up to a flight simulator on a desktop computer. Information on the aircraft's movements is processed by stimulating neurons with electrodes. The neurons then fire in patterns that control the aircraft's flight path.
In depth videos by The Thought Emporium: https://youtu.be/V2YDApNRK3g https://youtu.be/bEXefdbQDjw
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Apollo 15 Hammer-Feather Drop
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At the end of the last Apollo 15 moon walk, Commander David Scott performed a live demonstration for the television cameras. He held out a geologic hammer and a feather and dropped them at the same time. Because they were essentially in a vacuum, there was no air resistance and the feather fell at the same rate as the hammer, as Galileo had concluded hundreds of years before - all objects released together fall at the same rate regardless of mass.
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The Great Attractor
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Everything in our local galaxy supercluster, Laniakea, is being dragged towards a very high concentration of mass hidden behind the plane of our galaxy. It has all the ingredients for an epic space mystery, it is the Great Attractor.
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Consciousness, Idealism, and Computation (Joscha Bach Λ John Vervaeke)
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This channel has a bunch of high quality conversations about consciousness and similar topics.