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Here is the Opening Draft [01:32], which could serve as a trailer.

And his current project/upcoming video is the entire series of Power Rangers

In a hilarious takedown, münecat returns after a year with special focus on men who rationalize their sexism with bunk science.

Jun Song, the winner of BB4, is the topic of today. People know Jun as "the floater", but oftentimes don't know what that actually entails. How exactly did Jun carve out a revolutionary Big Brother strategy and use it to win the game? I'm hopeful I'll be able to tell you. This is the story of how Jun Song won Big Brother 4.

Big Brother: Gaslight Gatekeep Girlboss Edition

From the video description:

> Ever hear that the neutral zone in Yars' Revenge uses the game's code for its graphics? How does it work, and is it possible to reverse engineer that code just from playing the game? It's all explained right here.

From the video description: > Papers: > - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/41910312_Altruism_Spite_and_Greenbeards > - https://www.reed.edu/biology/professors/srenn/pages/teaching/2007_syllabus/2007_readings/a13_Keller_1998.pdf

Next video: Simulating the Evolution of Sacrificing for Family - YouTube

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> The video explores the evolution of altruistic behavior using computer simulations. It introduces the concept of "green beard altruism" - where organisms with a specific phenotype (e.g. a green beard) help others with the same phenotype. The simulations test whether genes for altruism can spread in a population. > > Initially, a simple altruism gene goes extinct, even when the risk to altruists is made very low. Then a "green beard gene" is added, so altruists only help others with the same gene. This allows altruism to spread when the risk is moderate, but it goes extinct at higher risks. Finally, the "green beard" and altruism behaviors are split into two separate genes. This causes altruism to go extinct rapidly, showing green beard altruism is very fragile. > > The video concludes that these simulations don't fully explain human altruism. The next video will cover "kin selection" based on Hamilton's rule, which may provide better insights.

Full playlist: Crash course for Aliens - Zogg from Betelgeuse (YouTube)

From the video description: > First episode of Earthlings 101, a crash course for alien visitors of earth. > > Greetings, fellow aliens! This is the first episode of Earthlings 101. In this episode, you will learn who earthlings are, where they live and why they are so different from all other species in the galaxy. > The video also contains useful tips for interstellar tourists, alien scientists and space invaders. > Enjoy!

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https://mitxela.com/candle

> About a day before EMF camp was due to begin, there were still slots available for lightning talks and I impulsively decided to give one. I talked about the tic-tac-toe opponent I wrote in brainfuck. It didn't go too well, I think most of the audience didn't have a clue what I was going on about, and ten minutes was cutting it a little bit fine since I had to waste the first part explaining what brainfuck is. > > But perhaps sticking the presentation into a youtube video will let it reach a wider audience. > > The commented source code is available on the github page.

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> The incredible story of the Scrabble savant from Christchurch. More on Nigel: > https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-makes-nigel-richards-the-best-scrabble-player-on-earth/ > https://scrabblestudylog.blogspot.com/2009/08/nigel-richards-article-by-stefan-fatsis.html

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> Getting citizenship is hard, but getting rid of it is often not the least bit easier. And some countries simply won't let you go at all.

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> In which the dinosaurs go extinct and 66 million years later people get angry about it. > > What killed the dinosaurs? Maybe you think you know. > > Many others thought they knew. They saw hundreds of years of scientific progress, shifting paradigms, and explosive arguments behind them, and decided they were at the end. The K-Pg extinction was settled. Then it exploded again. And again. And it kept exploding way more than any layperson today really appreciates, revealing more about science and its communication than you ever imagined. > > This is the story of the mass extinction debates.

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> Lake Superior is a dangerous and ferocious lake that has claimed many ships and lives over the years. Its frigid waters preserve shipwrecks and bodies remarkably well. The video explores several famous Superior shipwrecks, like the Kamloops, Edmund Fitzgerald, and others. It discusses the controversy around declaring shipwrecks as graveyards and protecting the remains of crew members who went down with the ships. Overall, the video paints Lake Superior as beautiful but deadly, with a tragic history of lives lost that some families still deeply feel and want to honor by protecting the underwater gravesites.

> Examination of known bugs in older games and some pondering of whether or not they should be officially fixed.

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> 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! > > I've been very excited about this project for a while - it was a lot of work to figure out a reliable way to make these measurements, but I've learned SO much by actually watching waves travel down wires, and I hope you do too!

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• "An intuitive approach for understanding electricity" AFTERSHOW \[26:48\]
• What does "impedance matching" actually look like? (electricity waves) \[17:07\]
• How to measure waves of electricity \[22:48\]

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> The video explores the confusing and convoluted system behind the 3-letter IATA airport codes used to designate airports worldwide. It explains that IATA, the International Air Transport Association based in Montreal, coordinates these codes between airlines and aviation agencies globally to aid communication and logistics. However, conflicting interests, overlapping jurisdictions (like the separate FAA codes in the US), and legacy holdovers have resulted in a somewhat chaotic lack of standardization or location information encoded in codes. For instance, codes don't always match airport names, countries wanted certain letters like Canada claiming all the Ys, and larger cities have multiple codes and "mega-codes." The video traces the tangled history that led to the current codes, such as how the Ys relate to Canadian radio call signs. Ultimately, the IATA codes are primarily for logistics in routing baggage, not passengers. The speaker concludes that while airport codes don't make much sense systematically, they remain a critical and ubiquitous part of global air travel.

With every new military operation, Israel's propaganda machine goes to work. This essay dives deep into Israel's weaponization of the "antisemitism accusation." I examine its philosophical underpinnings, its use for counterinsurgency, its consequences, and its background. In tracing this history, I look at the roots of Judaism, antisemitism, and Zionism writ large, and show the emergence of Zionism within the racist epistemologies of the 19th century. I also examine how this racism has persisted and reared its head with contemporary population genetics and biotech like #23andme. By deconstructing (with counsel from evolutionary biologists) the scientific fallacies undergirding the understanding of "Jewish" as a race, I offer a different, radically inclusive definition of "Jew." Finally, I respond to some of the problems in PhilosophyTube's popular video

• Antisemitism: An Analysis | Philosophy Tube

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/4542547

This is part one of his Global Warming series. He just released part 3 a couple of days ago, which was a look at a theoretical future of how we can prevent complete disaster.

Part 2: https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=hvGQMZFP9IA

Part 3: https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=9xCaalQeAbY

Original title: The Luckiest GoldenEye Speedrun Explained I used the title from DeArrow.

TL;DW written with claude.ai:

> The video explains the world record GoldenEye 007 speedrun for the Frigate level on Secret Agent difficulty by top player Perfect Ace, who achieved an untied world record time of 1:03. A major element of randomness in Frigate comes from hostage escape times, which can vary wildly. The video analyzes the theoretical probability of hostages escaping in time to allow a 1:03 completion, finding a baseline best case odds of just 2%, (....)

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> Life's "programming language" refers to the biological pathways and chemical reactions that allow cells to transform substances, with the help of enzymes, to acquire energy and build components. This video explores several hypotheses about how these metabolic pathways evolved over time. > > The key points are: > - Enzymes are more versatile than we realized - they can catalyze multiple reactions if conditions change (enzyme promiscuity) > - There are four evolutionary mechanisms that can explain pathway origins: building backwards, incremental improvement, divergence from a common versatile ancestor enzyme, and linking pre-existing pathways > - The current consensus is that all four mechanisms play complementary roles, with metabolites and enzymes coevolving based on what reactions are useful at the time. Enzyme promiscuity facilitates new pathway connections. > - We can now harness evolution in the lab to design novel enzymes and pathways for human applications. > > The video provides an insightful synthesis of theories about the origins of life's complex metabolic systems.

First episode of the Scrabble History playlist.

From the video description:

> Welcome to Episode 1 of Scrabble History, a series where I break down some of the most incredible plays, epic rivalries, and amazing moments in Scrabble's rich competitive history. > > In my first video, I break down one of the most epic Scrabble bingos of all time - but that's only part of the story!

Historia Civilis takes a look at how the concept of work change from pre-industrial times to what we know today.

A brief description and analysis of Simpsonwave.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Simpsonwave