History of Humankind - YouTube Channel
Sister channel to History of the Universe channel https://www.youtube.com/@HistoryoftheUniverse/videos
Project Hail Mary (by Andy Weir, who wrote The Martian as well)
Stereo smell | Deep Look
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Snake's tongue has two sensitive tips, called tines, which help the snake smell in stereo.
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
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
Richard Feynman - The World from another point of view
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I'll have to mention Igorrr because nobody did, which is strange.
Igorrr - Savage Sinusoid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBakgOHKI-g
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
Earth from Orbit: von Kármán Vortices
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Von Kármán vortices streaming around Guadalupe Island.
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
I'll start with:
- Veritasium https://www.youtube.com/@veritasium
- 3Blue1Brown https://www.youtube.com/@3blue1brown
- Steve Mould https://www.youtube.com/@SteveMould
- braintruffle https://www.youtube.com/@braintruffle
- Sebastian Lague https://www.youtube.com/@SebastianLague
- PBS Space Time https://www.youtube.com/@pbsspacetime
- Machine Learning Street Talk https://www.youtube.com/@MachineLearningStreetTalk
Recommended (science) video channels
Which are your favourite channels (related to BrainFood's theme)?
Anybody knows about any other language-related "brain malfunctions"?
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
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.
The Electromagnetic field, how Electric and Magnetic forces arise
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ScienceClic is an excellent #physics channel with visual explanations.
oh that's good news, means the threadiverse has even more active users :D
Anybody knows if this counts kbin users as well?
Imagine something like chatgpt running on a small efficient analog chip, a synthetic brain.
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
8-bit computer built from scratch
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A playlist in which Ben Eater builds an 8-bit computer on breadboards.
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
and here we are, each of us a tiny blip of the universe perplexed by it all, only to be gone in the next moment
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
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
Recreating a working camera in Blender
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Emulating optics of a real camera to create photographs in Blender.
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.
No worries.
Do link the research you mentioned if handy.
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Indeed! Imagine what could be possible now or in another 10 years :D
I am trying to boot up this community, so I am sometimes posting even the older interesting videos I remember (until people start posting more frequently).
The video by The Thought Emporium is more recent.
@franco_vazza on mastodon is an astrophysicist posting about universe simulations.
original instance
It's not only the posts, the community itself isn't visible,
but it seems they are slowly catching up (lemmy.ml can see it now)
hmm I tried it on lemmy.world and it worked: https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]
Probably just a temporary issue
edit: it seems that feddit.de didn't fetch it yet
edit2: it isn't fetched on lemmy.ml and beehaw.org either, strange
Veretasium covered an interesting way to do math (p-adic numbers): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRaq4aYPzCc