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The Mind of a Flat Earther
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Critical Thinkers
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8 years ago
Came across this video and decided to share it. I have never had a chance to talk with a flat Earther so I was not aware of what would drive someone to such outrageous nonsense. This video is a...
How Evolution Works (from BioLogos)
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9 years ago
BioLogos explaining evolution to Christians:
Flat Earthers Just Held an International Conference
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9 years ago
What the human mind is capable of believing ... Over the weekend, hundreds of people donned their tin foil hats and flocked to Raleigh, North Carolina. Why? To attend The Flat Earth...
Gravitational waves
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7 years ago
This is a lecture by Professor Lawrence Krauss at the National Technical University of Ukraine "Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute" in November, 2018. It is long but well worth it since...
What (really) is Artificial Intelligence?
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Critical Thinkers
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8 years ago
Artificial Intelligence has been a goal of Computer Science since the 50's. For decades AI tried to understand ways to get algorithms (computer programs) to make decisions that would seem...
The Black Hole at the Birth of the Universe
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8 years ago
The big bang poses a big question: if it was indeed the cataclysm that blasted our universe into existence 13.7 billion years ago, what sparked it? Three Perimeter Institute researchers have...
The New Science of Seeing Around Corners
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8 years ago
While vacationing on the coast of Spain in 2012, the computer vision scientist Antonio Torralba noticed stray shadows on the wall of his hotel room that didn’t seem to have been cast by...
Graduate Student Solves Quantum Verification Problem
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8 years ago
In the spring of 2017, Urmila Mahadev found herself in what most graduate students would consider a pretty sweet position. She had just solved a major problem in quantum computation, the study of...