More sexy hexaflexagons. This time combined with food, making it just about perfect.
posted by FlowersInHisHair 1 decade 1 year 7 months 1 week ago • 1,422 views • 2:45Videos (96) | Sift Talk (0) | Blogs (0) | Comments (1000) |
Mathemusician ViHart tackled Numberphile's Yahtzee challenge - but in her own style of course.
posted by renatojj 1 decade 1 year 7 months 3 weeks ago • 630 views • 5:52(youtube) We're exploring the world of Chicken Nuggets and Frobenius numbers. 43 has long been a special number in the world of McNugget mathematics, but 11 is also important!
posted by pumkinandstorm 1 decade 1 year 7 months 3 weeks ago • 736 views • 5:43Happy October, Month of the Hexaflexagon! Oct. 21st is the annual Celebration of Mind, in honor of Martin Gardner. Maybe you'd like to host or attend a flexagon party sometime around then, or learn about... continue reading
posted by eric3579 1 decade 1 year 7 months 4 weeks ago • 2,201 views • 4:45From YT: The open cluster M67 has traditionally been considered a possible birthplace for the Sun, though computer modelling may throw a spanner in the works? Will astronomers ever learn where our star... continue reading
posted by RFlagg 1 decade 1 year 8 months ago • 487 views • 4:50I love her videos.
posted by pumkinandstorm 1 decade 1 year 8 months ago • 4,382 views • 4:08The Deep Sky team explains why some stars appear spiky in some photographs of stars.
posted by RFlagg 1 decade 1 year 8 months 1 week ago • 559 views • 7:18YouTube Description: A huge crystal of calcite is used to demonstrate birefringence, a side-effect of light's refraction through certain materials. Featuring Professor Mike Merrifield.... continue reading
posted by Zifnab 1 decade 1 year 9 months ago • 856 views • 6:55YouTube Description: Professor Roger Bowley uses fuse wire, magnets and electrical current for a quick demonstration.
posted by Zifnab 1 decade 1 year 9 months 1 week ago • 709 views • 4:40YouTube Description: Anti-parabola propoganda, plus musing on math class, cardioids, connect the dots, envelopes of lines, even a bit of origami.Extra points to a certain Andrea whose line-enveloped... continue reading
posted by FlowersInHisHair 1 decade 1 year 9 months 2 weeks ago • 1,640 views • 7:47EXCITEMENT 4 SCIENCE !
posted by BoneRemake 1 decade 1 year 9 months 3 weeks ago • 715 views • 8:53YouTube Description: Gathering dust (and beer cans) under a tree at CERN - it's Gargamelle. This experiment played a key role in Nobel Prize-winning research into the weak force. It's now on public... continue reading
posted by Zifnab 1 decade 1 year 9 months 4 weeks ago • 499 views • 5:29YouTube Description: This is dedicated to Vihart - she may be the only person who can solve this.LYRICS:Vihart, Vihart,You won, my heartWith a spirally spiralling videoAnd now I@m writing this to let... continue reading
posted by nanrod 1 decade 1 year 10 months 2 weeks ago • 807 views • 3:29YouTube Description: A quickly-made muse on the foreword of anthropologist Edmund Snow Carpenter's They "Became What They Beheld," and how it relates to Youtube. This book is out of print. If you're interested,... continue reading
posted by seltar 1 decade 1 year 10 months 3 weeks ago • 2,738 views • 5:44Voyager 1 will leave the Solar System and enter interstellar space some time in the next few months... it was actually launched at the exact same day I was born! :) Go Voyager go!
posted by renatojj 1 decade 1 year 10 months 4 weeks ago • 759 views • 7:42YouTube Description: According to an online article,We now have found a Higgs-like particle.It is a Boson, we're 5-sigma sure.5-sigma's an extraordinary score. 133 times heavier than a proton,Is the... continue reading
posted by Lendl 1 decade 1 year 11 months ago • 839 views • 40 secsJust what is the Higgs Boson? Sixty Symbols explains in this video from last year. After the news of 4 July 2012, they did a new video to talk about the likely discovery of the Higgs Boson: http://videosift.com/video/Is... continue reading
posted by RFlagg 1 decade 1 year 11 months ago • 1,584 views • 12:45I may have some tears for all the excitement... Wondering what the Higgs Boson is? http://videosift.com/video/Sixty-Symbols-What-is-the-Higgs-Bason From YT: Professor Ed Copeland and Brady tune in live... continue reading
posted by RFlagg 1 decade 1 year 11 months ago • 2,585 views • 8:39YouTube Description: Happy Tau Day! This is a song about Tau!
posted by Zifnab 1 decade 1 year 11 months 1 week ago • 1,068 views • 3:49Researchers from The University of Nottingham have demonstrated how a species of flatworm overcomes the ageing process to be potentially immortal. The discovery, published in the Proceedings of the... continue reading
posted by Kulpims T'dna (kulpims) 1 decade 1 year 11 months 1 week ago • 985 views • 14:47