"View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-many-ways-can-you-arrange-a-deck-of-cards-yannay-khaikin . One deck. Fifty-two cards. How many arrangements? Let's put it this way: Any time you pick... continue reading
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Thanks to Visually (http://Visual.ly) for facilitating the creation of this video, to http://youtube.com/kurzgesagt for the animation, and to The Prison Policy Initiative for research help and fact checking.... continue reading
posted by eric3579 1 decade 1 month ago • 1,435 views • 3:41A bug in Google Chrome allows malicious websites to turn users’ computers into clandestine listening devices, a programmer discovered. Tal Atler, a web developer in Israel, discovered that once you... continue reading
posted by truth-is-the-nemesis 1 decade 3 months 1 week ago • 47 views • 4:06YouTube Description: Guest Star: Elsie the cat. Music by http://www.youtube.com/JakeChudnow and from http://www.audionetwork.com FLAVOR NETWORK ARTICLE (the cool food network graphs): http://www.nature.com/srep... continue reading
posted by Janine V. (Lilithia) 1 decade 3 months 2 weeks ago • 270 views • 10:13Please excuse any mistakes in the translation. Neither of the languages is my native one. :) "In China you don't have letters when writing. Instead you use characters, and each character is a word.... continue reading
posted by WaterDweller 1 decade 10 months ago • 173 views • 2:00What do people do while waiting for wine grapes to ferment? Enjoy a beer, of course. Charlie Bamforth, the head of Malting and Brewing Science at UC Davis, explains beer-making and reveals how to pick... continue reading
posted by braschlosan 1 decade 1 year 1 month 2 weeks ago • 205 views • 5:06"Why is the sky blue? It's a question that you'd think kids have been asking for thousands of years, but it might not be that old at all. The ancient Greek poet Homer never used a word for blue in The... continue reading
posted by ant 1 decade 1 year 1 month 3 weeks ago • 47 views • 2:52Since it is Labor Day in a good part of the world, here is a video about the incidents at Haymarket Square following the call for workers to strike on May 1st. It picks up on May 3rd. The events would... continue reading
posted by RFlagg 1 decade 3 years 1 week ago • 1,238 views • 5:15