
Learn Something New Every Day
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This channel is your Sift source for private study.
You'll find videos produced to teach you something. There are formal lectures, educational content from Smarter Every Day, Sixty Symbols and the like, and lots of other things to get your brain cells buzzing.
What you will not find here:
- anything about education as a topic, or videos which happen to be made in classrooms, on campuses etc., or people talking to/about students/teachers/teaching => (*education)
- normal news broadcasts, exposé journalism, biographical interviews, personal experience stories => (*news, *talks)
- crazy, interesting, neat things that were caught on video => (*wtf, *comedy)
- stupid people "learning the hard way" => (*EIA, *fail, *fear)

Look around you. Where are you? Where is this place you are occupying? Somewhere in a room, maybe in a city on a continent on a planet orbiting a star in a galaxy among billions. But… where is all of... continue reading
posted by eric3579
Having listen to this and still remember a time.... I deplore this kind of politics. I think the ad is dishonest and dishonorable. As it is, none of these individuals served on the boat (Kerry) commanded.... continue reading
posted by luxintenebris 4 weeks ago • 745 views • 4:45MBARI sustained our commitment to ocean exploration and discovery in 2021. The year brought more challenges, but exploring our big, blue backyard always inspires awe and wonder—and curiosity about the... continue reading
posted by newtboy
How do you rebuild one of the biggest spillways in the world after a catastrophic failure with the next flood season right around the corner? This video covers the engineering and construction required... continue reading
posted by eric3579
It's time the news organizations began questioning the actions of police.
posted by dedstick 5 months 1 week ago • 396 views • 13:45


YouTube description: While clubs are practically synonymous with ankylosaurs, we’ve only started to get to the bottom of how they worked and how this unusual anatomy developed in the first place. ... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark
https://www.iter.org/ In southern France, 35 nations* are collaborating to build the world's largest tokamak, a magnetic fusion device that has been designed to prove the feasibility of fusion as a... continue reading
posted by eric3579


From Youtube, "The logistic map connects fluid convection, neuron firing, the Mandelbrot set and so much more. Animations, coding, interactives in this video by Jonny Hyman
posted by w1ndex
https://youtu.be/vfWUorR8D60 Christmas isn’t just a time for presents, cookies, and holiday cheer, but the hunting period of Iceland’s murderous monster feline, the Yule Cat. This giant, fluffy... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark

Is Japan the perfect nation? -Rare Earth
posted by eric3579


This week John takes a look at how companies such as Amazon get your orders to you as quickly as possible.
posted by w1ndex