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BBC: Ecomaths Promo
Added 1,124 Views / 0 LikesPromo for the BBC 2 Ecomaths series where Stefan Gates finds out about real life environmental issues and the maths that helps us create a more sustainable world.
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Stephen Wolfram: Computing A Theory Of Everything
Added 909 Views / 0 LikesStephen Wolfram, creator of Mathematica, talks about his quest to make all knowledge computational -- able to be searched, processed and manipulated. His new search engine, Wolfram Alpha, has no lesser goal than to model and explain the physics underlying
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Steven Strogatz: How Things In Nature Tend To Sync Up
Added 953 Views / 0 LikesMathematician Steven Strogatz shows how flocks of creatures (like birds, fireflies and fish) manage to synchronize and act as a unit -- when no one's giving orders. The powerful tendency extends into the realm of objects, too.
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Sean Gourley On The Mathematics Of War
Added 1,061 Views / 0 LikesBy pulling raw data from the news and plotting it onto a graph, Sean Gourley and his team have come up with a stunning conclusion about the nature of modern war -- and perhaps a model for resolving conflicts.
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Demo: Stunning Data Visualization In The AlloSphere
Added 777 Views / 0 LikesJoAnn Kuchera-Morin demos the AlloSphere, a new way to see, hear and interpret scientific data. Dive into the brain, feel electron spin, hear the music of the elements ... and detect previously unseen patterns that could lead to new discoveries.
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TEDxWarwick - David MacKay - How The Laws Of Physics Constrain Our Sustainable Energy Options
Added 864 Views / 0 LikesHow much land mass would renewables need to power a nation like the UK? An entire country's worth. In this pragmatic talk from TEDxWarwick, David MacKay tours the basic mathematics that show worrying limitations on our sustainable energy options and expla
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Bruce Bueno De Mesquita Predicts Iran's Future
Added 865 Views / 0 LikesBruce Bueno de Mesquita uses mathematical analysis to predict (very often correctly) such messy human events as war, political power shifts, Intifada ... After a crisp explanation of how he does it, he offers three predictions on the future of Iran.
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Dan Cobley: What Physics Taught Me About Marketing
Added 834 Views / 0 LikesPhysics and marketing don't seem to have much in common, but Dan Cobley is passionate about both. He brings these unlikely bedfellows together using Newton's second law, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, the scientific method and the second law of therm
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Geoffrey West: The Surprising Math Of Cities And Corporations
Added 1,105 Views / 0 LikesPhysicist Geoffrey West has found that simple, mathematical laws govern the properties of cities -- that wealth, crime rate, walking speed and many other aspects of a city can be deduced from a single number: the city's population. In this mind-bending ta
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Arthur Benjamin: Lightning Calculation And Other
Added 1,040 Views / 0 LikesIn a lively show, mathemagician Arthur Benjamin races a team of calculators to figure out 3-digit squares, solves another massive mental equation and guesses a few birthdays. How does he do it? He'll tell you.
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Jean-Baptiste Michel: The Mathematics Of History
Added 950 Views / 0 LikesWhat can mathematics say about history? According to TED Fellow Jean-Baptiste Michel, quite a lot. From changes to language to the deadliness of wars, he shows how digitized history is just starting to reveal deep underlying patterns.
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Marcus Du Sautoy: Symmetry, Reality's Riddle
Added 985 Views / 0 LikesThe world turns on symmetry -- from the spin of subatomic particles to the dizzying beauty of an arabesque. But there's more to it than meets the eye. Here, Oxford mathematician Marcus du Sautoy offers a glimpse of the invisible numbers that marry all sym
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Arthur Benjamin: Teach Statistics Before Calculus!
Added 1,044 Views / 0 Likeshttp://www.ted.com Someone always asks the math teacher, "Am I going to use calculus in real life?" And for most of us, says Arthur Benjamin, the answer is n...
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Drake Equation - Infographic
Added 764 Views / 0 LikesAn animated explanation of the Drake Equation, which calculates the number of intelligent, communicable civilizations in the galaxy. Voice-over by Carl Sagan, from Cosmos.
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LSE Research: The Mathematics Of Machine Learning
Added 753 Views / 0 LikesComputers struggle with tasks we find simple. But try to describe explicitly the difference between the handwritten numerals 1 and 7, and you begin to appreciate the problem. Professor Martin Anthony explains what role mathematicians play in making comput
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DemoJam 0
Added 771 Views / 0 LikesAn evening of science-themed demos, fireside conversation and song. An informal cavalcade of demonstrations and science-themed revelations DemoJam 0 is the pilot of what we hope will be an ongoing web series. Hosted by stand-up mathematician Matt Parker,