Neil deGrasse Tyson teaches about the roundness of things in our universe.
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Our Place in the Cosmos
This is a recent google talk about our place in the cosmos. They talk about how galaxies form. It is full of many photos and animations of galaxies.
Fractal a day
This artist posted A fractal a day for the month of november. They make great desktop wallpaper too!
Agent Based Models
Through serendipitous web surfing I actually have a copy of their essay in Nature (now behind a paywall) from a few years ago that said that “The policy predictions of the models that are in use aren’t wrong, they are simply non-existant” As they reiterate in the video, “The models aren’t even good enough to be wrong”. With all the computer power available that can model so many inputs and variables it surprises me that economic models did not already attempt to make simulations of the economy in this way.
A Planet of Viruses
Viruses are such a huge influence the environment of earth via the effects on their hosts. This is a talk by Carl Zimmer about his book A Planet of Viruses. “The most abundant organisms on earth are viruses. Viruses are planetary forces”
Carl Zimmer: A Planet of Viruses from The Long Now Foundation on FORA.tv
