Science Shorts 20100513
The strongest animal in the world The world’s strongest animal, the copepod, is barely 1 mm long. It shows that copepods – in relation to their size – are more than 10 times as strong as has been...
View ArticleMarcus du Sautoy on Symmetry
Marcus du Sautoy, the current Symonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science, gave a short Google Talk recently. He touches on symmetry in art and nature, describing how mathematics is a...
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Gravity-like theories give insight into the strong force (PhysOrg) A new computation of the constant that describes the strength of the force between the quarks in a proton may help theorists tackle...
View ArticleTED: Benoit Mandelbrot – Fractals and the Art of Roughness
Via TED: At TED2010, mathematics legend Benoit Mandelbrot develops a theme he first discussed at TED in 1984 — the extreme complexity of roughness, and the way that fractal math can find order within...
View ArticleAdam Curtis: All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace
This series of films investigates how people have been colonised by the machines they have built. Although they may not realise it, the way many people see everything in the world today is through the...
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Niall Ferguson: Civilization: Is The West History?
A 6-part documentary series in which Niall Ferguson asks why it was that Western civilization, from inauspicious roots in the 15th century, came to dominate the rest of the world; and if the West is...
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BBC: Dangerous Knowledge
In this one-off documentary, David Malone looks at four brilliant mathematicians - Georg Cantor, Ludwig Boltzmann, Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing - whose genius has profoundly affected us, but which...
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Richard Feynman: The Character of Physical Law
The Character of Physical Law are a series of seven lectures by physicist Richard Feynman concerning the nature of the laws of physics. The talks were delivered by Feynman in 1964 at Cornell...
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James Gleick: Bits and Bytes
In James Gleick’s book ‘The Information’ he speaks about the information “flood”. We are in a predicament where we have the ability to reach out and get facts easily. Although we may have access this...
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Sharon Bertsch McGrayne: The Theory That Would Not Die
Authors@Google Talk: In the first-ever account of Bayes' rule for general readers, Sharon Bertsch McGrayne explores this controversial theorem and the human obsessions surrounding it. She traces its...
View ArticleGeorge Dyson – Turing’s Cathedral
Dyson's account of the origins of modern computing, both historic and prophetic, sheds important new light on how the digital universe exploded in the aftermath of World War II. The proliferation of...
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Paul Davies: How to Build A Time Machine
Time travel makes great science fiction, but can it really be done? Travel into the future is already a reality, but visiting the past is a much tougher proposition, and may require fantastic resources...
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