Apr 4, 2021
Undoing Knots with Witchcraft
The more I watch, the more confused I get.
Tag: mathematics
Jan 5, 2021
If you’ve never seen a million birds fly in unison, check this (and turn the sound up!)
Filmed in the marshlands of Southern Denmark by Søren Solkær
Dec 15, 2020
The Number of Ways You Can Shuffle a Deck of Cards Will Blow Your Mind
A mind boggling lesson in factorials using a simple deck of cards
Nov 11, 2020
Guy Asks 1,600 People How Many Holes Various Objects Have and Charts the Results
Your definition of a hole may have some… holes
Jul 16, 2020
This is the Best Visualization Yet for Grasping How Much a Billion Dollars Truly Is
Tom Scott found a brilliant way to convey just how much a billion dollars is, by using distance instead of volume
Jul 8, 2020
How the Ancient Greeks Figured Out the Earth wasn’t Flat (and solved the circumference too)
Carl Sagan explains how the ancient Greeks knew the Earth was round and calculated its circumference over 2,000 years ago.
Jun 4, 2020
Popularized in England, These Wavy Walls Actually Use Fewer Bricks Than a Straight Wall
Lawnmowers detest them
May 21, 2020
I Never Thought I Would Watch Someone Solve a Sudoku, But This Was Beautiful
Never has time so effortlessly passed watching something so random
May 17, 2020
This Guy Made a Googol to 1 Gear Reduction Machine Entirely Out of LEGO
The rotation time for the last gear would take 52433879932503535381614991275498187972589101825233846406570841889117043121149897330595482546 years to complete once
Mar 10, 2020
A Straightforward Explanation on Exponential Growth and Epidemics
With Coronavirus at the forefront of global attention, this is a good time for a primer on exponential and logistic growth
