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Political scientist James Fowler makes the connection between smiling profile pictures on Facebook and human evolution. 
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Subscribe to MinutePhysics - it's FREE! http://dft.ba/-minutephysics_sub MinutePhysics is on Google+ - http://bit.ly/qzEwc6 And facebook...
Lindsay Pacheco's curator insight,
April 10, 2013 10:16 PM
For such a short amount of time, this video really left my wowed. I love illustrations to go with explanations during the process of teaching something new and foreign, so you can only imagine how crazy I went for this video. I even watched the other videos on their channel for MinutePhysics and even though the topics may seem "boring" or "too hard," I had no trouble keeping up with the pace of the videos and I have such a miniscule knowledge of physics. I'm not really sure how else to explain how much I enjoyed watching this video, it was extremely fun and creative and I wish I could learn everything this way, because it feels like I'm making it happen in a way and we're learning together, if that makes any sense. This was a pretty tricky subject and I loved how at the end he threw in a little bit about parallell universes and my brain just tipped over the edge to explosion. These spurts of information are definitely slightly overwhelming, but it makes you feel like you learned a lot in only two or three minutes, and I recommend anyone to watch them if they're feeling a little existential or just curious about the universe!
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The Solar Dynamics Observatory has completed the third year of its mission to provide scientists not only with stunningly detailed images of our sun, but a wealth of data that will help further our understanding of the sun-Earth system.
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Three days prior to its impact into a mountain on the moon, one of the twin spacecraft (named Ebb) from NASA's GRAIL mission took some photos from orbit. The spacecraft was about 6 miles above the lunar surface when the photos were take.
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Solar flares are classified by letters B, C, M and X. Similar to the earthquake scale, the power unleashed is measured exponentially. Find out what it can da...
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Lewis Mitchell is a a postdoctoral researcher in mathematics and climate. Broadly, he is interested in the messy interface between the "real" world and the more abstract world of mathematics. More specifically, his research is focused in the areas of numerical weather prediction (NWP) and data assimilation, which use techniques from many areas of applied mathematics.
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On the 40th anniversary of the famous ‘Blue Marble’ photograph taken of Earth from space, Planetary Collective presents a short film documenting astronauts’ life-changing stories of seeing the Earth from the outside – a perspective-altering experience often described as the Overview Effect. The Overview Effect, first described by author Frank White in 1987, is an experience that transforms astronauts’ perspective of the planet and mankind’s place upon it. Common features of the experience are a feeling of awe for the planet, a profound understanding of the interconnection of all life, and a renewed sense of responsibility for taking care of the environment. ‘Overview’ is a short film that explores this phenomenon through interviews with five astronauts who have experienced the Overview Effect. The film also features insights from commentators and thinkers on the wider implications and importance of this understanding for society, and our relationship to the environment.
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Celebrating the landmark 1977 Eames film, Powers of Ten™, The Powers Project invited 40 innovative artists from around the world to produce original segments for each power of ten using a variety of digital and film techniques. This new, collaborative homage playfully transplants the film’s journey from the physical universe to a unique, imagined universe of graphic abstractions. In these part / power created by Jordi Pagès, we approach the surface of the hand and slowly we enter the skin, passing through the outer most dead cells, these is the first of mani layers we will be crossing until we get into a tiny blood vessel within.
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Charles and Ray Eames’ Powers of Ten: The Classic Film Re-Imagined By 40 Artists
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The OrgOrgChart (Organic Organization Chart) project looks at the evolution of a company's structure over time. A snapshot of the Autodesk organizational hierarchy was taken each day between May 2007 and June 2011, a span of 1498 days.
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Theresa Liao's curator insight,
December 13, 2012 8:52 PM
The placebo effect is an interesting area of study. Personally, what's weird to me is that even though I am aware of the effect, that brand name ibuprofen and generic ibuprofen are pretty much the same, I cannot take generic ibuprofen tablets because they don't work on me (after several attempted I simply gave up and just stuck with brand name).
This video shares some interesting aspects of placebo effects. 
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December 14, 2012 2:33 AM
Oh, yes it's weird. It's a kind of mind's power.
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This is a newly revised 3 minute HD dramatic video choreographed to powerful music, which introduces the viewer to the wonder and miracle of cells.
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WARNING: This is a non-conventional view of our solar system. If you can't handle that, please try to remain calm. It is OK for people to have different view...
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February 14, 2013 3:11 PM
Valentinliebers!! En que se parece la cocaína al amor?? Hoy en Ciencia Mística <3
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Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is the only moon or planet in our Solar System other than Earth with stable liquid on its surface. The Cassini spacecraft recently…
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The colors in our environment make a major impact on how our food tastes! And it doesn't end there. Trace shows how a bit of color can influence our lives.
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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-we-see-color-colm-kelleher There are three types of color receptors in your eye: red, green and blue. But how...
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John Chumack (http://galacticimages.com) pointed his cameras to the skies on several occasions in 2012 and delivered amazing shots of solar activity, galaxies, comets, the moon and more.
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An introduction to the planktonic realm adrift on the high seas.
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Have you ever stopped to ask yourself, "what is time?" We all understand its passage intuitively, experientially. But does time actually exist? Is it a force of nature? A tangible entity? I spoke with theoretical physicist and perhaps the world's premier expert on the science of time, Sean Carroll, to learn more.
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Using Hollywood movie trailers, UC Berkeley researchers have succeeded in decoding and reconstructing people's dynamic visual experiences.
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When artist David Alfaro Siqueiros first discovered his "accidental painting" technique in the 1930s, the simplicity of the process coupled with its elaborate results riveted him.
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Research paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.2770
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Researchers at the Wyss Institute at Harvard have created more than 100 three-dimensional nanostructures using DNA building blocks that function like Lego® bricks.…...
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DNA Lego
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iRobot and InTouch Health Introduce the RP-VITA, a new telemedicine robot.
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