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Google Calendar: Repeating Events to Google Calendar
Mitchell teaches you how to add repeated events to your Google Calendar with ease
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Today's Cigarettes
Sleep scientist Matthew Walker (UC Berkeley) makes the analogy of today's attitudes towards sleep and yesterday's views of cigarettes.
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Can Language Models Lie? | WebGPT, DeepMind Retro, and The Challenge of Fact-Checking in LLMs
Can Language Models Lie? It's complicated, but we're teaching them to do better.
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Let's Learn Vowels: Short and Long
This video teaches the short and long vowel sounds. It gives kids practice hearing those sounds in words by sorting short and long vowel sounds. Being able to try both sounds when encountering a word helps kids learn to blend and read...
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Letting the Truth Suck You In
Particle physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed (Institute for Advanced Study) describes how theorists need to get in the right vicinity of the truth and not fight its pull.
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Different Descriptions
Particle physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed (Institute for Advanced Study) emphasizes the importance of finding different descriptions for the same physical laws.
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Being a Scientist
Princeton University physicist Paul Steinhardt gives his view on what different types of scientists are out there and how he is an "intellectual predator".
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A Big Contradiction
Nobel Laureate Roger Penrose, University of Oxford, describes a profound puzzle that he's been wrestling with throughout his entire research career: how is it possible that the universe began in a peculiar state of both minimum and...
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Supersymmetric Convictions
Particle physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed (Institute for Advanced Study) relates his belief that supersymmetry must exist at some energy scale.
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On the Bubble
Particle physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed, Institute for Advanced Study, frankly assesses his likelihood of making a scientific breakthrough, and relates how he's determined to spend the vast majority of his time doing physics rather than...
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Learning Together
Theoretical physicist Rocky Kolb, University of Chicago, describes the uniquely enriching experience he had of learning astronomy side by side with his graduate school advisor and mentor.
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Focusing on the Details
Renowned polymath and mathematical physicist Freeman Dyson (Institute for Advanced Study) relates his anti-reductionistic leanings.
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Astonishingly Simple
Renowned particle physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed, Institute for Advanced Study, describes how he believes that the surprisingly simple final form of a large class of complex calculations is a clue to how we can move forwards towards...
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A Mysterious Relationship
Particle physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed (Institute for Advanced Study) examines the curious structural relationship between quantum mechanics and relativity.
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Optimism, Confirmed
Emory University anthropologist and bestselling author Frans de Waal relates how many aspects of his intuitively optimistic view of human and animal nature became confirmed through his many concrete experimental tests.
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Individuals and Community
Anthropologist Frans de Waal, Emory University, describes his distinction between so-called "one-on-one morality" and "community concern", and highlighting the differences, and similarities, between humans and other animals regarding the...
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Evolving Through Copying
Duke University neuroscientist Jennifer Groh describes an intriguing hypothesis that might account for the often hard to imagine intermediate stages of evolution while highlighting how evidence for one aspect of the theory might involve...
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Strong Encouragement
Solar physicist Jenny Nelson, Imperial College, describes her youthful fascination with light and colour, the positive influence of her scientist parents, and a particularly fervent endorsement to study science provided by one of her...
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Singularly Uniform
Nobel Laureate in Physics Roger Penrose (Oxford) muses on the ironies associated with his work on singularities when applied to cosmology.
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Screaming Out for an Alternative
Particle physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed (Institute for Advanced Study) highlights the clues pointing us towards the need for re-addressing core issues of quantum field theory.
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Many Different Paths
Renowned scientific polymath Freeman Dyson, Institute for Advanced Study, describes his conviction that, while science is one important way to gain knowledge about the world around us, it is by no means the only way.
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Making a Difference
Solar physicist Jenny Nelson, Imperial College, describes the importance of combining scientific research with real-world impact as we grapple with the pressing challenges of improving our environment.
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Fundamental Opportunities
Particle physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed (Institute of Advanced Study) describes why now is the perfect time to study fundamental physics.
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Forbidden Fruit
Theoretical physicist Rocky Kolb, University of Chicago, describes how a combination of an air-conditioned public library and a discouraging librarian contributed to making him the scientist he is today.