The Golden Ratio: Is It Myth or Math?
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Frank
- March 11, 2021
- Fibonacci
- fibonacci numbers
- Fibonacci sequence
- Geometry
- golden ratio
- Golden Ratio explained
- golden ratio in nature
- golden ratio spiral
- golden rectangle
- Golden spiral
- It's OK to Be Smart
- it's okay to be smart
- itsokaytobesmart
- joe hanson
- leonardo da vinci
- Math
- Mathematics
- Nature
- PBS
- pbs digital studios
- Phi
- Physics
- public broadcasting service
- science
Along the same lines as my previous post, here’s another aspect of math that needs to be pondered.
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First Room Temperature Superconductor Discovered
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Frank
- November 2, 2020
- ashkan salamat
- carbonaceous sulfur hydride
- climate change
- Energy
- energy efficiency
- geek news
- good news
- liv boeree
- maglev
- metallic hydrogen
- MRI machines
- Nature
- nature discovery
- nobel prize
- Physics
- physics discovery
- ranga dias
- room temperature superconductivity
- science breakthrough
- science news
- superconductivity
- superconductors
- Sustainability
- technology news
- unearthly materials
- university of rochester
Superconducting materials can do amazing things that appear to defy the laws of physics, but their major drawback is that superconducting properties don’t appear unless a material is cooled to near absolute zero. Superconductors that would work at (or near) room temperatures would, without exaggeration, would change the world and would have massive implications for […]
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A Synthetic DNA Factory That Is Building New Forms of Life
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Frank
- June 28, 2020
- Agriculture
- bacteria
- Beyond Meat
- biodesign
- biological engineering
- Biology
- Boston
- Craig Venter
- curiosity
- DNA
- Documentary
- drugs
- Education
- edutainment
- engineer
- explainer
- extinct plants
- focal point
- futuristic
- genetically engineer
- geneticist
- Genetics
- George Church
- Ginkgo Bioworks
- harvard
- heme
- Impossible Foods
- Interview
- Jurassic Park
- MIT
- Nature
- organism
- pathological
- rna
- Robots
- science videos engineering
- Software
- synthetic biology
- synthetic life
- Tech
- Technology
In this DNA factory, organism engineers are using robots and automation to build completely new forms of life. Seeker explores this brave new frontier of science.
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Nature Has Learnt How to Eat Our Plastic
Life finds a way. Just Have a Think examines how a new bacterium that eats plastic.
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Inside Amazon’s Spheres, the Biodome Office in Seattle
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Frank
- February 22, 2020
- Amazon
- Amazon employees
- Amazon's biodomes
- Amazon's Sphere
- Biodome office
- brainstorm
- five-story living wall
- forest
- good ideas
- green houses
- Jeff Bezos
- jeff bezos amazon
- John Savo
- Nature
- NBBJ Architech
- Office
- office building
- office work
- plants
- Real Estate
- Seattle
- Sphere
- stress
- trees
- work environment
- work-life balanace
- workspace
While in Seattle a few weeks ago, I had the chance to see the Spheres for myself. Wall Street Journal explores the Spheres, Amazon’s giant biodomes in downtown Seattle, allow employees to escape the office to work and brainstorm surrounded by nature. Take a tour with NBBJ architect John Savo as he shows off the […]
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Shohini Ghose on a Beginner’s Guide to Quantum Computing
A quantum computer isn’t just a more powerful version of the computers we use today; it’s something else entirely, based on emerging scientific understanding — and more than a bit of uncertainty. Enter the quantum wonderland with TED Fellow Shohini Ghose and learn how this technology holds the potential to transform medicine, create unbreakable encryption […]
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Algorithm that Learns via Rewards May Reveal How Our Brains Learn
I always knew that reinforcement learning would teach us more about ourselves than any other kind of AI approach. This feeling was backed up in a paper published recently in Nature. DeepMind, Alphabet’s AI subsidiary, has once again used lessons from reinforcement learning to propose a new theory about the reward mechanisms within our brains. The hypothesis, […]
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Breaking Into a Smart Home With A Laser
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Frank
- December 27, 2019
- Amazon Alexa
- Apple Home
- Day
- demonstration
- Destin
- Education
- Every
- experiment
- experiments
- Google Home
- internet of things
- Laser
- Light Commands
- Lockpicking
- Math
- motion
- Nature
- Physics
- Physics of
- projects
- Sandlin
- science
- science education
- science projects
- slow
- Slow Motion
- smart home
- Smarter
- Smarter Every Day
- what is science
SmarterEveryDay examines the recent paper exposing how vulnerable smart homes are to lasers.
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Mathematics in Nature
Siraj Raval has a new video out with more of an artistic flair about the hidden mathematics in the beauty of nature. Brilliant. Simply brilliant. Show this one to the haters when they tell you that there’s no use for math in the “real world.”
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