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Michio Kaku's Must-See Videos: CERN and The Higgs Discovery
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Michio Kaku's Must-See Videos: Carl Sagan Explains the Fourth Dimension
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Michio Kaku's Must-See Videos: Graham's Number Explained by Numberphile
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Michio Kaku's Must-See Videos: The Universe in a Nutshell
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Adam Alter: Drunk Tank Pink
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28,400 views
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"Drunk Tank Pink" is a shade of pink paint that psychologists used to use to paint the inside of jail cells. The prisoners that were put in there -...
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The Birth of Datafication
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Kenneth Cukier describes datafication, the fact that daily interactions of living things can be rendered into a data format and put to social use.
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Eric Kandel: How Your Brain Finishes Paintings
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The idea that a painting is not complete until the viewer responds to it was conceived of by Alois Riegl. He determined that as art evolved, you se...
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Eric Kandel: Creativity, Your Brain, and the Aha! Moment
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Dr. Eric Kandel describes the "aha phenomenon" and speculates on ways that humans and groups can think more creatively.
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Leonardo, for...
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Penn Jillette: Why Celebrity Apprentice Sucks Away Your Willpower
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According to Celebrity Apprentice star Penn Jillette, Daniel Kahneman's book Thinking, Fast and Slow could double as a producer's handbook for real...
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Gautam Mukunda: Abraham Lincoln, Avatar of History
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Political scientist and author Guatam Mukunda believes Abraham Lincoln's humility derived from his unique mind and sense of destiny.
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Henry Rollins
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Henry Rollins: Education is the End of Disaster Capitalism
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Henry Rollins says "let's make college tuition either free or really low and if you have a country full of whip-crack smart people you have a count...
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Back to School with Punkle Henry (Rollins)
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7 months ago
The legendary punk rocker offers some advice to today's youth.
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Young person, you'll find in your life that sometimes your great ambi...
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Henry Rollins: Education Will Restore A Vigorous Democracy
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According to Henry Rollins, education is the great leveler of the playing field, which is why the punk rocker says that elites are fearful of it. W...
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Henry Rollins: The Myth of Online Transparency
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The Godfather of DIY Punk says that the internet has opened up new worlds of instantaneous communication, and new opportunities for media and gover...
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Henry Rollins on Gay Marriage
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9 months ago
Why are some Americans so strongly opposed to gay marriage? Henry Rollins is convinced that not so many people are actually opposed. Instead he see...
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Henry Rollins: The One Decision that Changed My Life Forever
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10 months ago
Rollins describes the seminal moment when he decided to leave his job as manager of Haagen Dazs to become the lead singer of Black Flag.
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Michio Kaku
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Michio Kaku: Space Bubble Baths and the Free Universe
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2 months ago
How can you create a universe from nothing? Well if you calculate the total matter of the universe it is positive. If you calculate the total energ...
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String Theory Is The Only Game In Town
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1 year ago
Dr. Kaku says String Theory is the only theory that has the potential to offer a Theory of Everything.
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Michio Kaku: Is God a Mathematician?
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3 months ago
Michio Kaku says that God could be a mathematician: "The mind of God we believe is cosmic music, the music of strings resonating through 11 dimensi...
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Michio Kaku: What's the Fate of the Universe? It's in the Dark Matter
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5 months ago
Why should you bother to wake up tomorrow knowing that we're all going to die billions and billions of years from now when the universe turns to ab...
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Michio Kaku: Can Nanotechnology Create Utopia?
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Dr. Kaku addresses the question of the possibility of utopia, the perfect society that people have tried to create throughout history. These dreams...
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Michio Kaku: The von Neumann Probe (A Nano Ship to the Stars)
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6 months ago
One of the inventions that may be realized by advances in nanotechnology is the creation of a von Neumann probe, which is essentially a virus, a se...