2014년 12월 13일 토요일

TED-Ed launches an interactive periodic table with videos for every element


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TED-Ed's new interactive periodic table
TED-Ed launches an interactive periodic table with a video for every element
If you’ve ever taken a chemistry class, you know that memorizing all of the elements and understanding their properties can be difficult! To help provide a study aid, TED-Ed collaborated with Brady Haran, best known for his YouTube channel Numberphile and his extensive video coverage of the periodic table, to create a clickable periodic table with videos on every element.
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Is math discovered or invented? - Jeff Dekofsky
Animation by The Tremendousness Collective
Would mathematics exist if people didn't? Did we create mathematical concepts to help us understand the world around us, or is math the native language of the universe itself? Jeff Dekofsky traces some famous arguments in this ancient and hotly debated question.
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The unexpected math behind Van Gogh's "Starry Night" - Natalya St. Clair
Animation by Avi Ofer
Physicist Werner Heisenberg said, “When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: why relativity? And why turbulence? I really believe he will have an answer for the first.” As difficult as turbulence is to understand mathematically, we can use art to depict the way it looks. Natalya St. Clair illustrates how Van Gogh captured this deep mystery of movement, fluid and light in his work.
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Could comets be the source of life on Earth? - Justin Dowd
Animation by Justin Dowd
While comets were historically thought to be ill omens of war and famine, recent science has revealed that these celestial wonders actually contain amino acids, the building blocks of life on Earth. Justin Dowd explores the implications of this magnificent discovery.
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