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9 Good Collections of Videos for Education

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Topics include earth sciences, nature, science, technology, history, space, the human body, sports, politics, philosophy, and more. Specialties include World War I, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War, The Cold War, political figures, industrialization, culture, Civil Rights, transportation, aviation, and space.

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What’s So Interesting About the Geology of Sedona, Arizona?

Science and Steamteam

Rising and falling sea levels transported sediment, further building up layers which eventually formed sandstone, mudstone, and conglomerate rock. At that time, it was at the bottom of the sea, accumulating the shell remains of unimaginable numbers of sea creatures. Time and pressure transformed them into ever-increasing layers of limestone.

Geology 98
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Numbers and networks: how can we use mathematics to assess the resilience of global supply chains?

Futurum

For example, as transportation networks play a key role in moving goods and materials from suppliers to customers, Zach hopes to integrate models of global transportation networks into his models of global supply chain networks. This will be a quantum leap forward in terms of realism,” he says.

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The Concept of the Ruliad

Stephen Wolfram

But it’s a fundamental claim that we’re making—that can be thought of as a matter of natural science—that in our universe only computation can occur, not hypercomputation. If we have ways of thinking—or consciousnesses—whose details are different, the issue is what will be robust enough to be able to be transported between them.

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A 50-Year Quest: My Personal Journey with the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

In early 1984 I visited MIT to use the machine to try to do what amounted to natural science, systematically studying 2D cellular automata. And even in the 20 years since A New Kind of Science was published, it’s become increasingly clear that in molecular biology things are extremely “orchestrated”.

Physics 94
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How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

Already the steam-engine works our mines, impels our ships, excavates our ports and our rivers, forges iron, fashions wood, grinds grain, spins and weaves our cloths, transports the heaviest burdens, etc. He introduced the Boltzmann Transport Equation which allows one to compute at least certain non-equilibrium properties of gases.

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How Inevitable Is the Concept of Numbers?

Stephen Wolfram

Let’s say that we’re trying to achieve the objective of having an efficient transportation system for carrying people around. No doubt there’ll at least be some “natural-science-like” characterizations of what’s going on. Ultimately an economic system is based on a large network of transactions. One person wants to get a cookie.