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Invidious link: [https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=9boE53Z\_lAg](https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=9boE53Z_lAg)
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Private foundation is an institution with a very special status. They are tax exempt private organizations yet they are still allowed to invest into for profit companies. Foundations can hold corporate stocks and bonds and generate revenue this way. There is only one major condition they have to fulfill to keep their tax exempt status - and that is to donate 5% of foundation's total assets on annual basis. So when you hear a billionaire donating their wealth to charity and it's going through a foundation, up to 95% of it can go into profitable investments. In practice, all foundations' assets in the US amount to more than $1 trillion. Yet, they donated only $90.88 billion in 2021.
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"Çatalhöyük: a 9000 year old town" Relatore: Ian Hodder (Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University) Project Director of Çatalhöyük Research Project ([www.catalhoyuk.com](http://www.catalhoyuk.com)) Abstract This talk describes the fascinating and important early town of Çatalhöyük in central Turkey. The site is important because of its large size and elaborate symbolism, including wall art and burials beneath the floors of houses. The speaker has been excavating at the site for 25 years using the latest scientific techniques. A very large team has been piecing together the detailed evidence of the site in order to understand how the society was organized, how it lasted so long, and what its rich symbolism means. Martedì 24 luglio 2018, ore 20.30 Scuola Superiore di Catania Anfiteatro - Villa San Saverio
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It's time to discard some common misconceptions and rethink our perspective on human history, so that we can truly reckon with the scope of our political pos...
MindMetricsHub Hello, everyone hope you all are having a nice day, i and a couple of my colleagues have made a discord server called MindMetricshub, we are a community that hope to foster knowledge sharing and discussion centered around human cognition, 2 of our members are currently norming some cognitive tests and one of them is hoping to create an assessment of g that's based primarily on games. We also offer about 7 different cognitive psychometric instruments namely: Wechsler Adult intelligence scale fourth edition (WAIS-IV) Stanford Binet Fifth Edition (SB-V) Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence (WASI-2) Reynolds Adaptive Intelligence Test (RAIT) Kaufmanns Brief Intelligence Test - Second Edition Revised Ravens 2 and PPVT-5 (from Pearson Q-global) all these can be administered for a fraction of what they originally cost (this is our attempt to raise some revenue lol)If you are interested please join our server link below ( when you initially join there would be limited access to features in the server please be patient we will grant you access within a short time) [https://discord.gg/6MfWhgnF](https://discord.gg/6MfWhgnF) [\#brainfood](https://kbin.social/tag/brainfood)
Sister channel to History of the Universe channel [https://www.youtube.com/@HistoryoftheUniverse/videos](https://www.youtube.com/@HistoryoftheUniverse/videos)
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Snake's tongue has two sensitive tips, called tines, which help the snake smell in stereo.
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A brief introduction to how quantum computers work and what they can do.
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All 13.8 billion years of history squished into 10 minutes. On this timescale, humanity has existed for less than one second.
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This video is about the concept of critical point – how the brain might optimize information processing by hovering near a phase transition. [\#neuroscience](https://kbin.social/tag/neuroscience) [#chaostheory](https://kbin.social/tag/chaostheory)
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[Cephalopod intelligence on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cephalopod_intelligence)
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Tundra makes great [#VR](https://kbin.social/tag/VR) devlogs mostly about [#physics](https://kbin.social/tag/physics)-based interactions. This one is a delight to watch: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T\_m6oEmPj8I](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_m6oEmPj8I)
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Emulating optics of a real camera to create photographs in Blender.
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In this episode of the podcast, Sam Harris presents his full argument on the illusoriness of free will — and explores its ethical and psychological implications.
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This is the first part in a series about Computational Fluid Dynamics where we build a Fluid Simulator from scratch.
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Lenia is a system of continuous cellular automata, a form of artificial life. It was derived from Conway's Game of Life by making everything smooth, continuous and generalized. [\#cellularautomata](https://kbin.social/tag/cellularautomata)
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Explanation of The Selfish Gene, the gene's-eye view of evolution, which can be defined as the idea that the gene is the ultimate beneficiary of selection. Book: [The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61535.The_Selfish_Gene) (fun fact, the word "meme" originated in that book)
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A video of Conway's Game of Life, emulated in Conway's Game of Life. web demo: [https://oimo.io/works/life/](https://oimo.io/works/life/) (scroll to zoom in/out)
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In physics, a symmetry of a physical system is a physical or mathematical feature of the system that is preserved or remains unchanged under some transformation. History of the Universe : a great youtube channel with documentaries about the Universe.
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Journey to the Microcosmos is a great youtube channel about the microscopic world. Description: Take a dive into the tiny, unseen world that surrounds us! With music by Andrew Huang, footage from James Weiss, and narration by Hank Green, we want to take you on a fascinating, reflective journey through the microcosmos.
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25,000 neurons growing on a multi-electrode array form a living "brain," which is hooked up to a flight simulator on a desktop computer. Information on the aircraft's movements is processed by stimulating neurons with electrodes. The neurons then fire in patterns that control the aircraft's flight path. In depth videos by The Thought Emporium: [https://youtu.be/V2YDApNRK3g](https://youtu.be/V2YDApNRK3g) [https://youtu.be/bEXefdbQDjw](https://youtu.be/bEXefdbQDjw)
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At the end of the last Apollo 15 moon walk, Commander David Scott performed a live demonstration for the television cameras. He held out a geologic hammer and a feather and dropped them at the same time. Because they were essentially in a vacuum, there was no air resistance and the feather fell at the same rate as the hammer, as Galileo had concluded hundreds of years before - all objects released together fall at the same rate regardless of mass.
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Everything in our local galaxy supercluster, Laniakea, is being dragged towards a very high concentration of mass hidden behind the plane of our galaxy. It has all the ingredients for an epic space mystery, it is the Great Attractor.
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This channel has a bunch of high quality conversations about consciousness and similar topics.
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A team of elite cavers led by 68-year-old explorer Bill Stone are in the depths of Cheve Cave, Mexico. At every step of the way, they use nature’s clues, following the wind and water within the cave, to navigate their next move. Underground it is a maze of twisting tunnels and dead ends in search of a passage that leads to the bottom of the deepest cave on earth. They have established a chain of underground camps (which took them 30 years to do) leading deeper and deeper into the cave, all the way to the frontline of the exploration (5 km from the entrance). It takes them around 7-10 days to reach the bottom of the cave, so the leading team gets supplied by multiple supply teams that every so often travel the length of the cave.
A collection of Chernobyl documentaries filmed on-site in October, 2021. Including a look at Pripyat's unique dog population!
Listened to an interesting programme about mathematics on the radio the other day. Dr Eugenia Cheng discussed how 1+1 doesn't necessarily produce 2. Sometimes it is 1. If you add one pile of flour to another pile of flour you still have one pile of flour. It's all about context. When it is true and in what sense it is true. Any ideas for other answers to 1+1? [https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001n1k5?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001n1k5?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile)
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Most of us are aware of the hive mind — the power of bees as an amazing collective. But do we know how uniquely intelligent bees are as individuals? In this ...
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The Juvenile Wunderpus Photogenicus might make you remember the film Mars Attacks with the aliens with their brains showing through their helmets.They are ex...
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The Chinese Room Argument was first proposed by philosopher John Searle in 1980. It is an argument against the possibility of artificial intelligence (AI) – that is, the idea that a machine could ever be truly intelligent, as opposed to just imitating intelligence.
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When the Cardinal fish sucks up what it thinks will be dinner, the tiny sea creature, a type of ostracod, emits a burst of light. That burst saves the ostracod. If you have a lot of predators in the wild, then it's best to stay hidden. That's why the fish in the tank vomit up the tiny bio-luminescent ostracods. Otherwise, their bodies would illuminate from within, calling out to their predators, "Here's DINNER!" and getting them eaten for sure. Read more: [https://www.businessinsider.com/cardinalfish-vomits-glowing-ostracod-2014-9](https://www.businessinsider.com/cardinalfish-vomits-glowing-ostracod-2014-9)
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Discover the fascinating complexity of honeybee stingers under an electron microscope...
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A small display of some of the surprisingly intricate patterns and behaviours that can arise from relatively simple rules.
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Richard Feynman is a good example of human curiosity, and his "fun to imagine" can easily make anybody wonder about the world.