Tag Archives: Physics

Mind Blowing Flight Through The Universe

Take a flight through a sliver of the known Universe in the most intricate 3D animation of space and time mankind has ever seen. Video credit: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory www.youtube.com Music by Kevin MacLeod, “Comfortable Mystery” incompetech.com Join the conversation on Facebook www.facebook.com Add TDC to your circles on Google+ plus.google.com Follow The Daily [...]

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Hadron Collider: Solving the Great Questions of Physics

Brian Greene, professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University, acknowledges that there are still a great many cosmic unknowns to discover, even after the purported finding of the Higgs Boson “God Particle” at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. Complete video available for free at fora.tv

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Demystifying the Higgs Boson with Leonard Susskind

(July 30, 2012) Professor Susskind presents an explanation of what the Higgs mechanism is, and what it means to “give mass to particles.” He also explains what’s at stake for the future of physics and cosmology. Stanford University: www.stanford.edu Stanford University Channel on YouTube: www.youtube.com

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Flying Through Space

Take a flight through a sliver of the known Universe in the most intricate 3D animation of space and time mankind has ever seen. Video credit: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory www.youtube.com Music by Kevin MacLeod, “Comfortable Mystery” incompetech.com Join the conversation on Facebook www.facebook.com Add TDC to your circles on Google+ plus.google.com Follow The Daily [...]

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How Many Volunteers Can Create One Piece of Big Art?

Peter Kimelman of the Flux Foundation explains the collaborative process that goes into their works of art which integrate large numbers of volunteers to create big, singular pieces. Complete video available for free at fora.tv

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Open Source Sharing Brings Equipment to Iraqi Hospitals

Bilal Ghalib recounts how the power of open source hardware and online networking inspired a maker from Baghdad to build pulse rate monitors to replace broken ones in Iraqi hospitals. Complete video available for free at fora.tv

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Curiosity and the Legacy of the Mars Rover Program

William J. Clancey, Chief Scientist of Human-Centered Computing at the Intelligent Systems Division of the NASA Ames Center, discusses the lessons learned from the Mars Exploration Rovers “Spirit” and “Opportunity”, and offers predictions for their latest rover, “Curiosity”. Complete video available for purchase at fora.tv

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The Making of a Never-Ending Water Slide Simulator

“Prototype This” hosts Joe Grand and Zoz Brooks detail the process of building a simulator that mimcs a never-ending water slide, the biggest project they built on their show. Complete video available for free at fora.tv

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‘Scientists understand only 4% of universe’

Despite all the scientific breakthroughs and Nobel Prizes for discoveries, scientists seem to be no nearer to a possible answer to their main question – why did the universe appear? RT sat down to talk to Aleksey Filippenko, an American astrophysicist and professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, CA. He was the [...]

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First Complete Model Of An Organism

Researchers at Stanford University have made a significant breakthrough in gene biology by mapping the first complete gene structure of an organism, Mycoplasma Gentitalium. Stanford researchers produce first complete computer model of an organism: news.stanford.edu Join the conversation on Facebook www.facebook.com Add TDC to your circles on Google+ plus.google.com Follow The Daily Conversation on Twitter [...]

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Dark Energy: The Greatest Unknown Force of the Universe

Robbert Dijkgraaf, Dutch mathematical physicist and string theorist, discusses the greatest “known unknown” of the universe, dark energy. Dark matter and energy comprise approximately 96% of the universe, but know physicists know little about the physical phenomena. Complete video available for free at fora.tv

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Science Comedian Brian Malow: The Higgs Boson Walks Into a Church…

Complete video available for free at fora.tv Enjoy this excerpt of science comedian Brian Malow’s routine from Wonderfest 2009, where he explains why the Higgs boson particle should be allowed into church. —- Brian Malow’s YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com Brian Malow’s blog: www.sciencecomedian.com Brian Malow’s videos for Time Magazine: bit.ly Brian Malow (@sciencecomedian) on Twitter: www.twitter.com [...]

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