Human-based units of measurement | Units of length
The smoot /ˈsmuːt/ is a nonstandard, humorous unit of length created as part of an MIT fraternity prank. It is named after Oliver R. Smoot, a fraternity pledge to Lambda Chi Alpha, who in October 1958 lay down repeatedly on the Harvard Bridge (between Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts) so that his fraternity brothers could use his height to measure the length of the bridge. (Wikipedia).
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DevOps is a word used a lot these days and reading job ads it seems like it's something one person in a team does. It also looks as if I buy the right tools I'm doing DevOps, but is that it? Björn is a programmer with lots of strong opinions, weakly held. When he's not busy changing his mi
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A.I. Just Designed An Enzyme That Eats Plastic
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Clojure - the Reader and Evaluator (4/4)
Part of a series teaching the Clojure language. For other programming topics, visit http://codeschool.org
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Just a quick overview of the history of GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade), which eventually became the WTO (World Trade Organization). "Episode 37: GATT/WTO" by Dr. Mary J. McGlasson is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
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6 Strange Units of Measurement We Still Use
There are strange units of measurement that we still use everyday—but what are they, and why? Join Olivia Gordon and learn about the weird units you use every time you put on your shoes or read about dark matter! Let's go! ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https:
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Is dark matter real? - with George Smoot and Martinus Veltman
The morning after CERN announces the discovery of the Higgs particle, three young physicists sit down with Nobel prizewinners George Smoot and Martinus Veltman to digest the news. The students see it as another success for the standard model of particle physics. But Veltman, who helped to
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The Most Hilarious Mathematical Unit
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19. Using pints for units in python
It's critical to keep track of units in scientific computing. Fortunately, python has a few options for tracking and converting units. Here we show you a unit conversion library and the power pint library. We also introduce scipy constants and the molmass library to calculate elemental mol
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Clojure - the Reader and Evaluator (2/4)
Part of a series teaching the Clojure language. For other programming topics, visit http://codeschool.org
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George Smoot - What Can Science Say About God?
Most scientists believe that science can say nothing about God other than to show that there is no need for such a being. Scientists claim that science is quite capable of providing most explanations today and virtually all explanations in the future. Click here to watch more interviews
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George Smoot on Dark Matter, Cosmology, and Gravitational Lensing | Closer To Truth Chats
George Smoot discusses the history of precision cosmology, his work in gravitational lensing, the existence of dark matter, and the future of astrophysics. George Smoot III's website: https://physics.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/george-smoot-iii George Fitzgerald Smoot III is an American
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European Researchers Night - Astrophysics part 1
CERN connects to the Paris Observatory to interview George Smoot, Nobel for Physics 2006, then theoretical physicist Alvaro de Rujula explains the Universe expansion.
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The Engineer Who Spent His Life Fighting Gravity
Besides all of the beneficial aspects of gravity that help us every day, gravity is kind of an inconvenience when you think about it... it means that we have to exert a massive amount of energy to get places, it causes things to fall to earth, it caused Isaac Newton to get a headache from
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5 Best Practices In DevOps Culture | What is DevOps? | Edureka
🔥𝐄𝐝𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐤𝐚 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐎𝐩𝐬 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐏𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐮𝐞 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲: https://www.edureka.co/executive-programs/purdue-devops This tutorial explains what is DevOps. It will help you understand some of its best practices in DevOps culture. This video will also provide an insight into how different
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UGS 303 10 24 12 The Great Depression
Lecture 20, The Great Depression, of UGS 303, Ideas of the Twentieth Century, University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2012
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