Why You Should Never Say "It's Just A Theory"
A portion of our culture distrusts the scientific method, assuming that there are transcendent truths unknowable by science. But nothing is truly out of bounds for science. If it's real, it can be studied, and tested. Perhaps the greatest misunderstanding our culture has about the scientif
From playlist Science for Common Folk
One of the most outlandish ideas in modern physics is the multiverse - the idea that there exist multiple universes. Given that scientists tend to be fairly conservative and that this idea seems like a such a reach, it is natural to wonder why this idea is seriously discussed in leading s
From playlist Speculative Physics
Teach Astronomy - Scientific Reasoning
http://www.teachastronomy.com/ Scientific reasoning is an important part of how science works. You may have your own beliefs or your own faith, and they are your own. They're unchallengeable. But if you make an assertion in a scientific way, you have to be able to back up that assertion
From playlist 01. Fundamentals of Science and Astronomy
Why do physicists try to understand time?
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From playlist Science Unplugged: Time
Owen Gingerich - Arguing God from Teleology?
Free access to Closer to Truth's library of 5,000 videos: http://bit.ly/2UufzC7 To argue from teleology is to claim that the cosmos has a purpose. Is there directionality in the unfolding of the cosmos? Teleology has been a dirty word in science and philosophy, so why recently are a few s
From playlist Big Questions About God - Closer To Truth - Core Topic
What is the difference between theoretical and experimental physics?
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From playlist Science Unplugged: Physics
Religion was an ingenious solution to many of mankind's earliest fears and needs. Religion is now implausible to many, but the needs remain. That is the challenge of our times. Please subscribe here: http://tinyurl.com/o28mut7 If you like our films take a look at our shop (we ship worldwid
From playlist GREAT IDEAS
Why science is NOT 'Just a Theory'
Have you ever heard ‘evolution’ dismissed as ‘just a theory’? Is a scientific theory no different to the theory that Elvis is still alive? Jim Al-Khalili puts the record straight. Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe There’s an important difference between a sci
From playlist Ri Animations
Thomas Nagel on Naturalizing Reason
A clip of Thomas Nagel discussing the naturalization of reason through the work of Robert Nozick in a 1995 talk on Reason called "The Last Word" which can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DovtGocRyAQ #Philosophy #Epistemology
From playlist Shorter Clips & Videos - Philosophy Overdose
From Orphism to the Milesians in ancient Greece
History of Economic Theory by Dr. Shivakumar, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences IIT Madras, For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.iitm.ac.in
From playlist IIT Madras: History of Economic Theory | CosmoLearning.org Economics
Sean Carroll - Does the Cosmos Have a Reason?
What remarkable discoveries are being made in cosmology! Cosmologists now develop credible theories about the beginning and end of our universe and theory-based speculations about vast numbers of multiple universes. But does the cosmos a reason? Could revolutionary ideas support some kind
From playlist Closer To Truth - Sean Carroll Interviews
Stanford Seminar - Speculation and Resonation
Dr. Rilla Khaled is an Associate Professor in the Department of Design and Computation Arts at Concordia University . April 29, 2022 Within LARP circles, the concept known as "bleed" is about carryover of experience between play and normal life. It is often considered a problem: play tha
From playlist Stanford Seminars
Stanford Seminar - Speculation and the Design of Development
Phoebe Sengers Cornell University Kaiton Williams Impact America Fund October 29, 2021 How do we make futures from the margins? In HCI, speculation is often framed as a tactic for expert designers from the global North to open new spaces for innovation. In this work, we ask how our under
From playlist Stanford Seminars
The Symmetry and Simplicity of the Laws of Nature and the Higgs Boson | Juan Maldacena
Juan Maldacena, Professor, School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study http://www.ias.edu/people/faculty-and-emeriti/maldacena October 3, 2012 In this lecture, Juan Maldacena, Professor in the School of Natural Sciences, describes the theoretical ideas, developed in the 1960
From playlist Natural Sciences
Speculating About God? | Episode 1505 | Closer To Truth
In searching, striving to know God—if there is a God—we discover contrasting ways that God could be. It is good to wonder about God, see a landscape of possibilities, get the big picture of what God may be like. Featuring interviews with Peter Forrest, Hubert L. Dreyfus, Neil N. Gillman, S
From playlist Big Questions About God - Closer To Truth - Core Topic
Speculative attack on a currency | Foreign exchange and trade | Macroeconomics | Khan Academy
Courses on Khan Academy are always 100% free. Start practicing—and saving your progress—now: https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/macroeconomics/forex-trade-topic/macro-the-foreign-exchange-market/v/speculative-attack-on-a-currency Watch the next lesson: https://www.khana
From playlist Foreign exchange and trade | Macroeconomics | Khan Academy
Meltdown and Spectre - Professor Mark Handley, UCL
The Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities in almost all modern CPUs have received a great deal of publicity in the last week. Operating systems and hypervisors need significant changes to how memory management is performed, CPU firmware needs updating, compilers are being modified to avoid
From playlist Data science classes
Mod-01 Lec-05 Pythagoras and Heraclitus
History of Economic Theory by Dr. Shivakumar, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences IIT Madras, For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.iitm.ac.in
From playlist IIT Madras: History of Economic Theory | CosmoLearning.org Economics
Arithmetic With... Continued Fractions?? #SoME2
Arithmetic! On continued fractions! It's possible, but not well known or widely used in practice. This video explores the basics of this underappreciated area of math. This is my submission for SoME2 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZuYICAEN9Y&t=0s) SOURCES & FURTHER READING: Continued
From playlist Summer of Math Exposition 2 videos
In order to push knowledge forward, what comes first: observation or theory?
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From playlist Science Unplugged: Big Ideas