August 30th, 2009 by drs
#tech #dental I wonder if my brother, who is a dentist, ever thinks about what is going through the minds of his patients as he drills. Here’s and example of what one person was thinking about.
Video description: Physicist Richard Feynman visits the dentist and wonders about the amazing phenomenon of electricity… From the BBC TV series ‘Fun to Imagine’(1983)
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August 26th, 2009 by drs
Physicist Richard Feynman tries to explain to a non-scientist just how difficult it can be to answer certain questions in lay terms! A classic example of Feynman’s clarity of thought, powers of explanation and intellectual honesty – his refusal to ‘cheat’.
From the BBC TV series ‘Fun to Imagine’(1983)
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August 19th, 2009 by drs
I hope you enjoy learning from these videos.
Physicist Richard Feynman thinks more about the ‘jiggling’ of atoms, and about rubber bands and how they ‘work’… From the BBC TV series ‘Fun to Imagine’ (1983)
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August 16th, 2009 by drs
I wonder if my brother, a Fire Department Battalion Chief, has ever heard fire described like this.
I hope you enjoy learning from these videos.
Video description: Physicist Richard Feynman talks more about jiggling atoms and heat, and about what fire is… From the BBC TV series ‘Fun to Imagine’(1983)
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August 15th, 2009 by drs
About the film:
From the Wikipedia article The Great Global Warming Swindle
The film’s basic premise is that the current scientific consensus on the anthropogenic causes of global warming has numerous scientific flaws, and that vested monetary interests in the scientific establishment and the media discourage the public and the scientific community from acknowledging or even debating this. The film asserts that the publicised scientific consensus is the product of a “global warming activist industry” driven by a desire for research funding. Other culprits, according to the film, are Western environmentalists promoting expensive solar and wind power over cheap fossil fuels in Africa, resulting in African countries being held back from industrialising.
A number of academics, environmentalists, think-tank consultants and writers are interviewed in the film in support of its various assertions. They include the Canadian environmentalist Patrick Moore, founding member of Greenpeace but for the past 21 years a critic of the organisation; Richard Lindzen, professor of meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Patrick Michaels, Research Professor of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia; Nigel Calder, editor of New Scientist from 1962 to 1966; John Christy, professor and director of the Earth System Science Center at University of Alabama; Paul Reiter of the Pasteur Institute; the former British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Nigel Lawson; and Piers Corbyn, a British weather forecaster.
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August 13th, 2009 by drs
I could listen to this guy all day. He makes science fun. I’ve always been very curious about everything. I need to know how things work, so this is right up my alley.
I hope you enjoy learning from these videos.
Video description: Physicist Richard Feynman thinks aloud about atoms and how they jiggle, and how we perceive that jiggling as ‘hot’ and ‘cold’. From the BBC TV series ‘Fun to Imagine’(1983)
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