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a comprehensive list of all 48 regular polyhedra in 3D Euclidean space

primary source: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FPL00009304

bgm: https://queerduckrecords.bandcamp.com/track/apeirohedron

visualization tool for the shapes in this video: https://cpjsmith.uk/regularpolyhedra

0:00 - introduction
1:06 - part one: what?
4:06 - part two: the platonic solids
6:21 - part three: the Kepler solids
9:00 - part four: the Kepler-Poinsot polyhedra
11:26 - part five: the regular tilings
13:15 - part six: the Petrie-Coxeter polyhedra
16:51 - part seven: the Petrials
21:08 - part eight: the blended apeirohedra
22:39 - part nine: the pure Grünbaum-Dress polyhedra
25:03 - part ten: summary

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Many museums house significant numbers of human remains, many of which were acquired without the consent of the individual in question. So, our good friend Caitlin from Ask a Mortician stopped by the Field Museum to talk with us about it. This is a humongous and complicated topic - we'd love to know what you think!

Caitlin's channel: Ask a Mortician Website: http://caitlindoughty.com Read her books they're AWESOME: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7802044.Caitlin_Doughty

Info on NAGPRA: https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nagpra/index.htm

Here's the paper from Science about the person from Spirit Cave and the genetic testing of that individual: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/362/6419/eaav2621

Mummy unwrapping parties: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/victorian-party-people-unrolled-mummies-for-fun

Origins of Exhibited Cadavers Questioned: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5637687

More on Grover Krantz, Sasquatch scientist and expert on human evolution: https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/A-student-of-Sasquatch-Prof-Grover-Krantz-dies-1080702.php

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We ask soldiers to shoot people in combat, but how many men find this easy to do? What proportion can pull the trigger?

Modern techniques of training have enormously increased soldiers' willingness to kill, but the consequences of this success are yet to be fully understood. A man who is not a natural born killer may have a tough time dealing with the fact that his training led him to do things that his natural reluctance would have prevented. Source for the 75% of VC winners being responsible older siblings: the secretary of the VC and GC Association. Video
About 26 minutes 40 seconds into the video.

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Who knew nihilistic determinism could be so much fun? Not me.

The story of Harry Beck and his designs of the London Tube map.

bill wurtz' masterpiece (IMHO).

About segments, the 7 segment display and alternative designs.

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In this video we make and evaluate several hard drives that we didn't want. Drawing some inspiration from vexing current events, we find that creative, structured thought on adjacent (but frivolous) problems is a sort of digestive act, and one that is ultimately laxative.

Paper, source code, ringtones (and for a limited time, the data and viewer from pinging the whole internet): http://tom7.org/harder

Errata (thanks to all pedantic viewers who catch this stuff):

• I got the escape velocity off by a factor of 1000! It's 11 km/sec, not 11,000 km/sec. I think the other calculations are correct; I just mistook a period for a comma in my bleary-eyed late-night editing.
• I got the size of the genome wrong due to a very silly bug from bleary-eyed late-night programming. It is 29903 base pairs, which can be stored in an economy-sized 7476 bytes.

Maybe more a documentary than a video essay. Let me know if it fits.

Covers the inception, themes, and technical elements of Häxan—a 1922 silent film about the roots and superstitions surrounding witchcraft.

#evolution #naturalselection

Beware the Adaptationist Fallacy! Not all traits are the result of natural selection, there are many other possibilities such as spandrels and other neutral traits. And in the big scheme of things, is understanding adaptations really the central problem of biology?

Danny Hillis outlines an intriguing theory of how and why technological change seems to be accelerating, by linking it to the very evolution of life itself. The presentation techniques he uses may look dated, but the ideas are as relevant as ever.

I suggest watching Tom Scott's video after this one:

• My Worries About The Trajectory Of A.I. - YouTube

I find very interesting how (almost) 30 years later we are still struggling with these issues.

Spoilers are also abound for the final episode of this formerly-livestreamed video production, so make sure to watch Gen. Loss in its entirety first to be given enough context.