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Getting citizenship is hard, but getting rid of it is often not the least bit easier. And some countries simply won't let you go at all.

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In which the dinosaurs go extinct and 66 million years later people get angry about it.

What killed the dinosaurs? Maybe you think you know.

Many others thought they knew. They saw hundreds of years of scientific progress, shifting paradigms, and explosive arguments behind them, and decided they were at the end. The K-Pg extinction was settled. Then it exploded again. And again. And it kept exploding way more than any layperson today really appreciates, revealing more about science and its communication than you ever imagined.

This is the story of the mass extinction debates.

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Lake Superior is a dangerous and ferocious lake that has claimed many ships and lives over the years. Its frigid waters preserve shipwrecks and bodies remarkably well. The video explores several famous Superior shipwrecks, like the Kamloops, Edmund Fitzgerald, and others. It discusses the controversy around declaring shipwrecks as graveyards and protecting the remains of crew members who went down with the ships. Overall, the video paints Lake Superior as beautiful but deadly, with a tragic history of lives lost that some families still deeply feel and want to honor by protecting the underwater gravesites.

Examination of known bugs in older games and some pondering of whether or not they should be officially fixed.

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In this video, I measure a wave of electricity traveling down a wire, and answer the question - how does electricity know where to go? How does "electricity" "decide" where electrons should be moving in wires, and how long does that process take? Spoiler alert - very fast!

I've been very excited about this project for a while - it was a lot of work to figure out a reliable way to make these measurements, but I've learned SO much by actually watching waves travel down wires, and I hope you do too!

Related videos:

• "An intuitive approach for understanding electricity" AFTERSHOW [26:48]
• What does "impedance matching" actually look like? (electricity waves) [17:07]
• How to measure waves of electricity [22:48]

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The video explores the confusing and convoluted system behind the 3-letter IATA airport codes used to designate airports worldwide. It explains that IATA, the International Air Transport Association based in Montreal, coordinates these codes between airlines and aviation agencies globally to aid communication and logistics. However, conflicting interests, overlapping jurisdictions (like the separate FAA codes in the US), and legacy holdovers have resulted in a somewhat chaotic lack of standardization or location information encoded in codes. For instance, codes don't always match airport names, countries wanted certain letters like Canada claiming all the Ys, and larger cities have multiple codes and "mega-codes." The video traces the tangled history that led to the current codes, such as how the Ys relate to Canadian radio call signs. Ultimately, the IATA codes are primarily for logistics in routing baggage, not passengers. The speaker concludes that while airport codes don't make much sense systematically, they remain a critical and ubiquitous part of global air travel.

With every new military operation, Israel's propaganda machine goes to work. This essay dives deep into Israel's weaponization of the "antisemitism accusation." I examine its philosophical underpinnings, its use for counterinsurgency, its consequences, and its background. In tracing this history, I look at the roots of Judaism, antisemitism, and Zionism writ large, and show the emergence of Zionism within the racist epistemologies of the 19th century. I also examine how this racism has persisted and reared its head with contemporary population genetics and biotech like #23andme. By deconstructing (with counsel from evolutionary biologists) the scientific fallacies undergirding the understanding of "Jewish" as a race, I offer a different, radically inclusive definition of "Jew." Finally, I respond to some of the problems in PhilosophyTube's popular video

• Antisemitism: An Analysis | Philosophy Tube

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/4542547

This is part one of his Global Warming series. He just released part 3 a couple of days ago, which was a look at a theoretical future of how we can prevent complete disaster.

Part 2: https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=hvGQMZFP9IA

Part 3: https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=9xCaalQeAbY

Original title: The Luckiest GoldenEye Speedrun Explained
I used the title from DeArrow.

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The video explains the world record GoldenEye 007 speedrun for the Frigate level on Secret Agent difficulty by top player Perfect Ace, who achieved an untied world record time of 1:03. A major element of randomness in Frigate comes from hostage escape times, which can vary wildly. The video analyzes the theoretical probability of hostages escaping in time to allow a 1:03 completion, finding a baseline best case odds of just 2%, (....)

Aditional notes: https://pastebin.com/61P2UJjn

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Life's "programming language" refers to the biological pathways and chemical reactions that allow cells to transform substances, with the help of enzymes, to acquire energy and build components. This video explores several hypotheses about how these metabolic pathways evolved over time.

The key points are:

• Enzymes are more versatile than we realized - they can catalyze multiple reactions if conditions change (enzyme promiscuity)
• There are four evolutionary mechanisms that can explain pathway origins: building backwards, incremental improvement, divergence from a common versatile ancestor enzyme, and linking pre-existing pathways
• The current consensus is that all four mechanisms play complementary roles, with metabolites and enzymes coevolving based on what reactions are useful at the time. Enzyme promiscuity facilitates new pathway connections.
• We can now harness evolution in the lab to design novel enzymes and pathways for human applications.

The video provides an insightful synthesis of theories about the origins of life's complex metabolic systems.

First episode of the Scrabble History playlist.

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Welcome to Episode 1 of Scrabble History, a series where I break down some of the most incredible plays, epic rivalries, and amazing moments in Scrabble's rich competitive history.

In my first video, I break down one of the most epic Scrabble bingos of all time - but that's only part of the story!

Esports?? Really???????

Historia Civilis takes a look at how the concept of work change from pre-industrial times to what we know today.

A brief description and analysis of Simpsonwave.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Simpsonwave

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Competitive arm wrestling is an underrated niche sport focused on specialized hand/wrist strength. Top athletes seem superhumanly strong. The community reveres unique genetic gifts. Key rivalries play out through technical matches. With its complexity and characters, the sport's current golden era is worth spectating.

Captain Disillusion makes an unauthorized landing and explores the genre of trick shot viral videos.

The video is 6:42 in length, but the main part is only 5:35

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GOOD FLAG, BAD FLAG: http://www.ausflag.com.au/assets/images/Good-Flag-Bad-Flag.pdf

THE GUIDING PRINCIPLES ON FLAG DESIGN: https://nava.org/navanews/Commission-Report-Final-US.pdf

FLAG WAVER: https://krikienoid.github.io/flagwaver/

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Adam Neely's video explores the musical and cultural origins of vaporwave, an experimental electronic music genre that emerged in the early 2010s. He traces vaporwave's roots to plunderphonics, a technique developed in the 1980s that involves sampling and manipulating existing recordings to create new music.

Neely demonstrates how vaporwave artists take smooth jazz, funk, and soul tracks from the 80s and 90s and slow them down, creating a chopped and screwed, hypnotic aesthetic. This plunderphonic approach, coupled with the heavy use of nostalgic pop culture sounds from the 90s like Windows startup noises, forms the basis of vaporwave's style.

Beyond just repurposing old music, Neely argues vaporwave provides cultural critique and commentary by evoking consumer capitalism and Internet culture of the 90s. While difficult to analyze with traditional music theory, the video examines vaporwave through the lens of timbre, sound quality, and phenomenology, asserting that the nostalgic sounds themselves are more important than the melodies or harmonies.

After unpacking the genre's origins and aesthetic, Neely makes his own vaporwave track using old Kmart background music samples to demonstrate the creative process behind the enigmatic genre.

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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.