From acollierastro. People who do not celebrate christmas but have other gift-intense holidays: is it bad for you too? Link to The Deadweight Loss of Christmas: https://www.amherst.edu/media/view/104699/original/christmas.pdf Original Planet Money podcast with Prof. Waldfogel: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2009/11/podcast_happy_efficent_holiday.html/ Link to Planet Money candy bar episode: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/12/25/167976196/episode-238-making-christmas-more-joyful-and-more-efficient Link to ‘In defense of gift giving’ or we could change the…

From acollierastro. electricity and magnetism are the same thing: in 20 minutes-ish! James Clerk Maxwell: A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field — https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rstl.1865.0008 Kahn Academy: Deriving Speed of Light from Maxwell’s Eqns — https://www.khanacademy.org/science/electromagnetism/x4352f0cb3cc997f5:the-remaining-maxwell-s-equation-and-understanding-light/x4352f0cb3cc997f5:compiling-maxwell-s-equations-how-light-works/v/deriving-speed-of-light-using-maxwell-s-equations Many thanks to my patrons! Join my patreon for an extra video per month: https://www.patreon.com/acollierastro

From acollierastro. Dear children, this is the last hour; and as you have heard that the antimatter is coming, even now many antimatter has come. This is how we know it is the last hour. They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to us,…

From acollierastro. In this video I do not describe how antimatter spacecraft will work. (I am still not over the use of the word ‘will’ in that title. I know that it is intended to match the series of other titles on the website but the audacity!)What I will do is complain on the internet.…

From acollierastro. What is the radius of the hydrogen atom? How has this answer changed over time? Quantum mechanics is fun and cool. Tablet math is tedious. If anyone is trying to solve a homework problem and just googled this, a_0= 0.53e-10 m Does anybody actually read these things? The textbook is Principles of Quantum…

From acollierastro. What have you done for me lately physics??? Turns out a whole lot of stuff. Neat. Physics is cool. Link to join the patreon if you are interest https://www.patreon.com/acollierastro An exclusive video posted each month around the 1st.

From acollierastro. I am so sorry but I don’t understand why anyone wants a space elevator. Coffee and the problem Episode 1: The science fiction writer R. A. Heinlen describes a skyhook satellite that consists of a long rope placed in orbit at the equators, aligned along a radius from the center of the earth,…

From acollierastro. Violin plots are never the best version of a plot. They are hard to read and bad. Violinplot: https://www.stat.cmu.edu/~rnugent/PCMI2016/papers/ViolinPlots.pdf Beanplot: https://www.stat.cmu.edu/~rnugent/PCMI2016/papers/Beanplot.pdf Most plots from Harvard Open Courseware stuff: https://www.labxchange.org/library/items/lb:LabXchange:46f64d7a:html:1 Patreon (join for exclusive video each month): https://www.patreon.com/acollierastro

From acollierastro. I love stratego. Please recommend some awesome two player games below. Go check out @fairwaystrategovideos to watch some real stratego games and get some insight into strategy if this video has convinced you how awesome stratego is: https://www.youtube.com/@fairwaystrategovideos DeepNash Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.15378DeepNash Blogpost: https://www.deepmind.com/blog/mastering-stratego-the-classic-game-of-imperfect-information DeepNash Code: https://github.com/deepmind/open_spiel/tree/master/open_spiel/python/algorithms/rnad fenirob stratego game shown briefly; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jamAlcDo9Tk Patreon…

From acollierastro. You know nuclear becuase of the nucleus. Join my patreon— new video every month: https://www.patreon.com/acollierastro

From acollierastro. Alkaline Water with Lemon and Internet People Lie About Water Drinking Alkaline Water is Dumb (@zDoggMd): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqay54M1Oz4 Reaction of Magnesium and Water (@NCSS:M): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_1uLP30uxY My water brand Can’t Trust a HO is on sale now! It’s just pure, clean, molecular oxygen! One of the most reactive chemicals of the known world! It will…

From acollierastro. I know, I know. I’m sorry. Andy Serkis reads LoTR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRiYYwuFoVU All these clips are from LoTR which is owned by WB: https://www.warnerbros.com/movies/lord-rings-fellowship-ring Link to Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acollierastro

From acollierastro. AI tools are helpful and cool as long as you know their limitations. AI doesn’t exist.There is no fidelity in AI. AI is build on biased data sets and will give biased results. AI should not be used to make decisions. Link to Galaxy Zoo (Be a citizen scientist!) : https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/zookeeper/galaxy-zoo/Link to PictureThis!…

From acollierastro. Three things from thermodynamics. Why PV=nRt? What is the temperature of a black hole? Why is the PBS NOVA show so bad? I really tried to pronounce Clausius correctly but I don’t think I nailed it. On the Mechanical Theorem Applicable to Heat by R. Clausius:https://isidore.co/misc/Physics%20papers%20and%20books/Zotero/storage/XZVZN9VN/Clausius%20-%201870%20-%20XVI.%20On%20a%20mechanical%20theorem%20applicable%20to%20heat.pdf On the Masses of Nebulae and of…

From acollierastro. I won’t be mad if you can’t follow this at all. Also I spend ten or so minutes doing an Eigen Value problem.The Gell-Mann amnesia to Igon Value problem pipeline. And what is going on with Michio Kaku? @TechnologyConnections My favorite video of his is Brown; color is weird found here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh4aWZRtTwU&pp=ygUcdGVjaG5vbG9neSBjb25uZWN0aW9ucyBicm93bg%3D%3D Malcolm Gladwell…

From acollierastro. dark matter is not a theory. I tried to increase the sound on this—let me know how it went? I keep getting comments that my sound is too low but it always sounds fine on my devices. Professor David Weinberg dark matter rap: https://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/weinberg.21/Rap/index.html Professor Adam Hincks visualization link: https://adh-sj.info/bao_cmb.php Job Geheniau’s dark…

From acollierastro. The aliens will not be silicon and that’s okay! All my ‘humble yourself’ jokes are a reference but it feels lame to constantly dunk on that guy so I didn’t clip him in here. On the Potential of Silicon as a Building Block for Life https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32532048/ Life in the Universe https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691241784/life-in-the-universe-5th-edition The Black…

From acollierastro. It would be cool if people would stop scamming other people. I don’t think anyone actually saw the movie I’m referencing with ‘GENIUS HACKER MIT’ It’s called blackhat with Chris Hemsworth and I have not seen it either. I just think it’s funny that the public perception of hackers who scam is ‘genius’…