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Lord Walter Thomas Layton - This I Believe (1950s) - Radio broadcast

Walter Thomas Layton, 1st Baron Layton. A British economist and Liberal Party politician. 1922 - 1938 Editor of The Economist. 1930 - 1940 Editorial director of the News Chronicle.

From playlist Voices of History

PHILOSOPHY - Thomas Aquinas

Thomas Aquinas deserves to be remembered for reconciling faith with reason, thereby saving Western civilisation from turning its back on science and Greek and Roman wisdom. If you like our films take a look at our shop (we ship worldwide): http://theschooloflife.com/shop/all/ Brought to y

From playlist WESTERN PHILOSOPHY

MegaFavNumbers - 1701936 knots

My contribution to the #MegaFavNumbers project. A brief introduction to mathematical knot theory, and a 19th-century Theory of Everything that didn't quite work out. References: J Hoste, M Thistlethwaite, J Weeks, "The First 1701936 Knots", Mathematical Intelligencer 20.4 (1998) 33-48

From playlist MegaFavNumbers

Ambassador Tony Hall on His Faith

Tony Hall, former Ohio Congressman in the U.S. House of Representatives and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations' Agencies for Food and Agriculture, speaks about his personal faith and when he became a believer.

From playlist Faith and Globalization

How researchers saved on covid tests by finding values of polynomials

Younglings are always asking when we'll use polynomials in real life. This video shows not only how polynomials give rise to beautiful patterns, but also how these patterns can be used to create other patterns that we might be after. Here's the proof that a non-zero degree-d polynomial ha

From playlist Summer of Math Exposition 2 videos

Robert Pippin - Radical Finitude in the Anti-Idealist Modern European Philosophical Tradition”

Robert Pippin is Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought, the Department of Philosophy, and the College at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Kant’s Theory of Form; Hegel’s Idealism: The Satisfactions of Self-Consciousness; Moder

From playlist Franke Lectures in the Humanities

More designs - P. Keevash - Workshop 1 - CEB T1 2018

Peter Keevash (Oxford) / 01.02.2018 We generalise the existence of combinatorial designs to the setting of subset sums in lattices with coordinates indexed by labelled faces of simplicial complexes. This general framework includes the problem of decomposing hypergraphs with extra edge dat

From playlist 2018 - T1 - Model Theory, Combinatorics and Valued fields

Hypergraph matchings and designs – Peter Keevash – ICM2018

Combinatorics Invited Lecture 13.10 Hypergraph matchings and designs Peter Keevash Abstract: We survey some aspects of the perfect matching problem in hypergraphs, with particular emphasis on structural characterisation of the existence problem in dense hypergraphs and the existence of d

From playlist Combinatorics

Laurence Olivier in 'Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde' (1954) - Radio drama

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. NBC radio anthology series 'Theatre Royal'. Starring and hosted by Sir Laurence Olivier. Broadcast on 30 January 1954.

From playlist Radio Drama Starring Laurence Olivier

Tested in 2021: Favorite Coffee Table Books!

The Art and Soul of Dune: https://amzn.to/31LW5QY Object Compendium: https://amzn.to/3DFGX52 The Art of Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge: https://amzn.to/3lNPUmA The Art of Star Wars: The Mandalorian Season 2: https://amzn.to/3DCyBuJ Disneyland Hotel: The Early Years: https://amzn.to/3GuENXv Invin

From playlist Staff Favorites

PHILOSOPHY - David Hume

David Hume is one of Scotland’s greatest philosophers (Adam Smith is another, about whom we also have a film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejJRhn53X2M). His claim to greatness lies in his appreciation of ordinary experience, his descriptions of consciousness and his humane, tolerant appr

From playlist WESTERN PHILOSOPHY

Ambassador Tony Hall on Prayer and Faith During His Travels

Tony Hall, former Ohio Congressman in the U.S. House of Representatives and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations' Agencies for Food and Agriculture, speaks about his personal faith being effective on the ground.

From playlist Faith and Globalization

Who is Thomas Edison? || Biography of Thomas Edison

Who was Thomas Alva Edison? He was an American inventor and innovator, who held over a thousand patents for gadgets and life-improving inventions. These included the electric lightbulb, the phonograph, and a large number of improvements to the telegraph. In this video, we trace the story

From playlist It Starts With Literacy

A Brief History of Stephen Hawking - with Len Mlodinow

Recalling his nearly two-decades as a friend and collaborator with Stephen Hawking, Leonard Mlodinow talks about the scientific discoveries as well as the personal stories of Hawking. Len's book "Stephen Hawking: A Memoir of Friendship and Physics" is available now: https://geni.us/yCBSEl

From playlist Livestreams

AlgTop22: Knots and surfaces I

From playlist Algebraic Topology: a beginner's course - N J Wildberger

Combinatorics | Math History | NJ Wildberger

We give a brief historical introduction to the vibrant modern theory of combinatorics, concentrating on examples coming from counting problems, graph theory and generating functions. In particular we look at partitions and Euler's pentagonal theorem, Fibonacci numbers, the Catalan sequence

From playlist MathHistory: A course in the History of Mathematics

Creating a Zombie Soap Opera | StarTalk

Robert Kirkman explains how he created The Walking Dead and why he thinks it’s so popular. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe ➡ Get More StarTalk: http://bit.ly/NGStartalk About StarTalk: Host Neil deGrasse Tyson brings together celebrities, scientists and comedians to explore a v

From playlist Fun Facts | National Geographic

How do Sperm Swim?

The tail (flagellum) of the sperm does not simply push the body, but uses a rhythmical beating with pushing and fraying over a 4-beat pattern, as demonstrated in the video. The new dynamical model for a swimming sperm was developed by Kenta Ishimoto at Kyoto University using high-frame-r

From playlist Fluid Dynamics

Harry S. Truman - This I Believe - 1950s Radio broadcast

An episode of the CBS Radio Network programme hosted by Edward R. Murrow from 1951 to 1955.

From playlist Voices of History

Comic Books and Graphic Novels - Still Untitled: The Adam Savage Project - 8/20/2013

This week, Adam, Will, and Norm share their favorite comic books and graphic novels, including Planetary, Transmetropolitan, Y: The Last Man, and pretty much everything from Frank Miller. We also spoil the ending of the 1980s Newhart show at the end. RSS Audio Podcast: http://j.mp/18GtLs

From playlist The Adam Savage Project