Bézier curves - how do they do? They're used for animation, text rendering, and all sorts of curved shapes! But how do they actually work? well, like, that's what the video is about, so, watch it to find out etc!! • Lots of love to 💛 Jazz "queenjazz" Mickle for making the music ❱…

In the United States, more people between the ages of 25 and 64 die of complications from drugs than car crashes. According to a 2009 study published by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 23.5 million people in this country over the age of 12 need treatment for drug and…

In March 2012, 23-year-old Maggie Goldenberger was in the middle of a six-month trip to India and the Philippines with her then-girlfriend. They were travelling from India’s southern tip and heading north for Rajasthan, stopping in at Internet cafes around once a week, for 15 to 30 minutes at a…

Chris van Tulleken refuses to tell me what to have for breakfast. “Everyone thinks that I have a strong opinion about what they should eat,” he tells me, as I hesitate between the eggs Benedict and the full English. “And I have almost no opinion.” Now, this isn’t quite true. When I tell him later…

StartseiteDok & ReportagenReporter Dominik Bein – Opfer lebenslänglich Am 26. April 2003 wurde der 15-jährige Schüler Dominik Bein beim Eisenwerk in Frauenfeld von sieben Rechtsextremen halb totgeprüg

Welcome to Micromouse, the fastest maze-solving competition on Earth. Join Onshape’s community of over 3 million CAD users by creating a free account here: https://Onshape.pro/Veritasium. Special thanks to our Patreon supporters! Join this community to help us keep our videos free, forever:…

Welcome to Micromouse, the fastest maze-solving competition on Earth. Join Onshape’s community of over 3 million CAD users by creating a free account here: https://Onshape.pro/Veritasium. Special thanks to our Patreon supporters! Join this community to help us keep our videos free, forever:…

What follows is, on the surface at least, a story about paint, which will sound terrifically boring but, without wishing to give the game away, this isn’t really just about paint. In fact, it’s about everything. Look at the world from the vantage point of car paint and you begin to see various…

Recht & Politik Playlists: 'dgwk2023' videos starting here / audio 51 min 2023-02-25 2023-03-05 178 Fahrplan Das elektronische Patientendossier (EPD) wurde in der Öffentlichkeit bereits kontrovers diskutiert. Die Einführung verspätete sich zunächst mehrmals und die Anzahl der Nutzerinnen und Nutzer…

I started writing this blog post at the beginning of 2020 (yes, I know) but it got put to one side because of global events. I've tried to check/update links but I note that some of the websites/tools may no longer be fully-functioning and/or their datasets may have moved over the past three years.…

I ch öffne die Haustür, und dort steht er. Er sieht gesünder aus, als ich ihn in Erinnerung habe, scheint weniger Knochen im Gesicht zu haben. „Was machst du denn hier?“, frage ich erstaunt. Ich wollte das Haus verlassen, verabredet waren wir nicht. „Hi, ich bin gerade zwei Tage raus und dachte, ich…

SPECIALIZED: A curving complex of cartilage and bone within a woodpecker’s head permits the bird to extend and store its exceptionally long tongue. Illustration by Denise Takahashi. The feeding strategy of woodpeckers requires two specialized adaptations: one understood by the whole world, the other…

Henry and Ida Frankel live in a cosy three-bedroom apartment in New York’s Washington Heights. Henry, a softly spoken retired architect of 85, is a short, handsome man with a bald head and small ears. Ida is even shorter, with fine white hair coiled in a bun. Although she is usually smartly turned…

Steven Adair wasn’t too rattled at first. It was late 2019, and Adair, the president of the security firm Volexity, was investigating a digital security breach at an American think tank. The intrusion was nothing special. Adair figured he and his team would rout the attackers quickly and be done…

I planned to publish this last week sometime but then I wrote a line of code with three errors and that took over the blog. A few years ago I mentioned in passing that in the 1990s I had constructed a listing of all the anagrams in Webster's Second International dictionary. (The Webster's headword…

Crew of Soyuz T-13 While most Western space enthusiasts remember the American Skylab space station, only some recall the long series of Soviet orbiting labs called the Salyut space stations. The last of these, Salyut 7, famously “died” in 1985, when a loss of power shut down all of its systems. But…

Wie schafft man es fast das halbe Land digital zu bevormunden? Mit einer Zwangs-App eines Quasi-Monopolisten. Das ist jetzt zugegeben ein steiler Einstieg ins heutige Thema, wie mein Kollege richtigerweise beim Gegenlesen dieses Texts monierte. Aber er bietet sich an, weil: Es geht heute um die…

After listening to the latest episode of the Death Panel podcast, where Bea, Artie and Abby talk about the end of mask mandates in medical facilities in the so-called USA, i thought it might be interesting to share some of the observations i made here in Switzerland, where the end of masking in…

1944 Simple Sabotage Field Manual, by Strategic Services https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/2012-featured-story-archive/CleanedUOSSSimpleSabotage_sm.pdf Title: Simple Sabotage Field Manual Author: Strategic Services Office of Strategic Services SIMPLE SABOTAGE FIELD MANUAL…

I don't want your streaming music service, I just want the music I've collected and care about available to stream. Apple Music kind of offers this, with some serious sharp edges to watch out for. Spotify doesn't offer this, neither does YouTube Music. Want to stream music? Sign up for a service,…

Published inEarth Genome · 9 min read· Mar 18, 2023 -- In this blog post we walk through some of our initial explorations using AI interfaces to solve geospatial problems. As a vehicle for trying out these ideas, we’ve created ChatGeoPT, a toy Geospatial AI Assistant. ChatGeoPT translates natural…

A big story last week was the partial release of the CDC’s bi-annual Youth Risk Behavior Survey, which showed that most teen girls (57%) now say that they experience persistent sadness or hopelessness (up from 36% in 2011), and 30% of teen girls now say that they have seriously considered suicide…

I put together a small Jet Engine with a See Thru transparent housing to allow us to see inside of the jet engine while it's running, I explain the combustion process of the jet engine from the compressor to the turbine wheel and show visually how the see-thru Jet Engine Works. I then film it in…

Barbados needed to win by two, but they were only up one. So instead of scoring in the traditional way they intentionally kicked in an own goal to get to extra time. That way, they'd have a chance at a golden goal that for some reason was worth two goals instead of just the usual one. Grenada spent…

I. Alice is considering buying a house. Alice lives in Littleton, Colorado. While she hasn’t decided whether she will buy or rent, she knows she wants a house, not an apartment or condo. In a stroke of great fortune, she finds two eerily identical but beautiful houses on the same block. The only…

Ever wonder how electrons know where they are going? Electricity is a pretty mystifying topic, because electricity seems to be able to do impossible things, or at least things that don't make sense at a normal "human" scale. In this video I use a thermal camera to show electric current through a…

What Colour are your bits? Thu 10 Jun 2004 by mskala Tags used: colour, copyright, philosophy As of Summer 2024, my article "What Colour are your bits?" has been online 20 years, and people are still linking to it as a benchmark. It's clear that people still care about intellectual property in…

Head to https://80000hours.org/steve to start planning a career that is meaningful, fulfilling, and helps solve one of the world’s most pressing problems. Here's the original simulation by bergmanjoe: https://www.tiktok.com/@bergmanjoe/video/7109098512058436907 Check out the rest of his profile for…

VDO.Ninja is a tool kit for live streaming with many advanced features. The service is hosted at vdo.ninja, it's free to use, and we take your privacy to heart. Links of interest: docs.vdo.ninja - documentation discord.vdo.ninja - community support on discord github.vdo.ninja - source code…

Today we're going to analyze the drill that broke last week while drilling in aluminum. We'll take a look at it under the microscope, and then take advantage of a friend with a Scanning Electron Microscope to look at the morphology of the break, and do some elemental analysis. Because science. Also,…

N un hat also selbst die Stadt Hannover die Geduld verloren: Sie kündigt ihre Mietverträge, zieht ihre Büros leer, dreht dem aktuellen Investor Lars Windhorst den Geldhahn zu. 2,5 Millionen Euro hätten sie eigentlich in den nächsten 20 Jahren jedes Jahr zahlen sollen. Doch dazu hätte es bei der…

I have an admission to make. I am writing this article on a Windows XP computer. This is not some offline writing computer but my main computer, fully connected to the local network and the internet. Depending on your tolerance level you might find this a bit weird or completely mad. No one uses…

Bis drei Uhr in der Früh über­prüfe ich meine Nach­richten. Dann schlafe ich ein. Ich wache in einer anderen Realität auf. „Es hat ange­fangen“, benach­rich­tige ich die Bewohner*innen meiner Genos­sen­schaft in Zürich. Es ist so ein expe­ri­men­telles Co-Living, ein alter­na­tives Haus mitten in…

SB Loses Shootout to Manhattan On Nov. 24 Stony Brook’s Women’s Basketball team faced the Manhattan Jasper’s. In a high scoring affair, Stony Brook lost by a final score of 74-68. The Jasper’s held the lead most of the game, including a game high 12 point lead at half (44-32). Stony Brook was always…

Sie glauben an die „Vorherrschaft der weißen Rasse“, trainieren für den „Tag X“, an dem sie die Macht übernehmen. Doch sie bleiben fast immer unsichtbar – Unter dem Radar. Über den Geheimbund der Hammerskins ist bisher wenig bekannt. Seit dreißig Jahren gibt es das Neonazi-Netzwerk, das sich einst…

https://kamerastore.com/smarter (Free shipping for a camera should be auto-applied to orders entering through this link.) Thanks to everyone supporting on Patreon for letting me film this. http://www.patreon.com/smartereveryday General info about the project: https://www.camerarescue.org/ Daily…

So the “Future of Life Institute” just published an open letter arguing for the “AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4“. That letter has (at the point of me writing this) 1123 signatures, some of them by very respected and knowledgable…