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Mysteries Of Vernacular: X-ray - Jessica Oreck And Rachael Teel
728 views / 0 likes - addedView full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/mysteries-of-vernacular-x-ray-jessica-oreck-and-rachael-teel The story of the word X-Ray is one of great thinkers. French philosopher Rene Descartes isolated the letters X, Y and Z to stand for unknowns, and cen
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Locke, Berkeley, & Empiricism: Crash Course Philosophy #6
745 views / 0 likes - addedThis week we answer skeptics like Descartes with empiricism. Hank explains John Locke’s primary and secondary qualities and why George Berkeley doesn’t think that distinction works -- leaving us with literally nothing but our minds, ideas, and perceptions
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Civilisation: A Personal View by Kenneth Clark, Ep. 08 "The Light of Experience"
344 views / 0 likes - addedClark tells of new worlds in space and in a drop of waterworlds that the telescope and microscope revealedand the new realism in the Dutch paintings of Rembrandt and other artists that took the observation of human character to a new stage of development
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Cartesian Diver - Sick Science! #138
812 views / 1 likes - addedRead the full experiment here http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/experiment/eye-dropper-cartesian-diverThis experiment is named after Rene Descartes (1596-1650), a French scientist and mathematician. It's a classic science experiment using an eye-dropper
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Can You INVENT a Number? Yes. #shorts
195 views / 0 likes - addedWhat do you do when you've got a mathematical expression that's unsolvable because the numbers you need don't exist? You do what Hero of Alexandria did: you just invent one. That's how we got the concept of imaginary numbers, which Rene Descartes derided
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The Oldest Unsolved Problem in Math
43 views / 0 likes - addedDo odd perfect numbers exist? Head to https://brilliant.org/veritasium to start your free 30-day trial, and the first 200 people get 20% off an annual premium subscription.If youre looking for a molecular modeling kit, try Snatoms, a kit I invented where
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