Tonight’s menu of science and math learning:
Delightfully pedantic.
Lol the flat earther intro had me going… but was a good segue into the real topic.
Some really great metaphors, like “vaccine dojos” versus just-get-sick “natural dojos” — this team is ace at science storytelling.
Interesting genetics info I was out of date on! 🧬
The Fast Fourier Transform is used everywhere but it has a fascinating origin story that could have ended the nuclear arms race.
Someone discovered this important technique 150(ish?) years before it was published — but the only place the scientist included it was in their “collected works vol 3,” in Latin, so basically no one knew about it.
You never know when the “quick trick” you’ve figured out could help someone else have a breakthrough 🤷♀️
He got me on this one, I totally remembered the “there are multiple infinities” wrong after watching the Veritasium Hubert’s Hotel (?) video about infinity whenever that came out.
His ping pong ball explanation of thinking of infinity as a set was helpful for me.