MealtimeVideos Cafe

Fairly interesting video about a tiny transitional hamlet, if even that.

The math background needed to enjoy the video is not very extensive. Grant Sanderson (3blue1brown) explains everything to the best of his ability from a perspective of "discovering mathematics" and helping you "convince yourself" that you could have come to the same conclusion as well (i.e. grasping as much of the proof as you can). And if that goes over your head, then the animations are still really pretty!

My description:

An intreguing video that takes an innocuous problem of finding an inscribed square in a closed, continuous curve and connects it to familiar topologic objects, like the torus (or the coffee mug!), the Möbius strip, and the Klein bottle.

Timestamps:

0:00​ - Inscribed squares

1:00​ - Preface to the second edition

3:04​ - The main surface

10:47​ - The secret surface

16:45​ - Klein bottles

22:38​ - Why are squares harder?

25:10​ - What is topology?

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The newest hit from this incredible series!

Not that long ago, Coca Cola (and most drink companies at the time) sold their beverages in glass containers. These bottles would get used, washed then reused over and over in an endless glass cycle. This dreamlike utopia is long gone today… and Coca Cola killed it.

Uploaded by Future Proof.

Japan has taken the reverse approach to protecting people from electric shocks, and surprisingly, it makes their outlets safer than America’s. Let’s dive into why!

Uploaded by Andrew Lam.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/17041857

Albert Camus is one of the most famous philosophers of the 20th century, and I get almost endless requests to cover him. I have done so in the past, but on reflection those treatments were inadequate, and a little misleading. So today I thought we would look at Camus from a different angle, and chart his philosophy from its inceptions to its culminations.

00:00 Absurdism and Misconceptions
01:37 The Absurd: A Brief Introduction
09:56 The Absurd Hero: Solitary Beginnings
17:34 Absurdism and Community
25:40 The Trivialization of Albert Camus