Daniel Keough munges together many of the paradoxes of this thing called a placebo: (Thanks to investigator Fred Essex for bringing this to our attention.) BONUS: Dan Ariely describes much the same landscape:
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Watch how a watch works
Watch: This well-paced 1949 documentary came from the Hamilton Watch Company. (Thanks to Tim Billingsley for bringing it to our attention.) Contrast it with this more modern, wordless, music-fueled documentary of a pricier watch, the Tourbillon Zephyr. Watch:
The physics of the wet dog shake
Behold the basic physics of the wet dog shake, as explored by Andrew Dickerson, Grant Mills, Jay Bauman, Young-Hui Chang, David Hu of the Georgia Institute of Technology. Their (skimpy, introductory) paper is available on arxiv — it’s really an introduction to this entrancing video (also available in a higher-res version): (Thanks to Joseph Amaslab […]
Confused muddling: the future
“Future Reflections” is a 20-minute-long video, a meandering discussion of what the future might have meant, or might some day mean, or might some day have meant, perhaps from the point of view of people in the future or of people in the recent past who are imagining the future. The video documents some thoughts […]