Short videos better then Sci-Fi...

[Lsbcal]

I spend a lot of time on the web finding insights into all kinds of scientific and economic topics. I think the better ones are the short ones that can be consumed without becoming too bogged down.

Here is one I came across today with amazing scientific animations:

And here is a link to the Veritasium site with several great videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/1veritasium/videos



Anyone want to contribute more short topic insightful videos? Should be a serious effort and not silliness since we have plenty of that on our forum already.

 

[folivier]

Fascinating! Thanks for sharing.

 

[Walt34]

Fascinating indeed. But now I have a headache....

 

[OldShooter]

This page: https://famafrench.dimensional.com/videos.aspx has a number of short videos that IMO should be viewed by any serious investor. Many, especially the ones by Ken French are very short.

One, "Q&A with Fama at the Fiduciary Investors Symposium" is 42 minutes but IMO is also time well spent. A second one, "Are Markets Efficient?" is also 42 well spent minutes.

 

[Totoro]

42 .. the answer to everything!

 

[Free To Canoe]

Hans Rosling's Ted Talk is about the best use of graphics in a presentation that I ever saw.

It talks about how the world's health and wealth are quite different than what we think they are. The world is a better place and he provides facts to prove it.

https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen

I stole this from Doneff on the What Have You Read thread.

 

[DayDreaming]

The Prince Rupert's Drop is pretty fascinating - basically it's a fairly ordinary drop of glass formed and cooled in a certain way which makes it incredibly strong (and fragile). This first video is a good explanation of the science:


https://youtu.be/xe-f4gokRBs


And this one shows a bullet being fired at this drop of glass - the bullet shatters and the glass survives:

https://youtu.be/24q80ReMyq0