Safari Live - Day 129 | National Geographic

On May 19, 2005, Michael Bury bought his first credit default swaps in anticipation of the housing crisis: 60 million of credit default swaps from Deutsche Bank, 10 million each on six different bonds. His prediction: the U.S. mortgage-backed security, on…

Check this out! I’m using this speaker to vibrate a petri dish containing silicon oil. Now, if I take this toothpick and make a little droplet on the surface, the droplet will stay there, hovering above the surface. The droplet is actually bouncing, and i…

What we have depicted here is an economy in long-run equilibrium. Notice the point at which the aggregate demand curve and the short-run aggregate supply curve intersect; that specifies an equilibrium price level (P₁) and an equilibrium level of output (Y…

So let’s say we’re going to play a game where on each person’s turn they’re going to keep rolling this fair six-sided die until we get a one, and we just want to see how many rolls does it take. So let’s say we define some random variable, let’s call it X…

First day of the season. We’re heading out now, trying to get on some fish. I’m Brad Keselowski, captain of the Fishhawk. Fishing has always been a lot more than a job for me. I always had solace to be able to leave land and just fish to provide for my fa…

California is the third largest oil-producing state in the country. A lot of people don’t realize that. When they think of California, they think of vineyards and Hollywood. But we’ve been living with oil and gas production since the late 19th century. Ke…