What Would You Do If Money Didn’t Matter? | Short Film Showcase

Let’s say this is me and I am floating in space. My coordinate system, my frame of reference. We’ve seen it before; we’ll call it the S frame of reference. Any space in any point in space-time, we give it X and Y coordinates. And let’s say that we have m…

Most people think of archaeology as telling us about the past. What we’re trying to do is actually use archaeology to improve people’s lives in the present. In this particular program, we’re aiming that specifically at military veterans and trying to use …

What would it look like to ride alongside a beam of light? This is a question Einstein had asked over a hundred years ago. Now the trouble was, he couldn’t actually do the experiment, so he had to use his imagination; he had to do a thought experiment to …

Tara was hiking up a mountain. She started her hike at an elevation of 1200 meters and ascended at a constant rate. After four hours, she reached an elevation of 1700 meters. Let y represent Tara’s elevation in meters after x hours. And they ask us, this…

This is a robot that walks, flies, skateboards, and slacklines. But why? A portion of this video was sponsored by Bluehost. More about them at the end of the show. There are lots of bipedal robots out there, and drones are ubiquitous. But until now, no on…

Now, Russians didn’t come up with the idea of public baths; the Romans did that. But Russians did take the bathing ritual to a whole new level. Today, we’re here in St. Petersburg at the old Cossack baths. They were built in 1879 and since then have seen …