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So let’s say that I have a vial of some mystery liquid right over here, and I want to start figuring out what’s going on there. The first step is to think about, is it just one substance or is it a mixture of multiple substances? The focus of this video i…

An object is moving along a line. The following graph gives the object’s velocity over time. For each point on the graph, is the object speeding up, slowing down, or neither? So pause this video and see if you can figure that out. All right, now let’s do…

The writer H.G. Wells, who first imagined time machines and alien invasions, had a nightmare of a future world where atoms were weaponized. In his book called “The World Set Free”, written in 1913, he coined the phrase atomic bombs and loosed them on help…

Now that’s one argument, and we have to be humble in the face of uncertainty. Here, no one knows. But I want to give an argument that rarely gets any air time. The argument is that we are alone, and the argument has nothing to do with astronomy; it has ev…

A barista poured a cup of coffee. The initial temperature of the coffee was 90 degrees Celsius. As time t increased, the temperature c of the coffee began to decrease exponentially and approach room temperature of 20 degrees Celsius. Which of the followi…

Enterprise software has a reputation among smart programmers as being very boring to work on because you have to go out and do lots of sales. Every enterprise customer wants something that’s slightly different. What if AI could completely change how enter…