This video is a little bit long (hour and a half) and a little bit technical, but it explains extremely well why ‘a calorie is not just a calorie’ and how calories from different sources are metabolized differently.
It is well worth the investment to watch this video:
Sometimes, it is good to think about our governance structures as if we were explaining them to an alien: it goes a long way towards exposing our blind spots.
I am still convinced that coercive taxation ought not play part in any modern government….
This YouTube user, Ozmoroid, has previously uploaded some most excellent videos explaining relativity. I hope his Quantum Mechanics series will be just as awesome:
Ok, OK, I know I am jumping the shark here a little bit, but I just cannot resist…..
Since we are on the topic of Quantum Mechanics, just a bit more brain-candy: here is Richard Feynman on QM part 1: corpuscles of light!
While I suspect that most readers of this blog are well versed in basic science, this video is an excellent resource that can be used and passed on:
So much for oprning students minds…
If you will be in the Ottawa area on Thursday, October 11th, 2012, you might want to pop down to Southam Hall at Carleton University for a public lecture about the Higgs boson, called ‘Mystery of Mass revealed’
To be delivered by Carleton University Physics professors Thomas Koffas and Heather Logan, tis public lecture is free and promises to be both informative and fun. So, if you’ll be in the area, treat yourself to some brain-candy and check it out!
Mystery of Mass revealed
7:30 pm Thursday, October 11th, 2012
Kailash Mital Theatre, Southam Hall
Carleton University
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