How have different movies depicted time travel? How do they differ? Which is more plausible? Find out in this episode of The Phantasmagorical Think Tank.
Time Travel in Doctor Who: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkmiefoRcfU&ab_channel=BBC
Space and Time Flips in a Black Hole: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KePNhUJ2reI&ab_channel=PBSSpaceTime
The most terrifying thought experiment ever made! (Unless there's a flaw in the reasoning.)
Kyle Hill : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ut-zGHLAVLI&ab_channel=KyleHill
Less Wrong Wiki: https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Roko's_basilisk
Rational Wiki: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk
Silicon Valley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUSt1d3M9NY&ab_channel=FunFuse
How did the legend of Bigfoot come to be? Is he real? Why do we love him so much?
Bibliography: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C8iiW--uX81YXsFcs0xmYl8bnZLU4GASgKbpWcDwkeA/edit?usp=sharing
How did the legend of Bigfoot come to be? Is he real? Why do we love him so much?
Bibliography: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C8iiW--uX81YXsFcs0xmYl8bnZLU4GASgKbpWcDwkeA/edit?usp=sharing
Is a perfect democracy mathematically possible?
Bibliography
TED-Ed on different voting systems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaxVCsnox_4&ab_channel=TED-Ed
PBS on Arrow's Impossibility Theorem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhVR7gFMKNg&ab_channel=PBSInfiniteSeries
PBS on the Condorcet paradox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoAnYQZrNrQ&ab_channel=PBSInfiniteSeries
CGP Grey on problems with plurality voting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo
CGP Grey on single transferrable vote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8XOZJkozfI
The Guardian on political dissatisfaction: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/25/american-political-parties-democrats-republicans-representation-survey
CNN on political dissatisfaction: https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/04/politics/two-party-system-poll/index.html
Exploratorium on voting paradoxes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJag3vuG834&ab_channel=Exploratorium
Lucid dreaming, sleep paralysis, REM, biphasic sleep, and dream interpretation. How somniferous!
Additional Resources
Sleep Cycles: https://www.sleep.org/articles/what-happens-during-sleep/
Why Do We Need Sleep? https://www.sleepfoundation.org/articles/why-do-we-need-sleep
Biphasic Sleep: https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article-abstract/106/2/343/64370?redirectedFrom=fulltext
World's Most Relaxing Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXgqDlrqmzo
Night School: Wake Up To The Power of Sleep: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1447248406/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1447248406&linkCode=as2&tag=httpricharcom-21
Why Do We Dream? https://www.healthline.com/health/why-do-we-dream#why-do-we-have-nightmares
9 Common Dreams And What They Supposedly Mean: https://www.verywellmind.com/understanding-your-dreams-2795935
Dream Dictionary: https://www.psychologistworld.com/dreams/dictionary/
The Science Behind Sleep Paralysis: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120711131030.htm
What Is Sleep Paralysis? https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/295039#what_is_sleep_paralysis
Koalas Sleep 17 Hours Per Day: https://www.livescience.com/27401-koalas-facts.html
Are video games an art form? What makes the art of video games unique?
Folding Ideas presents LND: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04zaTjuV60A
ChronoThoughts misunderstands LND (in our opinion): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqQ-mD1LlAs
Errant Signal criticizes LND: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBN3R0m31bA
Game Revo defends LND: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lluvrus0QY0
SolePorpoise specifies LND: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8PAWO4Y_rY
Games as Literature inverts LND: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9fm7gtgW8U
Clint Hocking with the article that started it all: https://clicknothing.typepad.com/click_nothing/2007/10/ludonarrative-d.html
Folding Ideas discusses intended play: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHmivGmkjJw
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A totally safe, drug-free way to hallucinate in the comfort of your own home! Spooky, but enjoyable!
Additional Resources
How to Hallucinate with Ping Pong Balls (BBC): https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20180124-how-to-hallucinate-with-ping-pong-balls
Ganzfeld Reactions (Mulattolee Videography): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-loHQ0RfQqM
More Ganzfeld Reactions (Spartan G695) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9qtI6lTwgo
Changing Your Brain State Through the Ganzfeld Effect (PsychReg): https://www.psychreg.org/ganzfeld-effect/
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A bizarre, complex, and beautiful world created by simple math.
Additional Resources
Play with it here: https://bitstorm.org/gameoflife/
Stephen Hawking discusses the Game of Life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgOcEZinQ2I
The Chinese Room Argument: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-room/
Planck Time: https://www.universetoday.com/79418/planck-time/
The Acorn: https://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/Acorn
The R-Pentomino: https://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/R-pentomino
Gosper Glider Gun: https://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/Gosper_glider_gun
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New words to describe our complex emotions
Additional Resources
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: https://www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/
Sonder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkoML0_FiV4
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You can sit there and let five innocent people die, or you can actively cause the death of one innocent person. What do you do?
Additional Resources
The Guardian on the Trolley Problem: https://www.theguardian.com/science/head-quarters/2016/dec/12/the-trolley-problem-would-you-kill-one-person-to-save-many-others
Philippa Foot: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/philippa-foot/
Consequentialism: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consequentialism/#ClaUti
Deontology: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-deontological/
Human cause more self-driving accidents than humans (proportionately): https://fortune.com/2018/08/29/self-driving-car-accidents/
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You could win infinite money from this game. Or could you?
Additional Resources
The Saint Petersburg Paradox: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/paradox-stpetersburg/
Pascal's Wager: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pascal-wager/
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The science and art of flag-making!
Good Flag, Bad Flag: https://nava.org/digital-library/design/GFBF_English.pdf
Artifexian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXan6Sw_okc
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If you've got ninety-nine problems, how does your brain choose what to do first?
CORRECTION! When Scott brings up Plato, he actually meant Epicurus.
Bibliography
Simply Psychology: https://www.simplypsychology.org/maslow.html
Very Well Mind: https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-maslows-hierarchy-of-needs-4136760
PsycheTruth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM8SwZkvCIY&feature=youtu.be
More about Çatalhöyük: https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1405/
Epicurus: https://daily-philosophy.com/daily-seeds/reading-epicurus-pleasure-and-pain/
Theme music is "Levitation" by Mabeha. Listen to the track here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1WsP5M7rsE
Did you know that some human languages are entirely whistled?
Bibliography
UNESCO (El Silbo Gomero): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgEmSb0cKBg
Scientific American (Sfyria): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTHzOag8msM
Deutsche Welle (Kus Dili): https://www.dw.com/en/turkey-whistling-instead-of-speaking/av-51108780
BBC (Sfyria): http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170731-greeces-disappearing-whistled-language
UCSD (Tonal vs. Non-Tonal languages): http://idiom.ucsd.edu/~rose/Whistled%20and%20drum%20languages.pdf
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You might be wrong about more than you think.
Common Historical Misconceptions: https://www.buzzfeed.com/briangalindo/12-common-historical-misconceptions
Collective False Memories: https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/collective-false-memories-whats-behind-the-mandela-effect
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The Library of Babel by Jorge Louis Borges: https://maskofreason.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/the-library-of-babel-by-jorge-luis-borges.pdf
The Library of Babel website: https://libraryofbabel.info/
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Can you tell the difference between a human and a computer algorithm? It might be harder than you think!
The Imitation Game (2014): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2084970/
Eliza: https://www.eclecticenergies.com/ego/eliza
A short documentary about Eliza: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMK9AphfLco
Mitsuku: https://www.pandorabots.com/mitsuku/
About the Loebner Prize: https://www.aisb.org.uk/events/loebner-prize
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A gameshow!
A huge thank you to Krystal, Selena, and Pei for participating.
Theme Music is "Dimensions" by DJ AG. https://open.spotify.com/track/0xgBWyuDA87TZcjTXIO6UE?si=hCBGUEy5Sg-Rr2wPE-gBVg
Where are all the aliens?
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Bibliography:
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/math/a24826/riddle-of-the-week-12/