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More than 500 hours of video were uploaded to YouTube every minute. It is utterly difficult to sort out the helpful and high quality videos from the useless ones.
The videos that Abakcus team choose every week most likely will be able to teach you more than you could ever learn in college.
Abakcus is the collection of perfect videos, short films and documentaries about mathematics and science.
Underwater Flamingo Feeding
Dive into the underwater world of flamingo dining. These pretty in pink birds feed by sucking in water and mud at the front of their bills.
Flowers Opening Time-Lapse
A lovely short film from David De Los Santos Gil. After 50,000 photographs, he captures the delicate dance of flowers in bloom.
What’s the Longest Word?
A man has been recorded spending more than three hours to pronounce what is supposedly the longest word in the English language.
How Oysters Can Stop a Flood?
Oysters vital ecosystems; however they can also protect us from the rising oceans by acting as breakwaters.
Pattern Explorations
Yuki Kawae's videos are also the definition of oddly satisfying. He is designing mesmerizing geometric patterns in his zen garden.
Connecting Thoughts
This is what happens when art meets physics and engineering. Beautiful advertisement, by the Japanese infrastructure firm Kandenko.
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A Basic Demonstration of Optical Cloaking
John Howell decided to tackle an unusual DIY project. He built three simple, but surprisingly effective optical cloaking devices.
Mega Menger: Building a Menger Sponge at MIT
MIT's origami club, OrigaMIT, led the effort to build a Level 3 Menger Sponge out of folded business cards.
How Mushroom Time-Lapses Are Filmed?
Louie Schwartzberg is a pioneering artist who has filmed some stunning footage of mushrooms growing over the course of 40 years.
Poemotion
Stillness exists in motion. From a new vision, comes a new force that generates a new world. Poemotion is the way to see a new world.
Conservation of Energy – Is This a Violation of Energy Conservation?
This experiment shows us which ball is moving the fastest at the bottom? The answer is behind energy conservation.
How The Immune System Actually Works?
The human immune system is the most complex biological system we know, after the human brain, and yet, most of us never learn how it works.
Summer Fantasy
Summer Fantasy is one rendition of our New Limited Edition ball machines series. This is a series of 100 ball machine sculptures.
The Alice in Wonderland Riddle
Alice overhears the king and queen arguing that 64 is the same as 65. Can Alice prove the queen wrong and escape unscathed?
Glass Octopus Encounter
rine scientists aboard Schmidt Ocean Institute’s research vessel Falkor have identified likely new marine species and deep-sea organisms.
Iceland’s Super-Powered Underground Volcanoes
Explore how geothermal energy— the heat in the Earth’s crust— is being used to create renewable electricity and power.
Keeping an Eye on Ocean Plastic Pollution from Space
Meet bag, bottle, and three bits of plastic left on the beach. They are small, but they are heading into the ocean and cause big damage.
Matches
This stop motion video is mesmerizing. Tomohiro Okazaki's stop-motion skills are unmatched. Beautiful!
7777 Days
Photographer Noah Kalina ages over the course of 7,777 days in a video using photos taken every day.
Star Bound: An Uncle and Nephew With Stars in Their Eyes
Joey Jefferson, a Mission Operations Engineer at NASA, talks with his outer space-obsessed six-year-old nephew Jerry Morrison.
You’re Not Hallucinating. That’s Just Squid Skin
Octopuses and cuttlefish are masters of underwater camouflage, blending in seamlessly against a rock or coral. How do they do it?
Synchronization of Thirty-Two Metronomes
Watch 32 discordant metronomes achieve synchrony in a matter of minutes. And then, if you are not dizzy, you can see an explanation.
Straight Rod Passing Through Curved Hole
It's a really good thing to look at if you want to get an idea of how time/space is curved. Really nice geometry.
The Physics of Kung Fu
When working on this project, Tobias Gremmler was deeply inspired by the dynamics of motion and philosophy of Kung Fu.
Corto PIPAS Pi Movie
Pipas is a Spanish-language short film about two girls talking about Pi. With English subtitles.
Stanford Researchers Solve the Mystery of the Dancing Droplets
Under certain circumstances, droplets of fluid will move like performers in a dance choreographed by molecular physics.
What does a Black Hole Look Like Up Close?
The black hole is surrounded by a disk of gas, and the intense gravity near the black hole distorts the view.
How did We Find the Speed of Light?
Richard Feynman discusses how Newton was able to explain gravity, the tides, and how we first calculated the speed of light.
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