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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.
Glassified Ruler
“Glassified” ruler by MIT Media Lab automatically measures angles, volume, and shape properties.
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Kim Pimmel combined everyday soap bubbles with exotic ferrofluid liquid to create an eerie tale, using macro lenses and time lapse techniques. Black ferrofluid and dye race through bubble structures,…
Why Common Core Math Problems Look So Weird?
There's a pretty good reason why parents are confused by their kids' new math homework. This video gives attention to the fact there are a lot of ways and not…
The Feynman Technique
Richard Feynman was a physicist and he was notorious for asking others to explain concepts in simple language to test their understanding.
Sisyphus Machine
Bruce Shapiro’s kinetic drawing machine, Sisyphus Machine, uses magnets to drag rolling marbles through a thin layer of sand to create mesmerizing geometric patterns in sand.
What Happens When an Architect Sees the Movie “Parasite”
An architect sees the movie Parasite and does a fascinating DIY project. The amount of brain cells, patience and time needed for this.
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Meteor
2014 Meteor Reel. A collection of time-lapse shots from the past 7 years of meteor showers. The footage was shot during the Perseid, Geminid and Leonid Meteor showers.
CYMATICS: Science Vs. Music
When music meets physics. Nigel Stanford’s “Cymatics” might be the coolest physics and math video on the internet.
Geometry
This animation is the compilation of the visual ideas of the fantastic work by Tilman Zitzmann from GEOMETRY DAILY.
The Deep
Venture into the darkest of dark oceans, where the marine life is made of wrenches, calipers, keys, chains, pincers, pliers, and other metal tools that you’d never expect to see…
If the Moon were Replaced with Some of Our Planets
Minnesota-based artist and writer Ron Miller got curious about what the night sky would look like if the Moon was replaced with any other planet from the Solar system. To…
Chronology of the Universe
What happened at the origin of the universe? How did the Big Bang process unfold? How was matter created? And what was the role of the Higgs boson, which gave…
Bicycle Powered Tree House Elevator
Ethan Schlussler has built a treehouse that is nearly 30 feet up a tree. He got tired of climbing a ladder six and a half million times a day, so…
Sisyphus LEGO Kinetic Sculpture
A kinetic LEGO sculpture of the Greek mythological figure Sisyphus endlessly pushing his boulder.
A Light History of Light in 2 Minutes
Have you ever thought of how light has changed with us? This experimental animation by Stephen Ong for Make It Move explores that thought, illustrating how light went "from the…
Unendurable Line
It expresses how things change from A to B when a parameter exceeds a certain value. The theme is various thresholds hidden in everyday life.
Huge 2.5 Million Volt Captured Lightning Sculpture Being Discharged
Here is something you don’t see every day; Captured Lightning. Artist Bert Hickman uses his skills to capture a multimillion volt electron beam into acrylic. Then the powerful 5 million…
Electric Automated Soap Bubble Machine
This amazing electric automated soap bubble machine is designed by Johannes Matsson's. It is really a fantastic and satisfying machine.
Albert Einstein Explains His Famous Formula, E=mc²
Albert Einstein explains his mass-energy equivalence, E=mc². It is really incredible to hear Albert Einstein's voice. His theory of general relativity changed our understanding of the cosmos.
What Are Those Floaty Things in Your Eye?
Sometimes you might see things floating across your field of vision. What are these moving objects, and how are you seeing them?
Acoustic Levitation
Chris Benmore's acoustic levitator. It uses sound waves to levitate individual droplets to improve the quality of pharmaceutical development.
NASA | Evolution of the Moon
The moon is so beautiful, but it had gone through some tough times. NASA's Goddard made this amazing video to show the evolution of the moon.
The Feynman Series | Beauty
Richard Feynman was one of the great thinkers, the great philosophers of all time. This video is presenting Feynman's words in such a pictorial way is a beautiful idea.
Fire Tornado in Slow Motion
This spinning tornado of fire is great. You can sometimes see real fire tornadoes in the middle of forest fires.
Dance on the Circle
The mathematician Mikhail Sadovnikov uses his hands and makes astonishing mathematical patterns on wet clay.
Group Theory and Why I Love 808,017,424,794,512,875,886,459,904,961,710,757,005,754,368,000,000,000?
An introduction to group theory, and the monster group. This is the clearest intro to group theory and also Grant explains why group theory isn't trivial but wonderful and mysterious.
Night Stroll
It’s a mesmerizing short video shot on the late-night streets of Tokyo featuring florescent geometric shapes that illuminate the dark pavement.
What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
Most of us are on the Internet on a daily basis and whether we like it or not, the Internet is affecting us. It changes how we think, how we…
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