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J.S. Bach - Crab Canon on a Möbius Strip

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This shows how absolutely brilliant J.S. Bach was in being able to write this single line of genius music. The enigmatic Canon 1 à 2 from J. S. Bachs Musical Offering (1747), The manuscript depicts a single musical sequence that is to be played fro
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Boxing Match: Watch Female Hare Punch Her Suitors | National Geographic

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These hares can pack a punch. Filmed just north of Cairngorn National Park in Scotland, these mountain hares are likely tussling over a mate. But unlike other mammals where the males battle it out for a female, mountain hare fights are nearly always betwe
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A Town Called Asbestos

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In Quebec, Canada, there's a town called Asbestos. It's an alarming name, one that conjures up images of lung disease and mesothelioma. So now that the town's asbestos mine, once the largest asbestos mine in the world, has closed... why haven't they chang
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The Squid and the Whale: Evidence for an Epic Encounter

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Happy Cephalopod Week! One of the most famous dioramas in the American Museum of Natural History depicts a battle between two gigantic animals: the sperm whale and giant squid. But unlike most dioramas in the Museum’s halls, this scene has never been witn
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Hawaii's Kilaeuea Volcanic Eruption: A Stunning Time-Lapse

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Ph.D. student-turned-filmmaker Tyler Hulett ventured across the currently erupting volcano Kīlauea to film this short compilation of photographs that, when edited together and sped up, depicts the flow of a lava river. It was a dangerous project, the exte
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The Droste Effect

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The Droste effect is a specific kind of recursive picture. An image exhibiting the Droste effect depicts a smaller version of itself in a place where a similar picture would realistically be expected to appear. This smaller version then depicts an even sm
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Why should you read "Hamlet"? - Iseult Gillespie

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Explore William Shakespeares classic tragedy, Hamlet, a play about conspiracy, deception and the tragic consequences of indecision.--Whos there? Whispered in the dark, this question begins a tale of conspiracy, deception and moral ambiguity. And in a play
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WASP-121b: The Planet With an Atmosphere of Glowing Water (4K 360 view) | We The Curious

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This 360 animation depicts planet WASP-121b; an exoplanet with an atmosphere of glowing water. It completes one full journey around its star every 1.3 days - this animation shows this orbit at x5000 speed.With an atmosphere hot enough to boil iron, WASP-1
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Welcome to The Last Bookstore

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Bookstores all over the United States are closing because of competition from online retailers like Amazon and the increasing popularity of eReaders. So when a bookstore with a cheeky nameThe Last Bookstoreopened in Los Angeles, Chad Howitt was curious. H
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Bach, Prelude in C minor, WTC I, BWV 847

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The prelude in C minor from the first book of J. S. Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, performed by Kimiko Ishizaka, with an animated graphical score.FAQQ: The animation looks a little ... "off" to me ...A: I made a second version which is a little different (
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The Flying Train (1902) | MoMA FILM VAULT SUMMER CAMP

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"The Flying Train" depicts a ride on a suspended railway in Germany in 1902. The footage is almost as impressive as the feat of engineering it captures. For many years our curators believed our Mutoscope rolls were slightly shrunken 70mm film, but they we
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How did the Universe gets its texture?

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What do zebras have to do with the structure of the cosmos? Imagine a single zebra in your mind. With twitching ears, tufted hair, and a visual interference pattern wrapped over muscle and skin, the animal has its own contours, which are easy to make out
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What is Sound? The Fundamental Science Behind Sound

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Why does water sound the way it does? How do vinyl records work? Sound is everywhere, but at its core: What is sound? Also- What are sound waves? This video explains the fundamental science and key concepts behind sound using in-depth examples and animati
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Recycling plastics Resource efficiency with an optimized sorting method

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In Germany alone, two and a half million tons of plastic packaging land in the yellow trash can. German households pre-sort their garbage into four separate trash cans; yellow for plastics, brown for compost; blue for paper and black for non-recyclables.
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10 Women Who Changed The World Through Science

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In honor of Women's History Month, we'll celebrate ten women who have helped save the world with science.Ada Lovelace was a self-taught Victorian English mathematician who is often regarded as the "world's first computer programmer". Some even say she was

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