Why Masks Work BETTER Than You’d Think 0 (0)

From “Minute Physics”. ( YouTube / Nebula ) Thanks to the Heising-Simons foundation for their support: https://www.hsfoundation.org (their COVID-19 grants: https://www.hsfoundation.org/grants/covid-19-response-grants/ ) Check out https://aatishb.com/maskmath to explore and for references. This video is about how masks (whether surgical, or N95, or cloth) are counterintuitive and actually work much better epidemiologically than one might expect. Masks…

How To Tell If We’re Beating COVID-19 0 (0)

From “Minute Physics”. ( YouTube / Nebula ) This video made possible with support of Brilliant – the first 200 subscribers to go to http://Brilliant.org/MinutePhysics get 20% off a Premium subscription to Brilliant. Go to http://aatishb.com/covidtrends to explore the graph from the video yourself! RESOURCES Grant’s 3Blue1Brown Video: Exponential Growth and Epidemics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kas0tIxDvrg Aatish’s Exponential/Logistic…

How to Tell Matter From Antimatter | CP Violation & The Ozma Problem 0 (0)

From “Minute Physics”. ( YouTube / Nebula ) This video was made with the support of the Heising Simons Foundation. Support MinutePhysics on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/minutephysics Link to Patreon Supporters: http://www.minutephysics.com/supporters/ This video is about the Ozma problem of distinguishing the chirality (ie left-handedness or right-handedness) of matter using weak interaction processes like beta decay (for…

Why Do Mirrors Flip Left & Right (but not up & down)? 0 (0)

From “Minute Physics”. ( YouTube / Nebula ) Go to https://curiositystream.com/minutephysics to check out MinuteBody, and for a free month of CuriosityStream PLUS Nebula! Support MinutePhysics on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/minutephysics Link to Patreon Supporters: http://www.minutephysics.com/supporters/ This video is about why words flip left & right (aka horizontally) in a mirror but not up & down (aka…

Do Photons Cast Shadows? 0 (0)

From “Minute Physics”. ( YouTube / Nebula ) Thanks to CuriosityStream for their support. Go to http://www.curiositystream.com/minutephysics to watch Particle Fever and get Nebula! Support MinutePhysics on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/minutephysics Link to Patreon Supporters: http://www.minutephysics.com/supporters/ This video is about two-photon (gamma-gamma) physics, and how photons can interact with each other – either mediated by a passing…

When It’s OK to Violate Privacy 0 (0)

From “Minute Physics”. ( YouTube / Nebula ) Go to http://www.dashlane.com/minutephysics for a free 30 day trial and 10% discount with offer code ‘minutephysics’ Watch the main video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT19VwBAqKA Support MinutePhysics on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/minutephysics Link to Patreon Supporters: http://www.minutephysics.com/supporters/ REFERENCES Cynthia Dwork (key inventor of Differential Privacy), giving a great intro talk about differential…

Protecting Privacy with MATH (Collab with the Census) 0 (0)

From “Minute Physics”. ( YouTube / Nebula ) This video was made in collaboration with the US Census Bureau and fact-checked by Census Bureau scientists. Any opinions and errors are my own. For more information, visit https://census.gov/about/policies/privacy/statistical_safeguards.html or search "differential privacy" at http://census.gov. REFERENCES Differential Privacy in the Wild: http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol9/p1611-machanavajjhala.pdf Harvard University Privacy Tools Project: https://privacytools.seas.harvard.edu/differential-privacy Simons Institute…

How to Build a Lava Moat (with xkcd) 0 (0)

From “Minute Physics”. ( YouTube / Nebula ) Where to Buy "How To" by Randall Munroe: · PRH.com: https://bit.ly/2L2G5hy · Amazon: https://bit.ly/2zfy974 · Barnes and Noble: https://bit.ly/2Zozxmt · IndieBound: https://bit.ly/2ZfwSre · Books-A-Million: https://bit.ly/2ZfxD3y · Apple Books: https://bit.ly/33TK3kX The world’s most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd…