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Re: PBS SpaceTime

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Post by mtnygard »

mettamage wrote: post #24
qrybam wrote: post #10

If you enjoy Matt @ Spacetime, Sabine Hossenfelder, and Kurzgesagt, and are into astrophysics, I would highly recommend Anton Petrov’s YouTube channel: https://m.youtube.com/c/whatdamath

Yep, he's awesome. I am kinda surprised that he himself seems to be a data scientist? I'd have suspected he'd be a phycisist.

Physics degrees were the gateway into data science before there was such a thing as a data science degree. So it's possible that he works as a data scientist but was trained as a physicist.

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sylware wrote: post #25

The only way I can pay on the net, is by using a wallet code (like with amazon). Namely, I need a monetary account I can fuel with wallet codes I will buy at my local monetary outlet. Then upon payment at pbs, I would log to this "wallet code" service where I would validate (one time code receive via email, sms, etc) that payment. All that must be possible with noscript/basic (x)html browsers.

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Post by gigamike »

I rarely comment but PBS Spacetime is an amazing channel and Matt a great host. Even though they don't (hell, I don't) understand it all, I love watching it with my kids and see their eyes get huge when they see the excellent graphics and concepts.

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Post by ziofill »

I like it because they go one step further than other science outreach channels, and they don’t renounce on accuracy while simplifying obviously complex physics topics.

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Post by willis936 »

qrybam wrote: post #10

If you enjoy Matt @ Spacetime, Sabine Hossenfelder, and Kurzgesagt, and are into astrophysics, I would highly recommend Anton Petrov’s YouTube channel: https://m.youtube.com/c/whatdamath

I started off really liking Kurzgesagt but got tired with how often they started with conclusions and then constructed narratives to justify it, rather than starting with observations. It's just the wrong way to think and present things.

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Post by supercheetah »

formerly_proven wrote: post #8

Spacetime is nice because they / Matt often acknowledge uncertainty (indeed, gaps being found or closed in current understanding are probably one of the most common themes of the show), unlike many others which tend to present theories as facts (e.g. kurzgesagt often does this). Likewise, they don't shy away from making relatively complex explanations instead of leaning all to heavily into bogus analogies. They made…

Kurzgesagt has acknowledged this was a problem with some of their earlier videos, but they're trying to do better with presenting any uncertainty around the topics they cover from now on.

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Post by woojoo666 »

It's really sad that PBS ended their sister series on math, Infinite Series[1]. Those videos were just as deep, informative, and accessible as PBS Spacetime. Some of my favorites are the one on the mathematical "hydra"[2] and the ones on voting systems [3][4]

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs4aHmggTfFrpkPcWSaBN9g

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWwUpEY4c8o

[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoAnYQZrNrQ

[4]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhVR7gFMKNg

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