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Re: PBS SpaceTime

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Post by Snowworm »

digisign wrote: post #125
tzs wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've never seen it on my local PBS station. Is it actually aired anywhere? It is streamable on the PBS website, and via the PBS apps on iOS, Android, Roku, Samsung TVs, Amazon Fire TV and others, but YouTube is still better. As far as I've seen the PBS streams just include the episode itself, compared to the YouTube version which included the episode itself plus replies to points raised in the comments to the previou…

Hmm, have rarely found youtube comments to be worthwhile, and on average terrible. However use of yt-dl or similar might be the best of both worlds. Newpipe can make that easier.

MPV or IINA are good for streaming YouTube videos too.

Re: PBS SpaceTime

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Post by davidjytang »

wing-_-nuts wrote: post #47
shrikrishna wrote: post #20

A channel worth subscribing. Matt (and team?) manages successfully to walk the fine line between managing the complexity of the topics they discuss (which are sometimes extremely dense), making it consumable for the population that's interested in science and physics, but doesn't pursue it on a daily basis. At the same time, they don't fall for the trap of dumbing it down to the point where the audience develops misc…

>making it consumable for the population that's interested in science and physics, but doesn't pursue it on a daily basis. While I love the channel, it seems like they're more targeted to someone with a lot of physics education, more so than lay people. This is the only channel I've ever watched and genuinely felt dumb on a regular basis.

Yeup, I took several 100 level physics in college, 400 level physical chemistry which involved quantum mechanics and got good grades on them. I can't understand the show.

Re: PBS SpaceTime

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Post by kikokikokiko »

setuid9001 wrote: post #13

Matt and his team are doing such a great job.The visuals are great and the music is alway on point! Also, when I'm stressed out, I can watch an episode and my mind calms down again. Thank you guys!

The visual effects team that does the cgi for Spacetime is amazing, and being a fellow brazilian those guys make me really proud.

Re: PBS SpaceTime

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Post by joshbaptiste »

joadha wrote: post #56
woojoo666 wrote: post #38

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…

I had never even heard of this, and I've watched dozens and dozens of episodes of Spacetime! I'm shocked YouTube didn't steer me to this sister channel. Thank you!

It's not recommended because it hasn't been updated in years.. the algorithm promotes channels with updated content higher

Re: PBS SpaceTime

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Post by etoulas »

The German equivalent is Alpha Centauri by Prof. Dr. Harald Lesch.

He created over 200 of those 15 min clips between 1998-2007.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF86BBCC6E99AF968

Space Night is another classic that should be mentioned in this context.

https://www.ardmediathek.de/sendung/space-night/Y3JpZDovL2Jy...

Re: PBS SpaceTime

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Post by bgm1975 »

dylan604 wrote: post #71

For those of us of a certain age, does anyone else recall a series on PBS from the early 90s (maybe earlier) on physics and calculus? I remember whatching these programs well before I took those classes so that I didn't understand all of it, but when I finally got to them in school, the concepts in the videos made much more sense and the videos helped make sense of some of the textbook learning too.

Was it The Mechanical Universe (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8_xPU5epJddRABXqJ5h5G0dk...) from Caltech? I loved that series back in the day.

Re: PBS SpaceTime

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Post by dylan604 »

bgm1975 wrote: post #138
dylan604 wrote: post #71

For those of us of a certain age, does anyone else recall a series on PBS from the early 90s (maybe earlier) on physics and calculus? I remember whatching these programs well before I took those classes so that I didn't understand all of it, but when I finally got to them in school, the concepts in the videos made much more sense and the videos helped make sense of some of the textbook learning too.

Was it The Mechanical Universe ( https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8_xPU5epJddRABXqJ5h5G0dk... ) from Caltech? I loved that series back in the day.

This might have been it. There are way more episodes than I was familiar. If it's not it, then all I've been reminded today is how much amazing content has been provided by PBS.

Re: PBS SpaceTime

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Post by idonotknowwhy »

wing-_-nuts wrote: post #47
shrikrishna wrote: post #20

A channel worth subscribing. Matt (and team?) manages successfully to walk the fine line between managing the complexity of the topics they discuss (which are sometimes extremely dense), making it consumable for the population that's interested in science and physics, but doesn't pursue it on a daily basis. At the same time, they don't fall for the trap of dumbing it down to the point where the audience develops misc…

>making it consumable for the population that's interested in science and physics, but doesn't pursue it on a daily basis. While I love the channel, it seems like they're more targeted to someone with a lot of physics education, more so than lay people. This is the only channel I've ever watched and genuinely felt dumb on a regular basis.

Same here, I stopped watching because I tend to get lost after a while.

History Of The Universe is more consumable at my level

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