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The reaction time of a modern Samurai (Isao Machii): The reaction time of a Dragster driver at the starting line (Hillary Will): The reaction time of an arrow catcher (Terry Bryan) : The reaction time of the fastest gunslinger (Bob Munden): For accuracy… Pure archery accuracy: The accuracy of a soccer player (Rémi Gaillard): The [...]
Over 3 million people have watched the following video. It takes data on population, lifespan and income (over 100,000 pieces of data that could have been quite boring) and presents them in an animated, narrated form that is fascinating: What is shows is how income and lifespan have changed across the world over the last [...]
This video make a really interesting point about human population trends: It took 250,000 years for the human population to hit 1 billion. But it only took a little more than a decade to go from 6 billion to 7 billion. As the video points out, population is expected to level out somewhere around 9 [...]
Leigh cuts my hair. She cuts all of the kids’s hair too. She has been doing this for more than 10 years. It started because one day we were at a K-mart and they had a bunch of remaindered books on a table for a quarter each. One of the books was “How to cut [...]
You will definitely look at yourself an your fellow human beings differently after watching this video. The first 5 minutes of the following video is an introduction that can be skipped. The rest is fascinating. Here is a description: Robert Sapolsky, world renowned professor of neurology, neurological sciences, neurosurgery and biological sciences gave the class [...]
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