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7:07Feynman: What things really are like FUN TO IMAGINE 1
747K views • 17 years ago
Christopher Sykes
A clip from the 1983 BBC series Fun to Imagine in which Richard Feynman explains heat as the jiggling of atoms and how we perceive it as hot and cold.
3:16Feynman: Mirrors FUN TO IMAGINE 6
600K views • 18 years ago
Christopher Sykes
Richard Feynman, in a clip from the BBC series Fun to Imagine, takes on the puzzle of why mirrors seem to swap left and right but not top and bottom.
2:27Feynman: How the train stays on the track FUN TO IMAGINE 7
820K views • 18 years ago
Christopher Sykes
A short clip from the 1983 BBC series Fun to Imagine in which Richard Feynman explains how a train stays on the track. He covers the geometry of tapered wheels that steer the train back toward the center of the rails.
4:44Debt Metaphor
95K views • 17 years ago
Ward Cunningham
Ward Cunningham explains the history and intent of the debt metaphor, which he coined while refactoring the WyCash product. He says debt means code reflecting an incomplete understanding of the problem, not sloppy programming.
Topic match · Software practice, open source & careers
1:20Paul Otlet, visioning a web in 1934
102K views • 18 years ago
Attila Gárdos
A one-minute clip about Paul Otlet, the Belgian bibliographer who in 1934 imagined users accessing a remote database through an electric telescope over a phone line. It presents his vision as a precursor of the web.