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4:14Experiment! How Does An Owl Fly So Silently? | Super Powered Owls | BBC
25.7M views • 10 years ago
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A BBC Earth clip from Super Powered Owls in which the team uses sensitive sound equipment to compare owl flight with other birds. It shows why owls fly almost silently.
4:48Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes - The Joy of Stats - BBC
11.5M views • 15 years ago
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Hans Rosling uses augmented-reality animation to show 200 countries over 200 years in four minutes, built from 120,000 data points. It tracks life expectancy and income to show the world's development.
4:49BBC - The Code - The Wisdom of the Crowd
395K views • 15 years ago
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Marcus du Sautoy of the BBC demonstrates the wisdom of the crowd, showing that averaging many guesses of jelly beans in a jar lands near the true count.