The Royal Institution
Dr Karl leads a whirlwind tour of scientific explanations and bizarre facts.
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What makes you forget why you entered a room? Why is it safer for a cat to fall from 32 stories than from seven? And why do you feel more drunk from rum and diet cola than rum and regular cola? Join Australia’s science legend Dr Karl for a whirlwind tour of scientific explanations and bizarre facts. Find out how photos of eyes make you honest, why the phrase “sinister buttocks” gets into students’ essays, and what the ‘big cover up’ is on kissing.
Dr Karl is a well-known Australian science communicator and populariser, who is best known as an author and science commentator on Australian radio and television. He has many strings to his bow having done a degree in Physics and Mathematics, a Masters in Biomedical Engineering, and a degree in Medicine and Surgery. He has also studied Computer Science as well as reading for a Masters in Astrophysics.
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I've been focused on science for a while now. There's one thing we've just got to get rid of in scientific culture. Don't talk about politics, at all, if you don't have to. Don't make fun of people for not being as educated or as intelligent as you are. To the extent that 4% of people believe something absurd, how about you try NOT insulting them first. You want to shut down their learning ability entirely? Tell them what an embarrassment they are. For that matter, stop shaming global warming deniers too if you don't know what the biggest greenhouse gas in the atmosphere is, or what the frequency of principal radiation from the sun is. If you don't know anything about a subject, don't blame others for a lack of trust in authority.
what is the purpose of this talk? eclectic scatterbrained nonsense.
He has no credibility so ever just another paid liarfrom what i can tell . go check his video here on electromagnetic raditions this guy is simply paid to spead dissinformations . the comments where disabled on this video check it out hes says that there are no existing scientific proof about microwave technologie being harmfull to humains .shame on you mr . dr. karl .psyientologicalist hollywood star character ahah ridiculus .this guy must definitly come from 2 monkees . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtWLhJIkSCI
Time is produced when matter is produced from our sun and other stars. Emitting from our sun and dissipats as it moves through space away from its source. The rate at which time is produced could be proportional to the amount of matter being produced from energy. A black hole is the result of an absents of matter production from its central sun. Light or for that mater anything can not escape from a solar system if time has stopped. A visual black hole will result as no light can leave from it. Imagine a single photo of light standing still in a time void, it will disappear?. As there is no production of matter produced,there is a type of non time dependant energy ejected from the axis of the black hole. Dark energy could also be a small time void . To produce dark mater real matters is destroyed which could just be a time void. If the the big bang theory is correct the moment mater exploded into existence time was also created. At this point, time was proportionally racing at a faster rate than it is now. Time is one of the most powerful force in the universe. Yet we have no power over it. There is no time standard to tell us if time energy is oscillating from fast to slow as we are within it realm.
UNWATCHABLE, He has LOST it! Shame on RI
A little outdated by now – but I liked it. Not a lot but enough to also watch the Q & A 😉
No way, waste of time. Beginning to doubt RI.
Your smart
7:31 – So, from a part-time Jesus he went on to become a full-time Jeff Goldblum?
WTF!
What a mess. Fluid talker but utter mess of a presentation. No goal, no coherence and certainly not great moments in science with so much omitted that changed our world.
Who is this idiot?
I watch RI 'broadcasts' for stimulating, thought provoking, intellectual challenging talks. If I wanted to watch a (not at all funny or entertaining) 'stand up' comedian I'd go down the local pub.
A complete waste of time and bandwidth (IMHO, of course).
This is terrible. Dr Karl is a great science educator but there is no reason for him speaking at the Royal Institute.
Great moments in my ego.
Wait! Alcohol is absorbed in the stomach. The diet drink reasoning doesn’t make sense. It might be true but it has to be for a different reason.
Lack of Vitamin A can also cause you to fall over with no memory of actually falling — you suddenly find yourself on the ground with hopefully no major damage. I had this problem after a gastric bypass for weight control. I now take several Vitamin A tablets a day and this fixed me. This happened twice to me when I forgot my pills at the start, before I realized that I NEVER wanted that to happen again.
What this lecture is about is that what you think you know about what your world is like is really totally naive. Around you is a hidden world, in many cases due to your brain not being able to sort out reality from illusions and in other cases concerning computers and Smart phones and how these things are not always what they seem ON PURPOSE and this has been true since before WWII in technology.
My favorite moment in science is when the scientists said science is creating man made climate change. Whoops
This is kind of dumb. I’ve listened to much better speakers today
Fkn boomers..
1:05:40 "Carbon dioxide is causing global warming."
Easy to fix: Stop breathing. And also tell all the animals and algae – which represent orders of magnitude more biomass – to also stop breathing. We are not driving this bus.
"…keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." — H. L. Mencken
Make no mistake, we need to take care of our planet, keep the air safe for breathing, water fit for drinking, food fit for eating, but never forget that this was brought to public view by a politician and his "inconvenient truth." Go back and look at his "science" now and it's clearly out of synch with the world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssE1c80BBmw
Dr Carl is normally quite good but for this format he’s rambling