Videos

Here are some fun videos and videogames.

Progress

Building

Beaver Dam (0:08) / Boulder Dam (0:35) / Baihetan Dam (0:08)
The Four Hour House (0:11)
Fabricating the Linear Accelerator (0:41)
America’s Missing Collider (2:58)
American Factory (1:50)

Technology

Origins of Precision (0:31)
The Secret History of Silicon Valley (1:02)
Free Electron Lasers (0:59)
Indistinguishable From Magic: Manufacturing Modern Computer Chips (1:01)
Particle Fever (1:39)

Tinkering

The Art of Code (1:01)
Everything is a Remix (0:38)
Painting a Landscape with Maths (0:42)
Make Your Renders Unnecessarily Complicated (0:05)
Minecraft Terrain Generation in a Nutshell (0:26)
The Hyperbolic Geometry of DMT Experiences (1:06)

Striving

Cautionary Tales

Don’t Talk to the Police (0:47)
The Rise, Lies, & Demise of Jan Hendrik Schon (1:57)
An Introduction to the Replicability Crisis in Psychology (0:49)
Erroneous Statistics in Physics Education Research (0:53)

Puzzles and Games

Physics Talks

Mapping the Milky Way’s Dark Matter Halo with Gaia (0:46)
Geometrodynamics: The Nonlinear Dynamics of Curved Spacetime (1:10)
Is Nature Natural? (1:06)
In Conversation with Nima Arkani-Hamed (0:57)

Puzzle Games

30 Puzzle Design Lessons (3:11)
Gorogoa (2:00)
FEZ (6:00)
The Witness (15:00)
Patrick’s Parabox (15:00)
Baba Is You (35:00)

Adventure Games

Preserving a Sense of Discovery in the Age of Spoilers (0:17)
Universal Paperclips (3:00)
Transistor (7:00)
Hyper Light Drifter (8:00)
TUNIC (12:00)
Animal Well (15:00)
Hollow Knight (25:00)

Courses

The Unanswered Question (13:00)
Human Behavioral Biology (15:00)
Power and Politics in Today’s World (26:00)