InSight mission to Mars Lands Nov. 26

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After a successful launch in May 5, 2018 the Insight mission sent to Mars to explore Mars’ interior structure is planned to land on November 26, 2018. The interesting part is the mission landing will be monitored by two cube satellites that were launched with Insight and have been traveling on their own since the launch as show in the launch video below. The landing can be watched live on Nov. 26, 2018.

Volcanic Eruption & Flow, Drone footage

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Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle by Dr. Walter Lewin

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A reminder of the basics of quantum mechanics.

An atom is all vacuum. You and I are all vacuum. You think of yourself of being something but we are nothing.

Yoshua Bengio on AI

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We’re building a dystopia just to make people click on ads, Zeynep Tufekci [TED talk]

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Experiments show that what the algorithm picks to show you can affect your emotions. But that’s not all. It also affects political behavior.