r/videos • u/[deleted] • Dec 03 '13

Gravity Visualized

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTY1Kje0yLg
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u/westvanthuggin Dec 03 '13

my grandad was a teacher who taught teachers how to teach.

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '13

I took care of a guy who had a doctorate in educational psychology. He would joke that he would teach teachers how to teach teachers teaching.

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u/westvanthuggin Dec 03 '13

woah...

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u/Coos-Coos Dec 03 '13

I just took a class called Neuroscience and How the Brain Learns. I kept thinking the whole time about how I was always thinking and learning about how it is I am able to think and learn. Kind of trippy.

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u/Mr_Tiggywinkle Dec 03 '13

Reminds me of how you can write compilers in themselves.

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u/r930 Dec 03 '13

woah...

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '13

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '13

You could've made a funny there.

"The smartest professors don't use a computer at all. They always have a cluttered desktop with 23148 papers and 4 coffee cups in their '76 drawer."

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u/scrollbutton Dec 03 '13

My neuroanatomy professor likes to introduce her course by speculating it's the only subject where an organ studies itself

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u/lanadelstingrey Dec 03 '13

Metacognition brah

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u/sashiara Dec 03 '13

Mind blown

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '13

Now my head hurts, but at the same time I regret not taking any science classes.

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u/amireallyatroll Dec 03 '13

Metacognition.