Festival of the Spoken Nerd: I Chart the Library

This event was part of the British Library's Beautiful Science events season 2014.
Festival of the Spoken Nerd: stand-up mathematician Matt Parker, geek songstress Helen Arney, and experiments maestro Steve Mould hosted an evening event exploring the laughs, graphs and gaffs of science. An outstanding set of guest geeks including citizen science gurus Erinma Ochu, Jonathan Swinton, and the BL's own data visualisation experts gave the audience an opportunity to get down and dirty with data in live experiments, and hear the backstory to the Beautiful Science exhibition.
www.bl.uk/science

[@_zelatrix]

If you count the Parker Square as an effect, Matt is right in the middle of that Venn diagram

[@DanDart]

Needs a "people who have a square".

[@AlexanderKrivacsSchrder]

Is there a way to see the whole event without all these random cuts and jumps?

[@manueloribe9153]

Alexander Krivács Schrøder buy it

@@manueloribe9153 Where?

[@manueloribe9153]

@FaRo idk

[@itachi2011100]

@ search for festival of the spoken nerd. They have a website setup.

That's where I came from, but most of this video isn't part of the show that is on the only DVD there.

[@BaldInIhremKino]

10:27 "live action maths" perfect description :)

[@rosieisla8286]

All of this was great. And a little surprise when at the end I heard ''Supermassive Black Hole'' by muse, haha!

[@kevinmcneill468]

The business with the arm swings meeting at the bottom is the reason why golf clubs are mostly the same length no matter how tall you are.

[@TrippyFPV469]

5:30 my bird next to me whistled along!!! xD

[@francescoderrico6831]

Im eating a dish of carbonara while seeing this fantastic video! Nice!

[@Leo-ux4yj]

Me too. I love to eat carbonara while watching a good show

[@marcellodelgrosso4507]

Me too. Carbonara and good shows are a perfect duo

[@ardenvarley-twyman8352]

Steve Mould and Matt Parker on the same stage? I need to make it to one of these.

[@AkiSan0]

Even a year ago they had a lot of videos and other colabs. :)

[@tomewyrmdraconus837]

festivalofthespokennerd.com/tickets/ They do these semi-regularly.

[@jan_Mamu]

just for graphs is great

[@manuelsosa2915]

This video is very very beautiful

[@Leo-ux4yj]

I love it

[@osotanuki3359]

Is that Muse I hear in the background at the end?

[@FlyByPC]

This is like taking thirty random words at a time from various parts of Shakespeare and stitching them together. This jumps from mid-skit to mid-skit with no rhyme or reason. FotSN is much more entertaining (and coherent) than you're making them seem here.

[@wintersummers3085]

1:04 John Frusciante discography that might have been me as I am a big fan of John

[@GreRe9]

9:09 vs. 9:14 - the numbers don't match....

[@FishSticker]

I’m disturbed that the wiki edit thing had an edit for: list of fatal bear attacks in North America

[@petermferguson]

Convergent Hand Height - remarkable, unexpected: why?

[@alcesmir]

Not that weird, just a consequence about how ratios work. Let's work under the assumptions that we have roughly the same body part ratios regardless of height. Specifically, assume that the ratios of height, height to the shoulder and arm length are independent of height. If that's the case we can think of the arcs of circles with centers at the shoulder height with arm length radius. I extracted some rough measurements from daVinci's Vitruvian Man (because why not) and plotted circles for heights ranging from 1.4 to 2 meters (0.05 meter increments): imgur.com/a/47aiNsh Pretty close considering I have no clue how correct the ratios in Vitruvian Man is, and changing the ratio slightly you can get configurations that are essentially spot on to the Matt's result.

[@Epinardscaramel]

That show looks great! Is it on DVD or VOD?

[@kingsrook9866]

Their DVDs have some of the segments plus other segments not shown. festivalofthespokennerd.com/ Their various channels (standupmaths, Steve Mould, Helen Arney, Festival of the Spoken Nerd) have some of the segments as well

[@Epinardscaramel]

​@@kingsrook9866 I've seen a lot of cool stuff, but I'm still looking for that infographics bit :)

[@kingsrook9866]

@@Epinardscaramel As far as I know it is only in this show, which predates their DVD shows.

[@jrhyd3270]

I like this video

[@BloodyBrilliant]

Misquoted Darth Vader you have. A proper nerd you are not. 😁

[@edgeeffect]

Any amateur nerd can quote Darth Vader.... A professional nerd can sing the periodic table!

[@jonaskoelker]

... "in the center of our group" I see what you did there, nerd! :p

[@johnchessant3012]

Austrian :D

[@viceliag3916]

9:41 your date-a? :)

[@TigruArdavi]

I mean put on the whole thing or just a contiguous clipping from it but this here is just a worthless jumble🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️What's supposed to be the point in this?

[@xx4312]

Dreadful editing !

[@krn-in2tv]

kelly's festival xD