Polyhedral

Global poverty and the climate crisis are some of the biggest problems humanity will face this century. In this video, we’ll touch on how these issues are linked and how this doughnut can/could help us solve them. We’ll discuss economic inequality through the metric of the Gini Index, then we’ll discuss that environmental impact such as greenhouse gas emissions and material use increase with increasing GDP, exacerbating the climate emergency and biodiversity crisis. Then finally, we’ll introduce the idea of Degrowth through ‘Doughnut Economics’. If you enjoyed this work, you can support it here on Patreon: patreon.com/Polyhedral References: [1] - Simon Kuznets. "Economic growth and income inequality." The gap between rich and poor. Routledge, 2019. 25-37. [2] - Thomas Piketty. “Capital in the twenty-first century”. Harvard University Press, 2014. [3] - World Inequality Database, https://wid.world/, Accessed: November 2023. [4] - Politics Joe, Torsten Bell, “Economist explains why Britain is poor”,, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljVtYj-YSnk, 2nd February, 2023. [5] - Max Roser, Our world in data, https://ourworldindata.org/how-has-inequality-in-the-uk-changed-over-the-very-long-run, 2013. [6] - Hannah Ritchie, Max Roser, and Pablo Rosado. "CO₂ and greenhouse gas emissions." Our world in data, 2020. [7] - Hannah Ritchie, Our World In Data, "A Number of Countries Have Decoupled Economic Growth from Energy Use, Even if We Take Offshored Production into Account”, 2021. [8] - Hannah Ritchie, Our World In Data, “Change in CO₂ emissions and GDP, United Kingdom”, 2021. [9] - IPCC, “IPCC AR6 Synthesis Report”, 2023. [10] - Jason Hickel, “Less Is More”, 2014. [11] - Kate Raworth, “Doughnut Economics”, 2017. 00:00 - 00:10 - Intro 00:10 - 04:22 - Economic Inequality 04:22 - 05:21 - GDP & The Environment 05:21 - 07:58 - Degrowth 07:58 - 08:07 - Outro Music: Jeremy Blake - Final Girl John B. Lund - Shadowed Lama House - The Road To Odessa #Economics #Inequality #Degrowth

There are currently 118 elements in the periodic table, but could there be more? In the first Polyhedral video, we discuss the physics and chemistry behind the question "Could there be an infinite number of elements?". We'll chat a bit about the history of the science, including what Richard Feynmann predicted the limit might be. Beyond that, we'll explore the periodic table of elements and chat about up-down quark matter, a potential theoretical concept for heavy matter. If you enjoyed this work, you can support it here on Patreon: patreon.com/Polyhedral References: [1] “The Technical Details: Radioactive Decay.” 2002. Global Monitoring Laboratory. [2] Napy1kenobi. “Chart of the nuclides showing the ratio of protons to neutrons, with a black 'Island of Stability' in a 'Sea of Instability.”. [3] Zagrebaev, V. 2016. “Opportunities for synthesis of new superheavy nuclei (What really can be done within the next few years).” 11th International Conference on Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions. [4] Ball, Philip. 2010. “Column: The crucible | Opinion.” Column: The crucible | Opinion | Chemistry World. [5] Scientific Opportunities with a Rare-Isotope Facility in the United States. j7st 2006. N.p.: National Research Council. [6] “Unseptbium.” The Elements Wiki. [7] Holdom, Bob. 2018. “Quark Matter May Not Be Strange.” Physical Review Letters. [8] Holdom, Bob; Ren, Jing; Zhang, Chen. 2018. “.Quark Matter May Not Be Strange.” Physical Review Letters. Chapters: 00:00 - The Foundation & Nuclear Physics 02:22 - What Did Feynman Think? 03:12 - What Do We Know Today? 04:28 - The Next Video Music: Steve O'Brien - Popcorn Howard Harper-Barnes - At Evenfall Lama House - The Road to Odessa #Physics #Chemistry #Science