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The World Anti-Slavery Convention met for the first time at Exeter Hall in London, on 12–23 June 1840.[2] It was organised by the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, largely on the initiative of the English Quaker Joseph Sturge.[2][3] The exclusion of women from the convention gave a great impetus to the women's suffrage movement in the United States.[4]

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The Eye of Providence, or the all-seeing eye of God, seen here on the US$1 bill, has been taken by some to be evidence of a conspiracy involving the Founding Fathers of the United States and the Illuminati.
First edition of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Anti-Catholic cartoon depicting Catholicism as an octopus, from H. E. Fowler and Jeremiah J. Crowley's The Pope (1913)
His abolition of the caliphate and many other reforms that secularized Turkey made Atatürk the target of Islamist conspiracy theories.
Ripper explains to Mandrake that he discovered the Communist plot to pollute Americans' "precious bodily fluids", a reference to the John Birch Society's anti-fluoridation conspiracy theories (Dr. Strangelove, 1964).
Logo of the Flat Earth Society, 2013
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Mathematics and numbers

Is this identical to one?
Be afraid.
Be very afraid.
Ceci n’est pas un cercle. It is, however, a knot.
"BEGhIL0S", "hELL0", "B00BLESS", etc. – there are many words that can be spelled on a calculator.
Sure, the room move is inconvenient, but at least we got upgraded to the Googolplex suite.
It may be a pair of pants, but you'd never want to wear it.
See the spiral within?
−0 Zero has a negative flavor in the worlds of computing, experimental science and statistical mechanics.
0.999... An infinitely long way to write 1.
2 + 2 = 5 ...or perhaps it equals 1984...
616 The real number of the beast?
65537-gon It can be constructed with a compass and straight edge... but so can a circle, and it's not like you'd notice the 15 parts per billion of difference.
A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates A pioneering book that does exactly what it says on the cover. Somehow, not the only random number book either.
Abstract nonsense An affectionate term for parts of mathematical proof.
All horses are the same color Flawed mathematical induction proof that all horses are the same color.
Almost everywhere Does not refer to advertising or corrupt corporate practices, but is instead a term in measure theory.
Almost integer By a strange coincidence, - and that's just the tip of the iceberg.
Almost periodic function Well, at least they tried.
Banach–Tarski paradox Tutorial to make two spheres from one.
Belphegor's prime 1 followed by 13 zeros followed by 666 followed by 13 zeros followed by 1.
Bertrand's postulate Despite now being a theorem, still conventionally called a postulate.
Calculator spelling 5318008!
The Complexity of Songs A treatise on the computational complexity of songs by venerable computer scientist Donald Knuth.
Cox–Zucker machine This machine does what‽
Erdős–Bacon number A combination of the degrees of separation from actor Kevin Bacon and mathematician Paul Erdős.
Extravagant number Don't take it shopping. Not very friendly with the frugal number either.
Gabriel's horn A geometric figure with an infinite surface area but finite volume. So even if the horn was filled with paint, you could never paint its surface.
Graham's number A number so large that the observable universe is not big enough to write it in full in decimal notation or even scientific notation.
Hairy ball theorem Mathematicians are terrible at naming things.
Happy number Not just a cheery song on the radio.
Hilbert's paradox of the Grand Hotel A fully occupied hotel cannot accommodate any more guests. Or can it? Or, once it can, can it not?
Homicidal chauffeur problem What does a murderous driver have in common with a guided missile?
Illegal number Does the US government forbid knowledge of the existence of certain numbers?
Illumination Problem A room with a bit of a shadow.
Indiana pi bill A notorious attempt to legislate the value of pi as 3.2.
Infinite monkey theorem An infinite number of monkeys typing on an infinite number of typewriters will (almost surely) produce all possible written texts.
Interesting number paradox Either all natural numbers are interesting or else none of them are.
Kruskal's tree theorem TREE(1) = 1; TREE(2) = 3; TREE(3) = ...wait, where did all my disk space go?
Legendre's constant After 91 years and much effort, this legendary constant was found to be ... 1. Just 1.
Look-and-say sequence Also known as the Cuckoo's Egg.
Mathematical fallacy Trying to prove that 2 = 1 or that 1 < 0.
Mathematical joke Complex numbers are all fun and games until someone loses an i. That's when things get real.
Minkowski's question-mark function A function with an unusual notation and possessing unusual fractal properties.
Monty Hall problem The counter-intuitive way to prevail when playing Let's Make a Deal.
Moving sofa problem What is the largest area of a sofa that can be manoeuvred through an L-shaped corner?
NAND logic Turns out you only need one logic gate to do anything.
Narcissistic number The pluperfect digital invariant says "Count me in"!
Nothing-up-my-sleeve number A number which is "above suspicion".
Number of the beast For beastly people bored of the number of unluckiness.
Numbers station [Six bars of The Lincolnshire Poacher play]  "¡Atención! ¡Atención! One, four, seventeen, twenty-four..."
Pair of pants Topology is not pants-optional.
Pi is 3 Did Japanese education guidelines shockingly redefine pi as exactly 3? No, they didn't, but where's the news story and public outcry in that?
Pointless topology Not as useless as it sounds.
Potato paradox If potatoes consisting of 99% water dry so that they are 98% water, they lose 50% of their weight.
Proof by intimidation The description of this article is trivially constructed and has been left as an exercise for the reader.
Ramanujan summation What do you get when you add all positive integers, up to infinity? You get a negative fraction.
Schizophrenic number Can numbers have mental disorders?
Sexy prime Prime numbers that differ from each other by sex. Er... six.
Six nines in pi A mathematical coincidence, the sequence "999999" appears a mere 762 digits into the decimal expansion of pi. Nice.
Spaghetti sort An algorithm for sorting rods of spaghetti.
Squaring the square Surely easier than squaring the circle? You'd be surprised.
Squircle Not quite a square, not quite a circle, definitely not a Pokémon either.
Tarski's circle-squaring problem How to square the circle for real.
Taxicab number Never tell a Numberphile that a number is uninteresting.
Tetraphobia Sometimes found in conjunction with triskaidekaphobia (see below) in East Asian cultures. More prevalent in Japan, where 49 is associated with "suffering until death".
Tits group The perfect sporadic group doesn't exi-
Triskaidekaphobia No, it's not related to the Code of Hammurabi. No, it's not always considered unlucky. Yes, space exploration has been touched by it.
Tupper's self-referential formula A formula that draws itself!
Ulam spiral A bored mathematician discovers an unusual numerical pattern while doodling.
Umbral calculus A mathematical method successfully used for over 100 years, despite the notable limitation of no one on Earth knowing exactly how or why it worked.
Unexpected hanging paradox If you're told you'll be hanged on a day you'll never expect it, you can prove logically that there's no day you can be hanged at all. Which, of course, means you won't expect it when the hanging does happen as planned.
Unknot The least knotted of all mathematical knots.
Vacuous truth All pigs with wings speak Chinese.
Vampire number Integers with real bite; some even have multiple pairs of fangs.
Weird number They're called weird, so why not include them? The math behind them isn't as weird as the name, though, whose origin also can't seem to be found on Wikipedia or elsewhere.
Wheat and chessboard problem Do not mess with exponential growth, especially while agreeing to a suspiciously-low reward for a commoner.
Will Rogers phenomenon When moving an element from one set to another set raises – counter-intuitively – the average values of both sets. Also known as the Will Rogers paradox.
Zenzizenzizenzic You know how x3 is called "x cubed"? Well, x8 is called...
Zeroth An ordinal number popular in computing and related cultures.

Computing

Could a unicycle balance itself?
Vital programming equipment.
.bv A top-level domain that isn't being sold, made for an Antarctic island where no one lives.
.io How is a top-level domain for a group of islands with a population of about 3000 military personnel and contractors where leisure tourism is banned so popular?
.kp North Korea's top-level domain. Interestingly, some websites under this ccTLD can be accessed outside of the DPRK.
.nu Niue's top-level domain, which is regulated by Sweden and almost exclusively used by European countries.
.su How a piece of the Soviet Union's internet is not only still online but also still in use to this day.
.tv Sales of websites under this top-level domain name make up 10% of Tuvalu's GDP.
999 phone charging myth Some people in the UK seriously believe that calling their emergency phone number charges your phone.
Any key Press any key to continue.
Blinkenlights DAS KOMPUTERMASCHINE IST NICHT FÜR DER GEFINGERPOKEN UND MITTENGRABEN! (transl. THIS COMPUTER IS NOT FOR FINGER POKING AND MEDDLING!)
Bogosort The world's worst sorting algorithm works like this: Randomise the list. Is it in order? If not, try again. Or maybe it is the best…
The Book of Mozilla A well-known computer Easter egg found in the Netscape and Mozilla series of browsers.
Brainfuck An intentionally difficult to use programming language containing only eight commands.
Breakout How this simple 1976 Atari video game, started by Steve Jobs and finished by Steve Wozniak, helped spur the creation of the Apple II.
Brian's Brain He's so smart, he has his own cellular automaton.
Builder.ai An "AI coding" startup that went bankrupt after its "AI" was exposed to just be hundreds of Indian people.
Bush hid the facts Revelations of a vast right-wing conspiracy, or just a glitch?
Chudnovsky brothers A pair of mathematicians who built a supercomputer out of spare parts.
Creeper and Reaper The world's very first computer virus and computer antivirus, respectively.
Conway's Game of Life A simple game with only four rules that people have made beautifully complex machines with. It even has the ability to self-replicate! See also Brian's Brain above.
Electric unicycle The ongoing academic effort to teach robots to ride unicycles.
Elvis operator Gives a new meaning to the term "smooth operator".
Emojli A now-defunct emoji-only social network. Started as a parody of Yo (see below).
Enshittification Richard Stallman warned you.
Esoteric programming language Refers to programming languages designed as a test of the boundaries of computer programming language design, as a proof of concept, or as jokes, and not with the intention of being adopted for real-world programming.
Evil bit Indicates if a packet has been sent with malicious intent, so that it can be ignored.
Guru Meditation error If you thought the blue screen of death was bad, this computer error would hamper your quest to reach Nirvana.
Heisenbug A programming bug that disappears when you study it.
Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol Protocol for controlling and monitoring coffee pots. Attempting to use a teapot while brewing coffee will yield you the "HTTP 418: I'm a teapot" error message.
I Am Rich You must be if you could afford this $999.99 iPhone application that only displayed a red gem and a (misspelled) mantra.
IDN homograph attack Тһіѕ lіnk іѕ tоtаllу ѕаfе! Тruѕt mе!
Intelligence Quotient (IQ) and Browser Usage Internet Explorer users have lower than average IQ, according to this (nonexistent) study.
International Obfuscated C Code Contest A competition to create code that no human can read.
IP over Avian Carriers An Internet protocol for sending data packets using homing pigeons.
iSmell A computer peripheral designed to emit smells for websites and emails, later named one of the "Worst Tech Products" by PC Magazine.
Kasane Teto A virtual voicebank that started off as an April Fool's joke back in 2008 on the Japanese textboard website 2channel. Officially 31 years old but is a teenager when converted to human years.
Lenna How an image of a nude Playboy model became the industry-standard digital image compression test subject.
Loab According to AI, the exact opposite of many prompts is the same picture of an old woman.
lp0 on fire Want to panic a Unix user? Display an error that their printer is on fire.
Macquarium Vintage Macintosh computers-turned-fishtanks.
Magic smoke When a chip fails, it's because the smoke has gotten out.
The Million Dollar Homepage A web page sold for advertising space at 1 dollar per pixel.
Mystery meat navigation The process of not telling you what you're about to click on.
Not a typewriter Well, what is it, then?
On the Cruelty of Really Teaching Computer Science A 1990 academic paper which argues that computer programming should be understood as a branch of mathematics, and that the formal provability of a program is a major criterion for correctness.
Pentium F00F bug An Intel Pentium bug with an unusual name.
Phillips Machine A water-based analogue computer used to model the United Kingdom economy, bringing a new meaning to the term liquidity.
PlayStation 3 cluster When the US Department of Defense chose a side in the console war.
Reality distortion field Surely an obscure quantum-physics phenomenon? Nope!
Red Star OS North Korea's official Linux distribution. In line with Kim Jong-un apparently being an Apple fanboy, s latest UI design mimics macOS.
Rubber duck debugging Code debugging by explaining your code to a rubber duck. Quack!
RTFM Four letters that solve most problems.
Scunthorpe problem Spam filtering based on text strings can cause problems. Just ask the residents of S****horpe.
Send Me to Heaven A mobile game won by throwing your phone as close to heaven as you can without it getting there.
Tay An AI chatbot designed by Microsoft to learn the speech patterns of the Twitter users who interacted with it, Tay lasted 16 hours before becoming too racist to remain online.
TempleOS A biblical-themed operating system designed by a single schizophrenic programmer over the course of 10 years after receiving instructions from God. Some assembly required.
Trojan Room coffee pot The fascinating target of the world's first webcam: a coffee machine at the computer science department of the University of Cambridge.
Universal Typeface Experiment A promotional website funded by Bic, which averaged people's handwriting together to create a unique typeface.
Utah teapot A 3D model which has become a standard reference object (and something of an in-joke) in the computer graphics community.
Vibe coding Lost your job to AI? Learn to code– actually, wait...
Yo A messaging service whose only function was to send "Yo" to people.

Technology, inventions and products

It's hypnagogic hallucination heaven.
Long-lost remnant of a cricket game? Made by ancient intelligent life? A mysterious natural phenomenon?
World War I pigeon photography.
Cower, you leeches, in the presence of the Tempest Prognosticator!
300-page iPhone bill AT&T Mobility's billing policy for the first iPhone gave a real sense of how much money was being wasted... on paper and printer ink.
Abraham Lincoln's patent For lifting boats over shoals. Lincoln is the only US president who held a patent.
Alan MacMasters hoax For ten years Wikipedia listed a fake article about the man who supposedly invented the electric toaster. Before it was taken down, multiple people and press outlets wrongly reported that an entirely fictional man called Alan MacMasters had invented the electric toaster in the 19th century.
Antikythera mechanism An analog computer built in Ancient Greece.
Bad Dragon Products that put the "fantasy" in sexual fantasy.
Baby cage The pre-War way to get your baby some fresh air if you live in a high-rise apartment. Used by none other than Eleanor Roosevelt.
Bild Lilli doll A German doll that was the main inspiration for Barbie and is now considered its "grandmother".
Billy Possum When Taft tried to get his own Teddy Bear.
Blåhaj Stuffed shark, IKEA bestseller, transgender icon.
Brown note The laxative infrasonic frequency that doesn't exist.
Centennial Light A light bulb that has been burning nonstop for 124 years.
Chindōgu The practice of inventing solutions to everyday problems that just make the problem worse.
Clock of the Long Now A clock that, once completed, should be able to keep time for 10,000 years.
Clocky An alarm clock that hides from its owner.
Concealing objects in a book Hopefully you weren't planning to read it before you hollowed it out.
Digesting Duck Or "Canard Digérateur", an automaton built to simulate a duck eating, digesting, and excreting.
Digital sundial Unlike an analog sundial, a clock that indicates the current time with numerals formed by the sunlight striking it.
Dreamachine A device made with a light bulb and a record turntable that reportedly induces lucid dreaming. (And you thought the makers of Die Another Day made it up. There's still no news about invisible Aston Martin V12 Vanquishes.)
Electronic voice phenomenon Alleged spiritual voices heard in white noise and radio interference.
Friendly Floatees spill Rubber ducks and their friends who went on a long, long journey.
Gun-powered mousetrap Patented in 1882. According to its inventor, it can also be used as a booby trap to kill attempted home invaders.
Hitler teapot Some people thought that this JCPenney teapot resembled the famous dictator.
Marvin Heemeyer Why it's always a bad idea to put the guy next door out of business if he has a ten-ton armor-plated bulldozer in his garage.
History of perpetual motion machines The concept has eluded and baffled the greatest minds for thousands of years – and will continue to elude anyone who tries to build one.
Hitachi Magic Wand Its manufacturers continue to claim that it's just a massager for health purposes and not, you know, the world's best-known sex toy.
I-Doser Like taking drugs through your ears.
Jibba Jabber The hot new stress toy where you simulate shaking a baby to death.
Klerksdorp sphere Spheres with three parallel grooves dated to be three billion years old... Evidence of ancient intelligent life? An unusual natural phenomenon? Who knows...
Zbigniew Libera Creator of the Lego Concentration Camp.
List of inventors killed by their own invention Perilous parachutes, lethal lighthouses and murderous motorcycles!
Love chair Made to allow a fat king to have sex with two women at the same time.
Mengenlehreuhr You'll have to read between the lights to see the time.
Moo box Cow in a can.
Mosquito laser A bug zapper with a difference.
Museum of Failure A collection of sorts focusing on... well, failed things. Notably includes the Nokia N-Gage, Bic's woman-only pens, and Google Glass.
My Friend Cayla That doll is a spy!
One red paperclip A man's small piece of metal turns out to be worth more than expected.
Parking chair Using household objects to reserve parking spaces.
Pigeon photography Pigeons were used by the Germans for aerial surveillance in World War I, and apparently also in World War II. Not to forget the CIA's own pigeon camera.
Predictions of the end of Wikipedia All good things must come to an end...... but not for now.
Project Cybersyn Chilean robo-socialism control chamber invented by a Brit with a gigantic beard.
Pythagorean cup When the cup is filled beyond a certain point, it will empty itself.
Quartz crisis Not a comic book story arc, but the upheaval in watchmaking caused by the introduction of quartz watches.
Radio hat A strange-looking (and strange-sounding) piece of headgear.
Royal Mail rubber band One billion are used every year and often seen littering the streets of UK cities.
Russian floating nuclear power station Self-contained, low-capacity, floating nuclear power plants.
Sony timer Rumours that Sony uses a particularly aggressive form of planned obsolescence continue to this day.
Splayd 33.3% spoon, 33.3% knife, 33.3% fork.
Tempest prognosticator Meteorology by frightened annelid.
Turbo encabulator A device whose sole function is to expose technological ignorance.
Uncanny valley How to measure your emotional response to androids.
Useless machine In most cases, toys for adults.
Vin Mariani A drink made from cocaine and consumed by Thomas Edison, Pope Leo XIII, Ulysses S. Grant and French prime minister Jules Méline.
Violence and Lego Fortunately, not actual violence, but rather an observed increase of weapon bricks within the toy brand.
Wrap rage Ever been driven mad by packaging that just won't open?
Xianxingzhe A Chinese robot, according to the Japanese, that will save its country from corporate capitalism with its crotch cannon.

Intriguing Questions

How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? A proverbial question of theology.
If a tree falls in a forest Philosophy meets the logging industry.
Meaning of life Why are we here?
What Is It Like to Be a Bat? Have you ever wondered that? No? Apparently this is one of the most important contemporary philosophical questions.
Where's the beef? In 1984, people thought this was really funny for some reason.
Why did the chicken cross the road? People have asked this for over 150 years.


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Time lapse clips

  • Prof. Oliver Zajkov demonstrating glow discharge in a low-pressure tube caused by electric current
  • Example of a performance-type video; a man building a snowman
  • A time-lapse video of a cicada molting
  • Columbia glacier Alaska time-lapse
  • A slow-motion video of a greater flamingo vocalizing during matin season.
  • Video made with Hubble Telescope images from Jupiter in 4K
  • A snapshot video of a volcano eruption in Iceland
  • 360º view of a Leica I camera from 1927

Videos about media

  • The Kid, by Charlie Chaplin.
  • Spartacus trailer, by Stanley Kubrick.
  • A clip from The Muppets
  • A song by folk group OYME

Historical Videos

  • A Canadian Army Newsreel from 1942, about World War II
  • Paris during the COVID-19 lockdown, showing empty streets
  • John F. Kennedy's inaugural address, 1961
  • Philippines Independence proclamation video, 1946

Documentary type

  • Example of a tour-type video; Paris during the COVID-19 lockdown in April 2020
  • Video from NASA about the mission PACE
  • A documentary about the mink invasion in South America
  • This is my home, a video about how people live inside Chernobyl's exclusion zone

Photographic techniques

Too much further reading

References

  1. ^ The Anti-Slavery Society Convention, 1840, Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1841, National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG599, Given by British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society in 1880
  2. ^ a b McDaniel, W. Caleb (2007). "World's Anti-Slavery Convention". In Peter P. Hinks; John R. McKivigan; R. Owen Williams (eds.). Encyclopedia of Antislavery and Abolition. Vol. 2. Greenwood. pp. 760–762. ISBN 978-0-313-33144-2.
  3. ^ Maynard 1960, p. 452.
  4. ^ Sklar 1990, p. 453.
  5. ^ Zuffi 2003, pp. 254–259.

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