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Sneak Peek - New Video Tomorrow!

Hi everyone,

Thanks so much for all your great feedback on our videos. We've got a new one coming out tomorrow and we'd love to hear from you.

You know the drill by now - we'd love some help picking a title/thumbnail. Before watching our sneak preview, we'd be very thankful if you voted on your favorites in this Google Form. First, let us know which one of these two videos you would most likely click on:


Then let us know which one of these two videos you would most likely click on:

(Very open to other ideas or ways to improve upon these.)

And now, enjoy the preview! There are a couple placeholders and changes incoming still. Please take a look and let us know your thoughts, suggestions, etc.:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/za06f7zboh0a193/20220616_VERITASIUM_100P_v4.mp4?dl=0 

Thank you so much for your valuable feedback! Hope you enjoy!

- Emily and the entire Ve team

Comments

Just finished watching this video! One interesting parallel to this "loop" thinking that underlies the riddle is actually found in music theory. There are only 12 notes in the Western style of music, A through G with some notes having 'accidentals', AKA sharps and flats. A scale is just a predetermined order that those notes are played in. The notes of a C major scale are: C - D - E - F - G - A - B - C. Once you reach the B you loop back around to a C, just an octave higher. When you get into more advanced music theory you start to learn about 'modes', which are essentially just a rearranged order of a given scale. They have super weird names but it's the same concept as in the video! For example, the Lydian mode just means the scale starts on the 4th note. So if we apply that concept to our C Major scale it becomes: F - G - A - B - C - D - E. This scale is called F Lydian. It has the same notes as C Major, but it just starts on the 4th note in the scale, F. This transposition is exactly the same way of thinking that the prisoners could use to counter the malicious prison guard. I don't know if anyone else will find this parallel as interesting as I do, but I just thought it was a funny connection in the style of thinking! As I got further into the video I didn't quite understand why it was so confusing, but once I realized that I was already used to a similar 'loop' concept it made a lot of sense why I had an easier time understanding it.

I really like this riddle and this particular explanation.


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