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Have you ever tried watching James Burke's "Connections"? A lot of facts are wrong, and connections are weak, but it's still more entertaining and educational than 99% of the stuff out there. I could say the same thing about the "Radiolab" podcast.

If you really want to help these people (and all of us), why don't you email Vi Hart, and offer your fact-checking services for her next video?

I'm sure her production team is quite small (~1). I love her videos, but I'd also to be happy for them to be more accurate.



Keeping in mind her "pi = 4" and similar videos, isn't it better for the audience to always be questioning and always be fact-checking than to blindly trust that what she says is correct?


What's is incorrect about http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2xYjiL8yyE ?

She points out a paradox in a seemingly intuitive method of computing a limit.


I didn't say it was incorrect, I said that the audience should always fact check. I am also not saying it is correct. Boolean logic has stunted our minds. There is not only true and false. There is true, false, unknown, and undefined.




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