Can you solve the unstoppable blob riddle? - Dan Finkel
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A shooting star crashes onto Earth and a hideous blob emerges. It creeps and leaps, it glides and slides. It’s also unstoppable: no matter what you throw at it, it just re-grows and continues its rampage. The only way to save the planet is to cut the entire blob into precise acute triangles while it sleeps, rendering it inert. Can you stop the blob from destroying the planet? Dan Finkel shows how.
The video mentions a “hidden difficullt” in breaking an obtuse triangle into acute triangles. Explain this difficulty. Why isn’t it easier to cut an obtuse triangle into acute triangles?
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Meet The Creators
- Educator Daniel Finkel
- Director Igor Coric
- Narrator Addison Anderson
- Animator Nemanja Petrovic
- Producer Milica Lapcevic
- Director of Production Gerta Xhelo
- Editorial Producer Alex Rosenthal
- Associate Producer Bethany Cutmore-Scott
- Fact-Checker Brian Gutierrez
