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The origin of countless conspiracy theories - PatrickJMT

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Why can we find geometric shapes in the night sky? How can we know that at least two people in London have exactly the same number of hairs on their head? And why can patterns be found in just about any text — even Vanilla Ice lyrics? PatrickJMT describes the Ramsey theory, which states that given enough elements in a set or structure, some interesting pattern among them is guaranteed to emerge.

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Educator
PatrickJMT
Script Editor
Alex Gendler
Director
M.R. Horhager
Producer
M.R. Horhager
Artist
Aaron Hong
Animator
Sean Janisse
Editor
Sean Janisse
Compositor
Sean Janisse
Composer
Manuel Borda
Sound Designer
Manuel Borda
Narrator
Addison Anderson

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