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The real story behind Archimedes’ Eureka! - Armand D'Angour

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When you think of Archimedes’ Eureka moment, you probably imagine a man in a bathtub, right? As it turns out, there's much more to the story. Armand D'Angour tells the story of Archimedes' biggest assignment -- an enormous floating palace commissioned by a king -- that helped him find Eureka.

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  • Educator Armand D'Angour
  • Director Michael Kalopaidis
  • Producer Zedem Media
  • Artist Dinos Hadjidemetri
  • Animator Maria Savva
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What does Archimedes’ Eureka moment have to tell us about the process of creative problem solving?

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Avatar for Yamuna Kunwar
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It tells us that we can find solutions everywhere if you know how to be creative with it.


Avatar for Jayden Wu
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it tells us about the abstract minds that we have in which we can use to solve many complex and various problems.


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between science and people's creative intuition.


Avatar for Mavis Feng
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You have to break down a problem and understand it if you want to find a good solution.


Avatar for Vivienne Wang
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It is about using a unique way to figure out problems


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People where creative.


Avatar for Bryanna Ibarra Andrade
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It's about them making a unexpected measured boat with a library, pool and more on the bottom of inside the boat.


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I think the same thing but it normally takes a little bit of time first.


Avatar for Nguyen Long
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it is about like using a bathtub to calculate how to make a boat float is pretty neat and creative ;))


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