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Dunking on Chris Langan With Grayson
Grayson Hawk is another excellent science communicator and debunker who tackles many of the same charlatans that I do. If you enjoyed my debunk of th…
3 days, 15 hours ago
Ancient Rome Part 3: The Later Empire (250 – 500 CE)
After the crisis of the third century, the later Roman Empire took shape. This period involved many different leaders, great political change, and th…
3 days, 15 hours ago
The Diffusion Equation Part 3: Green’s Functions
Script by Lorcan Nicholls
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3 days, 16 hours ago
Special Relativity Part 4: Mass-Energy Equivalence or E = mc²
Everyone and their mom knows about E = mc^2, it's the most famous equation in science, and there are plenty of posters you can buy for your dorm room…
3 days, 16 hours ago
Quantization of Energy Part 2: Photons, Electrons, and Wave-Particle Duality
So Max Planck kicked things off, but how does the story of modern physics continue? With none other than your favorite scientist and mine, Albert Ein…
3 days, 17 hours ago
Ancient China Part 1: The Shang Dynasty (1600 – 1000 BCE)
It's time to head to the far east to investigate the first civilizations of China. The first of these is referred to as the Shang dynasty. How was th…
3 days, 18 hours ago
Quantization of Energy Part 1: Blackbody Radiation and the Ultraviolet Catastrophe
So we know that physics got turned upside down at the turn of the 20th century, but how did that all begin? What was the first thing that set this wh…
3 days, 19 hours ago
Basic Euclidean Geometry: Points, Lines, and Planes
Pythagoras wasn't the only Greek fellow that was into math, you know. A little bit later, a fellow named Euclid built upon the work of old Pythag, an…
3 days, 20 hours ago
Complex Numbers: Operations, Complex Conjugates, and the Linear Factorization Theorem
In getting through algebra, we never talked about complex numbers, but they are important so let's discuss them now! These are numbers with a real co…
3 days, 21 hours ago
Individual Characteristics of Fingerprints
Now we have the basic types of fingerprint patterns down. But is that enough? Far from it. Now we have to examine the individual characteristics of f…
3 days, 21 hours ago