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Ancient Greece Part 3: Hellenistic Greece (300 – 50 BCE)
While many people consider only Classical Greece, the Hellenistic period that followed was no less eventful or influential. This was the era in which…
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The Tale of Trump and the Woke Trans Mice
It's time to start talking about Trump and his war on science. The budget cuts to the NIH have absolutely devastated the scientific community. When a…
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Least Common Multiple (LCM)
Being able to find the least common multiple of two numbers is very useful, as it will allow us to add and subtract fractions, and do all kinds of ot…
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Anticoagulants: Types and Mechanism of Action
With anti-platelets covered, it's time to look at a related class of drugs, anticoagulants. These also influence blood clot generation but through di…
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Old World Archeology Part 1: The Western World
The first place that human civilization truly began was Ancient Mesopotamia, between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in the Middle East. This was fol…
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Theoretical Probability, Permutations and Combinations
What are the odds when you play the lottery? When you bet on a horse race? When you flip a coin? That you'll have a good day today? Some of these are…
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James Madison: Father of the Constitution (1809 - 1817)
James Madison was a tiny fellow, but he packed a political punch. He was absolutely pivotal in the drafting of both the Constitution and the Bill of …
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Eric Weinstein Doesn't Understand Economics
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Everyone knows by now that when Eric Weinstein pretends to be…
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Divisibility, Prime Numbers, and Prime Factorization
Now that we understand division, we can talk about divisibility. A number is divisible by another if their quotient is a whole number. The smaller nu…
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Laplace’s Equation: Separation of Variables
After looking at first-order partial differential equations, it's time to move on to second order PDEs. One method for solving these is to use Laplac…
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