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Paleoarcheology
Archeology is the study of human remains, but some archeologists choose to study the era just before humans came about, in order to examine the mater…
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Electric Potential, Current, and Resistance
Whenever you plug something into an electrical socket, don't you wonder what's going on? Well you should, as it's pretty neat. What is electricity ma…
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Present Tense for Fourth Conjugation Verbs in Latin
We've made it through first, second, and third conjugation verbs, so let's tackle the fourth and final conjugation. These are the ones that end in -i…
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Electric Charge and Electric Fields
What's the deal with electricity? Benjamin Franklin flies a kite one day and then all of a sudden you can charge your phone? There's a gap in concept…
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Avi Loeb is a Fraud Part 2: 3I/ATLAS Shrugged
A few months ago I exposed Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb as a grifting fraud, whose entire "scientific output" over the past decade or so, has been…
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Color and Refraction
What is color? What is it that determines the color of an object? And what the heck is refraction? Good thing we just learned about electromagnetic r…
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Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis of Petroleum
A very interesting early industrial process is the synthesis of petroleum from coal, developed by German chemists Franz Fischer and Hans Tropsch. Let…
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Introduction to Geometry: Ancient Greece and the Pythagoreans
I have to tell you, Ancient Greece is my favorite era of history. Oh, how I wish I could have been there to philosophize with the greats! Socrates, P…
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Solving Exponential and Logarithmic Equations
Now that we know how to use logarithms, we are ready to solve a whole new class of equations that we couldn't before! Whether these are logarithmic e…
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What is Light? Maxwell and the Electromagnetic Spectrum
Up until a couple centuries ago, we had no idea what light is. It seems like magic, no? But there is no magic in this world, really. Just stuff we do…
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