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Phylum Echinodermata Part 2: Body Systems
Continuing our study of the echinoderms, let's take a look at their body systems, especially the water vascular system and endoskeleton. What else ca…
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Nomenclature of Hydrated Salts
As long as we're naming stuff, let's name these hydrated salts! You know, like epsom salts?
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The Wave Equation Part 1: Vibrations in 1D
After learning about Fourier transforms, it's time to move on to the wave equation. This is the partial differential equation that models wave propag…
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Nomenclature of Oxyacids
We gotta know how to name all the molecules, and oxyacids are a type of molecule, so let's learn how to name them!
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James Tour Just Keeps Getting Dumber (For Jesus!)
If you've watched James Tour whine about origin of life research, you know he's dumber than rocks. But did you know that he's been getting dumber and…
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Invertebrate Chordates Part 1: Subphylum Cephalochordata (Lancelets)
Many people presume that all members of Chordata have a backbone, but that actually is not true. Vertebrates have backbones, meaning members of subph…
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Set Theory: Types of Sets, Unions and Intersections
We've already learned a little bit about set theory when we first started using interval notation. Let's expand on this a little bit to include sets …
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Calculating Percent Error
Sometimes we take measurements, and sometimes we're off by a little bit. How far off? Does it make sense to just use a number? Shouldn't we use somet…
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Particle Physicist Daniel Whiteson (Get to Know a Scientist!)
Daniel Whiteson is a particle physicist at UC Irvine. So what do particle physicists do? Experiments with particles? Yes they do! But that may not lo…
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Ancient Rome Part 2: The Roman Empire (50 BCE – 250 CE)
In the late first century BCE, the Roman Republic became the Roman Empire. What does this mean? What were the changes that occurred socially and poli…
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