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Reacting to Dr. Mike and the Anti-Vaxxers
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General Relativity: The Curvature of Spacetime
Relativity comes in different flavors, as it happens. We spent some time looking at Einstein's special relativity, so now it's time for the general v…
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The Double-Slit Experiment
The double-slit experiment is a classic experiment that is frequently referred to when describing quantum phenomena, so we definitely have to go over…
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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…
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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…
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The Diffusion Equation Part 3: Green’s Functions
Script by Lorcan Nicholls
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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