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Understanding the Misconceptions of Science

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Overview

Adjust the prescription of your science glasses by debunking myths about everything from time travel to space aliens to the Big Bang.

Syllabus

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01: What the World Gets Wrong about Science
02: Franklin’s Kite and Other Electrifying Myths
03: The Ideal Gas Law (It’s Not Ideal)
04: From the Ground Up: How Flying Works
05: From the Sky Down: How Falling Works
06: Myths of Orbital Motion
07: What’s Inside Atoms?
08: The Truth Is in Here: The Science of Aliens
09: Misconceptions about Evolution
10: Nutrition’s All About You —and Your Gut Biome
11: Humans Are Not Peas: Myths about Genetics
12: Getting Smarter about Intelligence
13: Exposing the Truth about Radiation
14: Does Carbon-14 Dating Work?
15: How Statistics Can Lie to You
16: Does Thermodynamics Disprove Evolution?
17: How Relativity Is Misunderstood
18: E=mc2 and Other Relativity Myths
19: Why Do Black Holes Get Such a Bad Rap?
20: What Banged, and Was It Big?
21: Can You Go Faster Than Light?
22: Untangling How Quantum Mechanics Works
23: Untangling What Quantum Mechanics Means
24: Is There a Theory of Everything?

Taught by

Don Lincoln

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