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How the US poisoned Navajo Nation

The biggest radioactive spill in US history. As World War Two was ending, the growing nuclear arms race put the US in need of uranium. It turned to Navajo Nation, where the uranium mining industry thrived for four decades — … Continue reading

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Neuroscientist Makes Playlist of the Happiest Songs According to Science

Did your “happy song” make the list? What is your happy song? According to one Dutch neuroscientist, most happy songs have some distinctive traits in common. Several years ago, Dr. Jacob Jolij—at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands—was asked … Continue reading

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Why We May Be Surrounded by Older Alien Civilizations

Are alien civilizations likely to be younger or older than us in age? A basic question that seems insurmountable until we start detecting them. But even before that, we can use some logical deduction using lifetime distribution statistics to determine … Continue reading

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Your Daily Equation #22: 8 – 2 ÷ 2 x 3 + 4 = ?

Episode 22 #YourDailyEquation: Simple arithmetic problems go viral with people proposing all sorts of different answers. It speaks to an important concept–the order of various operations matters–but, as Brian Greene discusses, is often taught in a less-than-inspirational way in the … Continue reading

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We’re Still Living and Dying in the Slaveholders’ Republic

Ibram X. Kendi Director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research He became a founding father. He coveted his freedom. But for most of his political career, he turned away from talk of founding or fathering a new nation … Continue reading

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A new way to visualize General Relativity

How to faithfully represent general relativity ? Is the image of the rubber sheet accurate ? What is the curvature of time ? All these answers in 11 minutes !

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Quantum Field Theory visualized

How to reconcile relativity with quantum mechanics ? How do we describe particles mathematically ? Where does the electric charge come from ? All these answers in 15 minutes ! 0:00 – Introduction 1:52 – Field and spin 4:38 – … Continue reading

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A cyclical, forgetful Universe – Nobel prizewinner Roger Penrose details an astonishing origin hypothesis | Aeon

Since the discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation in 1965, the Big Bang theory has been the dominant model of our Universe’s origin. In the ensuing decades, an obvious and yet still deeply unsettled question has emerged at the core … Continue reading

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What Would We Experience If Earth Spontaneously Turned Into A Black Hole?

If a black hole were to appear between the Earth and an observer, the Earth would appear gravitationally lensed in a fashion similar to this, dependent on the Earth’s position relative to the black hole and the observer. If a … Continue reading

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40 Interesting Answers To What Will Never Be The Same Once The Pandemic Is Over, As Said By People On Reddit | Bored Panda

The phrase “avoid it like the plague” – turns out people don’t do that.   A Reddit user recently asked what will never be the same again once the pandemic is over? And Reddit delivered over 17,000 responses, the best … Continue reading

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