Understanding the Misconceptions of Science

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

• By This Professor
• 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?