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Understanding the Misconceptions of Science

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Course Description

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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