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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