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Ye Olde Debunking

Have you ever wondered where “Ye Olde” spelling comes from? Today we unravel this thorny linguistic issue.

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London Bridge Was Sold to the US!?

London Bridge has already been rebuilt twice! But what happened to the bridges that came down?

Also, explore a map of the big bang! http://www.bigbangregistry.com

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Why Are Leaves Green? Part 2

Still wondering why leaves are green and not purple or even black? CHLOROPHYLL! It’s how leaves work.

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REFERENCES
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Papers referred to in the making of this video:
Blankenship, Robert E. 2010. Early evolution of photosynthesis. Plant physiology 154(2): 434-438. http://www.plantphysiology.org/content/154/2/434.full.pdf+html

Hohmann-Marriott, M. F., & Blankenship, R. E. 2011. Evolution of photosynthesis. Annual review of plant biology 62: 515-548. http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-arplant-042110-103811

Raven, J. A. 2009. Functional evolution of photochemical energy transformations in oxygen-producing organisms. Functional Plant Biology 36(6): 505-515. http://www.publish.csiro.au/?act=view_file&file_id=FP09087.pdf

Open Letter to the Universe

My open letter to the universe.

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What is Touch?

In this quantum world, what does it mean to touch something?
Do we really hover above the chairs we’re sitting in?

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How to Count Infinity

“Some infinities are bigger than other infinities” – Hazel Grace Lancaster, in “The Fault in Our Stars,” by John Green

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How far is a second?

The moon may be 1.3 light-seconds away, but why on earth do we measure distances using time?

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The Tacoma Narrows Fallacy

Teach your teacher: the collapse of the Tacoma Narrows bridge WASN’T resonance.

And I defer all arguments to the elocution of Profs. Billah and Scanlon: http://www.ketchum.org/billah/Billah-Scanlan.pdf

Vortex shedding video: http://youtu.be/JI0M1gVNhbw?t=2m12s
Tacoma Bridge video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mclp9QmCGs

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Einstein and The Special Theory of Relativity

How Einstein (& others) discovered Special Relativity.

Pi day (3.14) is Albert Einstein’s Birthday! To celebrate, we’ll explain 4 of his most groundbreaking papers from 1905, when he was just 26 years old.

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How lasers work (in theory)

How does a laser really work? It’s Bose – Einstein statistics! (photons are bosons)

Check out Smarter Every Day’s video showing lasers in real life: http://bit.ly/uBwhU2

Trying out a new feature: English Transcript! Let me know how it works

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Antimatter Explained

E=mc² is Incomplete

Is it Better to Walk or Run in the Rain?