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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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GPS, relativity, and nuclear detection

GPS is just a big clock in space! (and it can detect nuclear explosions)

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Open Letter to the Universe

My open letter to the universe.

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

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Thanks to Nima Doroud and Chantal Hutchison for contributions and to Perimeter Institute for support.
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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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Thanks to Ross Diener for contributions and to Perimeter Institute for support. Created by Henry Reich

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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Thanks to Nima Doroud and Alex Yale for contributions and to Perimeter Institute for support. Created by Henry Reich

The Tides

Bad tidings – the tides are slowing down the earth!

For more detail about the tides: http://www.jal.cc.il.us/~mikolajsawicki/Tides_new2.pdf

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Music by Nathaniel Schroeder
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youtube: http://bit.ly/pakJLE Created by Henry Reich

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

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How the Sun works: Fusion and Quantum Tunneling

What is Quantum Tunneling?

What is a Neutrino?

Neutrinos are the vampires of physics.

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Schrödinger’s Cat