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The Origins of ‘Big Bug’ Science Fiction
Insects make up 80 percent of the world’s species, so it's not all that surprising we’ve occasionally made them into monsters in science fiction and horror. What is staggering is why the “big bug” subgenre took off in the 1950s. Find out...
Debunked
Science Fiction VS Science Fact
Movies take a lot of dramatic license where science is concerned, but who's getting it all wrong on the silver screen. From the g-force you would suffer when achieving lightspeed to what a nuclear bomb would sound like in space we...
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What Happens If A Black Hole Hits Earth?
The possibility that a black hole could actually impact Earth may seem straight out of science fiction, but the reality is that microscopic primordial black holes could actually hit Earth. If one did, it wouldn't just impact like an...
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What If Dark Energy is a New Quantum Field?
What is Quintessence? Well we know that something is up with the way the universe is expanding - there’s some kind of anti-gravitational effect that’s causing the expansion to accelerate. We don’t know what it is - just that it competes...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: What happened to antimatter? - Rolf Landua
Particles come in pairs, which is why there should be an equal amount of matter and antimatter in the universe. Yet, scientists have not been able to detect any in the visible universe. Where is this missing antimatter? CERN scientist...
Curated Video
Multiverse Theory Explained: Does the Multiverse Really Exist? Truth of Multiple Realities
Multiverse theory suggests that our universe, which consists of billions and billions of planets, stars and galaxies and extends out tens of billions of light-years, may not be the only universe that exists. There could be another...
All In One Social Media
Retail Store Content Marketing Strategy With Scroll Stopping Content
In an era of excessive online shopping, it is important for your retail store to stay ahead of the game with a killer marketing strategy. In this video, I am going to break down for you tips and strategies to make sure that you are...
Professor Dave Explains
Carbon: The Element of Life
You may have heard that carbon is the element of life. What does that mean? Let's find out!
Curated Video
What is Antimatter?
Nigel Goes to Space Join Nigel as he takes you on his journey to the stars and beyond! Subscribe to Naked Science - http://goo.gl/wpc2Q1 Could isolated and stored anti-matter ever be used as a fuel for interplanetary or interstellar...
TED Talks
TED: Planet City -- a sci-fi vision of an astonishing regenerative future | Liam Young
Get transported on a stunningly rendered, sci-fi safari through Planet City: an imaginary metropolis of 10 billion people, from the brain of director and architect Liam Young. Explore the potential outcomes of an urban space designed to...
Curated Video
What Is Magical Realism?
Get your free two-month subscription to Skillshare: https://skl.sh/thebookchemist Daniel José Older's Storytelling 101: https://www.skillshare.com/classes/Storytelling-101-Character-Conflict-Context-Craft/690933742/projects Critical...
Extra Credits
Why Aren't There Science Fiction Games? - The Philosophy of Fantasy vs. Sci-Fi - Extra Credits
If the goal of science fiction is - as John W. Campbell once said - to "make the marvelous seem mundane, and then the mundane will seem marvelous" then many games let us down by forcing us to experience the same overblown things...
Debunked
What Happens When Your Body Is Exposed To Space?
It's depicted in so many different ways on the TV and in movies but what really happens to the human body when it's exposed to the vacuum of space. Do your eyes pop out, does your blood boil, do you suffocate or do you explode? Let's...
PBS
What If Our Understanding of Gravity Is Wrong?
What if there is no such thing as dark matter? What if our understanding of gravity is just wrong? New work is taking another shot at that Einstein guy. Let’s see if we’ve finally scored a hit with Modified Newtonian Dynamics aka MOND.
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Is Pluto a Planet?
You know what a planet is, right? A big round thing that orbits a star. Uh, not so fast. The surprisingly vicious debate over the planetary status of Pluto has given us a fascinating glimpse into what a scientific definition really is....
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What If Physics IS NOT Describing Reality?
Neils Bohr said, “It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we can say about Nature.” Well it turns out that if we pay attention to this subtle difference, some of the most...
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What Happened Before the Big Bang?
We actually have a pretty good idea of what might have happened before the Big Bang. That is, as long as we define the Big Bang as the extremely hot, dense, rapidly expanding universe that is described by Einstein’s equations. That...
PBS
Is the Proxima System Our Best Hope For Another Earth?
At just four light years away, Proxima Centauri is our closest solar neighbor. The recent discovery of the new exoplanet Proxima D, has reopened the discussion of whether the proxima system is our best chance at reaching another Earth....
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What If Charge is NOT Fundamental?
If you've studied any physics you know that like charges repel and opposite charges attract. But why? It's as though this thing - electric charge - is as fundamental a property of an object as its mass. It just sort of ... is. Well it...
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What If the Galactic Habitable Zone LIMITS Intelligent Life?
Our solar system is a tiny bubble of habitability suspended in a vast universe that mostly wants to kill us. In fact, a good fraction of our own galaxy turns out to be utterly uninhabitable, even for sun—like stellar systems. Is this why...
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What If We Live in a Superdeterministic Universe?
Today we’re going to try to save reality - or at least realism. However this rescue effort has a price; one that you may not be willing to pay. Your very soul, or at least your free will, is on the line.
Curated Video
Creating the Banksy Shredder Effect in Microsoft PowerPoint
This video tutorial demonstrates how to create a Banksy shredder effect in Microsoft PowerPoint. By combining background images, frames, and shredded shapes, you can easily replicate the iconic shredded painting effect with just a few...
FuseSchool
Mutations
So, what causes mutations? Well, this is where science fiction meets science fact, sort of. In the backstory of many superheroes there will be a meeting with a radioactive substance - be it cosmic rays or radioactive waste. In real life,...
Curated Video
Graphing Shifted Exponential and Logarithmic Functions
In this lesson, students will learn how to graph shifted exponential and logarithmic functions by considering the spread of an Internet video. They will understand how changing the base affects the rate of growth or decay, and how...