It’s Flashcards Friday here on Math Science History, where we take big ideas and pack them into small, powerful moments. I’m Gabrielle Birchak, and I have a background in science, math and journalism, and today, we’re flipping through the math and science behind one of life’s biggest challenges: saving time. Because here’s the truth, time is the only thing you
Time Travel Imagine stepping into a machine, an elaborate chamber of brass, gears, and humming coils. You sit down, pull a lever, and suddenly the world outside your window blurs. The clock on the wall no longer ticks in neat, familiar seconds. Instead, time itself bends and stretches like taffy. Days whirl past in moments, centuries collapse into a single
Is there a science behind spirits? What about the chemistry of ghosts and whiskey? Learn more …
As Halloween is upon us in the United States and in Canada, today we are talking about some creepy things, like why the tech guy can make your computer work as soon as he enters the room, why some people have bad juju wherever they go, and what spells you can do to either implement or break technical bad spells.
PODCAST TRANSCRIPTS Welcome to Flashcards Fridays on MATH! SCIENCE! HISTORY!. I’m Gabrielle Birchak and today we’re tackling a subject that’s both urgent and empowering. How each of us can play a part in conserving our oceans. The ocean covers more than 70% of the earth’s surface. It produces over half of the oxygen we breathe and supports a rich web
Today we interview Gillen D’Arcy Wood, the author of The Wake of the HMS Challenger, and learn about our 19th century oceans.
In 1975, a cat published a scientific paper. Yep, you read that right!
The history of math is a wild and bumpy ride. From goats to rockets, it’s all here!
PODCAST TRANSCRIPTS [Gabrielle Birchak] I believe in the United States. I believe in our resilience and I believe that this experiment that is known as America can do so much better if we trust science. And after today, I hope you have the same revelation. Today’s very special episode includes an interview with the Director of Research at the Massachusetts
In the sciences, we celebrate big ideas. We celebrate equations that stitch the invisible world of atoms to the world we touch. We celebrate the people who see patterns the rest of us miss. But we rarely celebrate something more fundamental: the whole human mind that carries those ideas, with its strengths, its limits, and its storms. Today, we are