The Engineer’s Proximity Effect and the Pauli Effect

The Engineer’s Proximity Effect and the Pauli Effect

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.

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FLASHCARDS! Protecting Our Oceans

FLASHCARDS! Protecting Our Oceans

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

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Washington, Adams, and Smallpox: An MHS Interview

Washington, Adams, and Smallpox: An MHS Interview

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

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Ludwig Boltzmann: Entropy, Atoms, and Mental Health

Ludwig Boltzmann: Entropy, Atoms, and Mental Health

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

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Quasicrystals: The Strange Order That Changed Crystallography

Quasicrystals: The Strange Order That Changed Crystallography

Today, we’re explor­ing qua­sicrys­tals, what they are, how an “impos­si­ble” pat­tern was found in a lab, how it became the cat­a­lyst to rewrit­ing text­books, and why this exot­ic order mat­ters for real‑world tech­nolo­gies from wear‑resistant coat­ings to pho­ton­ics. I’m Gabrielle Bir­chak, and this is Math! Sci­ence! His­to­ry! Imag­ine hold­ing a met­al that seems to obey rules nature once for­bid. You

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Science Under Siege: America’s War on Knowledge

Science Under Siege: America’s War on Knowledge

Right now, sci­ence in the Unit­ed States is under attack. It is not just being debat­ed, it is being attacked and dimin­ished at the hands of our cur­rent admin­is­tra­tion. False lies are being pro­mot­ed while igno­rance is being cel­e­brat­ed. And his­to­ry has shown us time and time again that when fac­tu­al infor­ma­tion and edu­ca­tion are dis­man­tled and pro­hib­it­ed, it leads

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