FLASHCARDS! The Riddle of Love

FLASHCARDS! The Riddle of Love

It’s Flash­cards Fri­days, and today I’m going to talk about some­thing qui­et­ly uni­ver­sal about what humans do when the year begins to slow down. Across cul­tures, across cen­turies, when the days grow short­er and the nights stretch long, peo­ple gath­er. They sit clos­er togeth­er. They talk more. They tell sto­ries. And again and again, they pose ques­tions that do not

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The Theory of Relativity in less than 10 minutes

The Theory of Relativity in less than 10 minutes

PODCAST TRANSCRIPTS It’s Flash­cards Fri­day at Math! Sci­ence! His­to­ry! and since we’re doing a short pod­cast, I couldn’t think of a bet­ter top­ic to do than a Flash­card about Albert Einstein’s The­o­ry of Rel­a­tiv­i­ty. I’m Gabrielle Bir­chak. I have a back­ground in math, sci­ence, and jour­nal­ism. By the time you’re done lis­ten­ing to this brief pod­cast, you will know more

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