It's so so easy to be a conspiracy theorist
You just make stuff up
And anything that disproves your crap, just claim it's fake
It's a con trick for intellectual minnows
Sadly - it works
@DrNeilStone You are quite right, Dr. Stone. I study conspiracy addiction and addicts.
Creating a conspiracy theory is stupidly easy - it’s practically a paint-by-numbers game.
First, you dream up some wild, outlandish story. Doesn’t matter how absurd - say, the moon’s a hologram or your…
On this day in 1928, Alexander Fleming noticed a mold growing on one of his petri dishes at St. Mary’s Hospital in London. This contaminated petri dish led to the discovery of penicillin - the world's first antibiotic that has saved millions of lives.
Penicillin, the world's first widely effective antibiotic, turns 97 today.
On September 28, 1928, Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin, the world’s first widely effective antibiotic, in his London lab. Returning from a holiday, he noticed a petri dish where Penicillium…
Scientists found a skull that pushes human evolution back 500,000 years.
A million-year-old human skull found in central China may rewrite the story of where, when, and how our species began.
The fossil, named Yunxian 2, was discovered decades ago in Hubei Province and long…
The Fourier series is a way to represent any periodic function as a sum of simple sine and cosine waves.
In essence, it breaks down complex signals into a combination of basic trigonometric functions, making it a powerful tool in mathematics, physics, and engineering for…
If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music... I get most joy in life out of music.
-- A. Einstein
Michael Faraday was born 234 years ago today 🎉. In 1846, Faraday gave a lecture suggesting that lines of force and their vibrations produced light.
Maxwell later stated that this lecture marked the beginning of Electromagnetism.
These are the original notes of that lecture.
This galaxy is not only pretty -- it's useful. A gorgeous spiral some 100 million light-years distant, NGC 1309 lies on the banks of the constellation of the River (Eridanus). NGC 1309 spans about 60,000 light-years, making it about two-thirds the size of our larger Milky Way…
In 1927, 29 leading physicists met in Brussels at the Solvay Conference to debate quantum theory - 17 of them were Nobel Prize winners. This gathering saw Einstein and Bohr argue the nature of reality.
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Brook Taylor was born in London exactly 340 years ago today 🎉 He introduced the Taylor series in 1715 as a way to approximate complicated functions using polynomials built from their derivatives at a point.
The core idea: any smooth-enough function can be expressed locally as…
Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle: It's impossible to simultaneously know the exact position and momentum of a particle. This fundamental uncertainty is a cornerstone of quantum mechanics.
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Where Hydrogen’s converted into Hel-i-um at a temperature of millions of degrees.
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793 Followers 231 FollowingGeoengineering may become necessary in the future but Dane Wigington of GeoengineeringWatch propagates the delusion that it's already happening. I debunk it.
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