The Last Job on Earth, by Moth Collective, envisions the possible negative effects of a world where machines have taken over our jobs. This is a very real fear for some people, as automation is becoming more and more a...
he first video (that you see above) is a collaborative effort between philosopher Jason Silva, and youtuber Melodysheep. It explores the seemingly divine properties of our star, the sun. Knowing the facts about the sun...
enjoy, to some masochistic degree, looking into pseudo-scientific ideas; but not just kind-of wrong pseudo science, but the really wrong stuff. The kind of stuff in which being misinformed is not an excuse; the kind of...
ne of the biggest issues with map-making that persists to this day is translating spherical geometry to a euclidean plane; that is, it’s impossible to accurately portray the surface of a ball on a flat surface....
In physics and mathematics, even the most experienced academic is going to have trouble successfully picturing higher dimensions. But if you are a budding scientist or mathematician, they are unavoidable. Humans live in...
Thriftbooks is one of those things that sound, initially, too good to be true. If you’re a book lover with a small budget, a college student looking for new textbooks, or don’t want to spend too much money...
It’s one thing to know that there are 200 billion stars in the Milky Way Galaxy, that the Sun is a fairly average one, that many stars have planetary systems, and that there are hundreds of billions of other galaxies...
Whenever you’re in a disagreement with someone, whether this be in casual conversation or in formal debate, it is imperative to notice the common logical fallacies that can and will show up. What’s a logical...
Isaac Asimov was a very prolific science fiction and nonfiction writer of the twentieth century. He is well known for his Foundation series of books and I, Robot. He was also a professor of biochemistry at Boston...
Plenty of science publications and websites bring up this idea of Panspermia, a hypothetical mechanism by which life on a planet could be seeded, but does it really have any merit? Kind of…...
What started out as a series of tutoring videos for his relatives, came Sal Khan’s immensely successful – in both popularity, and results – tutoring website, Khan Academy. Not to mention that it is...
Very often I hear that phrase from my peers when I mention what I’m studying (physics), and it breaks my heart. Far too often I hear, “I wish I was good at math/science/etc.,” as if it’s...
Newest episode of Uncertainty Principle on Soundcloud! As well, you can now subscribe to the show on iTunes. This episode explores light pollution, how much we’re really missing of the night sky, and what we can...
As this is a website for the layperson, I’m going to start from the very beginning; what is creationism? I’m going to be incredibly careful when I use that word, as it can mean many different things....
The antivaccination movement is in debt to the rest of us, but that debt includes more than the apology that we should continually be demanding for the revival of once eradicated diseases and the continued lies and...
Art plays a vital role in visualizing the future and far off cosmic places. Our imagination can take us far but is still limited by experience. Do you find yourself wondering what a solar system populated by humans...
The newest episode of Uncertainty Principle! Learn about the Flat Earth Society and how science works in this newest installment of the podcast. Find more episodes on Soundcloud.com/uncertaintyprinciple Music by...
All thirteen episodes of the science education series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey is now on Netflix! If you have a Netflix membership and didn’t see the cosmos series while it was on TV (or just, understandably,...
