EXPLORING THE UNIVERSE

Relativity: Warping the Fabric of Spacetime

Relativity: Warping the Fabric of Spacetime

  When someone is asked what they want to do with their life, we’re used to a familiar response: “I want to change the world, I want to make an...
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The Most Complex Word in the English Language

The Most Complex Word in the English Language

  What is the most complex word in the English language?  At first, you might think of something long, like supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, which is among the longest words of the English...
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Entropy: The Heat Death of The Universe

Entropy: The Heat Death of The Universe

Meet Arthur. Arthur is really good at math and he always has been. In fact, he planned on going to college to study math. But recently, life didn’t pan out...
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Nihilism: The Belief in Nothing

Nihilism: The Belief in Nothing

  We all know how it goes. One day we’re born, one day we die. Everything that happens in between we know and understand, but everything that happened before and...
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The Nostalgia Effect

The Nostalgia Effect

You look out the window into the empty streets. No sounds of kids running around, no noise of busy streets littered with both cars and pedestrians. The city is silent,...
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Stoicism: Become Undefeatable

Stoicism: Become Undefeatable

“We suffer more in imagination than in reality.” - Seneca In the city of Cyprus in 300 BC, there lived a very wealthy trader called Zeno. While on a voyage...
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Bitcoin: The Currency of The Internet

Bitcoin: The Currency of The Internet

Over time, things tend to change a lot. Earth was once devoid of life, and then one day, it wasn’t.  Horses used to be a normal form of transportation, fast...
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The Four Forces of Nature

The Four Forces of Nature

  The word “force” is used quite a bit these days.  A government may threaten the use of force on another nation. A child might scream in protest at being...
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Everything We Don't Know

Everything We Don't Know

  This is green. This is red. And this is blue. But how can you tell that what you’re seeing as blue is the exact same thing as what I...
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This Is A Lie

This Is A Lie

Time travel is confusing, and can have drastic effects. Imagine a world where you were the last living grandson of Hitler. You grew up reading and learning the terrible things...
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The Golden Ratio: Nature's Favorite Number

The Golden Ratio: Nature's Favorite Number

  Humanity has always been in search of patterns. They make us feel comfortable. They give us meaning. Whether they be in the deepest, most conceptually difficult topics like string...
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The Human Body in Space

The Human Body in Space

When you think about the true cost of space exploration, what do you think of? Maybe you think about the Challenger accident, or maybe you think about the Columbia disaster....
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