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Dexplanations

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Every week I look something up on Wikipedia and explain it to my friend David.

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  1. Alan Turing Part 2

    Part two about Alan Turing! His work at Bletchley Park, more of his work work with computer science, and his tragic end.

  2. Alan Turing Part 1

    Alan Turing, his early life and the Enigma Machine.

  3. Supernova

    How the death of a star turns into the largest explosions we know of.

  4. Volcanoes

    What causes volcanoes, types of volcanoes, and the effect of volcanoes on our atmosphere.

  5. CRISPR

    CRISPR is possibly the most radical world changing discovery/technology ever. How does it work? what can we do with it, and what are some of the ethical implications we should consider?

  6. Famous Last Words

    Sometimes that last things people say are poignant, humorous, or expected. Here's a chronological list of the last things people said.

  7. Distinctions Between Things (5)

    A new round of things to distinguish between. Whats the difference between asteroids, comets, and meteors? Fur and hair? Soft and hard water? and more!

  8. Hiccups

    Hiccups causes, cures, and famous hiccupers.

  9. Glossary of Collective Nouns

    Tons of group names for animals and groups of people. Happy holidays!

  10. The Streisand Effect

    Don't bother trying to take stuff you don't like off the internet.

  11. Pareidolia

    Why you tend to see faces in clouds or otherwise interpret something vague as something you are more familiar with.

  12. Domesticated Foxes

    In 1959 Russian Zoologist, Dmitry Belyayev started an ongoing experiment to domesticate foxes. The program continues today and the implications are vast and extraordinary.

  13. Rogue Waves

    Rogue Waves weren't thought to be real until 1995 because of assumptions in math, and that anyone who encountered them probably didn't live to tell the tale.

  14. Unsual Units of Measure

    Weird ways to measure things.

  15. Myers-Briggs and the Barnum Effect

    The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator would have you believe there are only 16 types of people.

  16. Space Debris and Kessler Syndrome

    All the the stuff in orbit around the earth presents a risk to itself and modernity.

  17. Dead Whales

    Beached whales, exploding whales, and whale falls.

  18. Louis Pasteur

    Dude changed science forever and saved millions of lives as a consequence.

  19. Blockchain

    What is blockchain? Besides cryptocurrency what are some other applications for it?

  20. The Zodiac

    What exactly are constellations, and more specifically what are the zodiac constellations?

  21. Impeachment

    How the process of impeachment works and where we are right now.

  22. Jury Nullification

    Its not part of the law but it is a consequence of the law. Probably don't listen if you really want to be on a jury.

  23. The Darwin Awards

    The highest honor for the stupidest people who made the ultimate sacrifice.

  24. International Space Law

    The Outer Space Treaty and addendums to it.

  25. The Nash Equilibrium

    As a sequel to the prisoners dilemma we take a deeper dive into game theory.

  26. The Prisoner's Dilemma

    Why don't people cooperate even though it is in everyone interest to do so?

  27. Alex the Parrot

    Over the course of 30 years Dr. Irene Pepperberg studied and trained Alex. He became absolutely the smartest parrot ever studied, and solidified the fact that birds are, or can be extremely intelligent.

  28. Black Body Radiation

    The birth of quantum physics, Max Plank, and what type of electromagnetic radiation things emit based solely on their temperature.

  29. Catnip and Pop Rocks

    Why does catnip affect cats and how do Pop Rocks work?

  30. The Resolute Desk

    The desk currently in the Oval Office has quite the history. A lost expeditions trying to find the northwest passage, tons of dead people, a gift from Queen Victoria, and the rest of the desks used in the Oval Office.

  31. Abiogenesis

    The origin of life.

  32. The Wu-Tang Clan

    The formation of the Wu, and sh!t ODB did.

  33. The Dress and Yanny or Laurel

    Whats up with the dress, and why do you hear it that way?

  34. Humidity

    How much water can be in the air and how do we measure it?

  35. Animal Genitalia

    Theres a lotta crazy sh!t goin on down there in the animal kingdom.

  36. The Dunning-Kruger and Mandela Effects

    How incompetence can lead to overconfidence, and why we are prone to having and sharing false memories.

  37. Giant Pandas

    All about the most cutest of all charismatic megafauna.

  38. Gerrymandering

    How state governments choose their voters.

  39. Ambergris

    What comes out a sperm whales butt is worth more than gold.

  40. Distinctions Between Things (4)

    Half v Halve Shrimp v Prawn Call v Well Drinks De Jure v De Facto Faun v Satyr Stalactites v Stalagmites Clouds and Precipitation types Alge v Plants Possum v Opossum Implosion v Explosion Donkey v Mule Plurality V Majority Cement v Concrete Laterality Bison v Buffalo Seal v Sea Lion Solution v...

  41. The Dolphin House Experiment

    There was an attempt to teach dolphins to speak english. There was also LSD and hand jobs.

  42. Gigantism and Island Gigantism

    First it's people who have a tumor behind their pituitary gland, then its species that get stuck on islands.

  43. The Kardashev Scale

    Scaling advanced civilizations by how much power they could harness and use. What could those civilizations do, and how would they gather so much energy?

  44. Déjà Vu

    A black cat walked past us and then another just like it.

  45. The Coriolis Effect

    As the world turns: Sniper rifles, pendulums, hurricanes, but not toilettes.

  46. Marie Curie

    The scientist, the rebel, the survivor, the badass; Marie Curie.

  47. The Human Penis

    How many times can we say penis in an episode?

  48. Cracking Joints and Chiropractic

    After talking about what happens when you crack your joints, we talk about its link with arthritis(none). Then we talk a lot of *hit on chiropractic.

  49. Depth Perception and Stereoscopy

    What makes depth perception possible. Then we talk about stereoscopy, View-Masters, the magic eye books, and other tricks that make you see 2D images as 3D.

  50. Nautical Terminology

    Avast, collaborate and listen! This editions all about boat stuff and sailor jargon.

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Every week I look something up on Wikipedia and explain it to my friend David.

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