Dexplanations
Education Podcasts
Every week I look something up on Wikipedia and explain it to my friend David.
Location:
United States
Description:
Every week I look something up on Wikipedia and explain it to my friend David.
Twitter:
@dexplanations
Language:
English
Contact:
4352311403
Episodes
Alan Turing Part 2
3/11/2020
Part two about Alan Turing! His work at Bletchley Park, more of his work work with computer science, and his tragic end.
Duration:00:57:10
Alan Turing Part 1
2/20/2020
Alan Turing, his early life and the Enigma Machine.
Duration:00:37:44
Supernova
2/12/2020
How the death of a star turns into the largest explosions we know of.
Duration:00:50:57
Volcanoes
1/29/2020
What causes volcanoes, types of volcanoes, and the effect of volcanoes on our atmosphere.
Duration:00:41:26
CRISPR
1/22/2020
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?
Duration:01:04:36
Famous Last Words
1/15/2020
Sometimes that last things people say are poignant, humorous, or expected. Here's a chronological list of the last things people said.
Duration:01:20:46
Distinctions Between Things (5)
1/8/2020
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!
Duration:00:53:06
Hiccups
1/1/2020
Hiccups causes, cures, and famous hiccupers.
Duration:00:35:44
Glossary of Collective Nouns
12/25/2019
Tons of group names for animals and groups of people. Happy holidays!
Duration:00:37:38
The Streisand Effect
12/18/2019
Don't bother trying to take stuff you don't like off the internet.
Duration:00:37:42
Pareidolia
12/11/2019
Why you tend to see faces in clouds or otherwise interpret something vague as something you are more familiar with.
Duration:00:30:54
Domesticated Foxes
12/4/2019
In 1959 Russian Zoologist, Dmitry Belyayev started an ongoing experiment to domesticate foxes. The program continues today and the implications are vast and extraordinary.
Duration:00:47:32
Rogue Waves
11/27/2019
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.
Duration:00:29:48
Unsual Units of Measure
11/20/2019
Weird ways to measure things.
Duration:01:04:55
Myers-Briggs and the Barnum Effect
11/13/2019
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator would have you believe there are only 16 types of people.
Duration:00:37:29
Space Debris and Kessler Syndrome
11/6/2019
All the the stuff in orbit around the earth presents a risk to itself and modernity.
Duration:00:45:37
Dead Whales
10/30/2019
Beached whales, exploding whales, and whale falls.
Duration:00:45:03
Louis Pasteur
10/23/2019
Dude changed science forever and saved millions of lives as a consequence.
Duration:00:43:48
Blockchain
10/16/2019
What is blockchain? Besides cryptocurrency what are some other applications for it?
Duration:00:40:36
The Zodiac
10/9/2019
What exactly are constellations, and more specifically what are the zodiac constellations?
Duration:00:23:55