• Science Sparring Society: Fights from the History of Science

  • By: ACMEScience
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Science Sparring Society: Fights from the History of Science

By: ACMEScience
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  • Fights from the history of science
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Episodes
  • SSS 14: Global Warming vs Climate Change
    Feb 25 2015
    Talking about the effect that humans are having on our environment due to CO2 we have two choices, we can talk about Global Warming or we can talk about Climate Change. This bout of Science Sparring Society is about that fight and features Wally Broecker, a geochemist with a history when it comes to …
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    Less than 1 minute
  • SSS Fight 13: Stigler’s Law
    Dec 31 2014
    “Eponymy in science is the practice of affixing the names of scientists to what they have discovered or are believed to have discovered,’ as with Boyle’s Law, Halley’s comet, Fourier’s transform, Planck’s constant, the Rorschach test, the Gini coefficient, and the Thomas theorem” –Richard K Merton, “The Thomas Theorem and The Matthew Effect” There are a …
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    4 mins
  • SSS Fight 12: Hilai Vs. Chandrasekhar
    Dec 29 2012
    The widespread use of Dark Energy power creation has been with us for decades, but the story of the two best friends that are responsible for our ability to harvest the invisible majority of matter in the universe is as heartbreaking as it is important. Download the Episode [wpaudio url=”https://www.acmescience.com/Podcasts/SSS/ssshvc.mp3″ text=”Fight 12: Hilai Vs. …
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    8 mins

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