Karl Popper, Science, & Pseudoscience: Crash Course Philosophy #8
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The religion of Islam significantly influenced knowledge-making in the greater Mediterranean and western Asian world. Islamicate scholars—meaning people influenced by Islamic civilization, regardless of their…
Hey folks, I’m Phil Plait and this is Crash Course Astronomy. You know, I can’t think of any object in the sky that’s captured our…
You might have recognized the names of some of the Greek natural philosophers. They were individuals with quirky theories, and we have records about them….
As we’ve seen over the past few episodes, a lot of really epic stuff happens when a star dies. If the star’s core is less…
After a year of studying the laws of the universe together, a year of studying and calculating, learning about motion and fluids, thermodynamics, electricity and…
What is the nature of the Universe? How’s that for a question? For a long time we humans had no idea what was going on…
When an 8 – 20 solar mass star ends its life, it does so with a bang: a supernova. And when it’s all over, there’s…
Let’s recap the history of science so far: systematic knowledge-making has probably occurred as long as humans have been around. Unfortunately, historians rely primarily on…