Science in the Spotlight: Get to Know the Facts with “Duck Quacks Don’t Echo”
Get your fill of “did you know’s” with National Geographic’s new trivia-based show, “Duck Quacks Don’t Echo.”
Danielle Stamer
January 20, 2015
Get your fill of “did you know’s” with National Geographic’s new trivia-based show, “Duck Quacks Don’t Echo.”
A buzzing combination of physics and philosophy, the television series “Through the Wormhole” examines intriguing questions about human existence in an engaging, accessible manner.
In Working Stiff, Dr. Judy Melinek presents her work as a medical examiner trainee in forensic pathology. The text is fascinating, engaging, and emotional – unfortunately, it is not entirely scientific.
As computers become more powerful, many scientists believe they will eventually outsmart humans. Nick Bostrom’s new book, Superintelligence, looks at the dangers inherent in creating ever-brainier machines, and at how we might survive them.
This Smithsonian Channel documentary follows Tim Malkin as he investigates the possibility that refractive mirages caused the Titanic disaster.
We tend to believe radiation is an unqualified evil, but a BBC documentary explores this fear of radioactivity and posits the radical idea that it might not be so bad after all.
We gulp dozens of times each day. We swallow our food and we swallow our beverages, unaware of the evolutionary wonder that is the alimentary
Review of the book Newton’s Football, the Science Behind America’s Game by Allen St. John and Ainissa Ramirez.
Musician-turned-scientist Daniel J. Levitin explores the connection between human psychology and music in This Is Your Brain on Music.
Yale University professor A. Douglas Stone’s new book is a compelling tale of Einstein’s overlooked contributions to quantum mechanics, made accessible for scientist and casual reader alike.