SSS Fight 5: Hawking Vs. Susskind
In a house in San Francisco Leonard Susskind heard Stephen Hawking say that black holes ate information, he did not agree. Download the Episode Fight 5: Hawking Vs. Susskind Music: Supermassive...
View ArticleSSS Fight 6: Edward Drinker Cope Vs. Othniel Charles Marsh
A story of two men with epic names, dinosaurs, dynamite, and science. Oh, and a little scientific battle called the BONE WARS Download the Episode Fight 6: Cope Vs. Marsh Music: Guitar Rock...
View ArticleFight 7: Cantor Vs. Kronecker
On this month’s Science Sparring Society we bring to you the fight of infinity. Pitting two of the greatest mathematical minds of their generation against one another, the fight over infinity changed...
View ArticleACMEScience News Now: Episode 1: Paul Hines
Welcome to ACMEScience News Now, your source for news about science and mathematics research, as well as the researchers behind it. On the first episode Samuel Hansen is joined by Paul Hines of the...
View ArticleSSS Fight 8: Adams Vs. Le Verrier
On this month’s Science Sparring Society we bring to you a battle as a big as a planet, oops a fight over a planet. Neptune was first discovered by Johann Galle and Heinrich d’Arrest based on...
View ArticleAnnouncing Relatively Prime
Relatively Prime is finally ready for its big premiere, and I am happy to announce that it will happen next Monday, September 17th. We are hoping that Relatively Prime will get big buzz and we are...
View ArticleACMEScience NEWS NOW Episode 2: Sally Dodson-Robinson
Welcome to ACMEScience NEWS NOW, your source for news about science and mathematics research, as well as the researchers behind it. On the episode two Samuel Hansen is joined by Sally Dodson-Robinson...
View ArticleRelatively Prime Episode 1: The Toolbox
The first episode of Relatively Prime is now up!!!! The mathematics that we all learn in school is great. No, really, it is. How can anyone get through life without knowing how to add or subtract....
View ArticleRelatively Prime Episode 2: The Score
There are many similarities between mathematics and music. They are their own vocabulary, their own written language, their own way of describing the world around us, but while they are similar the...
View ArticleSSS Fight 9: DNA
On this month’s Science Sparring Society we bring you the fight over who will find, and who will be credited for finding, the double helix. With multiple teams battling to be the first over the...
View ArticleACMEScience News Now 3: Oleg Igoshin
Welcome to ACMEScience NEWS NOW, your source for news about science and mathematics research, as well as the researchers behind it. On episode 3 Samuel Hansen is joined by Oleg Igoshin of the Cellular...
View ArticleSCC 47: Frank Morgan
On today’s episode of Strongly Connected Components Samuel Hansen has a conversation with Frank Morgan, the Atwell Professor of Mathematics at Williams College. They speak about Soap Bubbles, the...
View ArticleSSS 10: Mercator Vs. Peters
In 1973 Arno Peters launched an attack on most prevalent map projection in the world, a 400 year old map created by the flemish cartographer Geradus Mercator, and released his own map to replace...
View ArticleSCC 62: Katie Steckles
On this episode of Strongly Connected Components Samuel Hansen is joined by mathematician Katie Steckles. They discuss how ER influenced her to study mathematics, just what the word mathematician...
View ArticleSCC 63: Santa Fe Institute
On this episode of Strongly Connected Components Samuel Hansen travels to Santa Fe to speak with three of the researchers at the Santa Fe Institute. He speaks with Yoav Kallus about packing oranges,...
View ArticleC&P 72: My Mom Thinks I’m a Mathematician
Even though no on asked for it Samuel did it, he brought back Combinations and Permutations. Really he did it for a segment of Relatively Prime, but in the end it is the same result: More ridiculous...
View ArticleThe Lexicon
The Lexicon Download the Episode Subscribe: iTunes or RSS The Three R’s, Reading Writing and ’Rithmetic, have formed the basis of formal education for centuries, at least since they were mentioned by...
View ArticleYour Daily Recommended Math
Download the Episode Subscribe: iTunes or RSS Your Daily Recommended Math We all use mathematics everyday. At least that is what we all like to tell our friends who ask us, “What good is math anyway?”...
View ArticleMathematistan
Download the Episode Subscribe: iTunes or RSS Mathematistan Mathematics may be the most pure, the most abstract, the most ivory tower of all academic disciplines, but nothing, nothing is beyond the...
View ArticleDiegetic Plots: Chapter One
Download the Episode Subscribe: iTunes or RSS Diegetic Plots: Chapter One This episode of Relatively Prime is going to be delving into the humanistic side of mathematics. It is the first chapter in a...
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