Why Do Adaptations Work? – Easy Hard Science

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Alchemy & Art: Birth of Chemistry
- Introduction
- Ancient Egyptians
- Purple Paint?
- Ancient Greeks
- Scientific Progress
- Ancient Romans
- The Baghdad Battery
- Dark Ages
- Bacon
- The Renaissance
- Cement
- The Periodic Table
- Dynamite!
- Learning More
Deep History of the Chemical Elements
- Matter & Energy
- Elements Formed in Stars
- Iron and Carbon
- Heavy Elements from Supernovae
- Some Heavy Elements
- Lab-Made Plutonium
- Is Nuclear Energy Sustainable?
- Medical Imaging
- Hydrogen Fuel Cells
- Solar Panels
- Energy Research Ideas
Nanoscale Odyssey: 2020
- Nanoscale Odyssey 2020
- The Concept of Scale
- Pop Quiz
- The Microscale and Nanoscale
- Nanoscale Gates in a Computer Chip
- The Industrial Revolution: Millimeter Sized Parts
- Modern Car Engines: Microscale Parts Spacing
- Vacuum Tubes: Really Big Electronics
- Transistors: Nanoscale Electronics
- Computer Chips Over Time
- Elements of the Periodic Table in Computer Chips
- Everything is Different with Nanolayers!
- 7 Examples of Everyday Nanotech
Ocean waves, Airwaves & Brainwaves
- Brainwaves and Soundwaves are Vibrations
- Waves in the Water
- Sound Wave from a Guitar String
- Sound Wave Diagram
- Sounds Waves for Noise and Music
- The Timbre of 4 Different Musical Instruments
- Waves Interact
- A Musical Chord (3 Simultaneous Notes)
- Resonance
- The Weather
- Brainwaves
- Alpha, Beta, Theta, Delta Waves
- It’s Just a Classification
- Music and Culture
Sometimes Nature Glows in the Dark
- Sometimes Nature Glows in the Dark
- How Many Ways to Represent a Fish?
- Why Do Adaptations Work?
- Real or Fake?
- Why Does It Glow?
- Safety in Numbers
- Bioluminescent Plankton, Glo Worms, and Fireflies
- Luciferin… Bwah ha ha!
- How Luciferin Works
- EM Waves
- The Spectrum of EM Waves
- Energy of EM Waves and Color
- A Blue Glowing Chemical
- Synthetic Chemicals Based on Bioluminescence
- Go Find Some Bioluminescence
You Are What You Eat, And Think, And Do
- Introduction to Epigenetics
- Your Hardware and Software
- What Is Science?
- A Library of DNA Code
- Digital DNA Code
- The Human Genome Project
- The Discovery of Epigenetics
- The DNA Molecule
- Genes are Segments of Code
- Gene Editing
- Genes Turn On and Off
- Your DNA Changes Over Time
- How Epigenetics Works
- Drastic Effect of the Agouti Gene
- Can Epigenetics Be Beneficial?
- You Are What You Eat
- You Are What You Think
- You Are What You Do
- The Forever Adaptable You
- Choose Your Perspective Wisely
Minecraft Ores Transformation
- Ores Topics List
- Chemical Elements in the Ores
- Raw Materials Transformation
- Gold and Iron Ores
- Smelting
- Steel and Diamond Cutting Tools
- Atoms for Metals, Coal & Diamond
- Cutting Along the Grain
- Lapiz Blue Color
- Quartz, Sand & Silicon
- Other Gemstones
- TNT Is Unstable
- Your Project
A.I. & Quantum Computers
- What is A.I.?
- Fact vs. Fiction for A.I.
- A Utopian or Dystopian Future?
- Decision Making Machines: The Thermostat
- Computers Designing Computers
- Robots Arms
- Supervised vs. Unsupervised
- Supervised Classification
- Unsupervised Data Mining
- They Are Mining YOUR Data
- Artificial Neural Networks
- Autonomous Drones?
Finishing Up
- Certificate of Completion
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