Dexplanations

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Dexplanations episodes

December 11, 2019 Pareidolia
Why you tend to see faces in clouds or otherwise interpret something vague as something you are more familiar with.
31 min
December 04, 2019 Domesticated Foxes
In 1959 Russian Zoologist, Dmitry Belyayev started an ongoing experiment to domesticate foxes. The program continues today and the implications are vast and extraordinary.
48 min
November 27, 2019 Rogue Waves
Rogue Waves weren't thought to be real until 1995 because of assumptions in math, and that anyone who encountered them probably didn't live to tell the tale.
30 min
November 20, 2019 Unsual Units of Measure
Weird ways to measure things.
1 hr 5 min
November 13, 2019 Myers-Briggs and the Barnum Effect
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator would have you believe there are only 16 types of people.
38 min
November 06, 2019 Space Debris and Kessler Syndrome
All the the stuff in orbit around the earth presents a risk to itself and modernity.
46 min
October 30, 2019 Dead Whales
Beached whales, exploding whales, and whale falls.
46 min
October 23, 2019 Louis Pasteur
Dude changed science forever and saved millions of lives as a consequence.
44 min
October 16, 2019 Blockchain
What is blockchain? Besides cryptocurrency what are some other applications for it?
41 min
October 09, 2019 The Zodiac
What exactly are constellations, and more specifically what are the zodiac constellations?
24 min

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Every week I look something up on Wikipedia and explain it to my friend David.