Did you know.... that many of your fun facts are just plain wrong? Come join us for a spirited session of "well, actually"s and learn about factoids: facts that aren't, in fact, facts!

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Kurzgesagt - We Fell For The Oldest Lie On The Internet
Jin's blog - Jineral Knowledge

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How do you know which Chinese Zodiac animal's year is when? Why is there no Year of the Cat or Year of the Capybara? What's the sexagenary cycle?

Let's learn about the Asian counterpart to the Western Zodiac, how it's related to the calendar, and the cute origin story of why the zodiac animals are in the order that they are!

Photo of the twelve animals in anthropomorphised statue form at the National Folk Museum in Seoul, Korea
Order of zodiac animals, along with the Twelve Earthly Branches
Chart to correlate your birth year to your zodiac animal
Ten Heavenly Stems
Twelve Earthly Branches
Sexagenary cycle

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Why does cancer happen? How come chemotherapy kills cancer but not us? What does my doctor mean when he says I have a "lesion"?

We learn all about the emperor of maladies in today's episode, what makes it terrifying, and some of the exciting new ways science has figured out how to fight against it.

(Apologies for the shoddy audio quality - I've rearranged my office and my setup is still being optimised! Will try to fix some of the mic booming issues as well...)

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What's the best anti-aging cream available? Which is better - physical or chemical sunscreen? Can you get sunburnt through a glass window? What does SPF even mean?

Get ready for the coming summer by Slip Slop Slapping some knowledge about how sunscreen works and why you should use it!

Electromagnetic radiation spectrum
Diagram of UV absorption in sunscreen molecules
More detailed explanation of how sunscreen works - Lab Muffin
Example of photoaging on a truck driver's face

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What is electricity made up of? How do power plants use magnets to generate electricity? What is the largest machine in the world? How can you make a mountain into a battery?

Join us for our first one-hour-plus episode as we cover a lot of ground in helping you understand the complex and deep world of electrical physics!

Basic circuit
Current, voltage, resistance as garden hose courtesy of Freeing Energy
Voltaic pile - pictures courtesy of Ted-Ed
Electric eel electrocyte anatomy
Veritasium video on electric field lines

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What does it mean to be functionally literate? How does reading help protect you from being manipulated and controlled? Why are books burned and banned in dystopias?

Let's delve deep into understanding the sinister social threat of rising illiteracy rates, and why you should give a hoot about reading and writing!

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What is the REAL story behind penicillin? How do antibiotics treat infections? Should we be worried about superbugs taking over the world?

Jin geeks out on one of his favourite medical topics and teaches you about our table-turning super weapons against humanity's bane - bacteria.

Relevant XKCD comic
Alexander Fleming's original petri dishes showing the effect of penicillin
Anatomy of bacteria
Beta-lactam ring structure

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How do you fly in the sky? What do swoll pecs have to do with flying? Is it true that physics says that bumblebees shouldn't be able to fly?

We're back from our hiatus with an exciting episode on how planes, birds and bees take to the sky and soar freely!

Airfoil, camber, angle of attack and how Newton's Third Law of Motion creates lift
Bernoulli's principle visualised with a wine bottle
Video of how various birds move their wings during flight
Diagram of how leading edge vortices cling to an insect's wings to generate lift
Visualisation of inferior mirage

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How can you use the Sun, the stars, and time to measure your location on Earth? Why were clocks instrumental in conquering the seas? How can you use shadows and wells to prove that the Earth is round?

Today, we learn all about the science of location, location, location! And the fascinating history of how sailors navigated the high seas before satellites and Google Maps.

Latitude and longitude visualised
Using latitude and longitude as coordinates
Eratosthene's method for calculating Earth's circumference
Astrolabe

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How do infections kill us? What happens when my immune system overreacts? Why is horseshoe crab blood important in medicine?

All these questions and more are answered in today's episode, covering the often misunderstoon topic of sepsis. Step inside my world of emergency medicine, and how we fight against infectious diseases!

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