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These are the hardest problems! You have to think backwards in time? What am I, H. G. Wells?! Relax, friend. You just have to dismantle the target molecule in strategic ways that make sense because of the synthetic transformations you have in your bag of tricks. Give this a gander and you'll see.

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Well folks, Terrence Howard just will not learn his lesson. After being mocked for most of 2024, due to the vast majority of humanity seeing right through his "I'm a super awesome mega genius" routine, he spent a bit of time licking his wounds. But he's back with a new angle and a new grift, so it's time to make fun of him some more. And this time he's been mouthing off about me specifically, so it's personal. Let's all laugh at Terry together!

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Remember when I sat down with Erika and Dan to make fun of Rob Stadler and James Tour? They saw it and got really upset, so they decided to humiliate themselves some more. Shall we make fun of them again and keep the cycle going? Of course we should! Learning science while mocking lying fraud apologists, what's better than that?

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We've covered climate change denial in one video before, which was very thorough, but for a pressing issue like this, one topic is never enough. To help us disarm some common talking points put forth by climate change deniers is Peter Hadfield, better known as Potholer54. He's a geologist and science journalist who has covered this topic extensively, so let's get some pearls of wisdom from him on how to combat this fallacious rhetoric!

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I know you guys are dying for more practice choosing between SN1/SN2/E1/E2 mechanisms, so hopefully this one helps a little. Make sure to look at all the factors we talked about in my tutorial on this topic!

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Moving on, we reach the Late Middle Ages, which was a tumultuous time. It included events like the Hundred Years' War and the Black Death. Here we see the first initial signs of a public distrust in the Church which eventually led to the Renaissance. Let's get a closer look.

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What are these funky little dunce caps with the pom pom on top? It's an epoxide! Three-membered rings are neat, and they do lots of stuff. Check it out.

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Remember Bart Sibrel, the worthless fraud who has spent his entire adult life spreading lies denying the achievements of the Apollo missions in sending humans to the lunar surface? And who should only be remembered as that guy Buzz Aldrin punched in the face one time? Well he's back for more punishment! He went on Piers Morgan and humiliated himself. Then astronaut Charlie Duke said some stuff, as well as William Shatner for some reason. Let's watch and laugh together!

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Well, this is weird. What are all these squiggles? Those peaks represent the wavelengths of infrared light that don't get to the detector, because there's some functional group in the sample absorbing them. Professor Dave busts out some dance moves in this one. Do the symmetric stretch!

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After going through Darwin's work, it's time to get up to speed on our current models of evolution. Much of what Darwin didn't know is now known and understood very well, so we can meticulously go through much of the evidence we see for evolution, as well as some of the ways that it propagates other than natural selection.

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