Science Sparring Society: Fights from the History of Science

Talking about the effect that humans are having on our environment due to CO2 we have two choices, we can talk about Global Warming or we can talk about Climate Change. This bout of Science Sparring Society is about that fight and features Wally Broecker, a geochemist with a history when it comes to …

“Eponymy in science is the practice of affixing the names of scientists to what they have discovered or are believed to have discovered,’ as with Boyle’s Law, Halley’s comet, Fourier’s transform, Planck’s constant, the Rorschach test, the Gini coefficient, and the Thomas theorem” –Richard K Merton, “The Thomas Theorem and The Matthew Effect” There are a …

The widespread use of Dark Energy power creation has been with us for decades, but the story of the two best friends that are responsible for our ability to harvest the invisible majority of matter in the universe is as heartbreaking as it is important. Download the Episode [wpaudio url=”http://acmescience.com/Podcasts/SSS/ssshvc.mp3″ text=”Fight 12: Hilai Vs. …

While most people know about the massive fight over the patents concerning the invention of radio that Gugliemo Marconi found himself embroiled in, that fight was not the most interesting one in which he participated. Instead the fight that this episode of Science Sparring Society concerns itself with involves wireless telegraphy, its security, and …

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 it. It did not go exactly as he hoped. Download the Episode  [wpaudio url=”http://acmescience.com/Podcasts/SSS/sss10MvP.mp3″ text=”Fight 10: Mercator Vs. Peters” …

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 finish line, and one team that really does not get along very well, a certain amount of conflict was …

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 predictions by Urbain Le Verrier, but the English could not deal with the Germans and the French getting credit …

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 the face of mathematics itself. In the corner of multiple infinities was Georg Cantor and fight for the finite was Leopold Kronecker. You …

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  [wpaudio url=”http://media.blubrry.com/scc/acmescience.com/Podcasts/SSS/SSS6cvm.mp3″ text=”Fight 6: Cope Vs. Marsh” dl=”0″]   Music: Guitar Rock Booze ‘n Snooze Trio Style    Do not forget to subscribe via iTunes, and leave Science Sparring …

In a house in San Francisco Leonard Susskind heard Stephen Hawking say that black holes ate information, he did not agree.   Download the Episode  [wpaudio url=”http://media.blubrry.com/scc/acmescience.com/Podcasts/SSS/sss5hawkingvssusskind.mp3″ text=”Fight 5: Hawking Vs. Susskind” dl=”0″]   Music: Supermassive Black Holes Strings Cover Deep Black Hole Black Hole R2   Do not forget to subscribe via iTunes, and …