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Should we teach the wrong things to children because it

Should we teach the wrong things to children because it's easier to understand?

It’s no secret. We love Minute Physics. They have a way of taking complex ideas and dumbing them down to our level so that we don’t have to go to school to study quantum mechanics to understand some of the most important components that affect our daily lives. This time, they did something they normally don’t do. They made us think, not just about the science at hand but more importantly about a moral efficiency challenge facing many schools. Some concepts are hard to understand. There are false but “close enough” concepts that often cover the ideas and give us a decent understanding of what is happening…

In a quantum mechanical world, we aren

In a quantum mechanical world, we aren't really touching anything

From Michio Kaku to MC Hammer, great thinkers in recent decades have proclaimed that the reality of our universe is such that you technically “can’t touch this”. Or that. Or anything. We don’t actually touch anything that we think we’re touching, nor does anything ever actually touch us. In fact, the various components of our own bodies are technically not even touching each other. It’s a hard concept to grasp, but the folks over at Minute Physics do a decent job of helping us make sense of it all in their most recent video: …

The only cat video worth watching today: Schrödinger

The only cat video worth watching today: Schrödinger's Cat

When people think of “cat videos” on the internet, most assume that it will be some sort of funny or silly feline doing something funny or silly. Occasionally, they hiss. Usually, they simply fall. In this case, they explode (50% of the time). Thanks to the good folks at MinutePhysics, our minds can be blown again. By again, I mean that most college-educated people have heard a variation of this mind-bending perspective from quantum mechanics, but seeing it in cat form makes it that much more interesting. When you’re done watching, ask yourself, “Who is watching you watch the video or not?” …

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