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February 24, 2015

SSS 14: Global Warming vs Climate Change

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 Global Warming.

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December 31, 2014

SSS Fight 13: Stigler’s Law

“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 lot of scientific theories and discoveries that are named after the scientists that found them, too bad a lot of them did not deserve it.

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Music:

Jazz Entsha
jimmer-man

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October 22, 2012

SSS 10: Mercator Vs. Peters

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.

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Music:
Road Map

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July 30, 2012

Fight 7: Cantor Vs. Kronecker

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 will have to listen to find out who won, and who hits below the belt.

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Music:

12 String Guitar Improvisation

String Trio Revised

String Quartet No. 2

Journey Through the Jaded Forest

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