Season 1
7 comics.
Notes There are many sites with mentions about the Montgolfiers’ experiment, but this one from The Robinson Library actually mentions the condition of the animals after the experiment. And for a general overview of the first hot-air balloon experiments, Space.com[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Big thanks to Sharon Hill, who kindly served as our geoscience proofreader for the script of this episode. In addition to her geology work in Pennsylvania, Hill maintains the site www.DoubtfulNews.com, “an aggregator of strange and questionable claims in the media (not[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Special thanks to Matthew Loftus for reviewing the math in our story! Sources: The Mathematics of Sonya Kovalevskaya, Roger Cooke, 1984 Remarkable Mathematicians: From Euler to Von Neumann, Ioan James, 2003 A Russian Childhood, Sofya Kovalevskaya, 1978 “Queered Science: Historic Women[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Uh, yeah, Ffirth wasn’t exactly right about Yellow Fever. It’s highly contagious, you guys! Don’t get it, seriously! Carlos Finlay, a Cuban scientist, proved that Yellow Fever was spread by mosquito bites 60 years after Stubbins’s death. It turns out[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hey everyone! It’s been a bit, but here’s a short mini-sode of an ATS comic that appeared in the Skeptical Inquirer recently! Hope you guys like talking about patents!