Mapping
- BoardFrom the Big Bang to you
13.8 billion years on one board: nine chapters, over fifty capsules, and the questions still open at every step. Follow the threads from the first instant to the first cities.
54 capsulesEmmanuel Okwu - BoardHow sensitive is the climate?
A thesis board: what the library says about how much warming a doubling of carbon dioxide brings.
6 capsulesEmmanuel Okwu - BoardLesson plan: how vaccines work
A one-hour lesson built on verified capsules, with one myth the evidence has retired.
5 capsulesEmmanuel Okwu - BoardWhat happened in the first second?
The case for the Big Bang, the evidence behind it, and the parts cosmology is still arguing about.
9 capsulesEmmanuel Okwu - BoardWhere did life come from?
An investigation: what is settled about how life works and changes, and what is still open about how it began.
5 capsulesEmmanuel Okwu - BoardHow were the pyramids built?
What the record shows about Egypt's pyramid builders, and which parts of the method are still argued over.
4 capsulesEmmanuel Okwu - BoardWhere did the Moon come from?
The leading account of the Moon's birth, the samples that test it, and the questions it has not closed.
4 capsulesEmmanuel Okwu - BoardThree open questions about the mind
Consciousness, free will and dreaming, side by side: where the evidence stands on each.
3 capsulesEmmanuel Okwu - BoardScience's graveyard: ideas the evidence retired
Eighteen ideas that serious people once believed, each beside the evidence that retired it. Being wrong in public is how science moves.
37 capsulesEmmanuel Okwu - BoardMyths that will not die
Sixteen claims you have probably heard this year, each beside what the evidence actually shows. Good for settling arguments.
28 capsulesEmmanuel Okwu - BoardAre we alone in the universe?
The Fermi paradox, the answers on offer, where the telescopes are looking, and how tough life on Earth turned out to be.
20 capsulesEmmanuel Okwu - BoardWhat made us human?
Bodies built for running, brains fed by cooking, grandmothers, gossip and language: the hypotheses for how our species became what it is, with the record they have to explain.
23 capsulesEmmanuel Okwu - BoardLesson: how to read a study
A one-hour lesson on telling strong evidence from weak: the method, the traps, and famous results that did not hold up.
16 capsulesEmmanuel Okwu - BoardWhat causes depression and schizophrenia?
The live hypotheses side by side, from chemical imbalance to inflammation, the gut and social defeat, and why none of them has won yet.
16 capsulesEmmanuel Okwu - BoardWhere physics breaks
Quantum mechanics and general relativity are each tested to astonishing precision, and they do not fit together. The evidence, the particle zoo, and the candidates for a theory of everything.
26 capsulesEmmanuel Okwu - BoardHow we beat infectious disease
From bad air and bloodletting to germ theory, vaccines, antibiotics and the eradication of smallpox, and the fights still ahead.
23 capsulesEmmanuel Okwu - BoardProven, open, impossible: the edges of mathematics
Truths proven for all time, problems nobody has cracked, and the theorems that prove some things can never be proven or computed.
17 capsulesEmmanuel Okwu - BoardFood fights: what the nutrition evidence says
Fat, salt, breakfast and ultra-processed food: what is settled, what is still argued, and why nutrition science is so hard to do.
16 capsulesEmmanuel Okwu - BoardHow the climate system works
Energy from the Sun, carbon in the air and sea, heat carried by currents and winds, and how scientists measure and predict it all.
24 capsulesEmmanuel Okwu - BoardWhy do we age?
Evolution's answers, what goes wrong inside the cell, and the diseases that come with the years.
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