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Sing a song, we'll all sing along, with the Mother Goose Club. The Mother Goose Club. This Little Light of Mine I have a light inside of me. And I'm feeling fine [laughs] Would you...
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What if you could only see one color? Imagine, for instance, that you could only see things that were red and that everything else was completely invisible to you. As it turns out, that's how...
We all know that light bends when it travels through glass, water, or other transparent material - that's how a microscope, lighthouse and spectacles work! And you might even know that light...
(Music) One of the funny things about owning a brain is that you have no control over the things that it gathers and holds onto, the facts and the stories. And as you get older, it only gets worse....
We've all been told that the colors of the rainbow correspond to different wavelengths of visible light - red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet. Where's pink in that list?...
In order for us to see something, it either needs to emit light directly (like the sun or a lightbulb filament or firefly) or else have photons of light bounce off of it and into our eyes. But how do...
E=mc^2 may be the most famous equation in the world… but what you might not know is that it isn't the whole story. It just describes objects that have mass and that aren't moving. The...
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You may have heard that Einstein's theory of special relativity imposes a cosmic speed limit: nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. Well, that's wrong. All that Einstein...
Welcome to the League of Legends Champion Spotlight, featuring Jinx, the Loose Cannon. Jinx is a ranged marksman whose idea of a good time involves dishing out tons of damage to the dismay of Vi, the...
This fall, physicists in Italy published results suggesting that neutrinos travel faster than light - significantly faster. If true, this is really big news in physics, and of course most scientists...
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