hypothesis
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What is the Scientific Method?
Have you ever read about a scientific discovery, and wondered, “How the heck can we possibly know?” Without a background understanding of the scientific method, that’s a difficult question to answer — because we first need to define what we…
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Evidence vs. Belief
I remember something my ninth grade advanced biology teacher told our class. It was essentially a story about an invisible dragon. Now why, you ask, would a biology teacher teach us about an invisible dragon? Her message had nothing to…
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Milankovitch and Climate
The Yugoslavian meteorologist Milutin Milankovitch is known for coming up with the idea of orbital forcing, also known as Milankovitch cycles. Orbital forcing is a fancy term for certain changes in Earth’s orbit, which are precession, obliquity, and eccentricity. I’ve written…
