SciWorks Radio - Understanding Why We Teach Evolution
Some of the great scientific theories unify our knowledge and have fundamentally changed the way we look at the world.
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SciWorks Radio - Understanding Why We Teach Evolution
Some of the great scientific theories unify our knowledge and have fundamentally changed the way we look at the world.
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A New Ninth Planet
SciWorks Radio is a production of 88.5 WFDD and SciWorks, the Science Center and Environmental Park of Forsyth
Why We Explore Other Worlds
SciWorks Radio is a production of 88.5 WFDD and SciWorks, the Science Center and Environmental Park of Forsyth County, located in Winston-Salem.
An Accurate "Log-ing" of Time
SciWorks Radio is a production of 88.5 WFDD and SciWorks, the Science Center and Environmental Park of Forsyth County, located in Winston-Salem. Follow Shawn on Twitter @SCIFitz.
Scientists use many tools to put a date on events of the past. A geologist can use relative dating, comparing rock layer ages against one another. Archeologists may use carbon 14 for an absolute date. Climatologists can access over a million years of climate data using ice cores. If you want to know when a historical log cabin in the mountains was built, you use dendrochronology.
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Triassic North Carolina
SciWorks Radio is a production of 88.5 WFDD and SciWorks, the Science Center and Environmental Park of Forsyth County, located in Winston-Salem. Follow Shawn on Twitter @SCIFitz.
What was life like in North Carolina during the Triassic? That's the time period between 252 and 199 million years ago, book-ended by two great mass extinctions (Permo-Triassic ~250ma , Triassic-Jurassic ~200MA) . To find out, I spoke with Dr. Andrew Heckert, Professor of Vertebrate Paleontology and Dinosaurs at Appalachian State University.
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