Science You Should Know: Recent Episodes

Jeff Wells

Science news, discussions, and content for my students.

Will we need to get another COVID vaccine? How will the variants and vaccination rates impact the need for a booster shot?

A basic overview of Newton's 3 Laws of Motion.

A discussion and overview of vectors in two dimensions

This is an overview/review of the concepts covered in Unit 1 of Principles of Biomedical Science.

An introduction to the podcast for this academic year

A discussion of basic electricity principles.

A discussion of how muscles contract.

A discussion of light and its properties.

A discussion of the physics of sound waves.

A discussion of ecology.

A discussion of periodic motion, oscillations, and waves.

A discussion of the beginnings and majors ideas of Darwin's Theory of Evolution.

A discussion of angular quantities and torque.

A discussion of DNA's structure, DNA replication, transcription, translation, and mutations.

A discussion of the parts of the nervous system, including lobes of the brain, peripheral and central nervous systems, and the sympathetic vs parasympathetic systems.

A discussion of the physics concepts of momentum and collisions.

A discussion of autosomes vs. sex chromosomes, codominance, incomplete dominance, and epistasis.

Discussion of types of tissues and the directional terms used in a basic anatomy course.

Work, Kinetic Energy, Gravitation & Elastic Potential Energy, and Power

Discussion of Meiosis and Genetics