Case for calories -- Discussion of food energy, body sugar,
watts to keep warm, preditor to prey ratios
Hybrid and electric cars
Wind turbines
Who wrote Shakepeare --- What writer doesn't teach his
kids to read?
Introduction to Shakespearean cryptograms
Sun -- why a surface, stability, red giant stage, temperature
range
Electron --- acceleration, multiple sizes
Electron orbits
Fantastic rotating protein that underlyies photosynthesis
and cell oxidation
Energy stored by cells by pumping up proton density --- pressure makes
ATP
Case for captured bacteria in plants and animal cells
Amazing smallest bacteria
Cell membrane voltages --- supports ion balance, key
to how nerves and heart cells work
Photosynthesis
Why do plants
put out oxygen?
Human body --- Figure # of cells from 1 mm worm
8,000 ? atoms
explode
in your body every second
Light
Nobody knows
what a photon looks like
Global warming
How does the
greenhouse effect work?
Amazing ice
ages
Speed of light
How do we
know nothing can go faster than the speed of light?
Why does light
go slower in materials?
What sets
the speed of light?
Explaining
the twin paradox
Quote from chef Anthony Bourdain
On rich/good food being a 'heart attack' --- "That's what Yule Gibbins
said after he keeled over (of a heart attack at age 64) after a life of
eating nuts and berries."