Math! Science! History!

REPOST: Pumpkin Spiced

I'm diving deep into the chemistry of flavor, the history of spices, and the math behind crafting the perfect pumpkin spice latte. So go grab your cup of pumpkin spice whatever, get cozy, and let's explore! To read the podcast's transcripts, visit me at www.MathScienceHistory.com. You can buy my book Hypatia: The Sum of Her Life on Amazon at https://a.co/d/g3OuP9h Until next time, carpe diem! The Baggage Podcast is a collection of compelling, unique, and sometimes traumatic stories from people of all walks of life. These stories typically only get heard by the storyteller's friends, family, or coworkers. This podcast is a platform for everyday individuals to share their experiences with a larger audience as well as how they cope with the emotional and mental baggage that sometimes follows those events. www.thebaggagepodcast.com Show music by Lloyd Rodgers has no Copyright and no rights reserved. Other music by Georgetown Cafe, George Popoi, Free Music Archive, CC 4.0 https://popoi.bandcamp.com/track/georgetown-cafe Solace Acoustic, Mark Wilson, Free Music Archive, CC 4.0 https://freemusicarchive.org/music/mark-wilson-x/ 🔗 Explore more on our website: mathsciencehistory.com 📚 To buy my book Hypatia: The Sum of Her Life on Amazon, visit https://a.co/d/g3OuP9h 🌍 Let's Connect!Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/mathsciencehistory.bsky.social Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/math.science.history Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mathsciencehistory LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/math-science-history/ Threads: https://www.threads.com/@math.science.history Mastodon: https://mathsciencehistory@mathstodon.xyz YouTube: Math! Science! History! - YouTube Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/mathsciencehistory 🎧 Enjoying the Podcast? ☕ Support the Show: Coffee!! PayPal Leave a review! It helps more people discover the show! Share this episode with friends & fellow history buffs! Subscribe on your favorite podcast platform Check out our merch: https://www.mathsciencehistory.com/the-store Music: All music is public domain and has no Copyright and no rights reserved. Selections from The Little Prince by Lloyd Rodgers Until next time, carpe diem!

FLASHCARDS! Imagination is the Engine of Science

In this Flashcard Friday follow-up to Tuesday's interview with theoretical physicist Dr. Ronald L. Mallett, Gabrielle explores Einstein's famous claim that imagination is more important than knowledge. From Marie Curie's invisible rays to Johannes Kepler's celestial harmonies, this episode traces how imagination transforms human emotion, grief, wonder, curiosity, into world-changing discovery. Listeners will hear how Dr. Mallett's childhood heartbreak became the seed for his groundbreaking work on time travel, and how imagination continues to link science and humanity. Three Takeaways How imagination transforms emotion into discovery—Dr. Mallett's story shows how grief became a lifelong scientific pursuit. Why creativity drives scientific progress—Curie, Kepler, Hypatia, and Einstein used imagination as their most vital research tool. How "What if?" questions ignite innovation—Every major discovery begins as an imaginative hypothesis. Resources Dr. Ronald L. Mallett, Time Traveler: A Scientist's Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality (Basic Books, 2006) H. G. Wells, The Time Machine (1895) Albert Einstein, Relativity: The Special and the General Theory (1916) 🔗 Explore more on our website: mathsciencehistory.com 📚 To buy my book Hypatia: The Sum of Her Life on Amazon, visit https://a.co/d/g3OuP9h   🌍 Let's Connect!Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/mathsciencehistory.bsky.social Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/math.science.history Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mathsciencehistory  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/math-science-history/  Threads: https://www.threads.com/@math.science.history  Mastodon: https://mathsciencehistory@mathstodon.xyz YouTube: Math! Science! History! - YouTube Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/mathsciencehistory  🎧 Enjoying the Podcast? ☕ Support the Show: Coffee!! PayPal Leave a review! It helps more people discover the show! Share this episode with friends & fellow history buffs! Subscribe on your favorite podcast platform Check out our merch: https://www.mathsciencehistory.com/the-store Music: All music is public domain and has no Copyright and no rights reserved. Selections from The Little Prince by Lloyd Rodgers Until next time, carpe diem!

Dr. Ronald Mallett and the Love That Bends Time

In this fascinating conversation, I interview theoretical physicist Dr. Ronald Mallett to explore one of humanity's most extraordinary scientific pursuits: time travel. From the influence of Einstein's general theory of relativity to quantum mechanics and parallel universes, Dr. Mallett shares the story of how his personal loss inspired a lifetime of discovery. Listeners will hear how his work connects the geometry of spacetime, wormholes, and cosmic strings to the real mathematics of time loops, and how time travel to the past is theoretically possible. The discussion also takes an emotional and philosophical turn, as Dr. Mallett reflects on his book Time Traveler: A Scientist's Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality and the hopes of seeing his father's memory brought to life on the big screen. Three Things You'll Learn: Einstein's Relativity and the Mechanics of Time Loops: How frame dragging, rotation, and gravity could allow time to twist back on itself. Quantum Mechanics and the Multiverse Solution: Why physicists like Hugh Everett and David Deutsch believe time travel could avoid paradoxes through parallel universes. Real-World Implications of Time Travel: From predicting natural disasters to advancing communication and transportation, Dr. Mallett explains how this science could one day reshape our future. Resources and Further Reading: Dr. Ronald Mallett's Book: Time Traveler: A Scientist's Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality University of Connecticut Physics Profile: Ronald L. Mallett, Ph.D. Einstein's General Theory of Relativity (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy): SEP – General Relativity If you enjoyed this episode, please share it with your fellow science enthusiasts and leave a review wherever you listen. - Explore more on our website: mathsciencehistory.com 📚 To buy my book Hypatia: The Sum of Her Life on Amazon, visit https://a.co/d/g3OuP9h   🌍 Let's Connect!Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/mathsciencehistory.bsky.social Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/math.science.history Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mathsciencehistory  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/math-science-history/  Threads: https://www.threads.com/@math.science.history  Mastodon: https://mathsciencehistory@mathstodon.xyz YouTube: Math! Science! History! - YouTube Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/mathsciencehistory  🎧 Enjoying the Podcast? ☕ Support the Show: Coffee!! PayPal Leave a review! It helps more people discover the show! Share this episode with friends & fellow history buffs! Subscribe on your favorite podcast platform Check out our merch: https://www.mathsciencehistory.com/the-store Music: All music is public domain and has no Copyright and no rights reserved. Selections from The Little Prince by Lloyd Rodgers Treasure – no drums by BreakzStudios Pixabay Documentary Soundscapes by Music by Valentina López – Pixabay Classic Documentary Piano by Mikhail Smusev from Pixabay Modular Ambient 03 by SScheidel from Pixabay A choir of fairies and Elves from Pixabay For Documentary by Alisia Beatz from Pixabay Nature Documentary by James Carter from Pixabay     Until next time, carpe diem!

FLASHCARDS! Saving Time: The Math and Science of Efficiency

Subscribe to Math! Science! History! wherever you listen to podcasts, and if you love learning how math and science make everyday life better, leave a review and share this episode with a friend who's always running out of time! In this episode of Math! Science! History!, Gabrielle Birchak explores how mathematics and science can help us master the one resource we can't manufacture, time. From the Shortest Path Problem in geometry to the Pareto Principle in physics and productivity, Gabrielle uncovers how optimization, energy management, and practical habits can transform the way we work, think, and live. This five-minute Flashcard episode blends logic, science, and real-world wisdom for anyone who wants to save time, and maybe feel a little like a time traveler. Three Time Saving Techniques:  How the math of optimization teaches us to find the smartest, most efficient route. How physics and the 80/20 rule show us to manage energy instead of just minutes. How real-world strategies like the Two-Minute Rule, Time Blocking, and Habit Stacking turn theory into daily success. Links & Resources: Atomic Habits by James Clear, https://jamesclear.com/atomic-habits Learn more about the Pareto Principle, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle 🔗 Explore more on our website: mathsciencehistory.com 📚 To buy my book Hypatia: The Sum of Her Life on Amazon, visit https://a.co/d/g3OuP9h  🌍 Let's Connect!Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/mathsciencehistory.bsky.social Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/math.science.history Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mathsciencehistory  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/math-science-history/  Threads: https://www.threads.com/@math.science.history  Mastodon: https://mathsciencehistory@mathstodon.xyz YouTube: Math! Science! History! - YouTube Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/mathsciencehistory  🎧 Enjoying the Podcast? ☕ Support the Show: Coffee!! PayPal Leave a review! It helps more people discover the show! Share this episode with friends & fellow history buffs! Subscribe on your favorite podcast platform Check out our merch: https://www.mathsciencehistory.com/the-store Music: All music is public domain and has no Copyright and no rights reserved. Selections from The Little Prince by Lloyd Rodgers Until next time, carpe diem!

The Truth about Time Travel

What if you could bend time like taffy, stretching moments, collapsing centuries, and stepping through the folds of history itself? In this episode of Math! Science! History!, Gabrielle explores the myths, literature, and scientific breakthroughs that brought time travel from ancient dreams to modern equations. From the Mahabharata to H.G. Wells, from Einstein's relativity to Ronald Mallett's laser loop, we uncover how humanity's yearning to rewrite the past or glimpse the future evolved into one of science's most mind-bending pursuits. Join Gabrielle for a journey through paradoxes, wormholes, and the minds who dared to ask: Can we really travel through time? Three Key Points 1.      How ancient myths from India and Japan foreshadowed the physics of time dilation centuries before Einstein. 2.      Why Einstein's relativity transformed time from a constant into a flexible dimension, and what experiments proved it. 3.      How real physicists like Ronald Mallett are working to turn theoretical equations into the first tangible steps toward time travel. Resources & References ·         Einstein, Albert. Relativity: The Special and General Theory. 1916. ·         Kip Thorne. Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy. W.W. Norton, 1994. ·         Ronald L. Mallett. Time Traveler: A Scientist's Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality. Basic Books, 2006. ·         Gödel, Kurt. "An Example of a New Type of Cosmological Solutions of Einstein's Field Equations." Reviews of Modern Physics, 1949. ·         Hafele, J. C., & Keating, R. E. "Around-the-World Atomic Clocks: Predicted Relativistic Time Gains." Science, 1972. ·         NASA: Time Dilation Explained (FYI: NASA hasn't been able to update this page due to lack of government funding  🔗 Explore more on our website: mathsciencehistory.com 📚 To buy my book Hypatia: The Sum of Her Life on Amazon, visit https://a.co/d/g3OuP9h  🌍 Let's Connect!Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/mathsciencehistory.bsky.social Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/math.science.history Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mathsciencehistory  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/math-science-history/  Threads: https://www.threads.com/@math.science.history  Mastodon: https://mathsciencehistory@mathstodon.xyz YouTube: Math! Science! History! - YouTube Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/mathsciencehistory  🎧 Enjoying the Podcast? ☕ Support the Show: Coffee!! PayPal Leave a review! It helps more people discover the show! Share this episode with friends & fellow history buffs! Subscribe on your favorite podcast platform Check out our merch: https://www.mathsciencehistory.com/the-store Music: All music is public domain and has no Copyright and no rights reserved. Selections from The Little Prince by Lloyd Rodgers Remainder of music and sounds from Pixabay – CC0  Until next time, carpe diem!