More memories from our sensational season two guests! 💗📸🤳
From #protoscience 🧪 to #maths anxiety 🧮, #balloon communication 🎈to #archeology 🦴, and all the way to the future of #energy ⚡️- we can’t thank our experts enough for sharing their time and passion with us (and you)!
Here’s another scrapbook entry of incredible guests, cathartic moments, and supportive friendships! 📸
Honestly, who are we to fight the alchemy? ⚗️🧪🧙♀️
This month we talked with our incredible guest Lilia Walsh all about #protoscience, #spiderman, the history of the #laboratory and #sciencespaces in #popculture, #greekmyths, and more ✨🕷️🔬👩🔬
What’s your favourite kind of protoscience? (And what would you call an #AI alchemist? 🤔🤔) Let us know below!
Listen to the episode on your favourite podcast platform: https://linktr.ee/sci_burst 🎧🎙️
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#Alchemy is the #protoscience that was a precursor to modern #chemistry. It is a mix of #religion, #mysticism and a few practical observations. With the rise of the scientific method, the relatively simplistic base of alchemy transmuted slowly into a gleaming nugget of pure chemistry.
It's quite hard to nail down what alchemists believed in general. For a start, they tended to disagree with each other as to the details of what they did. Their books were confused and misleading. On the one hand, they did not want anybody else to know the "secrets" that they had laboured so long to discover; on the other, they most likely didn't really know what they were talking about anyway (all the better reason to keep it a secret).
Alchemy is the protoscience that was a precursor to modern chemistry.[1] It is a mix of religion, mysticism and a few practical observations. With the rise of the scientific method, the relatively simplistic base of alchemy transmuted slowly into a gleaming nugget of pure chemistry.
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