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WONDER (2)
S01E07 - WONDER (7)
Seg 1 Iridescence Iridescence is the phenomenon where surfaces reflect a multitude of colors at once and could change color perspectives upon shifting the angle of viewing. Iridescence is caused by interference, where light gets reflected or cancelled out by the structures of the surfaces. Seg 2 Chemiluminescence Chemiluminescence is the phenomenon of producing light energy through chemical reactions. The byproduct of a chemiluminescent reaction, instead of heat energy, is a photon or a light particle. Only selected compounds are capable of producing chemiluminescence, usually highly oxidized compounds when reacting with another compound. Seg 3 Bioluminescence Bioluminescence is a form of chemiluminescence, only that this occurs in living things. Special compounds collectively called as luciferin oxidizes upon catalysis by enzymes called luciferase, producing oxyluciferin. Upon decay, oxyluciferin releases photons or light particles. Bioluminescence serve different functions for each organism, but all for survival purposes. Seg 4 Gemstone Coloration A gemstone acquires its color through elements that are essential to its structure or through impurities, or elements that replace some of the metallic ions in the structure that will affect which colors in the visible spectrum gets absorbed or reflected. Seg 5 Mechanical Plant Defenses Mechanical plant defenses demonstrate how survival instincts are incorporated into plant morphologies and physiologies by growing or producing various defensive features such as thorns, spines, and prickles to the less obvious ones like trichomes and raphides and less aggressive forms of defense like thigmonasty.
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Season 1
WONDER (7)
Seg 1 Iridescence Iridescence is the phenomenon where surfaces reflect a multitude of colors at once and could change color perspectives upon shifting the angle of viewing. Iridescence is caused by interference, where light gets reflected or cancelled out by the structures of the surfaces. Seg 2 Chemiluminescence Chemiluminescence is the phenomenon of producing light energy through chemical reactions. The byproduct of a chemiluminescent reaction, instead of heat energy, is a photon or a light particle. Only selected compounds are capable of producing chemiluminescence, usually highly oxidized compounds when reacting with another compound. Seg 3 Bioluminescence Bioluminescence is a form of chemiluminescence, only that this occurs in living things. Special compounds collectively called as luciferin oxidizes upon catalysis by enzymes called luciferase, producing oxyluciferin. Upon decay, oxyluciferin releases photons or light particles. Bioluminescence serve different functions for each organism, but all for survival purposes. Seg 4 Gemstone Coloration A gemstone acquires its color through elements that are essential to its structure or through impurities, or elements that replace some of the metallic ions in the structure that will affect which colors in the visible spectrum gets absorbed or reflected. Seg 5 Mechanical Plant Defenses Mechanical plant defenses demonstrate how survival instincts are incorporated into plant morphologies and physiologies by growing or producing various defensive features such as thorns, spines, and prickles to the less obvious ones like trichomes and raphides and less aggressive forms of defense like thigmonasty.
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Seg 1 Monty Hall problemThe Monty Hall Problem poses a counter-instinctive dilemma of picking a choice with a higherprobability of winning. It has been calculated that switching from a player’s initial choice to the lastoption possible, after eliminating all empty choices, instead of sticking with the initial choice gives abigger chance of winningSeg 2 The Birthday ProblemThe Birthday Problem presents a situation that addresses brains’ unintuitive response to exponents.We try to figure out why it’s possible for only 23 people to have a 50% chance of sharing a birthdaywhen there are 365 unique birthdays. The dilemma usually comes in when we gloss over the fact thateven small groups can form several pairings, and we actually compute the probability of sharing abirthday by subtracting the chances of not sharing a birthday by multiplying individual probabilities witheach other. The answers can be quite surprising when the math to be done is not instinctive for peopleSeg 3 Gambler’s ruinGambler’s Ruin closes in on how a gambler with the smaller amount will always be the loser in thelong run in a game of 50-50 chance with an indefinite number of rounds playing. Gambler’s Ruin alsodebunks the ‘luck’ factor by emphasizing that each round played has its separate probability fromprevious rounds, thus maintaining chances of winning at 50%.Seg 4 The Infinite Hotel ParadoxThe Infinite Hotel Paradox shows how infinity, for all its vastness, cannot be fully grasped, especiallywhen it goes beyond the confines of the countable infinity. The paradoxical part comes in when theunion of two sets with infinite elements will still be infinity; adding, subtracting, multiplying, or dividinginfinity with infinity is still infinity.Seg 5 The Locker RiddleThe Locker Riddle stimulates how good and fast a person is at factorization. In the problem, the key isidentifying which numbers from 1-100 are perfect squares, but the solution lies in the number of factorsthose particular numbers have. Perfect squares have odd numbered factors because one factor will bemultiplied by itself and it only counts as one in the riddle’s context, leaving those locker numbers openin an alternating open-close pattern.