Scientific mythology | Wikipedia audio article

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions 00:00:15 1 Arts and culture 00:00:24 1.1 Food and cooking 00:02:35 1.1.1 Microwave ovens 00:03:52 1.2 Law, crime, and military 00:07:12 1.3 Literature 00:07:20 1.4 Music 00:08:11 1.5 Religion 00:08:19 1.5.1 Buddhism 00:09:24 1.5.2 Christianity and Judaism 00:13:58 1.5.3 Islam 00:16:18 1.6 Sports 00:17:28 1.7 Words, phrases and languages 00:24:07 2 History 00:24:15 2.1 Ancient 00:26:09 2.2 Middle Ages and Renaissance 00:31:18 2.3 Early modern 00:34:39 2.4 Modern 00:45:02 3 Science and technology 00:45:11 3.1 Astronomy 00:47:42 3.2 Biology 00:47:50 3.2.1 Vertebrates 00:51:45 3.2.2 Invertebrates 00:55:15 3.2.3 Plants 00:56:16 3.2.4 Evolution and palaeontology 01:00:08 3.3 Computing 01:00:29 3.4 Environmental science 01:01:33 3.5 Human body and health 01:04:57 3.5.1 Senses 01:06:14 3.5.2 Skin and hair 01:07:58 3.5.3 Nutrition, food, and drink 01:11:29 3.5.4 Human sexuality 01:12:28 3.5.5 Brain 01:14:14 3.5.6 Disease 01:18:39 3.6 Inventions 01:21:38 3.7 Materials science 01:23:17 3.8 Mathematics 01:24:54 3.9 Physics 01:28:02 3.10 Economics 01:29:19 3.11 Psychology 01:32:07 3.12 Transportation 01:33:16 4 Wikipedia Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago. Learning by listening is a great way to: – increases imagination and understanding – improves your listening skills – improves your own spoken accent – learn while on the move – reduce eye strain Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone. Listen on Google Assistant through Extra Audio: https://assistant.google.com/services/invoke/uid/0000001a130b3f91 Other Wikipedia audio articles at: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wikipedia+tts Upload your own Wikipedia articles through: https://github.com/nodef/wikipedia-tts Speaking Rate: 0.9949605115698867 Voice name: en-AU-Wavenet-A “I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.” – Socrates SUMMARY ======= This is a list of common misconceptions. Each entry is formatted as a correction, and contains a link to the article where the misconception is described. The misconceptions themselves are implied rather than stated.