Showing posts with label Reddit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Reddit. Show all posts

22 October, 2014

Physics on Reddit

Reddit advertises itself as "the front page of the internet." It's an apt moniker: Reddit shows you what it's users find interesting because users can up-vote or down-vote any post. More specifically, it shows you what it's users find interesting within different subjects, called subreddits. The subreddits continue to break up fractally, such that you can find a group of people discussing just about anything. And if you find a sub-sub-sub-sub-topic that doesn't have a subreddit, you can make one.

Here's CGP Grey's explanation of Reddit and why it's an awesome place to learn new subjects:


So, for example, Reddit is a great place to learn physics, because physicists interested in discussing physics on-line tend to frequent the physics subreddit. Users post links to articles and pictures, and host "AMAs" (Ask Me Anything), in which a professional physicist hosts an open forum regarding their work. Here's a recent one regarding climate change, or one about earthquakes.

So, what interesting physics topics do you see on Reddit?