TouchstoneTruth: Exploring Science, Philosophy & History with Mike Prestwood

By Natural Philosopher Michael Alan Prestwood

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Natural Philosophy: Philosophy Science Critical Thinking History

The Double‐slit Experiment Explored

Physics < Cosmology < Science

February 23, 2025

Philosophy: The Existence and Essence Debate

Metaphysics < Philosphy

February 9, 2025

Pragmatism and Pythagoras

Epistemology < Philosophy

February 3, 2025

The Fermi Paradox is Too Anthropocentric

Futurism < Philosophy

December 29, 2024

Updated Deep Dives!

The Five Thought Tools: Viewpoint, Ideas, Reasoning, Social Constructs, and Reflection

September 24, 2025

The Anti-Vaxxer Movement and the Scientific Method

September 20, 2025

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Africa Before the Transatlantic Slave Trade

July 22, 2025

The Double‐slit Experiment Explored

June 28, 2025

New or Updated Timeline Stories!

Timelines maintained by Michael Alan Prestwood, updated as human discovery evolves.

Timelines: Big Bang Evolution World History Philosophy Science Futurism

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Singularity

September 21, 2025

The Scientific Method

September 6, 2025

Holistic Eudaimonia

September 6, 2025

World Population: 1.5 Million

June 29, 2025

Successful Out of Africa Migration

June 29, 2025

Spiral strands of DNA on the dark background

“The” Human DNA

June 29, 2025

Social Constructs 101

April 6, 2025

The Problem of Induction

March 1, 2025

WWB Season 7 — Returning 2026!

I’m taking this time to catch up with the paired videos for recent WWB editions, and to restructure the WWB into seasions of 8 weeks: 40 tidbits consisting of 32 1-Minute Hot Topics and 8 quotes. Each week featureing a tidbit in philosophy, science, critical, thinking, and history as well as a weekly quote. Follow the TST YouTube channel to catch all new videos. –Mike

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Weekly Wisdom Builder

Season 6: Cognition & Ideas

Jan 1 – Feb 26

February 26, 2025 Edition

1START: Philosophy >

Imagined Image: Early stages of terraforming Mars.

What is a realistic timeframe for humanity to terraform Mars?

2Science >

galileo-einstein-relativity-TouchstoneTruth

Trivia: Did Einstein or Galileo discover the Relativity Principle?

3Critical Thinking >

Cognitive Bias-Rosy Retrospection-TouchstoneTruth

Thinking: Why we only remember the good parts of vacations and forget the bad?

4History!

Pythagoras (c. 570–495 BCE), ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician, founder of Pythagoreanism, known for his contributions to mathematics, mysticism, and harmonic theory.

Who is the father of numerology?

Quote of the Week

Epictetus: “People are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by their opinions about the things that happen.”

Epictetus
108 CE

Emotional Resilience

TAKE-AWAY: Emotional resilience is about developing the ability to withstand and adapt to life’s challenges, setbacks, and disappointments. According to Stoic thought, our emotional reactions stem primarily from our beliefs, judgments, and thoughts about events, rather than the events themselves. By managing your emotions more effectively, you can minimize the negative impact of adversity.

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