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Using stories from science’s past to understand our world
Learn what two famous neurological traumas—one involving a U.S. president, the other a Supreme Court justice—can teach us about how our own brains perceive reality in this episode of The Disappearing Spoon.
A centuries-old sailor’s hack enters the ecologist’s toolkit.
This episode of The Disappearing Spoon is the third in a three-part series on legendary physicists and their dumbest mistakes.
Learn about the physicist’s biggest-blunder-turned-greatest success in this episode of The Disappearing Spoon.
Calculating the automobile’s grisly impact on wildlife.
This episode of The Disappearing Spoon explores why the iconic physicist made an unbelievable error while hunting down criminals, and how you can avoid the same dumb mistake.
