Eureka!

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Science, Technology

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🗓️ 7 March 2011

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

From the double-helix to the expansion of the universe, great scientific discoveries reshape our understanding of who we are and how things work. But great discoveries require more than just a great mind. We tour brainy breakthroughs from Archimedes to Darwin, and find out what made their revolutionary insights possible. Also, why you need more than a stratospheric I.Q. to be a super-achiever. And how the invention of reading re-directed the course of civilization and re-wired our brains in the process. Guests: Alan Hirshfeld - Professor of physics at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, and author of Eureka Man: The Life and Legacy of Archimedes Richard Holmes - Author of The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science Angela Duckworth - Psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania. Her grit study can be found here Stanislas Dehaene - Cognitive neruoscientist at the the Collège de France in Paris, and author of Reading in the Brain: The Science and Evolution of a Human Invention Descripción en español Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to an airwave media podcast.
0:05.0	The world is filled with many questions such as, did giants exist?
0:09.0	What is junk DNA?
0:10.4	Does it mean that you're trash?
0:11.8	Do you ever wonder if aliens have underwater bases in our oceans and that's why there are so many
0:16.8	UFO sightings off the coast of islands all over the world?
0:20.8	How serious even is climate change and when should we start building our rafts?
0:25.0	Hello everyone, you may recognize me as Gabby from the History of Everything podcast.
0:29.0	And my name is Bruna, and you don't recognize me from anything yet. Together we're two scientists. is a
0:33.7	and you don't recognize me from anything yet. Together we're two scientists who explore the answers to these questions and many
0:37.3	many more in our new podcast, Mystery of Everything,
0:40.6	available everywhere you get your podcast.
0:43.0	The corporate world is like the ocean.
0:45.0	It's alluring, but it's also full of deadly creatures that can shred you to pieces.
0:49.0	It becomes kind of like a Game ofrones political arena where everyone's trying to
0:54.1	murder you to get your job. My family doesn't come from corporate
0:57.1	backgrounds so I didn't have any sort of guidance in that. This is not your typical
1:01.4	work podcast. Sometimes you need to be empathetic.
1:03.9	And then there are times that you ask for input,
1:05.8	but you don't really give a shit.
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1:09.6	surfing corporate.
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