There But For Science: Blood Navigation

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, Life Sciences, Science

4.4 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2017

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Imagine a world in which sailing ships navigate by the yelps of tormented dogs and nuclear submarines whisper to each other via the screams of rabbits and their murdered young? In both of these cases, science won out over magical thinking -- and actual sc

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1:36.3	Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind from howstuffworks.com.
1:46.3	Hey you welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lam and I'm Joe McCormick.
1:50.4	You know we've discussed before how science is sort of this gigantic slime mold.
1:56.7	Feeling its way through a maze.
1:58.4	You got tapers of its substance seeking down long twisting corridors and search of that food prize.
2:04.8	I guess the food prize of knowledge in this case and when they find it when we find it it's
2:09.7	on to greater meals and when this science slime doesn't find it well the tentacles of inquiry
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