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Author - Sam Kean
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science
In these days before antiseptics, doctors themselves also suffered high mortality rates. Florence Nightingale,....
blind
In fact, his travelogues spend amazingly little time discussing his blindness. Only one passage stands....
humorous
For his part, Mendeleev scanned Lecoq de Boisbaudran’s data on gallium and told the experimentalist,....
mozart
Unlike modern pills, these hard antimony pills didn’t dissolve in the intestines, and the pills were....
astronomy
All we know for sure is that if some astronomer turned a telescope to a far-off star cluster tonight....
spite
Never underestimate spite as a motivator for genius.
Man
There are a few elements - especially platinum and palladium - that have the amazing ability to absorb....
elements
All the elements other than hydrogen and helium make up just 0.04 percent of the universe. Seen from....
illusion
This hinted at something that no one had ever suspected -- that the brain tracks moving things more easily....
existence
Today alpha equals 1/137.0359 or so. Regardless, its value makes the periodic table possible. It allows....
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