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Never underestimate spite as a motivator for genius.
Sam Kean The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True T… genius science spite
Think of the most fussy science teacher you ever had. The one who docked your grade if the sixth decimal place in your answer was rounded incorrectly; who tucked in his periodic ta…
Sam Kean The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True T… amusing humour science
In fact, his travelogues spend amazingly little time discussing his blindness. Only one passage stands out for its frank discussion of his handicap and how it changed his worldview…
Sam Kean The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: T… beauty blind blindness disability handicap
The color of the emitted light depends on the relative heights of the starting and ending energy levels. A crash between closely spaced levels (such as two and one) releases a puls…
Sam Kean The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True T… electrons energy light
Germans at the time believed, a little oddly, that dyes killed germs by turning the germs’ vital organs the wrong color.
Sam Kean The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True T… germany humorous microbes microbiology oddity
For his part, Mendeleev scanned Lecoq de Boisbaudran’s data on gallium and told the experimentalist, with no justification, that he must have measured something wrong, because the …
Sam Kean The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True T… elements gallium humorous
Today alpha equals 1/137.0359 or so. Regardless, its value makes the periodic table possible. It allows atoms to exist and also allows them to react with sufficient vigor to form c…
Sam Kean The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True T… alpha existence physics universe
All the elements other than hydrogen and helium make up just 0.04 percent of the universe. Seen from this perspective, the periodic system appears to be rather insignificant. But t…
Sam Kean The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True T… earth elements universe
When you do the math and examine how much energy is produced per atomic union, you find that fusing anything to iron’s twenty-six protons costs energy. That means post-ferric fusio…
Sam Kean The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True T… atoms elements energy iron stars
This hinted at something that no one had ever suspected -- that the brain tracks moving things more easily that still things. We have a built-in bias toward detecting action. Why? …
Sam Kean The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: T… bias brain illusion neuro vision

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