Wednesday
Mar142012
How simple ideas lead to scientific discoveries | Adam Savage from Mythbusters - Video on TED.com
Wednesday, March 14, 2012 at 04:04PM
Adam Savage walks through two spectacular examples of profound scientific discoveries that came from simple, creative methods anyone could have followed -- Eratosthenes' calculation of the Earth's circumference around 200 BC and Hippolyte Fizeau's measurement of the speed of light in 1849.