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\nAdam 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...\nAdam 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.\n
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7:32
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12th - Higher Ed
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Science
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2012
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English
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innovation, education, planets, creativity, space, eratosthenes, distance, speed, light, inertia, alexandria
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