How Simple Ideas Lead to Scientific Discoveries

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In this TED-Ed video "How Simple Ideas Lead to Scientific Discoveries," Adam Savage, best known for Mythbusters fame, explains how some of the most fundamental discoveries in science came from simple and creative ideas about how to solve problems. We're all "meat and water," he says, and we all have the capacity to work at the limits of human understanding if we are curious enough.

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