Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier
Guest: Stuart Firestein
Stuart joins Vincent and Dickson to talk about his sequel to Ignorance, a book called Failure, which seeks to make science more appealing by revealing its faults.
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- Stuart Firestein’s site
- Ignorance with Stuart Firestein (TWiV Special)
- The pursuit of ignorance (TED)
- Ignorance by Stuart Firestein
- Failure by Stuart Firestein
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the name of the mathematician that SF forgot is Constantin Carathéodory