Breaking physical barriers
Scientific paradigm shifts
The biology of belief
The technology of the unthinkable
007skaty The Circle of Blood
It flows in a one-way continuous street (one-way street!) / Pushed by the heart with every beat (every beat!)
007skaty Doctors rejected the life-saving breakthrough of chlorinated lime handwashing.
007skaty Time your hops over obstacles to discover how realizing your potential makes anything possible.
007skaty Without germ theory, peers rejected his 18% to 2% mortality drop as an insult, and Semmelweis died in an asylum before vindication.
What is the psychological phenomenon called where people reject new evidence because it contradicts established beliefs?
What chemical solution did Ignaz Semmelweis use to disinfect doctors' hands at the Vienna General Hospital?
007skaty Plate tectonics in the 1960s finally proved Wegener's rejected theory of drifting continents.
What modern scientific theory finally provided the mechanism for Alfred Wegener's continental drift hypothesis in the 1960s?
What did Alfred Wegener name the single giant supercontinent that existed about 300 million years ago?
Continental speed: Earth's tectonic plates move at roughly the same speed that human fingernails grow—about 2.5 centimeters per year.
In what year did Barbara McClintock receive her solo Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, more than thirty years after her discovery?
What organism did Barbara McClintock study for decades to discover transposable elements or 'jumping genes'?
A fundamental change in approach or underlying assumptions. Thomas Kuhn coined the term in 1962 to explain how scientific communities transition between competing worldviews.
What microscopic blood vessels, discovered by Marcello Malpighi in 1661, finally completed the physical proof of Harvey's circulatory loop?
Whose 1,500-year-old medical teachings did William Harvey challenge with his discovery of blood circulation?