Falsification: How Failure Leads to Success
Thomas Edison had been working on a nickel-iron battery when his associate Walter S. Mallory stopped by the lab. For over five months, Edison hadn’t
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It’s a Free Road: How Bobbi Gibbs Transformed Running
In February 1966 Roberta “Bobbi” Gibb applied to run in the Boston Marathon. She had always been a big runner. In college, she would run
How the Samwer Brothers Cloned Their Way to the Top
In 1998, Marc Samwer noticed something odd. The German native was living in San Francisco with his brothers, Oliver and Alexander, when he discovered that
Frequency Hopping: How Hedy Lamarr Used Analogy to Spark a New Technology
Hedy Lamarr was never one for conventions. As a young actress in the 1930s, she flouted the Hollywood social scene. Instead, she filled her free