Mario Livio at the Weizmann Institute

Prof. Mario Livio takes the long view on science. In his newest book, Brilliant Blunders, he points out some of the mistakes made by some icons of science -- Einstein and Pauling among them. More importantly, he insists that researchers must be free to make mistakes.

Livio recently gave us a taste of his subject matter in a talk at the Weizmann Institute (in English):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYaMlTn275A

 

 

 

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