6 Stupid and Dangerous Things Scientists Did to Themselves
From poking their own eyes, to drinking a patient's vomit, some extremely passionate scientists have done pretty outrageous things to themselves in the name of science. We're conducting...
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[♩ INTRO ] Most of the time when we talk about science, there are a lot of careful methods and meticulous calculations involved. But occasionally, it can get a bit … unconventional. Over the years, there have been some things done in the name of science that were pretty outrageous, even if they taught us something along the way. Some of them were just outrageously stupid. Others were both stupid and really sad. Here are six of them. [1. Isaac Newton] Isaac Newton is best known for discovering gravity, but he also did a lot of research in optics. Around 1665, he began studying prisms and how they interact with light, and his experiments were among the first to demonstrate that white light can be split up into a spectrum of colors. But his curiosity abou...
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[♩ INTRO ] Most of the time when we talk about science, there are a lot of careful methods and meticulous calculations involved. But occasionally, it can get a bit … unconventional. Over the years, there have been some things done in the name of science that were pretty outrageous, even if they taught us something along the way. Some of them were just outrageously stupid. Others were both stupid and really sad. Here are six of them. [1. Isaac Newton] Isaac Newton is best known for discovering gravity, but he also did a lot of research in optics. Around 1665, he began studying prisms and how they interact with light, and his experiments were among the first to demonstrate that white light can be split up into a spectrum of colors. But his curiosity abou...
