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Ed Boyden: uncertainty

10 Apr 2019 Conversations with Tyler Ed Boyden on Minding your Brain

“I don’t know the details of who he worked with and how they all contributed to each other.”

— Ed Boyden

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Ed Boyden
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uncertainty
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10 Apr 2019
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Conversations with Tyler

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…Archimedes — overrated or underrated? Archimedes. I don’t know the details of who he worked with and how they all contributed to each other. But certainly, the famous stuff that he did in terms of Archimedes’s principle, and the stuff that he innovated and discovered, stands the test of time. I guess the big question is, if we actually were there and saw what people were doing, what happened in the trenches, right? Again, it boils down to some of these questions of storytelling. He might have had many collaborators.…

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