thinking

Science is a Wide Open Field

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8UFGu2M2gM&list=TLffblgmMuGaw
Adam Savage walks through two spectacular examples of profound scientific discoveries that came from simple, creative methods anyone could have followed -- Eratosthenes' calculation of the Earth's circumference around 200 BC and Hippolyte Fizeau's measurement of the speed of light in 1849.