
Good in Theory is a podcast about brilliant scientific theories—that just happened not to be true. Join Rita and Sofie as they dive headfirst into disproven theories across biology, chemistry, physics, and medicine. They'll unpack what made the ideas so compelling, where they spectacularly failed, and how they still managed to leave a fascinating mark on science and culture. Have a listen if you w... more
| Publishes | Weekly | Episodes | 9 | Founded | 2 months ago |
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Why does your tea get cold if you leave it standing around for too long? Because the temperature of the tea adjusts to the temperature of the room, but why? The process of transferring heat puzzled many scientists. In the late 18th century caloric th... more
How are living things created? Was there some major event of creation where all generations to come were nested inside their ancestors? Or is the creation of life a process starting when paternal and maternal fluids come together? Before the discover... more
To explain why some continents that are now oceans apart seem to have once fit together, scientists hypothesized that the Earth itself must be dynamic. More precisely they thought it was expanding over time, slowly inflating like a balloon, pushing c... more
The bridge between alchemy and chemistry was crossed when scientists tried to answer the question: “Why do things burn?”. Starting from the perspective of four elements and arriving at the discovery of oxygen, this 100 year journey is a brilliant sho... more
Four seasons, four elements, four directions... four humours. In ancient Greece it seemed clear that just as our world was built from four elements, our bodies must be regulated by four vital fluids. When these humours fell out of balance, disease an... more
How do animals adjust to changing environments? Why are some living things much more complex than others? Before Darwin came up with his theory of evolution, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck had a theory of evolution of his own. Instead of using language such a... more
Clear skies, fresh air, that must mean there are no diseases here? For millennia people believed that the spread of diseases was connected to the quality of the air. If the air was cold, polluted and smelt rotten you were sure to get infected with ch... more
Water waves are movements in water, so light waves are movements in… aether. At least that was the leading theory in the 18th century. Sounds simple enough but nailing down what this aether is leads to curious properties. In truth light waves are qui... more
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