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FLASHCARDS! Francis Bacon, Margaret Mead, and Paul Erdős on the Science of Everyday Thinking
Your instinct to question evidence, challenge “the way things are,” and fall in love with a hard problem isn’t a personality quirk; it’s the exact thinking that built modern science, anthropology, and mathematics. In this Flashcards Friday episode, I break down three quick “cards” inspired by Sir Francis Bacon, Margaret Mead, and Paul Erdős, and show how their most famous breakthroughs mirror instincts you already have. This one’s a companion to last Wednesday’s Pride Month special, but it stands entirely on its own. 🌐 Website: https://www.MathScienceHistory.com ☕Support the show: https://paypal.com/ncp/payment/PR7F7ST49GDNA Three Things You’ll Learn ·         How Francis Bacon’s inductive reasoning became the foundation of the entire scientific method, and the personal risk he took living as a gay man in Elizabethan England ·         Why Margaret Mead’s research in Samoa proved that “normal” is often just “what we decided and forgot we decided” ·         How Paul Erdős treated unsolved math problems like lifelong relationships, and why that’s the key to real mathematical thinking Subscribe so you never miss a Flashcards Friday, and if this one hit home, leave a review—it helps more curious minds find the show! Flashcard Music: Gift of the Stars from The Little Prince by Lloyd Rodgers. All music is in the public domain and has no Copyright and no rights reserved. IMAGES: Bacon, Francis (1561-1626) -- Portraits Portraits Appartient à l’ensemble documentaire - By Bibliothèque nationale de France, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=161117399 Margaret Mead - By Los Angeles Daily News - https://digital.library.ucla.edu/catalog/ark:/21198/zz0002pz57, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=117411558 Coming of Age cover (1928) – Public Domain - Coming of Age in Samoa: margaret mead : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Paul Erdos - By Kmhkmh - Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=123828932 Subscribe on your favorite podcast platform. Leave a review! It helps more people discover the show! Share this episode with friends & fellow history buffs! Until next time, carpe diem!
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