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Stories of ideas, discoveries, inventions ... and blunders

Stories of research and development of new technologies for environmental, economic, and social sustainability. We draw lessons for the future from tales of successes interspersed with major failures.

Stories of ideas, discoveries, inventions ... and blunders

Eataly, the cathedral of Italian food that is conquering the world… but not the balance sheets

From a revolutionary idea by Oscar Farinetti to a global brand present in over 15 countries: the story of a commercial success which, for almost twenty years, has struggled to turn a profit In 2007, you only had to step inside the old Carpano vermouth factory in Turin’s Lingotto district...
Luca Longo
The strange case of the palaeontologist Vishwajit Gupta and the peripatetic fossils that roamed the Himalayas
Alexander Fleming: a laboratory accident, penicillin and the antibiotic revolution 
Cyril Burt, studies on hereditary intelligence and how to invent twins … and scientists
The Hindawi scandal: the dark side of open-access scientific publishing
Dmitry Mendeleev puts them all in line (the building blocks of the Universe)
Elena Ceaucescu: the great chemist who didn’t know what sulphuric acid was
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