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.
The science of behaviour by Diederik Stapel: when vegans are...
Not all scientific errors are made in good faith. Sometimes someone is ‘too’ convinced of his theories and goes so...
Thomas Alva Edison illuminates the night with the light bulb
The story of a great inventor who achieved success through study, perseverance and the ability to communicate his ideas. The...
Elizabeth Holmes and the great promise of Theranos
Start-ups are a key element in the development of new technologies towards a more sustainable world. But Elizabeth Holmes, CEO...
The Higgs Boson and how the hole in the Standard...
The Standard Model: the unifying theory describing all the forces in the Universe had a hole in it. But Peter...
The first human cloning: Brigitte Boisselier and… the Raelian sect
Sometimes science clashes with fraudsters, sometimes even with entire religious sects. Here is the story of the first human cloning...
Bíró and Bich, who left their mark on the history...
An inventor and an entrepreneur popularised a writing instrument that we now consider trivial and obsolete compared to our touch...
















