Paper Promises, Heavy Realities - Part 3: The High Price of High-Tech Optimism
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Investigates failures in space, medicine, and nuclear energy driven by a lack of common sense.
Medicine
The Secret Life of Ordinary Objects - Part 5: The Alchemist's Cabinet: Soap, Aspirin, and the Strange Evolution of Health
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The pursuit of purity: how industrial ingenuity transformed sickness and sanitation.
WWII Science & Technology: The Race That Changed Everything - Part 3: Penicillin's Paradox: How Bureaucracy Almost Killed the Miracle Drug
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Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in 1928, but it took a world war and American industrial might to make it matter. The story of how scientific ego, institutional inertia, and peacetime complacency nearly let the greatest medical discovery of the century die in a petri dish.