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Common sense?

Posted on 2011/02/16 , tagged as

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John Farndon, author of The World’s Greatest Idea, writes for Soapbox, Nature magazine’s science blog, on how certain ideas come to assume the mantle of common sense knowledge.

Read his full piece here and read here about about John Farndon’s appearance at the Brighton Science Festival on Saturday 5th March.

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