Even in the twenty-first century the popular image of a scientist is a reclusive genius in a lab coat, mixing formulas or working out equations inaccessible to all but the initiated few. The idea that scientists are somehow smarter than the rest of...
We humans have always been fascinated by our world, and over hundreds of thousands of years we've built up a body of knowledge about the things around us, so we know what they are, how they work, how they interact, and what the processes are...