Clip: David Berlinski on the Achievements of the Twentieth Century Inventions

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Channel: Hoover Institution · 2014 · News & Politics

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In this clip from Uncommon Knowledge, author and mathematician David Berlinski explains how the invention of the toilet had little to do with the hard sciences but was a product of technology applied successfully—and what that means for the future progress of science and technology.

Watch the full interview here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31MI5c7LYSU

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