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Value After Hours S03 E28: Scott, Scurvy and the South Pole; El Farol Bar problem; $PSTH

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Scurvy and a Robert Scott Run

In 17 forty seven, a royal navy surgeon pointed out that people who ate citrus fruits didn't get scurvy on these trips. Then the rual navy made all ships carry some citrus ina ally solved scurvy. Scurvy's caused by a lack of vidam an sea. And so it was unnecessary to have vidam and sea at all on the ship because you're geting fresh food before you leave,. You get fresh food when you get to the other side. It takes longer than that. We just didn't know that it was superfluous. So that's the sort of he reason why these other things started happening, because we justdidn't know

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