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The Pauli Effect

There's this thing that you must have heard of, I guess, but I certainly end with Nobelitis. It's the idea that once you win the Nobel Prize, the power of it and the adoration is so great, that you suddenly think, well, I must be a genius about everything. There's people like Wolfgang Pauli, who was seen as one of the eagle eyes of science. He would not let anything get by. Yet he was pretty convinced that there was something involving telekinesis and telepathy going on with him because everywhere he went, things broke.

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