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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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How to Tell a Good Story

I think i told the story before in the podcast, but it's so suitable here. I once was doing a consult for a movie, like many movies, one that never appeared. And they came to my office at calte to talk to not only me, but some of my graduate students. The light bulb went on for them when i said, what you're being told when you told the movie script, is not a theory of physics. Take it as data. Yes, this happened, like it or not. Now your job as the scientist is to come up with an explanation that makes it all make sense.

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