A series of controlled experiments that are mind blowing. And they wrote up a big report that reads like a detective novel, it's so well written. The one experiment that was the one that clinched it, that animal magnetism didn't exist. It seems to be true that our own minds are able to cause all kinds of physical sensations in our body. But they did the wrong experiments. If they wanted to know of magnetism really existed, all they had to do was put chuck nice in a cocktail party. Back to Mail Online home. Back to the page you came from.
How does lightning work? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck break down the legendary science and inventions of Benjamin Franklin, live with chief editor of The Benjamin Franklin Papers, Ellen Cohn and Benjamin Franklin himself!
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