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Timing is everything. The best ideas, inventions, and concepts don’t always win. How many musicians, inventors, and artists were so far ahead of their time that they flopped and were forgotten, only to be rediscovered later? We need look no further than poor Heron of Alexandria, who, perhaps in the first century a.d., invented the steam turbine. Unfortunately, it was regarded as a toy. The world wasn’t ready for it.
Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
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