This and 4 other audio clips are extracted from the History of Man Series YouTube videos which are extracted from the books. Listen to the audio clips in order. The YouTube videos relied heavily on a grease board to explain things which is not available on audio. If you can't follow these audio clips, head on over to YouTube or to my website johnbershofmd.com.

In the spirit of medieval writer Chaucer, all human activity lies within the artist’s scope, the History of Man Series are books in print, eBook, and audiobooks on tape that uses jumping off points to explore history, science, all human activity since the beginning of time. History of Man are stories and tales of nearly everything. These SoundCloud tales are extracted from the audiobooks. CLICK ON THE LINK on this webpage to peruse the Audible.com Buy Page through Amazon. With every turn of the audio page, I promise you’ll learns something. Great for commuting, long walks and runs, road trips, or just sitting back and relaxing. And because the History of Man audiobooks are chock full of information, you can listen to the same book multiple times, there’s just that much within the artist’s scope.

Copy and paste this link to land on the Audible.com Buy Page:

https://www.audible.com/author/John-Bershof/B08NFDRFMP

This series of five audiotapes are extracted from the History of Man Series, but are also extracted from YouTube videos where a great deal of the explanation used a grease board. Listening to these audio tapes might be a tad problematic without the visual aids, yet in the audiobooks from which a discussion of global warming was undertaken, the author went to great lengths to explain climate change and global warming without the benefit of visual materials. Sit back and listen to all five clips and you’ll be something of an expert on climate change and global warming.

Global Warming 101 - Part 2

Global Warming 101 - Part 3

Global Warming 101 - Part 4

Global Warming 101 - Part 5

This audio clip extracted from a video file was presented with a grease board to explain radiation, so as a standalone audio clip it might not be clear. Go to my website to view the video, a story extracted from the History of Man Series audiobooks.

In the spirit of medieval writer Chaucer, all human activity lies within the artist’s scope, the History of Man Series are books in print, eBook, and audiobooks on tape that uses jumping off points to explore history, science, all human activity since the beginning of time. History of Man are stories and tales of nearly everything. These SoundCloud tales are extracted from the audiobooks. CLICK ON THE LINK on this webpage to peruse the Audible.com Buy Page through Amazon. With every turn of the audio page, I promise you’ll learns something. Great for commuting, long walks and runs, road trips, or just sitting back and relaxing. And because the History of Man audiobooks are chock full of information, you can listen to the same book multiple times, there’s just that much within the artist’s scope.

Copy and paste this link to land on the Audible.com Buy Page:

https://www.audible.com/author/John-Bershof/B08NFDRFMP

Serendipity is defined as an occurrence or development of events by chance that ends up being a happy or beneficial result. And it is no truer in science where the discovery of radiation, of the first antibiotic, of quinine to treat malaria, and of Archimedes discovering that water displacement measures the mass of something, all the while taking a bath. Likely, he was also sipping wine while pondering in that bathtub. Why not sipping wine? Although of Greek ancestry Archimedes was living in Sicily after all, and those Sicilians had some mighty fine wines.

This clip from the History of Man Series discusses the accidental or serendipitous discovery of radiation, a classic "chance favors the prepared mind," a quote attributed Louis Pasteur.

Serendipity Part 1 - The Discovery Of Radiation

In the spirit of medieval writer Chaucer, all human activity lies within the artist’s scope, the History of Man Series are books in print, eBook, and audiobooks on tape that uses jumping off points to explore history, science, all human activity since the beginning of time. History of Man are stories and tales of nearly everything. These SoundCloud tales are extracted from the audiobooks. CLICK ON THE LINK on this webpage to peruse the Audible.com Buy Page through Amazon. With every turn of the audio page, I promise you’ll learns something. Great for commuting, long walks and runs, road trips, or just sitting back and relaxing. And because the History of Man audiobooks are chock full of information, you can listen to the same book multiple times, there’s just that much within the artist’s scope.

Copy and paste this link to land on the Audible.com Buy Page:

https://www.audible.com/author/John-Bershof/B08NFDRFMP

Serendipity is defined as an occurrence or development of events by chance that ends up being a happy or beneficial result. And it is no truer in science where the discovery of radiation, of the first antibiotic, of quinine to treat malaria, and of Archimedes discovering that water displacement measures the mass of something, all the while taking a bath. Likely, he was also sipping wine while pondering in that bathtub. Why not sipping wine? Although of Greek ancestry Archimedes was living in Sicily after all, and those Sicilians had some mighty fine wines.

Serendipity Part 2 - The Discovery Of Quinine

Serendipity Part 3 - The Discovery Of Penicillin

Serendipity Part 4 - Archimedes

In the spirit of medieval writer Chaucer, all human activity lies within the artist’s scope, the History of Man Series are books in print, eBook, and audiobooks on tape that uses jumping off points to explore history, science, all human activity since the beginning of time. History of Man are stories and tales of nearly everything. These SoundCloud tales are extracted from the audiobooks. CLICK ON THE LINK on this webpage to peruse the Audible.com Buy Page through Amazon. With every turn of the audio page, I promise you’ll learns something. Great for commuting, long walks and runs, road trips, or just sitting back and relaxing. And because the History of Man audiobooks are chock full of information, you can listen to the same book multiple times, there’s just that much within the artist’s scope.

Copy and paste this link to land on the Audible.com Buy Page:

https://www.audible.com/author/John-Bershof/B08NFDRFMP

This audio file is from a YouTube video which uses a grease board explores light waves, the Doppler Effect which is also used to issue speeding tickets on highways, and gives evidence to the age of the Universe, currently about how many years old? Well, older than Keith Richards.

Waves, Doppler Effect and The Age of The Universe

In the spirit of medieval writer Chaucer, all human activity lies within the artist’s scope, the History of Man Series are books in print, eBook, and audiobooks on tape that uses jumping off points to explore history, science, all human activity since the beginning of time. History of Man are stories and tales of nearly everything. These SoundCloud tales are extracted from the audiobooks. CLICK ON THE LINK on this webpage to peruse the Audible.com Buy Page through Amazon. With every turn of the audio page, I promise you’ll learns something. Great for commuting, long walks and runs, road trips, or just sitting back and relaxing. And because the History of Man audiobooks are chock full of information, you can listen to the same book multiple times, there’s just that much within the artist’s scope.

Copy and paste this link to land on the Audible.com Buy Page:

https://www.audible.com/author/John-Bershof/B08NFDRFMP

Dogma is a powerful principle, where doctrine is laid down as incontrovertible truths, even when the truths are false. An example would be the Church in Rome unwavering belief for a thousand years that Earth was the center of our solar system, taking the renaissance to tear-down that dogma. The physician Galen of Pergamon in the 2nd century AD refined the 4th century BC theory of infection spread termed miasma theory that all infections were transferred by smells, a theory so dogmatic that for 1,500 years no other method of infection spread was allowed to percolate into scientific consciousness. It eventually took the work of Louis Pasteur in the mid 1800s to prove infection could spread by other means besides odors, that is, by tiny microscopic buggers which he dubbed the Germ Theory.

The Miasma Theory

John Bershof, MD is a plastic surgeon who has been in private practice for over 20 years. He is the author of numerous medical articles as well as the first general reader textbook of medicine for mobile phones, entitled skynetMD. His passion is to unveil complex science concepts for the reader, fleeced of the jargon that normally terrorizes such books, through an inviting prosy style of wit and humor, interlaced with concentric jumping off points into human history. John Bershof lives in Denver, Colorado.

Serendipity Part 2 - The Discovery Of Quinine

John Bershof

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