What Humans Got Wrong About the World — and Why | Strange Ideas for Sleep

Podcast: Sleep Stories from the Pioneers · Pioneers of Human Behaviour

Opublikowano: 2026-10-04

Fall asleep to a quiet journey through some of the strangest things humans once believed about the world — and the discoveries that eventually changed our minds. Why did intelligent people believe the Earth stood still, that disease travelled through bad air, that Mars was crossed by canals, or that an undiscovered planet called Vulcan was hiding near the Sun? Across astronomy, medicine, psychology, physics and the history of science, we encounter the Earth-centred cosmos, the four humours, spontaneous generation, phlogiston, caloric, miasma theory, the luminiferous ether, phrenology, the supposedly lifeless deep ocean, the canals of Mars, co...