What does real scientific work look like? As neuroscientist Stuart Firestein jokes: It looks a lot less like the scientific method and a lot more like "farting around ... in the dark." In this witty talk, Firestein gets to the heart of science as it is really practiced and suggests that we should value what we don't know -- or "high-quality igno...

Stuart Firestein, PhD is a Neuroscientist and Professor of Biological Sciences at Columbia University, in his talks he shares how across history and until today failure has been an integral part of successful achievements and describes failure as a path into the unimaginable. Filmed at #TEDxSanFrancisco #DareToKnow on October 3rd, 2019, at the...