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Nov 11, 2022
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The lone genius is a myth. We have a tendency to put individuals on a pedestal - take the Nobel Prizes for example, which are given to just a handful of individuals. In reality, science is done by teams. For every Nobel Laureate there are dozens or hundreds of other scientists that worked on parts of the same problem. 

Even Einstein collaborated with oth…

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