Science of Discovery

The pursuit of knowledge can make you do weird things.  Sir Isaac Newton explored his eye-socket with a wooden stick.  Swedish chemist Karl Scheele was undone by the toxic chemicals he insisted on tasting.  And a German scientist named Becher spent years trying to make gold from his own urine, only to discover phosphorous.  In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, the science of discovery.  Also, the lost links between mathematics and art.  And, the Ig-Nobel Prize, a tour of some of the world’s silliest science.