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Crackpots and Eggheads: Eccentricity in Natural History
In the first in a series of 'Eccentricity' lectures, Dr Brian Regal talks about the search for 'monsters', in particular the hunt for Sasquatch or 'Bigfoot', and the "crackpot" natural historians who were obsessed with t...
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Crackpots and Eggheads: Eccentricity in Natural History is an episode from Museum of the History of Science by Oxford University. In the first in a series of 'Eccentricity' lectures, Dr Brian Regal talks about the search for 'monsters', in...
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Published Jul 28, 2011, 54:02 long, audio available.
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