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How Thomas Jefferson Saved America With a Dead Moose
Join Joe Hanson as he explores curiosity and illuminates the science behind… well, everything.
How Thomas Jefferson Saved America With a Dead Moose
Season 3 Episode 34 | 6m 0s | CC
America’s first great science battle wasn’t the space race or the atom bomb, it was fought between Thomas Jefferson, a French nobleman, and in the middle a giant moose. Some people call Jefferson our only scientist-President, and T.J. himself said that “Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight.”
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