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In 1900, sponge divers found a misshapen lump of corroded metal in the Greek Sea. Since then, Antikythera’s clockwork-like mechanism has overturned some notions of the ancient world, as the 2,000-year-old object is the world’s first analog computer. Also in this episode: the “pigeon bomb” by the American behavioral psychologist BF Skinner and the goblet of a Roman emperor who can change its color thanks to nanotechnology.
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