Stephen Hawking finds the inner genius in ordinary people

New television series helps viewers think like a scientist

people throwing a ball on a carousel

By playing catch while on a bare-bones carousel, participants in Genius discover the Coriolis effect.

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It’s hard to believe that it took reality television this long to get around to dealing with space, time and our place in the cosmos.