I Made a Big Mistake

From the road to the science lab, human error can have curious effects. In the series I Made a Big Mistake, PopSci explores mishaps and misunderstandings, in all their shame and glory.

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American actor Richard Dreyfuss (left) (as marine biologist Hooper) and British author and actor Robert Shaw (as shark fisherman Quint) look off the stern of Quint's fishing boat the 'Orca' at the terrifying approach of the mechanical giant shark dubbed 'Bruce' in a scene from the film 'Jaws' directed by Steven Spielberg, 1975.

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I Made a Big Mistake

Latest in I Made a Big Mistake

Why the creators of ‘Jaws’ regretted making sharks the monsters

The Museum of Failure challenges how we think about mistakes

How a shot at making better gunsights became Super Glue instead

How astronomers traced a puzzling signal to a lunchtime mistake

Read this if you or someone nearby is stuck in a fence

Why the DeLorean DMC-12 was a star on the screen but not the road

An electric cow, a robot mailman, and other automatons we overestimated

A sunburn treatment that actually works

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