Faith Middleton Show: The Mandell JCC Hartford Jewish Film Festival, the Essex Steam Train, and Samuel Arbesman on The Half-Life of Facts

Summary: Facts change all the time. Smoking has gone from doctor recommended to deadly. We used to think the Earth was the center of the universe and that Pluto was a planet. For decades, we were convinced that the brontosaurus was a real dinosaur. In short, what we know about the world is constantly changing. But it turns out there’s an order to the state of knowledge, an explanation for how we know wh...