David Baron: When Martians were real
About this episode
David Baron discusses the historical fascination with the idea of intelligent Martians as reported by the New York Times in 1906.
…at least according to a bold-face December 1906 headline in the New York Times. This was in the middle of a decades-long fascination with the idea that Martians not only exist but were much smarter than us Earthlings. How Martians came… and went.
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