Nashville’s ‘Discoverers’: A Vandy Engineer On Cotton Candy, Failure And The Eureka Moment

When movies portray a scientific discovery, it’s usually some version of that one Eureka moment — a flash of insight at an unexpected time. Vanderbilt University engineer Leon Bellan says while that does happen occasionally, failure and frustration are also an intimate part of the discovery process.  He talked to WPLN’s Emily Siner in our live series Movers & Thinkers.

This audio is an excerpt from the latest episode of our Movers & Thinkers podcast. Hear more of the conversation with Bellan, as well as two other people who discover things for a living, by downloading our podcast on our website or on iTunes.