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History is littered with examples of accidental discoveries or creations in times of great crisis that changed the world. Perhaps most famously, Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming, studying influenza in 1928, leaves some Petri dishes uncovered while on vacation, and returns to discover mold that is the first step in the creation of penicillin. A bit of historical trivia that has almost assuredly been recounted to the vast majority of us over the last nine-plus months, most likely by parents or disapproving spouses who wished we would put on actual pants at some point, Shakespeare wrote
King Lear while quite likely on lockdown due to an outbreak of the plague in 1606 — I recently binged