You’ll find most people in science, particularly researchers, have very deep interests in literature a philosophy and the arts. Whereas the converse is extremely rare.
Because wealth accumulation requires a certain level of cruelty. And most smart people are not cruel. For example, let's say I run a business, and I know that in order for it to make me a millionaire, I need to pay my workers 3k p/m. As a smart person, I know that 3k p/m is nowhere near enough for someone to live comfortably on. The only question that remains is whether I care or not.
When we were kids, the hole in the ozone layer was a problem and the people with power just decided they would fix it (Montreal Protocol). (And it worked.) So you can't blame us for thinking we'd enter into an age where people will always be just like that.
One of the biggest scams of all time is making ordinary people believe they are responsible for climate change instead of multinational corporations and the militaries that protect them.
I have always been scared of you due to my religious upbringing that required me to wear plaid skirts and feel guilty all of the time but I do not hate you baby python. You are very cute and kind. I can tell. Good luck with the respiratory treatment.
A collapsing glacier just erased ~5,000 people in Nepal & we’ve been advised on the coast in California not to swim in the ocean for the foreseeable future because sea lions are attacking people after suffering severe brain damage from toxic algae blooms caused by warming oceans
The reason millennials are so nostalgic is that they got a brief taste of a world that wasn’t entirely controlled by the stupidest people who’ve ever lived.
Anthony Bourdain would go anywhere on earth with no regard for his health or safety. would get shitfaced on camera, talk about his depression, the more he traveled the more he learned he knew nothing at all. He changed opinion on things when he learned more and was always