In 1983, a BBC interviewer asked Richard Feynman why two magnets push each other apart — and he refused to answer it.
What he did instead is the best seven minutes on thinking ever filmed.
Bookmark & watch today, no matter what.
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Anthropologist Margaret Mead was once asked by a student what she believed was the very first sign of known civilization. The student expected her to talk about a hatchet, perhaps fishhooks, the bow and arrow...
Possibly a building structure, clay pots or grinding stones and knives.
But no.
Mead said that the first sign of civilization in an ancient culture was a thighbone that had been broken and then healed.
Mead explained that in the animal kingdom, if you break your leg, your timely death is assured.
"You cannot run from danger, get to the river for a drink or hunt for food. You are meat for prowling beasts. No animal survives a broken leg long enough for the bone to heal."
A broken thighbone that has healed is evidence that someone has taken time to stay with the one who fell, has bound up the wound, has carried the person to safety and has tended the person through recovery.
"Helping someone else through difficulty is where civilization starts." Mead said.
We are at our very best when we truly help and serve others.
Be civilized. Be kind. Be helpful
The whole DNA thing from Tuchel clinches it for me: it's the story we tell ourselves that no England team can play like Spain (who of course didn't play "like Spain" for many years) and it simply isn't true: the 1990 England team, for example, had the most attacking quality on the ball in midfield of all the teams in that tournament - Gascoigne, Beardsley, Waddle - but we lost through bad luck - a deflection - and penalties. And then the story gets told and re-told, that England fail on the highest stage, or "we can't play possession football," and the self-consciousness around that poisons things at the root. At some level many England managers, and Tuchel absolutely, think as a first principle that English players aren't touch/possession players - so create a squad to cope with that, ignoring or benching the players who are or might be those sort of players, because they don't fit the team model that comes with that cope - and then the team aren't good enough on the highest stage, yeah, because that first principle is wrong.
2011: HBD @DTollefson71. One of the funny stories of the #NYGiants 2011 championship season was Tolly's mom's inspirational profane pre-game speeches, which was heard by several teammates like @MKiwanuka_94 & @IAMCweb. ESPN poked fun of it in their Super Bowl XLVI coverage.