Status Updates From Lo mismo y no lo mismo

"Much of the world... is intractable to simplistic (even complex) scientific analysis...[it] is subject to ethical and moral debate...[catharsis]makes participatory democracy work. The resolution of personal and societal problems is not achieved by scientistic claims that a unique rational solution exists...we have witnessed the failure of...scientistic [dreams] - Marxism...It has proven itself to be...unworkable."

"There is a case to be made for "organic" agriculture, but I think that synthetic fertilizers, and [Fritz] Haber's invention in particular [ammonium nitrate], have prevented the starvation of hundreds of millions..."
Haber's contribution [to the WWI effort] was the concept of a gas cloud...the number of gas casualties among all combatants was...(3 to 3.5 percent of all casualties...)

Pretty good, especially for chemists, and those who see beauty in nature