Status Updates From The Borderlands of Science:...

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Credit! Credit! Who gets the credit?

Was Mozart a genius? Of course, but not because of the Amadeus Myth, but because he really was so much better than almost everyone else, and worked so much harder, and from an earlier age that he appears, to them and to us, wholly Other, a genius.

There is a difference between us and all those who failed to find this solution. We are the first to realize the consequences of our actions in time to do something about them. The question is, what will we do?

Whether Carl Sagan’s life is measured qualitatively (through narrative biography) or quantitatively (through scientific biography), he really had a wonderful life.

Where Freud created a hero as myth image that has faded, Darwin refused to create a hero myth image, and he has come down to our time as a hero as great man.

Wallace was a believer.

Where the heretic meets the skeptic a creative scientist will emerge.

Change is the only constant in the universe and you need correct change to ride the bus.

Paradigm shifts are one way that Science progresses and pseudoscience never can.

Maybe some people have good incentive to work their asses off.

Scientists don’t want to be God. They just want to solve scientific problems. Only scientists can do that. Let them do it.

The knowledge filters of the past—peer-reviewed journals, conference paper reviews, journalistic integrity—are being bypassed by a more direct and unfiltered link to the world at large. Harmless you say? Ask Timothy McVeigh where he got his information on the evil doings of the government, as well as how to build bombs.