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Speaking of human computers, there is a guy named Art Benjamin, he’s a human calculator. He says it’s a skill he learned as a kid. Now he’s a math professor at Harvey Mudd. He can find the square root of a six digit number in a few seconds. Practice.

Bill Nye

I hope next generation will emerge and produce technology, regulations, and a worldview that enable as many of us as possible to live happy healthy lives.
BILL NYE

Healthy Hope Lives
How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?
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Inquiry Our Resistance Society
Recommending or insisting on abstinence has been completely ineffective.
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Abstinence Insisting Recommending
Science is the best thing humans beings have ever come up with. And if it isn’t, science will fix it.
BILL NYE

Best Come Humans Things Up
Apparently there is redundancy in memory: You store the same memory in different parts of your brain for accessing at different speeds. That speed would depend on the frequency of use and the importance of the knowledge.
BILL NYE

Brain Different Memories
From an evolutionary standpoint you can’t just wipe everything out and start over, and I don’t think you can do it in the school system either.
BILL NYE

Over School Starting Thinking
My father was a very good Boy Scout. He was very skilled with knots, and he showed me how to tie a bow tie.
BILL NYE

Boys Father Ties
Also, we have a strange situation where we have malnourished fat people. It’s not that we need more food. It’s that we need to manage our food system better.
BILL NYE

Better Need People Situation System
Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. That pursuit fills me with wonder.
BILL NYE

Goal Law Pursuit Wonder
We need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.
BILL NYE

Needs Taxpayers Voters
That’s what makes a human a human, if we store information outside our bodies.
BILL NYE

Body Information Stores
Along with the evidence of common sense, researchers have proven scientifically that humans are all one people. We’re a lot like dogs in that regard. If a Great Dane interacts (can we say interact?) with a Chihuahua, you get a dog.
BILL NYE

Common Dog People Sense
I am so old, I entered engineering school with a slide rule. And I left engineering school with a calculator. I can still use a slide rule but it’s not a skill you especially need anymore.
BILL NYE

Engineering School Skills
The debate [in Undeniable] was nominally about creationism as a “viable” explanation for what we observe around us. For my side, the debate went very well; I’m not sure what I would change, although I can imagine shortening my answers during the rebuttals, perhaps.
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Answers Debate Sides
There are just two people entitled to refer to themselves as “we”; one is the editor and the other is the fellow with a tapeworm.
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Editors People Two
Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.
BILL NYE

Alternatives Class Teaching

Speaking of human computers, there is a guy named Art Benjamin, he’s a human calculator. He says it’s a skill he learned as a kid. Now he’s a math professor at Harvey Mudd. He can find the square root of a six digit number in a few seconds. Practice.

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Speaking of human computers, there is a guy named Art Benjamin, he’s a human calculator. He says it’s a skill he learned as a kid. Now he’s a math professor at Harvey Mudd. He can find the square root of a six digit number in a few seconds. Practice.

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