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The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change.
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Climate Problem Serious
I used to play ultimate Frisbee, and I just got a reputation for making popcorn at parties. I don’t mean to brag on myself, but I make the popcorn in the pot, and it comes out fine every time.
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Mean Party Play Used
Talk about science with everyone you meet. Especially talk about climate change. It needs to become a part of our everyday conversation (the way it is everywhere else in the world).
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Climate Every Day Needs
SCIENCE is a part of EVERYONE’S everyday life.
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Everyday Everyday Life
You run your life according to all this stuff that’s happened to you. All of your memories affect everything you do whereas with a computer, there’s adaptive software and things, but it’s more literal.
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Computer Everything Literate Memories
Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.
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Alternatives Class Teaching
People get a lot out of being religious. They have strong senses of community and mutual support. So, what’s not to love [there]?
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Mutual Religious Strong Support
You start doing the addictive behavior to feel good and then your receptors get overloaded with dopamine, then you stop doing the addictive thing and some of the receptors have shut down and you don’t have enough dopamine to feel good.
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Feeling Gambling Good Thinking
Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.
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Answers Creationism Past
We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future. We need engineers that can build stuff and solve problems.
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Literate Problem Scientific Solve
I feel that I’ve often pointed out that there are countless aspects of life and nature that scientists and scientific thinkers cannot explain.
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Answers Bang Way
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.
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Engineering School Skills
Humor is everywhere in that there’s irony in just about anything a human does.
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Country Funny Humor People
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.
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Better Need People Situation System
If you decide to become a dancer on Broadway, never say who your favorite dance partner is, because members of the media will presume you never want to dance with anybody else.
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Broadway Dancer Media
The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.
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Laughing Opportunity World
It fills me with joy to know that we can pursue these answers. It is an astonishing thing that we are — you and I are one of the ways the universe knows itself.
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Answer Astonishing Joy Thing Universe
No matter what you may believe spiritually or otherwise, the Earth is clearly not 6,000 or 10,000 years old.
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Believe Earth Matter Spiritually Years
Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.
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Change Climate Environmental Issues Thinking
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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Art Kids Math Speaking
Evolution is not something you can believe in or not believe in like do you believe in gravity.
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Believe Evolution Gravity
There really is no such thing as race.
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Blue Dot Pale Race Space Vastness
I say to the grownups, if you want to deny evolution and live in your world, that’s completely inconsistent with the world we observe, that’s fine. But don’t make your kids do it. Because we need them.
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Kids Needs Say World
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
But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellectually, and it gives us all passion.
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Giving Investment Passion Society Space
People and stars are made of the same stuff.
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Meaning Life People Stars
Religion is a completely different thing from the claim that the Earth is six thousand years old. That’s just crazy.
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Crazy Different Years

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