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 NYESome of the most wonderful aspects and consequences of evolution have been discovered only recently.
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Hard to find anything lovelier than a tree. They grow at right angles to a tangent of the nominal sphere of the Earth.
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That’s what makes a human a human, if we store information outside our bodies.
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Evolution is not something you can believe in or not believe in like do you believe in gravity.
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NASA is an engine of innovation and inspiration as well as the world’s premier space exploration agency, and we are well served by politicians working to keep it that way, instead of turning it into a mere jobs program, or worse, cutting its budget.
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I speak with dogs frequently. They don’t really talk, but I feel they’re communicating.
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For me, the meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future.
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Humor is everywhere in that there’s irony in just about anything a human does.
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There really is no such thing as race.
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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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Millennial voters are very concerned about climate change and will vote for candidates who are planning to address it. But the systems that are in place.
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The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change. All of these people breathing and burning our atmosphere has led to an extraordinarily dangerous situation.
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The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change.
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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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If we raise a generation of students who dont believe in the process of science, who think everything that weve come to know about nature and the universe can be dismissed by a few sentences translated into English from some ancient text, youre not going to continue to innovate.
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I always say when you see that old black-and-white footage of the rocket on the launch pad and it falls over and explodes, that’s because people had slide rules. Not having the decimal point is a real drawback. You want the decimal point, take it from me.
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