I’ll admit that the discovery of evolution is humbling, but it is also empowering. It transforms our relationship to the life around us. Instead of being outsiders watching the natural world go by, we are insiders.
BILL NYENo matter what you may believe spiritually or otherwise, the Earth is clearly not 6,000 or 10,000 years old.
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Bicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be. There’s something wrong with a society that drives a car to work out in a gym.
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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.
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But as the cerebellum degrades with age, so does the quality of memories. The memories are there, but they’re not as good.
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When we sit down to draw or paint the sun’s rays, we generally use yellow because in the morning and the evening with the blue light scattered away so strongly you’re left with a little bit of red and it comes out yellowish.
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In another couple centuries I’m sure that worldview won’t even exist. There’s no evidence for it.
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I meet so many people who are intimidated by arithmetic.
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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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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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The US Navy has several people on every ship that can navigate by the stars. They don’t fool with that.
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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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That’s what makes a human a human, if we store information outside our bodies.
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Educated women have fewer kids. And the kids they do have are better cared for and are more successful. As I like to say, it’s not one thing that we need to focus on. It’s everything all at once.
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We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future. We need engineers that can build stuff and solve problems.
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The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change.
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If you want grown-ups to recycle, just tell their kids the importance of recycling, and they’ll be all over it.
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