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The new age of ignorance | Review | The Observer

IncaHoots rated 15 months ago
From the page: "'Entropy,' Angier writes, 'is like a taxi passing you on a rainy night with its NOT IN SERVICE lights ablaze, or a chair in a museum with a rope draped from arm to arm, or a teenager.'" I found this article and the linked survey very interesting. And th...

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IncaHoots rated 15 months ago
From the page: "'Entropy,' Angier writes, 'is like a taxi passing you on a rainy night with its NOT IN SERVICE lights ablaze, or a chair in a museum with a rope draped from arm to arm, or a teenager.'" I found this article and the linked survey very interesting. And the quotes from Natalie Angier's new book are quite entertaining ... think I'll read that one.
ExpatPaul rated 15 months ago
In the world we live in, the new economy, you have to become scientifically literate or you will fall quickly from view.
Woeful rated 15 months ago
Scientists "try" to answer basic questions about the way things work... What they don't know is very funny!