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Jan. 2nd, 2006
is what I feel like today. ( Read more... )
Since I'm posting anyway, might as well include some Dream Foo.
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Since I'm posting anyway, might as well include some Dream Foo.
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First, I'm feeling better than I was this morning. My eye still regularly shouts, "I'M ABOUT TO EXPLODE!" but it's less frequent and I'm not as headachy in the in-between times.
Anyway, I spent the better part of the morning reading this:
http://www.edge.org/q2006/q06_index.html
The Edge Annual Question — 2006
WHAT IS YOUR DANGEROUS IDEA?
The history of science is replete with discoveries that were considered socially, morally, or emotionally dangerous in their time; the Copernican and Darwinian revolutions are the most obvious. What is your dangerous idea? An idea you think about (not necessarily one you originated) that is dangerous not because it is assumed to be false, but because it might be true?
They asked a bunch of scientists, philosophers, and even one of the Monkees (though he's also a scientist) the question, came up with a whole lot of replies, 12 pages worth, 4 or 5 a page. Some are repeats of a similar idea, some contradict each other, some I agree with, some I don't, and I don't claim to have understood everything, but it's been a while since I've read something where so many times I encountered something I'd genuinely hadn't considered or was aware of. I really recommend reading them through. I'm actually bookmarking it because I think I'll want to read some of them again.
In that spirit, I'm going to write a few of my own Dangerous Ideas:
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Feel free to share your own dangerous ideas, either in comments or make a meme out of it if you want.
Finally, just cause I think some of them are cool, Worth100's photoshop contest:
Photoshopped art with nature as the canvas
Anyway, I spent the better part of the morning reading this:
http://www.edge.org/q2006/q06_index.html
The history of science is replete with discoveries that were considered socially, morally, or emotionally dangerous in their time; the Copernican and Darwinian revolutions are the most obvious. What is your dangerous idea? An idea you think about (not necessarily one you originated) that is dangerous not because it is assumed to be false, but because it might be true?
They asked a bunch of scientists, philosophers, and even one of the Monkees (though he's also a scientist) the question, came up with a whole lot of replies, 12 pages worth, 4 or 5 a page. Some are repeats of a similar idea, some contradict each other, some I agree with, some I don't, and I don't claim to have understood everything, but it's been a while since I've read something where so many times I encountered something I'd genuinely hadn't considered or was aware of. I really recommend reading them through. I'm actually bookmarking it because I think I'll want to read some of them again.
In that spirit, I'm going to write a few of my own Dangerous Ideas:
( Read more... )
Feel free to share your own dangerous ideas, either in comments or make a meme out of it if you want.
Finally, just cause I think some of them are cool, Worth100's photoshop contest:
Photoshopped art with nature as the canvas
First, I'm feeling better than I was this morning. My eye still regularly shouts, "I'M ABOUT TO EXPLODE!" but it's less frequent and I'm not as headachy in the in-between times.
Anyway, I spent the better part of the morning reading this:
http://www.edge.org/q2006/q06_index.html
The Edge Annual Question — 2006
WHAT IS YOUR DANGEROUS IDEA?
The history of science is replete with discoveries that were considered socially, morally, or emotionally dangerous in their time; the Copernican and Darwinian revolutions are the most obvious. What is your dangerous idea? An idea you think about (not necessarily one you originated) that is dangerous not because it is assumed to be false, but because it might be true?
They asked a bunch of scientists, philosophers, and even one of the Monkees (though he's also a scientist) the question, came up with a whole lot of replies, 12 pages worth, 4 or 5 a page. Some are repeats of a similar idea, some contradict each other, some I agree with, some I don't, and I don't claim to have understood everything, but it's been a while since I've read something where so many times I encountered something I'd genuinely hadn't considered or was aware of. I really recommend reading them through. I'm actually bookmarking it because I think I'll want to read some of them again.
In that spirit, I'm going to write a few of my own Dangerous Ideas:
( Read more... )
Feel free to share your own dangerous ideas, either in comments or make a meme out of it if you want.
Finally, just cause I think some of them are cool, Worth100's photoshop contest:
Photoshopped art with nature as the canvas
Anyway, I spent the better part of the morning reading this:
http://www.edge.org/q2006/q06_index.html
The history of science is replete with discoveries that were considered socially, morally, or emotionally dangerous in their time; the Copernican and Darwinian revolutions are the most obvious. What is your dangerous idea? An idea you think about (not necessarily one you originated) that is dangerous not because it is assumed to be false, but because it might be true?
They asked a bunch of scientists, philosophers, and even one of the Monkees (though he's also a scientist) the question, came up with a whole lot of replies, 12 pages worth, 4 or 5 a page. Some are repeats of a similar idea, some contradict each other, some I agree with, some I don't, and I don't claim to have understood everything, but it's been a while since I've read something where so many times I encountered something I'd genuinely hadn't considered or was aware of. I really recommend reading them through. I'm actually bookmarking it because I think I'll want to read some of them again.
In that spirit, I'm going to write a few of my own Dangerous Ideas:
( Read more... )
Feel free to share your own dangerous ideas, either in comments or make a meme out of it if you want.
Finally, just cause I think some of them are cool, Worth100's photoshop contest:
Photoshopped art with nature as the canvas