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“We’ve progressed so far, we understand most things, we can measure and collide particles in a ring. But the concerns of humanity don’t seem to progress, we still feel hate, love, dissatisfaction, and stress.”

Book:Imagine: An Inquiry into Spirituality, Political Economics, and Personal Autonomy in a Modern World

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“As we were on our way out, one of the orthopedic residents called to us. “Hey, Gary, going back again? Don’t you guys ever leave?” “Man, this is a tough year for us, Bob,” Gary retorted, “but nothing like those three toughest years in an orthopedic surgeon’s life.” “Yeah, what are those?” “Second grade.” We exited into the dark street and headed for the ER entrance.”

Humor Science

Book:When the Air Hits Your Brain

Source: When the Air Hits Your Brain

“This imagined beyond, which the scientist has proved he cannot penetrate, will become the playground of the imagination of eery mystic and dreamer. The existence of such a domain will be made the basis of an orgy of rationalizing. It will be made the substance of the soul; the spirits of the dead will populate it; God will lurk in its shadows; the principle of vital processes will have its seat here; and it will be the medium of telepathic communication.”

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Author:Percy Bridgman

“We will never stop being discontent, never stop anticipating, never stop organizing inquiry. Science could not happen in any other way, or it would be trivial or impossible.”

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Book:The Great Equations: Breakthroughs in Science from Pythagoras to Heisenberg

Source: The Great Equations: Breakthroughs in Science from Pythagoras to Heisenberg

“The fun and excitement must be daily— in the challenge of creating an instrument and seeing it work, the joy of communicating to colleagues and students, the pleasure of learning something new in lectures, corridors, and journals.”

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Author:Leon Lederman

“He never become a true professional, though, and fell into traps of the sort that enthusiastic amateurs often do. These included pursuing impossible problems like trying to square the circle, trisect an angle, and double a cube, each of which Hobbes erroneously thought he had achieved.”

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Book:The Great Equations: Breakthroughs in Science from Pythagoras to Heisenberg

Source: The Great Equations: Breakthroughs in Science from Pythagoras to Heisenberg

“Trust made the discrepancy meaningful, and directed his suspicion to the right place. This was not the first time that trust played a central role in a major scientific discovery, nor will it be the last.”

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Book:The Great Equations: Breakthroughs in Science from Pythagoras to Heisenberg

Source: The Great Equations: Breakthroughs in Science from Pythagoras to Heisenberg

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Author:hillmolly

“Yesterday I learned that the breathing of whales is as crucial to our own breathing in the carbon cycle of the planet as are the forests of the world. Researchers say, if whales returned to their pre-commercial whaling numbers, their gigantic breathing would store as much carbon is 110,000 hectares of forest, or a forest the size of Rocky Mountain National Park.”

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Book:Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals Emergent Strategy Series

Source: Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals Emergent Strategy Series

“The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us - there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries.”

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Book:Cosmos

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“In a landmark study into the psychology of perceived “creepiness,” psychologists McAndrew and Koehnke (2016) asked 1,341 respondents to answer questions about which personal qualities and behaviors they associated with “creepy” people, and used statistical factor analysis to develop a measurable “creepiness” factor. The creepiness factor they developed included the following traits: a person having awkward, unpredictable behavior, an unnatural-looking smile, laughter that occurred at “unnatural” times, speaking for too long about a single topic, and not knowing when to end a conversation.[30] When Autistic people attempt to socialize and bond with others in an affable, enthusiastic way, these are often the very traits we embody. Even as we try to put the neurotypical people around us at ease by smiling, keeping the conversation moving, and staying present, we might be seen as scary or unsettling. A series of experiments by social psychologists Leander, Chartrand, and Bargh (2012) found that when a person engages in social mirroring in an even slightly inappropriate way, it skeeves people out, and even makes them feel physically colder.[31] A little bit of mimicry is normal among friends. People mirror one another’s postures and mannerisms as they get comfortable and fall “ into sync. But if you mirror someone too much, or at the wrong time, these studies show you can literally give other people the chills. Autistic maskers try really hard to mirror other people, but since we can’t do it as fluently and effortlessly as neurotypicals do, we often unwittingly set off NT’s creep-dars. The solution, then, is to stop hiding and pretending to be something we’re not. Instead of straining (and failing) to imitate NT people, we can become radically visible. Sasson’s research found that when participants were told they were interacting with an Autistic person, their biases against us disappeared. Suddenly they liked their slightly awkward conversation partner, and expressed interest in getting to know them. Having an explanation for the Autistic person’s oddness helped the creeped-out feeling go away. Follow-up research by Sasson and Morrison (2019) confirmed that when neurotypical people know that they’re meeting an Autistic person, first impressions of them are far more positive, and after the interaction neurotypicals express more interest in learning about Autism.[32] 30. McAndrew, F. T., & Koehnke, S. S. (2016). On the nature of creepiness. New Ideas in Psychology, 43, 10–15. 31. Leander, N. P., Chartrand, T. L., & Bargh, J. A. (2012). You give me the chills: Embodied reactions to inappropriate amounts of behavioral mimicry. Psychological Science, 23(7), 772–779. Note: many of John Bargh’s priming studies have failed replication attempts in recent years. For a discussion of a failed attempt of a related but different series of temperature priming studies, see Lynott, D., Corker, K. S., Wortman, J., Connell, L., Donnellan, M. B., Lucas, R. E., & O’Brien, K. (2014). Replication of “Experiencing physical warmth promotes interpersonal warmth” by Williams and Bargh (2008). Social Psychology. 32. Sasson, N. J., & Morrison, K. E. (2019). First impressions of adults with autism improve with diagnostic disclosure and increased autism knowledge of peers. Autism, 23(1), 50–59.”

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Book:Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

Source: Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

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