There has never been a cooler time to be alive. It wasn't possible for someone from the outside to look so far in ever before. I saw the video below today on a favorite blog of mine (http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/) and it nearly brought a tear to my eye. I own a book by over half of the great scientists featured in the video and have read meaningful work by all but two. We live in a time where the definition of celebrity will change. None of these scientists are celebrities in the classic sense (well maybe Sagan) but they are all celebrities in my global in-group. Whenever anyone romanticizes the renaissance or any other epoch I keep thinking in an accidental quote from Rage Aginst the Machine "what better place than here, what better time than now".
Head to http://symphonyofscience.com/ for dozens of amazing videos. I have posted a few other favorites after the "Read more" break.
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
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