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jeanlouPENDANT LA BIERE #11 : La Post-vérité (2/5) : Des origines très très très lointaines
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aspragg@astronomerritt This reminds me a lot of Tim Urban's "Instant Gratification Monkey" - not sure if that sounds familiar:
https://waitbutwhy.com/2013/10/why-procrastinators-procrastinate.html
(There are follow-up posts and a TED talk linked in the post if that one grabs you)
huklI live by simple rules - one of them, which I just made up is: ABC - anything but chardonnay
N-gated Hacker NewsA self-proclaimed philosopher, armed with #bourbon and Wait But Why, claims he's cracked the code of #regrets 🎉. Behold, the revolutionary idea that people wish they'd spent more time with family on their deathbeds 😲. Truly groundbreaking work, worthy of the next Nobel Prize in Captain Obvious Studies 🏆.
https://www.hjorthjort.xyz/2018/02/21/the-deathbed-fallacy.html #selfproclaimedphilosopher #WaitButWhy #familytime #CaptainObviousStudies #HackerNews #ngated
https://www.hjorthjort.xyz/2018/02/21/the-deathbed-fallacy.html #selfproclaimedphilosopher #WaitButWhy #familytime #CaptainObviousStudies #HackerNews #ngated
MFennVT has movedWhy did it take me this long to realize the #WaitButWhy guy (Tim Urban) is a Musk booster? And he's writing for #BariWeiss's The Free Press now? Yeah, unsubscribed.
Heliograph@gangrif look #waitbutwhy wrote about this 🌌 https://mastodon.au/@Heliograph/112255909378639624
@ElleGray @dntlookbehindu
@ElleGray @dntlookbehindu
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TIL from #WaitButWhy "Earthlings are very lucky, eclipse-wise. Most planets don’t have a big enough moon to create a total solar eclipse. Not only is our moon big enough, it’s about exactly the size of the sun in our night sky because, by sheer coincidence, the #sun is about 400 times farther from us than the #moon and also about 400 times bigger than the moon in diameter—making our #eclipses especially breathtaking." https://waitbutwhy.com/2024/04/eclipse.html
TIL from #WaitButWhy "Earthlings are very lucky, eclipse-wise. Most planets don’t have a big enough moon to create a total solar eclipse. Not only is our moon big enough, it’s about exactly the size of the sun in our night sky because, by sheer coincidence, the #sun is about 400 times farther from us than the #moon and also about 400 times bigger than the moon in diameter—making our #eclipses especially breathtaking." https://waitbutwhy.com/2024/04/eclipse.html
Yeah, I might be feeling like I should have driven north for totality. A little bit, anyway. https://waitbutwhy.com/2024/04/eclipse.html #WaitButWhy
Peter Hanecak"This book is my best crack at explaining what I think is an existential risk to liberal societies and what I think we need to do to get to that awesome #future I used to be so excited about. There are dozens of concepts in the book that serve as a kind of toolbox for understanding our societies, our group dynamics, and our own minds. I’m very proud of the final product and never want to have an experience like this again."
https://waitbutwhy.com/2023/02/last-six-years.html
#WaitButWhy #TimUrban
https://waitbutwhy.com/2023/02/last-six-years.html
#WaitButWhy #TimUrban
