Samuel PepysI took my wife and went to my cosen, Thomas Pepys, and found them just sat down to dinner, which was very good; only the venison pasty was palpable beef, which was not handsome.
Andy Bates
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@Rjdlandscapes I have Ubuntu running very happily on old i3.
Jens NotroffRemember the sound of an old slide projector? A chewing gum machine? A coffee mill?
#ConserveTheSound puts together a virtual audio #museum of (almost) lost everyday #sound:
@Dubikan @Sheril there’s much in what you say. Blanket rejection of expert knowledge is no better than uncritical acceptance. Maybe it comes down to depth of understanding - knowing a little about Eratosthenes can avoid flat earth misconceptions and reading Darwin can do the same for creationism. Understanding everything is plainly impossible, but trying to understand as many things as you can is (I think) essential.
@Sheril acceptance without comprehension is really just religion isn’t it?
Sheril KirshenbaumI keep thinking about this 1995 passage from “The Demon-Haunted World” by Carl Sagan.
We live closer in time to Tyrannosaurus rex than it did to Stegosaurus. #science #SharedPlanet
“We've arranged a society based on #science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. This combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces.”
- Carl Sagan, in his last interview to Charlie Rose https://charlierose.com/videos/9094
