January 16-20, 2017
On Martin Luther King day we posted one of the civil right’s leader’s speeches, The other America, delivered at Stanford in 1967. Along with a song from Billie Holiday. “Racism is evil because its ultimate logic is genocide.”
Helen’s life has been punctuated by experiences involving tea, the common thread in an otherwise nomadic and varied existence. Her take on the research: “If you’re a rat, I’m telling you, you should be drinking lots of tea.”
Liver is sickening, writes Cassie, and not just because it tastes disgusting. Polar bear livers, in particular, can give you an overdose of Vitamin A. “Three of them became ‘exceeding sicke,’ de Veer writes. ‘All their skins came of from the foote to the head.’”
Rose doesn’t want to hear you brag about New Year’s resolution you’ll probably break anyway. If you really want to make it public, how about announcing it at the end of the year when you’ve kept your resolution? “You don’t need a website or a hashtag. You can just do the thing. And I’m here to encourage you to do the thing, privately.”
The job of a science advisor is a subtle dance of humility and patience. In the post-truth world, that is especially the case. The Chief Science Advisor to New Zealand’s Prime Minister has some advice for the advisors. “Scientists are good at problem definition, but not generally as good at finding workable, scalable and meaningful solutions.”
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