Once you know something, it’s easy to forget that you used to not know it, and that other people still don’t. Here’s how to recognize and overcome the CURSE of KNOWLEDGE.
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After several thousand years spent looking up and contemplating the nature of the cosmos, as well as what’s for dinner, we humans have amassed a lot of knowledge. We know the precise age of the Earth and the universe. We know how life sends copies of itself into the future. We know, with amazing accuracy, […]
Pay attention to the quote below the drawing. John Archibald Wheeler was a physicist whose specialities were nuclear physics, gravitation — he created the term, “black hole” — and getting people riled up. He died in 2008 at age 96. I mean, when Victor Hugo writes that science says the last word on nothing, […]
