Amazing talk, wow. One question I will put to the ether. If all our best people do hard sciences early in they life and wait till later to figure out they humanities and social science, who's gonna write the humanities and social science books that the hard scientists depend upon later for they knowledge? We not gonna have a Jonathan Franzen or Ian McEwan (humanities) or a Richard Posner or Franklin Zimring (social science, law), as just a few examples, if they all devote they early education to science. To get historical, we not gonna have a Shakespeare or J.S. Mill.
I meant my comment below as a response to the Deus Ex Machina podcast Steve did.
Amazing talk, wow. One question I will put to the ether. If all our best people do hard sciences early in they life and wait till later to figure out they humanities and social science, who's gonna write the humanities and social science books that the hard scientists depend upon later for they knowledge? We not gonna have a Jonathan Franzen or Ian McEwan (humanities) or a Richard Posner or Franklin Zimring (social science, law), as just a few examples, if they all devote they early education to science. To get historical, we not gonna have a Shakespeare or J.S. Mill.
Eye-opening/scary as usual!
When I first heard Iceland, somehow I really expected you to at least start with geysers/volcanoes/other fun geological sightseeing. Oops...
Is it fair to say you concluded with your favourite topic? 😀 If only I could reasonably devote time to understanding it.
On a different note, very much looking forward to hearing about your autumn China trip (if it's still on).