"Those Writers Who Have Gotten Humanity To Care About The Natural World — Which Is The World — Have

Journalism is printing something that someone does not want printed. Everything else is public relations. — George Orwell

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“In the beginning, God said, the four dimensional diversions of an anti-symmetric second rank tensor equals zero, and there was light.” - Michio Kaku

“You experience it to be within your power to stop reading this paragraph. Apparently, you freely decided to continue. Perhaps you are curious how it will unfold. But you strongly sense that you could have done otherwise; you could have stopped reading (and you still can). However, from what we know about the laws of nature, it is not clear how the brain could control a neural process that would result in different outcomes when starting from the same brain state. It is also unclear how your interest in the contents of this paragraph led to the neural process that culminated in you reading it.” - Uri Maoz

Illustration by Paolo Uberti.

https://www.chapman.edu/our-faculty/uri-maoz

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/09/free-will-bereitschaftspotential/597736/

“I don’t think the potential for comics in nonfiction has been exploited nearly as much as it could be.” - Scott McCloud

Joan Fontaine reading comics.

"[The news] is like that friend you have — who always sees the worst in everything. You go out for coffee and feel empty afterward. Finally, you stop going. So what would be better? I make the case for routinely and systematically reporting out hope, agency and dignity in every story." — Amanda Ripley https://www.amandaripley.com/blog/i-have-a-secret-i-hid-it-for-years

“Perhaps the universe is constructed according to a principle of maximum diversity. The principle of maximum diversity says that the laws of nature, and the initial conditions at the beginning of time, are such as to make the universe as interesting as possible.” - Theoretical Physicist and Mathematician, Freeman Dyson (1923-2020)

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/03/science/freeman-dyson-institute-for-advanced-study.html

Of the 100 largest economies in the world, 51 are corporations. - Amnesty International  https://www.amnesty.org/en/what-we-do/corporate-accountability/

Illustration by John Holcraft

“We have to explore to survive. As soon as we have traces of life, if you don’t diversify your environment, if as a little bacteria you don’t jump to the next rock, you don’t give yourself the best chance to survive. Staying put means death. It is true physically, spiritually and intellectually.” - Astrobiologist Nathalie Cabrol, The SETI Institute

Photography by Linden Gledhill 

Nationalism does nothing but teach you how to hate people that you never met. - Doug Stanhope

“Documentary films are exceptionally good at communicating new knowledge about the world, and since tech giants and algorithms are really defining our everyday lives, it is absolutely crucial that our festival deals with and questions these great scientific and technological advances.” - Tine Fischer, CPH:DOX Film Festival

Source: https://realscreen.com/2021/03/26/cphdox-21-unveils-science-program-of-docs-and-debates/