The Half-Life of Facts
“Nothing in the physical world seems to be constant or permanent,” physicist Alan Lightman writes. “Stars burn out. Atoms disintegrate. Species evolve. Motion is relative.”37 The same is true for facts. Most facts have a half-life. What we’re advised with confidence this year is reversed the next.
Ozan Varol • Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life
In my view the best projection of the outcome of our multicentury war on death is Stein’s Law—“Things that can’t go on forever don’t”—as amended by Davies’s Corollary—“Things that can’t go on forever can go on much longer than you think.”
Steven Pinker • Enlightenment Now
Inheritance: How Our Genes Change Our Lives--and Our Lives Change Our Genes
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how we as a society have learned so much so fast, and how we have adapted to big shifts in our understandings before.
Hank Green • A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor: A Novel (The Carls Book 2)
1,500 FASCINATING FACTS: All the really interesting knowledge around the World (Volume 6)
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