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This Will Make You Smarter
That is, life’s diversity does not exist because it is necessary for living things. Birds
from This Will Make You Smarter by David Brooks
MargaretC added 6mo ago
Societies that adopt innovative, predictive, and adaptive models designed around a significant, ongoing redistribution of global resources will be most likely to survive in the future.
from This Will Make You Smarter by David Brooks
MargaretC added 6mo ago
It is a way of thinking, the best approach yet devised (if still an imperfect one) for discovering progressively better approximations of how things really are.
from This Will Make You Smarter by David Brooks
MargaretC added 6mo ago
Our internal metabolisms are intimately interwoven with this Earthly metabolism; one result is the replacement of every atom in our bodies every seven years or so.
from This Will Make You Smarter by David Brooks
MargaretC added 6mo ago
reactive use of intelligence narrows our vision. In contrast, projective thinking is expansive, “open-ended,” and speculative, requiring the thinker to create the context, concepts, and the objectives.
from This Will Make You Smarter by David Brooks
MargaretC added 6mo ago
Randomness can make placebos seem like miracle cures, or harmless compounds appear to be deadly poisons, and can even create subatomic particles out of nothing.
from This Will Make You Smarter by David Brooks
MargaretC added 6mo ago
Focusing on short-term, incremental solutions will only distract us from working on producing the home runs that could change the assumptions regarding energy and society’s resources.
from This Will Make You Smarter by David Brooks
MargaretC added 6mo ago
the laboratory already intuit that most ideas don’t pan out, and those that do sometimes result from chance or charitable interpretations. Conversely, they also recognize that replicability means they’re really onto something.
from This Will Make You Smarter by David Brooks
MargaretC added 6mo ago
Most scientific disciplines have long timelines of data, but many ecological disciplines don’t. We are forced to rely on secondhand and anecdotal
from This Will Make You Smarter by David Brooks
MargaretC added 6mo ago