Sublime

When we do, we assume the politicians are clients in a patron–client relationship, and we assume their obligations will cloud their impartial judgment.

amalgam

Donald Trump, Alex Jones, and Breitbart did not materialize from the ether. Rather, their prominence and success are the outcome of decades of hard work by denialists to encourage suspicion toward scholarship and science. —Kahn-Harris

studying the motivations of individuals in isolation: the patterns we see are a fundamentally social affair. More, as Anderson

California Institute of Technology’s John Hopfield

Steve Jobs was a merely competent technician and, though highly intelligent, not a particularly original thinker. What made him exceptional were a ferocious will to succeed and a burning sense of epistemic curiosity. Jobs was interested in everything: the Bauhaus movement, the poetry of the beats, Eastern philosophy, the workings of business, the l

He went on to rethink modern architecture from a biological perspective and later publicly broke with the environmental movement over nuclear power and GMO food.