What my Mac Reads to Me - Edge.org annual question - 2017 : WHAT SCIENTIFIC TERM OR CONCEPT OUGHT TO BE MORE WIDELY KNOWN? / by mirena

2017 : WHAT SCIENTIFIC TERM OR CONCEPT OUGHT TO BE MORE WIDELY KNOWN?

 

https://www.edge.org/responses/what-scientific-term-or%C2%A0concept-ought-to-be-more-widely-known

 

A fascinating read so I had my mac read the entirety of it and I just put it in dropbox for your listening pleasure. It is 1gb, 16 hours of smarts- Actually, need to backtrack a bit here - what is smart? is a blade of grass smart or.. stupid? Why would anyone be stupid? how is a thing stupid? Killing is stupid and abuse is stupid,.. anything else is fair game.

So follow 16 hours of a computer voice talking about things that people found interesting in their fields and worthy of several paragraphs and I found them interesting too. Although to be fair i'd be interested to know what anyone thinks, of their field of inquiry, i don't think a street sweeper is any less worthy of the computer voice, i guess they are simply being ignored as of now. For one reason or another we are conditioned to believe that school and science is more elevated in certain respects than street sweeping. I don't think so, I just am brainwashed like everyone else. I'd love to be be less so..:

 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/vikxurpt70wrd5q/Answers-to-EdgeOrg-Annual-Question-2017.m4a?dl=0