"Our job is not to make up anybody’s mind, but to open minds, and to make the agony of decision-making so intense you can escape only by thinking."
- Fred W. Friendly (1915-1998)

"Ye shall know the truth, and the truth will make you mad."
- Aldous Huxley

"If you have ever injected truth into politics, then you have no politics."
- Will Rogers

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Who Knew...

...that poop and pee were so important? 

Seriously, here is another jaw-dropping TED Talk from this year's just concluded TED Conference.  I have said elsewhere that one of the cool things about science is the uncertainty. Today's proven and accepted idea is only good until...the next better one comes along.   This is something that the science-ignorant masses do not "get", nor do the religious zealots but it is a strength that they cannot match.

This gentleman is soft-spoken, but he brings the courage and conviction of having been proven wrong before...and by experiencing the crucible of patient, long-term experimentation and study.   Truly an amazing idea and a very effective talk.


   

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