On a lighter note, perhaps they will find it quaint (or horrifying) that people used to drive their own cars. Maybe one day I'll tell my grandchildren of a time when huge box-like machines rushed by each other on massive expanses of concrete, separated only by painted white lines and contained by crude metal guard rails, killing a million people a year in fiery collisions caused by human error. Additionally, they ran on fossil fuels and pumped out poisonous gases from the rear. Almost everyone owned one!
Hi, Steve! (It feels odd to call you that; I've only ever known you as thenewgreen. Same goes for "Mark" vis-à-vis mk.) Nice to hear from you. I am definitely guilty of being absent from the site as well. In fact you have been single-handedly keeping me in the loop with hubski with your occasional shout-outs to my old posts and comments. I might try to get back to being a regular here, although I'm no longer sure I know how the site works. :) I hope all is well with you. Judging by that last sentence, I'm betting you have some interesting stories to share. Keep me posted! - John
Yes, seriously. I would not want to be a seismologist if it meant I was responsible for the earthquakes I study.
Incidentally, I read this same article just a few hours ago. They explore different meanings of the word "sounds", but they pair nicely. In any case, I'm surprised you remembered my post from over three years ago!
EDIT: I found a mini 10-minute documentary on this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1Nmnv0Ospg
Wow. How did this person get a job handling customer complaints? That's just bad.
My first impression is that it looks great -- very clean and modern -- but I'm no longer sure how to read my hub. My natural instinct is to read down the first column and then move to the next, but that requires me to scroll down and then back up which isn't optimal on my small screen. Reading from left to right feels weird, too, because the tiles aren't aligned. Either way, my eye moves around the page a lot and I'm not quite sure where the focus is. I like the direction you're going; it just needs a few tweaks. If I were less tired I might offer some suggestions, but for now I should sleep. Edit: As an aside, the "related posts" section of the page shows up under the comment box for me. Do you know how I can fix that? I'm on Chrome / OS X Lion.
The first one is perspective. And I mean this in two ways. Perspective in art, of course, because we discovered how to capture the world not just symbolically but how it actually is, in all its depth and variety. And perspective in philosophy: the sense of empathy and understanding that comes with the realization that each person experiences his own pain and pleasure, and that collectively we have positive and negative effects on each other's lives. The second one, which may be tangentially related to the first, is optic technology: inventions like the microscope, the telescope and the camera -- devices which allow us to discover and experience our universe in new ways, and which lead directly or indirectly to developments in medicine, biology, astronomy, physics, space exploration and much more. Satellite photography and telescopic imaging in particular gives us a much grander sense of the size and scope of the universe and gave us images such as Pale Blue Dot, which of course directly inspired the admirable Dr. Carl Sagan to write the iconic book of the same name.
There's also vsauce, veritasium and minutephysics that are all in the same vein. I love being subscribed to all of these channels because it almost guarantees that I'll have some cool brain food to watch every time I log in. Nerdwriter1 is another newcomer who is a very thoughtful and philosophical vlogger. If anyone knows of any other cool education channels, let me know! I can't get enough of them.
There's a difference between being a luddite and having legitimate concerns, so don't doubt yourself so easily!
Sounds legit.
This. And a lot of the time the faces and noises they make are unintentionally comical and ridiculous, which makes it kind of hard to get into. Relevant: http://www.collegehumor.com/video/3593576/safe-for-work-porn
Share some pictures when you come back!
- Perhaps 'saved' would just be 'lists'
I think that might cause some confusion for new hubskiers. A "lists" button doesn't have an obvious or common meaning to most people, whereas a "save" button is pretty straightforward. So perhaps the current save button should open a prompt that asks which list the link should be saved to, so then the term has some context.
The typical definition is the one defined in this article: "the socially constructed roles, behaviors, activities, and attributes that a given society considers appropriate for boys and men or girls and women." But if this is true, then gender seems like a rather trivial and fickle thing. If a man wants to be a woman, does that merely mean that he wants to be a person who can wear dresses, makeup and wigs? Are these things the essence of womanhood? If not, then what is? Perhaps what is really at issue here is the fact that our societies have built up rigid gender roles that make people feel uncomfortable taking on roles or behaviors traditionally only exhibited by the opposite gender. The alienation that a person feels might not be related to his sexual identity, per se, but rather the social stigma of aligning with unconventional gender roles. I think the reason I'm having trouble grasping this is because I don't really consider my gender or my sex to be huge parts of my identity. In my mind, I am not "John the male" but rather "John the person."
And in that sense, I do think that there is something to the penance angle -- we in the first world feel some guilt for all of the senseless, wasteful indulgences we take while billions of people still live in poverty, especially when the products of our modern lifestyle are so reliant on the labor of those same people and the resources of the land they inhabit. For me, the most fulfilling form of charity is that which requires my time and energy.