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I can’t think of any more human activity than conducting science experiments. Think about it — what do kids do? … They’re turning over rocks, they’re plucking petals off a rose — they’re exploring their environment through experimentation… We explore our environment more than we are compelled to utter poetry when we’re toddlers — we start doing that later. Before that happens, every child is a scientist. And so when I think of science, I think of a truly human activity — something fundamental to our DNA, something that drives curiosity.
Neil deGrasse Tyson on why the impulse for science is hard-wired in our DNA. (via explore-blog)
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For my undecided daughter . . .
College major song.
Packaging tape with the NYC subway map, only the best thing ever.
Semi-relatedly, creative derivatives of the London Tube map.
(Source: thingsorganizedneatly)
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Socrates on self-confidence, part of Alain de Botton’s documentary A Guide to Happiness, based on his book The Consolations of Philosophy. His latest thought piece, Religion for Atheists, explores what secular movements like education and the arts can learn from religious concepts and delivery formats.
(via Open Culture)
