This selection of images is an accurate representation of the human species only in the sense that both are incredibly wasteful embarrassments.

Instead of writing "Sol" all the time, how about . . . the sun? Do we really need to be so ashamed of the Germanic heritage of the English language that we won't even call the sun "the sun" in a scientific context? I can understand using the word "solar," since we have no other common adjectival version of the word "sun" . . . but "Sol"?

Not a book but a movie (from a script by the Yorkshire writer Barry Hines).

I read a review of Threads one time which said "it will darken your world." That's true. It will also probably change the way you think about humanity. Do not watch it at night by yourself.

One of the greatest films of all time.

Book burning is different from referring to someone by their preferred name.

Misreading history is different from reading more of it.

The fight for civil rights is different from the perpetuation of scientific ignorance.

And what is "it"? I would agree, if in this case you're using "it" to mean "using ambiguous pronouns after making painfully boneheaded comparisons."

I just copied about five years of web history, using the RSS feed method above, into 8 loooong web pages. The upper limit per page varies between something like 800-1000 entries; it took trial and error for me to figure out how to get all my history to display on successive pages, with minimal overlap. There didn't seem to be any magic number of entries per page; it seems to depend on the character length of the addresses or something.

After the first page (which starts at entry 0):

https://www.google.com/history/lookup?q=&output=rss&num=1000

just start from increasing entry numbers, like:

https://www.google.com/history/lookup?q=&output=rss&num=1000&start=960

I'm guessing you aren't a scientist? What you've said there is total bullshit. Absolutely inaccurate. There is tons of "low-hanging fruit" being plucked by scientists, young and old (and by "low-hanging fruit," I'm guessing you mean "basic science that has been crying out to be completed for decades.") I work with several such postdocs. They're doing great work, and they're earning barely enough money to make ends meet. One young mathematician I know, who has just developed an exceedingly promising tool for understanding diabetes, is seriously considering leaving science to start a bakery. She's tired of the low pay, the antisocial "colleagues," the inane institutional politics, and all the other bullshit. Can't really blame her, but her departure would be everyone's loss. I assure you that she and many young scientists like her are "good enough" to do the work we all need done. They're just tired of seeing science as a necessarily sacrificial job.

"Blackawton, P. S." is apparently Blackawton Primary School. It is strange that the school itself is listed as an author, but I suppose they did this precisely so there would be no first-author emphasis. This way all the children are the "first author" of the paper.