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Teenagers have been deformed by social media. There's a sense they fit, but not as agents, not as full human beings who are making a future for themselves. They fit as human fodder that has been sucked into a machine and molded to what the machine wants out of them, which is their attention. — Jonathan Haidt from Our Kids Are the Least Generation Flourishing We Know Of

Image by Bill Watterson

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-jonathan-haidt.html

Journalism is printing something that someone does not want printed. Everything else is public relations. — George Orwell

www.etsy.com/listing/1756964083/george-orwell-1984-wall-art-dystopian

Less than 3% of reporters and editors in the U.S. — and even fewer elsewhere in the world — have formal training in covering science, health, or climate. — Siri Carpenter, The Open Notebook

Image from https://stemcell.eco/

No star is ever lost we once have seen. We always may be what we might have been.

— Adelaide Anne Procter

The 2012 solar storm that missed Earth by nine days.

I've wasted the greater part of my life looking for money. It's about 2% movie-making and 98% hustling.

— Orson Welles

Image: Warrior of the Worlds, a graphic novel series that finds the filmmaker leading a double life as he battles alien invaders, Scout Comics.

"Those writers who have gotten humanity to care about the natural world — which is the world — have done so because they themselves have moved through it with a sense of wonder, each of them an Alice making a Wonderland of Earth. " - Maria Popova in Jonathan Franzen on How to Write About Nature, with a Side of Rachel Carson and Alice in Wonderland

Artwork by Jim Woodring

"Rather than resorting to foxes and hedgehogs (a fox knows many things, but a hedgehog knows one big thing), I tend to think about modern scientists as either the drillers of ever-deeper holes (now the dominant route to fame) or scanners of wide horizons (now a much diminished group). I have always preferred to scan as far and as wide as my limited capabilities have allowed me to do so." ― Vaclav Smil, author of How the World Really Works.

Artwork by Jennifer Davis.

"Netflix's programming is based on algorithms, and the results are mixed. Even though HBO spends way less money, they continue to have better programming on average because they stick with their programming philosophy, which is fundamentally trust the artist!" ― John Koblin, On the Media podcast, 12/9/2022

"[The news] is like that friend you have — who always sees the worst in everything. You go out for coffee and feel empty afterward. Finally, you stop going. So what would be better? I make the case for routinely and systematically reporting out hope, agency and dignity in every story." — Amanda Ripley https://www.amandaripley.com/blog/i-have-a-secret-i-hid-it-for-years

"Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light." — Joseph Pulitzer

Artwork by Steve Powers

“We’re trying to get the pandemic under control. We're trying to put people back to work. I don't find that boring. I work in the government. If you find that boring, maybe you should work for US Magazine and cover scandals in Hollywood.” ― White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Peter Hamby’s Snapchat show 

The Boring News Cycle Deals Blow to Partisan Media https://www.axios.com/partisan-media-biden-trump-26f54a8b-d4e2-4319-a185-bd5f55ac661f.html

“Documentary films are exceptionally good at communicating new knowledge about the world, and since tech giants and algorithms are really defining our everyday lives, it is absolutely crucial that our festival deals with and questions these great scientific and technological advances.” - Tine Fischer, CPH:DOX Film Festival

Source: https://realscreen.com/2021/03/26/cphdox-21-unveils-science-program-of-docs-and-debates/

“Only in the darkness can you see the stars.” - Martin Luther King Jr.

“The ratio of CEO pay to average worker pay was 25:1 in 1960. Today it’s 320:1.” - Lynn Forester de Rothschild, Coalition for Inclusive Capitalism

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/15/business/lynn-forester-de-rothschild-corner-office.html

Illustration by John Holcroft

“We have to explore to survive. As soon as we have traces of life, if you don’t diversify your environment, if as a little bacteria you don’t jump to the next rock, you don’t give yourself the best chance to survive. Staying put means death. It is true physically, spiritually and intellectually.” - Astrobiologist Nathalie Cabrol, The SETI Institute

Photography by Linden Gledhill 

“Sometimes reality is too complex. Stories give it form.” - Jean Luc Godard

Artwork by Marina González Eme

“When we come to it We, this people, on this wayward, floating body Created on this earth, of this earth Have the power to fashion for this earth A climate where every man and every woman Can live freely without sanctimonious piety Without crippling fear

When we come to it We must confess that we are the possible We are the miraculous, the true wonder of this world That is when, and only when We come to it.”

- Excerpt from Maya Angelou’s “A Brave and Startling Truth”

Artwork - Kerry James Marshall

“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.” - Carl Sagan  

Our Galaxy’s Magnetic Field Fingerprint https://www.sofia.usra.edu/multimedia/image-galleries/galactic-center

“Perhaps the universe is constructed according to a principle of maximum diversity. The principle of maximum diversity says that the laws of nature, and the initial conditions at the beginning of time, are such as to make the universe as interesting as possible.” - Theoretical Physicist and Mathematician, Freeman Dyson (1923-2020)

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/03/science/freeman-dyson-institute-for-advanced-study.html

“What if we are wrong about climate change, and we create a better world for nothing?” - Anonymous

“You experience it to be within your power to stop reading this paragraph. Apparently, you freely decided to continue. Perhaps you are curious how it will unfold. But you strongly sense that you could have done otherwise; you could have stopped reading (and you still can). However, from what we know about the laws of nature, it is not clear how the brain could control a neural process that would result in different outcomes when starting from the same brain state. It is also unclear how your interest in the contents of this paragraph led to the neural process that culminated in you reading it.” - Uri Maoz

Illustration by Paolo Uberti.

https://www.chapman.edu/our-faculty/uri-maoz

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/09/free-will-bereitschaftspotential/597736/

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!', but 'That's funny'. - Isaac Asimov

Photo - Isaac Asimov and Family

“The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity.” - Mae Jemison 

Artwork by Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum. 

https://www.instagram.com/pamelaphatsimo/

“The search for life beyond Earth is not so much a search anymore if everything we are, we live on, interact with and observe is alive. Rather, it becomes an exploration of life’s expression of diversity and complexity– not in the universe but by the universe.” - Nathalie Cabrol

Painting by Simon Stalenhag.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/the-quantum-of-life/

"The sedentary life has left us edgy, unfulfilled...the open road still often calls like a nearly forgotten song of childhood." - Carl Sagan

"Wanders" by VFX artist Erik Wernquist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH3c1QZzRK4

"No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.” - Virginia Woolf

Photo of a single blade of grass under a microscope.

“Resistance and change begin in art.” - Ursula K Le Guin

Artwork by Fiona Staples in Saga.

“The ascension to the tenth level of intellectual heaven would be if we find the question to which the universe is the answer, and the nature of that question in and of itself explains why it was possible to describe it in so many different ways.” - Nima Arkani-Hamed

https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/a-different-kind-of-theory-of-everything

“Everything in the [media art industrial complex] is unusual. It’s like hot plasma. It changes so damn fast.” - Rene Pinnell

Artwork by Abu Bakarr Mansaray.

“In the beginning, God said, the four dimensional diversions of an anti-symmetric second rank tensor equals zero, and there was light.” - Michio Kaku