Robin Ince, "The Importance of Being Interested: Adventures in Scientific Curiosity" (Atlantic Books, 2021)
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How to Persuade People Into the Scientific Fold
Science gives you access to a lot of a richer world. It makes every image that you see,. it can make every experience so much richer, if you have more information about that. i think of someone like joan fineman who spent her life studying the aurora borealis. That was one of her main projects. She got to a very deep understanding of the aurora Borealis. But the first experiences and experience of kina, it's a transcendent experience. Oh, that what is how can our planet have these moments of such a spectacle for us? And then later on it becomes but why does it exist?
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