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This is the worst of science writing. I have zero interest in the man's childhood or what he or his desk looks like; just tell me about the science. Articles l
by zelienople 6y ago
This is the worst of science writing. I have zero interest in the man's childhood or what he or his desk looks like; just tell me about the science.
Articles like this are pandering to the lowest intelligence that purports to be able to read.
- danharaj 6y agoHow do you go from "this article has too much human interest and not enough details for my taste" to "this article is for stupid people"?
- jahnu 6y agoI replied above but it was meant for you. I'll leave it, perhaps it might help the parent understand why there is much value in knowing about the people behind the science.
- naasking 6y ago> I have zero interest in the man's childhood or what he or his desk looks like; just tell me about the science. I find this trend has been true of most journalism. Every story has an elaborate narrative built around it to provide "context", most of which has little bearing on the facts. Someone should create some article writing software that lets you distinguish narrative parts of an article from the factual parts, so readers can selectively show/hide each one.
- marcus_holmes 6y agoI recommend learning to speed read. Your brain is capable of working out what the subject of a paragraph is before you've "read" it. Learning to trust that, and skip-read articles only slowing down for the interesting bits, is a great life skill :)
- jahnu 6y agoOn of my favourite radio programs is The Life Scientific from the BBC. It explores both the person and the science and leads to a wonderful insight and admiration for the people and the sciences they work within. I highly recommend it and all the episodes from the very first are relevant today so don't feel like you have to listen to only the new ones. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b015sqc7/episodes/guide https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b015sqc7/episodes/guide
- jbotz 6y agoI totally disagree. Sure, sometimes I just want the technical facts... in those cases, my first stop is Wikipedia. Wikipedia has articles about TAE the company[1] and as well as the Tri-alpha fusion process[2]. But when it comes to fusion energy, there are many possible approaches, yet few are actually being pursued with serious commitment of resources. The future of our species may depend us trying more things harder. And for this reason I find it quite interesting to read the "human interest story" behind the non-mainstream attempts being made, what their motivations are and how they are managing to get the necessary resources and to keep up the commitment throughout the long road to uncertain success. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAE_Technologies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAE_Technologies [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple-alpha_process https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple-alpha_process
- neltnerb 6y agoSure, if the title was, "Workings of a boron hydrogen fusion reactor." It's not, it's a life interest story, obviously so from the title. History of science isn't a review article but it is still history and some scientists like me find history to provide a lot of insight into how we got where we are.
- krak12 6y agoTypical silicon valley jerk who enjoy their bubble ignoring the 99,99% population, your days are numbered!
- projektfu 6y agoI’m with you. I usually regret clicking on nautil.us links and I give them only a couple paragraphs to say something. If they don’t, I bail.
- lucisferre 6y agoRight? I mean people don't do science, it just happens. And while we're at it, why do we care about the background of entrepreneurs around here? I mean just walk me through the business model and give me your KPIs already. /s