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It's kind of a clueless article, it talks about how science has lost its 'machismo' because the great scientists of our day aren't attempting to bed women, seem

It's kind of a clueless article, it talks about how science has lost its 'machismo' because the great scientists of our day aren't attempting to bed women, seemingly as a competition. However, the author obviously failed to realise that at the time about a dozen of the best scientists of our time were essentially locked in Los Alamos with a large compliment of female staff and were rarely allowed off of base. If the author had read Feynman's biographies, he would have released that the man did essentially anything for fun. Most of which seemed to be an endless one-up game with his friends and colleagues. The simple fact is that people have lost interest in scientists and people with brilliant minds. Who cares what scientist came up with what, Jon & Kate broke up, Brangelina went to the toilet five minutes ago . . . pop culture has degraded so far, the antics of a scientist are tame by the standards of whomever the media has decided to follow. Which starlet purposefully forgot to wear underwear this week, or what female tennis player had some creep ass photographer take a photo up her skirt while she was playing.

zimbabwe 17y ago
The simple fact is that people have lost interest in scientists and people with brilliant minds. Who cares what scientist came up with what, Jon & Kate broke up, Brangelina went to the toilet five minutes ago . . . pop culture has degraded so far, the antics of a scientist are tame by the standards of whomever the media has decided to follow. Which starlet purposefully forgot to wear underwear this week, or what female tennis player had some creep ass photographer take a photo up her skirt while she was playing. Get off your high horse. Do you think this is new? We saw it with Hearst and his papers, we undoubtedly had it in the radio era though I'm too young to be able to provide names. There has always been more focus on celebrity than there was on anything else. Richard Dawkins is still a celebrity. He's a prominent and brilliant scientist who writes bestsellers on the side. Culture is no worse off than it was a hundred years ago. There's just more of it, and that means there's more of the tripe along with more of the good, and that means that for all the twenty-year-old cynics there's even more to wearily shake heads at. Recall that a hundred years ago, the idea of a global community where enlightened people commented on tech stories would have been an impossibility.

zimbabwe 17y ago

The simple fact is that people have lost interest in scientists and people with brilliant minds. Who cares what scientist came up with what, Jon & Kate broke up, Brangelina went to the toilet five minutes ago . . . pop culture has degraded so far, the antics of a scientist are tame by the standards of whomever the media has decided to follow. Which starlet purposefully forgot to wear underwear this week, or what female tennis player had some creep ass photographer take a photo up her skirt while she was playing. Get off your high horse. Do you think this is new? We saw it with Hearst and his papers, we undoubtedly had it in the radio era though I'm too young to be able to provide names. There has always been more focus on celebrity than there was on anything else. Richard Dawkins is still a celebrity. He's a prominent and brilliant scientist who writes bestsellers on the side. Culture is no worse off than it was a hundred years ago. There's just more of it, and that means there's more of the tripe along with more of the good, and that means that for all the twenty-year-old cynics there's even more to wearily shake heads at. Recall that a hundred years ago, the idea of a global community where enlightened people commented on tech stories would have been an impossibility.