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2016-05-31 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Hawking: 'Brixit a disaster for science, Trump's popularity inexplicable'

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Posted by Besoeker 2016-05-31 05:30|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Brilliance in one narrowly defined field is not the same as being a polymath.

Hawking, Krugman, and indeed much of the academic community suffer from the delusion that the opposite is true.

When humility before the universe is lacking, people say and do stupid things regardless of how talented they are at their chosen profession.

Posted by no mo uro 2016-05-31 06:28|| 2016-05-31 06:28|| Front Page Top

“There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”
― Oscar Levant

Posted by Besoeker 2016-05-31 09:41|| 2016-05-31 09:41|| Front Page Top

#3 I'd like to hear Lebron James' views on quantum physics, and Tom Brady's views on macro-economics.

After all, if they're experts at one thing, then they must be experts on everything, right?

Posted by charger 2016-05-31 11:42|| 2016-05-31 11:42|| Front Page Top

#4 My guess is the guy doesn't get out much.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2016-05-31 12:16|| 2016-05-31 12:16|| Front Page Top

#5 Ebang, you owe me a keyboard.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2016-05-31 13:22|| 2016-05-31 13:22|| Front Page Top

#6 Tell it to Tim Hunt.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-05-31 14:27|| 2016-05-31 14:27|| Front Page Top

#7 Hawking's general knowledge seems to have been engulfed by a black hole.
Also his plea for more looted taxpayer's money for the current raft of Lysenkoism is plain daft.
Obviously what would billionaire Trump know about wealth creation?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2016-05-31 17:02|| 2016-05-31 17:02|| Front Page Top

#8 I think it was P.J O'Rourke who best described the Brief History of Time (I'm paraphrasing 'cause I can't find the quote) as the book everyone bought to decorate their coffee table to show how smart they are but that nobody read.

Virtue signaling in the 80s (or was it 90s).

Posted by rjschwarz 2016-05-31 17:27|| 2016-05-31 17:27|| Front Page Top

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