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Is human happiness the driving force behind scientific innovation?
The case that nearly every technology we love was first built to make our lives easier or to wage war, often both. From the spear and ENIAC to DuPont, and the worry that all this convenience has just made us lazy.
Science is Racist
A Dallas commissioner took offense at the phrase black hole and called it racist. I walk through his examples one by one, where the etymology actually came from, and where I think he was just stretching.