If aliens landed on Earth, would they regard us as the most superior species on the planet? What makes us superior after all? Looking at sheer numbers, we lose out to the E.coli living in our bodies. In terms of adaptability and evolution, bacteria beat ‘us’ hands down. Are we really entitled to decide who is superior? Perhaps the aliens would just ignore humankind, and instead focus on an “assignation with the axolotls”. Read full article here
Education
Overcoming Bias
Kai Cheng’s professor had a brilliant scheme. In his first lecture, he promised that each lecture would feature a “Lie of the Day”. But why? It made his students more attentive and analytical, poring over every detail of his lecture and making sense of why things were true. It was such a powerful teaching method that his students digested his most technical lectures quite easily because they tried so hard to catch his lie. The kicker? There was no lie in that first lecture; he had lied about that too! Read full article here
Merv
August 17, 2022
