User:MurrayScience

Hi
I love Wikipedia. It's like taking a trip to a museum, you get to go down rabbit holes.

If I had more time and expertise, I would contribute more.

Meaningful quotes

 * All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
 * Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.
 * Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
 * Festina lente
 * The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
 * Dum spiro spero
 * It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

Interesting places

 * Avebury
 * Christ Church Meadow
 * Kynance Cove
 * Mars
 * Treryn Dinas
 * Uffington White Horse
 * Wytham Woods

Interesting human-society ideas

 * Technological Innovation for Climate Change Mitigation, (cement, steel, aluminum, and fertilizer production, also cargo shipping and airplanes, variable renewable energy, Generation IV reactor, carbon capture and storage, also fertilizer manure decomposition, and enteric fermentation, solar geoengineering research).
 * Prepare for a Tunguska event (2,150 sq km flattened, for reference, London is 1500 sq km).
 * Develop and have on standby mass-volume thermal cyclers.
 * Value added tax.
 * Negative income tax or universal basic income (more or less equivalent).
 * Pigovian taxes (including a carbon tax), also see the Pigou Club.
 * Condorcet method or Borda count (more or less equivalent), and no primaries.

Winners of the MurrayScience award
This is a (likely incomplete) list of modern intellectuals - listed in alphabetical order. I appreciate their society-relevant academic contributions, just as one might appreciate the cinematic contributions of various actors and directors. The people in this list have made substantial contributions to the public understanding of the world and they deserve an (extremely prestigious) award! I think Cicero is cool too but he's old.

Each winner's h-index (mostly from Dec-2020) is shown next to their name.


 * Sean Carroll (57)
 * Gregory Clark (47)
 * Stephen F Corfidi
 * Richard Feynman (60)
 * Bill Gates
 * Yuval Noah Harari
 * Tim Harford (12)
 * Stephen Hsu (40)
 * Jesse Jenkins (22)
 * Daniel Kahneman (157)
 * Steven Levitt (74)
 * Greg Mankiw (102)
 * Eric Maskin (48)
 * Peter McIndoe
 * Nathan Myhrvold (15)
 * Steven Pinker (100)
 * Robert Plomin (168)
 * Hannah Ritchie (40)
 * Max Roser (33)
 * Hans Rosling
 * Vaclav Smil (66)
 * Lawrence Summers (183)
 * Peter Trudgill (65)
 * Tim Urban

Favo(u)rite / Humorous Wiki pages

 * Bat bomb
 * Bedtime procrastination
 * Black swan theory
 * Ellsberg paradox
 * Eight or Nine Wise Words about Letter-Writing
 * Green Revolution
 * Gropecunt Lane
 * Heat death of the universe
 * Hillfort
 * Iron Age Europe
 * List of regicides of Charles I
 * Molon labe
 * Natal homing
 * Salmon run
 * Sunrise problem
 * Sweating sickness
 * Traveling wave reactor
 * Turkish bird language
 * Turkish migration
 * Tuva
 * Wisdom of the crowd

Cool women throughout history

 * Börte
 * Emma, Lady Hamilton
 * Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir