Op-Ed
💬The new space race is the best thing that could happen to the earth
"I think fundamentally the future is vastly more exciting and interesting if we’re a space-faring civilization and a multi-planet species than if we’re not. You want to be inspired by things. You want to wake up in the morning and think “the...
🏆 Let other people’s pessimism make you more successful
In 1979 Amos Tversky and Nobel prize winner Daniel Kahneman identified something they called “the planning fallacy”. The essence of the planning fallacy is that human beings tend to underestimate the time a task will take to execute.Kahneman and Tversky argue that we...
⬆️ Optimism’s Theory of Knowledge
There is a difference between optimism and pessimism which is often lost in the old parable that the optimist sees the glass as half full and the pessimist sees it as half empty. It is that the optimist’s gaze differs from the pessimist’s in a fundamental...
💉 Matt Ridley: The unexpected history and miraculous success of vaccines
At a time when the miraculous success of vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 has transformed the battle against the pandemic, it is fitting to recall that the general idea behind vaccination was brought to the attention of the western world, not by brilliant and privileged...
