Don’t worry about the sun expanding to swallow earth! It will gradually get hotter as the core uses fuel and contracts, rendering earth uninhabitable within just 1b years (if we don’t beat it to the punch)
tbf, I’ve always loved the truth-seeking behavior at the heart of interdisciplinary academic squabbles about which science is more scientific than which other ones.
Leads to further pressures to improve methodology via cross-pollination anyway.
Though it does get out of hand sometimes. But in an environment with enough competitive young people, I think things getting out of hand on occasion is more or less inevitable, so whatever.
Of course, it’s my own training in certain skillsets that makes me prefer this view.
Yeah, I think a little friendly “competition” can be healthy, but it often turns into outright dismissal of other fields/ideas and needless cutting down because they view others as a threat. Someone else’s success undermines their own, that sort of thing. That is not productive and can even be damaging.
It’s kinda baffaling to me that we don’t encourage more hybrid degrees for scientific reaearch. Like even if it was just 10% of the field that seems highly valuable
Agreed, but id rather hang out with the botanists and field ecologists anyway. I chose biology as a major precisely because the biologists were chill. The geologists drank too much and the engineers seemed uncreative. People who love and appreciate biology are my people.
If you’re not already watching crime pays but botany doesn’t on youtube you should start. It’s just 30+ minute videos of a profane botanist from Chicago running around nature and pointing out cool plants and complaining about society
Thanks for the recommendation. I looked him up and to my surprise the first video that showed up was of him here in Brazil walking in the middle of absolute nowhere talking nonstop about every single plant he finds on the ground. I am hooked.
I only found him recently but he has really accelerated a path I was already on to becoming more conscious about plants and the role they play in our environment. I’m now in the planning phase of converting about 1.5 acres of lawn into native prairie and starting to manage some woods that I own so they’re more beneficial to wildlife.
A meme accurately representing my plant morphology teacher screaming at me because I couldn’t see if the god forsaken ovary was inferior or superior would not make me laugh, it would make me cry.
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