February 6, 2017
All information should be free, especially to people like me who struggle, really struggle to find new information and interpret it and make people’s lives better. But instead, people who write this highly structured non-fiction that is scientific research, get it published in difficult (if not impossible) to retrieve places. Where authors might actually enjoy hearing from fairly enlightened readers such as I.
But some pieces of science are interpreted by university press offices who deliver them back to me. Sometimes, the message is so strong that I am nevertheless impressed, and need tooooooooooooo tell my beloved followers. Like an article I just read: “Modern Parenting may hinder brain development.”
As that kid in Peanuts says, “AAUUGGHH!” I had always believed that civilization progressed only forward. I became a history buff when I was a child largely because I believed a dictum (which was once attributed to Harry S. Truman; more recently, I think, to Winston Churchill and now, to George Santayana.)
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