Pullquotes 9
November 4, 2007
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“Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn’t mean you’re wiser than when it just reached to the end of the bar.” – Edward R. Murrow
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“But his thought experiment exposes the one terrible fact to which our technological hubris blinds us: our dependence on biological production remains absolute. Civilisation is just a russeting on the skin of the biosphere, never immune from being rubbed against the sleeve of environmental change.”
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“The question this month is ‘Which parts of the human body could you design better?‘”This is a great question, because a lot of aspects of the human body represent what worked well enough for survival, not necessarily what works best. Therefore the engineering ends up being rather ramshackle, and convoluted, and sometimes, downright terrible.”
