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The Prize For Ultimate Inefficiency Goes To America. We Have Built In So Many Checks And Balances That Our 'leaders' Are The Most Thoroughly Hogtied Of Any On Earth.

The World Has Shown That If You Provide Capital And Expertise To An Area That Is Starved For Capital And Expertise, Really Good Things Will Happen.

Researchers Who Examined The Voting Records Of Wine Judges Found That 90 Percent Of The Time They Give Inconsistent Ratings To A Particular Wine When They Judge It On Multiple Occasions.

The Scientific Method Is The Ultimate Elegant Explanation. It Is The Ultimate Foundation For Anything Worthy Of The Name "explanation". It Makes No Sense To Talk About Explanations Without Having A Process For Deciding Which Are Right And Which Are Wrong, And In A Broad Sense That Is What The Scientific Method Is About. All Of The Other Wonderful Explanations Celebrated Here Owe Their Origin And Credibility To The Process By Which They Are Verified-the Scientific Method.

Another Random Thing I Do Is The Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence, Or Seti. And You May Be Familiar With The Movie 'contact,' Which Sort Of Popularized That. It Turns Out There Are Real People Who Go Out And Search For Extraterrestrials In A Very Scientific Way.