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Richard Feynman's love letter to his deceased wife, 1946.

But is it Science? by Jim Baggott - There is no agreed criterion to distinguish science from pseudoscience, or just plain ordinary bullshit… 

The Problem with P-values by David Colquhoun - Academic psychology and medical testing are both dogged by unreliability. The reason is clear: we got probability wrong 

Saving Science by Daniel Sarewitz - Science isn’t self-correcting, it’s self-destructing. To save the enterprise, scientists must come out of the lab and into the real world 

The Mistrust of Science by Atul Gawande - What it means to be a scientist in a time of increasing mistrust toward the scientific community… 

The Tyranny of Simple Explanations by Philip Ball - Imagine you’re a scientist with a set of results that are equally well predicted by two different theories. Which theory do you choose? 

Why Do Many Reasonable People Doubt Science? by Joel Achenbach - We live in an age when all manner of scientific knowledge—from climate change to vaccinations—faces furious opposition. Why? 

Scientific Method Man by Joseph D'Agnese - Will verifiers revolutionize the scientific method and help solve other seemingly unsolvable mysteries, such as the origins of the universe or the cause of Alzheimer’s disease? 

The Mouse Trap by Daniel Engber - On the dangers of using one lab animal to study every disease 

Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the Extinction of Dinosaurs by Stephen Jay Gould - Science, in its most fundamental definition, is a fruitful mode of inquiry, not a list of enticing conclusions… 

take Gladiator for example from the year 2000. Russell Crowe plays basically an action hero in it. he is a big, muscly dude, who is very strong and uses that strength to defeat his enemies. and this is what he looks like:

looks like a strong man, right?

in the same year, Hugh Jackman as Wolverine looked like this in the first X-men movie:

in 2013 the same character played by the same actor looked like this:

it's a bit much, isn't it? I mean, he looks so skinny.

and if we go even further back: look at what the womanizer character Face from the A-team looked like in the 80s show vs the 2010 movie reboot:

maybe the difference isn't that big but it really startled me when I watched that movie for the first time. in my mind there was no reason why Face should be particularly muscular since he is the charming one not the one known for being particularly strong.

if we go even further back, look at the charmin womanizer character Hawkeye in M*A*S*H from the 70's.

I know he's a doctor and there is no reason for him to be ripped but I got the feeling if they did the show now, he would be.

I don't know what my point really is I'm just saying I got a bit nostalgic when watching these men. I cannot be the only one who'd rather see more of this:

than this:

also, as a sidenote: Russell Crowe gained a lot of weight for the nice guys and he is a fucking powerhouse in that film, like, when he punches someone, you really feel it because of the weight that is behind it and the shere mass of his body.

(even if this may look different, he's about to break Ryan Gosling's character's arm. I couldn't find a gif of him punching someone but I swear it looks painfull as hell.)

so, in short: can we get big, heavy action guys back? cause I'm tired of seeing these skinny, despite being muscular dudes who look dehydrated as hell and on steroids.

The future torments us, the past keeps us, that’s why the present escapes us.

He added, after a pause: “Remember this, my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators.”

Spring Flowers    -   Andrei Dobrynin , 2020.

Russian. b. 1985s-