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Showrunning is a thing where you have to work with tons of different people. You have to schmooze people, you have to talk to network people. I don't want to do any of that.

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Becoming a real researcher has been the ultimate humbling experience for me. Nature is the examiner from hell; if you find new things at all, you always find them the hard way, with sweat and tears. Only then do you notice that there was a really easy way to find them. But this insight rarely arrives before you have been utterly humiliated and reduced to despair.

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Although the term dialogue was really a euphemism for scientists trying to kill each other, this format worked very well.

Dialogue, Kill, Scientist, Term, Trying

The game of science can accurately be described as a never-ending insult to human intelligence.

Game, Games, Humans, Insult, Intelligence

For instance, the blood of hibernating arctic squirrels may supercool to minus 3 degrees, when it would normally congeal. The supercooled blood still flows, since it remains a liquid, but the slightest disturbance will cause it to freeze, killing the squirrel; therefore, you should not disturb hibernating arctic squirrels.

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I've always felt that copious use of the word 'something' allows anyone to solve any problem, even insoluble ones.

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Thus, the distance between any two galaxies increases in time, creating the illusion of mechanical motion. But in reality, galaxies just sit there, contemplating the spectacle of the universe creating more and more space in between them.

Distance, Mechanical, Motion, Reality, Time, Two
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