I took an undergrad course in stargazing, so I’m basically an expert in… whatever that is…
Prof was a big spectroscopy nerd, so we mostly focused on that.
What I gather from this article is that we still don’t know what dark energy is. We haven’t for decades. So the new telescope has failed to enlighten us about a mystery that’s been around longer than half of the users here.
speak for yourself about the 🍪 thing.
I’m still looking for El 🍪rado.
“Slave drive” maybe.
I mean, they’ll think it means something totally different.
I’m older than that, but it’s definitely something a zoomer wouldn’t understand immediately.
All over. Midwest metro area.
Maybe you don’t go to drive through banks anymore?
My god, a talking fetus!
Plato has basically nothing to do with modern politics.
You’re going to laugh, but I’m absolutely serious here: if your objective is to understand modern politics, I would start with The Prince and the Communist Manifesto.
Both of these are short, written by extremely influential figures, written for non-academic audiences, and have some amount of relevancy to current political operations. They absolutely do not explain modern politics, but they are important foundational texts. Spend 20 hours on the manifesto; 2 hours to read and 18 hours of commentary and related topics. Avoid going deeper into the communist rabbit holes. stop there. Spend 30 hours on the prince; look for college level lectures. You can spend more than 30 if you like, but don’t go for the self help guru dipshits, obviously.
Just keep in mind the target audences and the potential bias the two authors bring to the table.
After those two, I want you to read On Liberty and read up on John Locke’s social contract theory. Those four works will get you a lot of milage.
A book about current events or a book about the study of politics? OP indicated they were political theory focused, so a lot of the theory was written by old dead guys; not exactly news about current events.
Or Nautilus from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea vibes, even.
Except that Capt. Nemo was an anti imperialist king.