The most prestigious law school admissions discussion board in the world.
|
 |
 
|
Sean Carroll is the closest we have to Carl Sagan right now
Poast new message in this thread
Date: February 26th, 2021 12:48 AM Author: Bistre pozpig (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4774866&forum_id=2#42011458) |
Date: February 26th, 2021 1:47 AM Author: carmine thriller stead he sucks (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4774866&forum_id=2#42011607) |
 |
Date: February 26th, 2021 4:07 PM Author: Bistre pozpig He's the best we've got. I'm listening to his podcast where he interviews contemporary thinkers and he's operating at a very high level. He dominates many of his guests by dropping hints that he's at least as well read as they are about certain topics. Like he knows the limits of their knowledge and he pushes them there and keeps them there throughout the whole show. He is also a big classicist and has done his homework on ancient history. He seems pretty based tbh. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4774866&forum_id=2#42014705) |
|
Date: February 26th, 2021 4:11 PM Author: exhilarant corner Faith and Begorrah! c'mon, man, stop the flame. Nobody thinks someone named Seán Ó Cearbhaill is some kind of physics master |
|
Date: February 26th, 2021 4:13 PM Author: Bistre pozpig Not saying he is. Like Carl Sagan he's a science communicator first and foremost. The people who are the best at the science side of things are weird shut-ins who no one would ever put on TV. SC comes across as more of a polymath than a specialist in any one field. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4774866&forum_id=2#42014736) |
|
Date: February 26th, 2021 4:17 PM Author: exhilarant corner I'm just joshin' -- never heard of the guy but usually these dudes are named something like "Mike Cohen" or "Ethan Sandberg" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4774866&forum_id=2#42014758) |
|
Date: February 26th, 2021 4:18 PM Author: Bistre pozpig He's a ginger nut (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4774866&forum_id=2#42014763) |
|
Date: January 27th, 2026 6:17 PM Author: aphrodisiac chad he's a mensch and I'm going to send him a crank letter very soon. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4774866&forum_id=2#49624724) |
|
Date: January 27th, 2026 6:19 PM Author: Bistre pozpig He fell off a cliff since I made this thread. I hope he goes out like Scott Adams, deathbed conversion livestreamed from hospice (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4774866&forum_id=2#49624740) |
|
Date: January 27th, 2026 7:04 PM Author: aphrodisiac chad tbh I'm just listening to his old quantum lectures right now, but I still like his "natural philosophy" concept and being both a popularizer and a serious representative of the field. but he's always been an annoying NPR lib in many ways. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4774866&forum_id=2#49624925) |
|
Date: January 27th, 2026 7:10 PM Author: Bistre pozpig He's very bitter about getting denied tenure at University of Chicago. He did a podcast episode about it and I thought it was a one-off, but I've since heard him mention it multiple times. When I first noticed him he was a CalTech, and it wasn't until much later that I realized it was only a contract gig (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4774866&forum_id=2#49624931) |
|
Date: January 27th, 2026 7:19 PM Author: aphrodisiac chad lol I had no idea. well at least johns hopkins has DAT lay prestige does it not? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4774866&forum_id=2#49624966) |
|
Date: January 27th, 2026 7:21 PM Author: Bistre pozpig Is he there now? He went to Villanova for UG, and I recall him saying it flat-out sucked and all his classmates were dullards (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4774866&forum_id=2#49624968) |
|
Date: January 27th, 2026 7:41 PM Author: aphrodisiac chad no wonder he's so relatable, I went to UCSC and was on a level of my own there. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4774866&forum_id=2#49625027) |
|
Date: January 27th, 2026 7:06 PM Author: Sepia laser beams brian cox is the GOAT. brian greene is awesome too
degrasse tyson had the hardest fall from grace courtesy of rogan
|
|
Date: January 27th, 2026 7:11 PM Author: Bistre pozpig Greene is a joke. There's no one good in this field right now and the next great genius probably won't be American (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4774866&forum_id=2#49624934) |
|
Date: January 27th, 2026 8:09 PM Author: Sepia laser beams disagree. his latest JRE appearance was 180, especially the quantum computing black hole holograph segment (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4774866&forum_id=2#49625089) |
|
Date: January 27th, 2026 7:24 PM Author: Bistre pozpig Wikipedia now calls him a "theoretical physicist," but I've heard him insist loudly that he's a COSMOLOGIST, not a physicist. He claimed this was another reason he never got tenure. He said physicists only dabble in cosmology and don't take it seriously (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4774866&forum_id=2#49624975) |
|
Date: January 27th, 2026 7:26 PM Author: Bistre pozpig dat (as far as I know!)
https://x.com/i/status/1346859219236970496 |
|
Date: January 27th, 2026 7:28 PM Author: Avocado deer antler background story Neill deGrasse Tyson is and it isn’t close
Carroll is fine but not on the same level |
|
Date: January 27th, 2026 7:28 PM Author: 180 drab cruise ship Carl Sagan was a boomer dipshit that reinforced the delusion that Joseph Campbell and telescopes gave boomers a license to indefinitely exploit their children (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4774866&forum_id=2#49624984) |
|
Date: January 27th, 2026 7:31 PM Author: Bistre pozpig Name someone better (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4774866&forum_id=2#49624995) |
|
Date: January 27th, 2026 7:42 PM Author: mewling lay The evo-devo guy? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4774866&forum_id=2#49625032) |
|
Date: January 27th, 2026 7:54 PM Author: razzmatazz territorial national I always enjoyed how he demolished William Lane Craig
https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2014/02/24/post-debate-reflections/ |
|
Date: January 27th, 2026 7:57 PM Author: Bistre pozpig Yeah he's on the same debate circuit as Richard Carrier, and probably for the same reason (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4774866&forum_id=2#49625058) |
|
Date: January 27th, 2026 8:06 PM Author: razzmatazz territorial national The reason being that both are 180 and pwn the shit out of fundamentalists (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4774866&forum_id=2#49625087) |