Quote of the day
"[I'm a pessimist,] but there's no point in being miserable about it."
--Cormac McCarthy
Imagine: Cormac McCarthy, Werner Herzog, and Lawrence Krauss (director of Arizona State University's Origins Project), for an hour, talking about the intersections between art and science. That's what NPR's Science Friday treated its listeners to this afternoon. Highlights: McCarthy is up to speed on subatomic particle research and cave paintings (Herzog's 3-D film of recently-discovered 30,000-year-old cave paintings looks spectacular); Herzog reads a long passage from All the Pretty Horses; each waxes philosophical on how to think about and respond to the given, inarguable facts of our species'--and the planet's--eventual, inevitable demise.
Here's the link to the audio. It's an hour long, but you'll want to hear it. It's a very few pennies of your tax dollars at work. If this contributes to our nation's coming financial apocalypse, well, I'm really quite okay with that.
