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Nephrologist, clinical investigator at Icahn School of Medicine Mount Sinai, sports geek, physics and cosmology enthusiast, Poetic Naturalist, Dawkins Scale 7, all opinions my own Favorite epoch in history: cosmic inflation before the hot Big Bang
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Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved? ~ Carl Sagan

The real secret to the "Mediterranean diet" is eating equal qualities of pasta and antipasto so that they annihilate one another

Listen and try not to tear up Gets me every time youtube.com/watch?v=FRcx...

What a video montage youtu.be/jVOeSsQGkrU?...

These figures are so elegant (from Volker Vallon see bsky.app/profile/amjh...) Very "Guytonian" feel to the intricacy!

The best explanation I’ve ever seen of “The Monty Hall Problem” Watch this- you won’t regret it and will never be confused about which door to pick x.com/iamluismalhe...

Greatest photo in history of humanity (thus far) and greatest tribute regarding the photo Change my mind

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Our sun is one of 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living things in that enormous immensity. - Wernher von Braun