How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?

One of the drawbacks of English is you can't spell things by hearing them.

You start doing the addictive behavior to feel good and then your receptors get overloaded with dopamine, then you stop doing the addictive thing and some of the receptors have shut down and you don't have enough dopamine to feel good. So then you feel bad and go back to the addictive behavior to get more dopamine. The strange thing is that it works with what we think of as uppers and downers and whatever you call gambling - sidewaysers.

Talk about science with everyone you meet. Especially talk about climate change. It needs to become a part of our everyday conversation (the way it is everywhere else in the world).

If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilization.

If NASA is to reach beyond the Moon and someday reach Mars, it must be relieved of the burden of launching people and cargo to low earth orbit. To do that, we must invest more in commercial spaceflight.

If you just take a single human and put him or her in the forest he or she might not do very well without some sort of education which he got or she got from some tribe.