There's no way I'm going to stand up for bad ingredients. We love seasonal ingredients. It's a false dichotomy to say that modern cooking is at odds with that, but some people want to have a great ingredient and no technique.

Crazy ideas sometimes work, and the technological society that we have is built on a foundation of those crazy ideas that work.

Now, to find dinosaurs, you hike around in horrible conditions looking for a dinosaur. It sounds really dumb, but that's what it is. It's horrible conditions, because wherever you have nice weather, plants grow, and you don't get any erosion, and you don't see any dinosaurs.

It's impossible that we're alone in the universe. Every time we think we're more special than others, we're proven wrong.

There is a one-in-300 chance that Earth will be struck on March 16, 2880, by an asteroid large enough to destroy civilization and possibly cause the extinction of the human race. But, on the bright side, Prince could re-release his hit song with the new refrain 'We're gonna party like its twenty-eight seventy-nine.'

Nuclear energy is a baseload - meaning it's power that you can run any time you want, day or night - and carbon-free.

Words can hurt you. In the larger world, it frames how people think about you, and it can hurt you in lots of little, subtle ways.