Allison Hornery

A thoughtful, even hopeful, read for all the systems travellers out there

AI and the Dimensions of Thought: Speed, Breadth, and Depth AI can think fast, but only humans can "sleep on it"—turning thoughts into meaning with depth.

Human thought is in deep and slow pondering. AI is good at other dimensions
www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/th...

So interesting and useful!

Such a thought-provoking article: “The most graceful paths through complex landscapes are seldom straight lines.”

Trust edges up—slightly The Pew Research Center survey on trust in science and researchers is eagerly awaited every year by science policy experts and communicators. This year’s results, released last week, give a small, but...

Here's my editorial on the new Pew trust in science data with great quotes from @katharinehayhoe.com: "Scientists aren’t only brains in jars; we’re human beings embedded in society, bringing both reason and principles to our work.” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

‘Blue is the color of the mind in borrow of the body; it is the color consciousness becomes when caressed; the dark inside of sentences.’

~ William Gass

Mark Rothko

The Arecibo Message, Earth’s First Interstellar Transmission, Turns 50 In 1974 we beamed a radio transmission into space that changed the way we think about our place in the cosmos

“Searching for life beyond Earth is, in some sense, an exercise in optimism.”

Read this beautiful article by @nadiadrake.bsky.social about an interstellar 50th anniversary, which also concerns her family. (Lots of @thebeatles, too … can you find it?)

www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

Yes, exactly!

Secret Guides and Weird Waymarkers (SSIR) When the navigation systems we have relied upon are themselves unmooring, what do we tether to?

A mind-shifting read from @ssireview.bsky.social “There are many ways of traveling rough seas and unknown landscapes.” ssir.org/articles/ent...

Bird by Bird. Anne Lamott. #BookChallenge

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