Finished my phD in History, and now I'm basically a NEET for the time being. How's everyone going? Haven't active;y used this site for a while, and it's cool to see the same familiar faces are still here. So, I'd like to ask everyone: on what subjects do you consider yourself most knowledgeable in, and is there anything about it that you think is the most interesting to know?

    • dinklesplein [any, he/him]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      It's fascinating to me to think of how much humanity has manipulated the living world - even as we are nowhere near close to mastery over nature, we still leave our mark on the biosphere.

      • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        It's especially wild to think about it given the timescales involved - the dinosaurs were around for 120 million years; modern humanity has existed for, at best, 1/60th of that time, and modern civilization for 1/50th of that 1/60th.