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?
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.
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.