I’d like to see an anki deck that trains for a sort of conversational recital of interesting results in science. Often you might have a general, vague idea of the result for a piece of research, but you don’t know the details that lend you gravitas in reciting them. For example, if you know the main author, the university, the decade, and so on, you come off as very knowledgeable. Whereas, if you just start off saying something like “Y’know, scientists found that bees dance to communicate,” you can immediately see in their body language that they’re thinking, “uh huh uh… what the fuck is this crackpot, idiot talking about?”
You’re infinitely more credible if you say something like, “So, this Austrian ethologist and Nobel laureate, Karl von Frisch, observed in the late 60s that bees dance to communicate...”
I’d like to see an anki deck that trains for a sort of conversational recital of interesting results in science. Often you might have a general, vague idea of the result for a piece of research, but you don’t know the details that lend you gravitas in reciting them. For example, if you know the main author, the university, the decade, and so on, you come off as very knowledgeable. Whereas, if you just start off saying something like “Y’know, scientists found that bees dance to communicate,” you can immediately see in their body language that they’re thinking, “uh huh uh… what the fuck is this crackpot, idiot talking about?”
You’re infinitely more credible if you say something like, “So, this Austrian ethologist and Nobel laureate, Karl von Frisch, observed in the late 60s that bees dance to communicate...”