Young scientists rarely push boundaries because those who do so risk making mistakes, and mistakes don’t advance careers.
A popular ideal within the industry causing a lack of attempt between the people.
35 Matching Annotations
- Mar 2021
-
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
-
-
The joke illustrates a persistent problem for scientists who want to look for alien intelligence — the “giggle factor,”
Helps showcase how so many people think of this issue as a joke.
-
closed-mindedness of the scientific establishment
He is criticizing the scientific community for their lack of interest.
-
a large, thin reflective object that might propel a vehicle using starlight in the way a sailboat is pushed by the wind.
Provides definition to the public
-
It was interstellar — recognized as the first object we’ve ever seen that originated outside our solar system.
Previously we had only observed changes in our system, but because of increased research we noticed something from outside our galaxy.
-
Are we alone? — lingers largely on the sidelines.
Questions the significance of finding different galaxies by posing a question on if we are alone
-
What if the reason we haven’t come across life beyond Earth is the same reason I can never find my keys when I’m in a hurry — not because they don’t exist but because I did a slapdash job looking for them?
Indicating that we attempt and search a little better, we would be able to find out about different galaxies in the universe.
-
insignificant ordinariness.
Earth is nothing compared to the galaxy, our existence does not really matter that much
-
Across all of space, there may be quintillions of potentially habitable planets, or even a sextillion — which is more than the estimated grains of sand on all of Earth’s beaches.
Sand analogy helps compare the size of the galaxy and what we are compared to everyone
-
one of an estimated 100 billion to 400 billion in the Milky Way galaxy alone
Showcasing that the sun is special to us but is a ordinary object throughout the galaxy
-
our planet’s blazing engine and eternal clock, giver of light, life and spectacular Instagram backdrops.
Contrasting and describing a public opinion of the sun to all of the people reading this article.
-
- Feb 2021
-
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
-
Tesla brought in more than $1.6 billion through credits, without which its business would have posted a net loss.
Tesla makes money based on credits rather than car sales.
-
Can carmakers that now rely on big pickups and S.U.V.s for their profits make money on the electric models?
The question addressing what is the future for such car companies and how can they improve
-
The car industry’s electric dreams are fueled by a singular success — Tesla, Elon Musk’s electric-car juggernaut.
Elon Musk is the future of the industry, if he does succeed then this industry will sky rocket and be heavily successful. Similarly, if Elon fails then the whole industry may collapse.
-
including G.M.’s pledge to sell only zero-emission passenger cars by 203
Initiative taken by different companies
-
which would have required passenger vehicles to achieve an average of 54.5 m.p.g. by 2025.
Future of the industry could be this after Biden proposes his new plans
-
By 2019 only a third of cars sold were sedans, and about half were small or large S.U.V.s.
People are now buying SUV over Sedan even though Sedan are more fuel efficient and are better for the environment. SUV look better to the people
-
Our cars were getting an average of 22.4 miles per gallon in 2009, and by 2019 efficiency had grown to 24.9 m.p.g., a gain of about 11 percent.
Efficiency is not increasing so much and is rather stagnant. Within a decade there should have been a larger change in the fuel consumption of a car.
-
“war” on S.U.V.s and pickup trucks.
A fight against a side who prefers to have has filled trucks
-
belong to people, not vehicles.
Making a point to showcase how people own the roads and should rather utilize it
-
Fixing the problems caused by cars with new and improved cars and expensive new infrastructure just for cars illustrates why we’re in this mess in the first place
The current problem we are in and how it has affected the way our current society is based on
-
500,000 charging stations
A plan for the future
-
To deal with an expensive, dangerous, extremely resource-intensive machine that has helped bring about the destruction of the planet, let’s all buy this new version, which runs on a different fuel.
Showcases how he has his opinion on pro electric cars and wants to preserve the planet.
-
larger and more entrenched problem with America’s transportation system.
The author is making a statement of the current problem within the US and how the transportation system has multiple problems within it. By switching to electric, it will be much better for the environment.
-
-
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
-
The Reddit amateurs may be gloating about their victory over elite hedge funds now, but in the casino of Wall Street the house always wins, and many Redditors may be flirting with financial catastrophe.
Manjoo, the author of this article, offers a personal opinion which may be controversial but is completely true. Because of victories from stocks such as Game stop there has been a growth in the amount of people thinking investment to be a game and considering a war against companies and small reddit influencers. However, he offers a POV of how wall street always wins because of such analysis.
-
Americans have been encouraged to play the market as if our lives depend on it, because they increasingly do; today, the markets shape the quality of your retirement, your kids’ education, maybe even whether you’ll get health care.
People of the country are encouraged to risk a lot of their time, money and personal assets on the idea of such a market. Because of this increase in confusion and encouragement, citizens are extensively involved in the market eventually affecting their lives after retirement.
-
Look to see how the S&P 500 reacted.
The stock market reflects on the government. Hence new governmental regulations may benefit some companies making their stock go higher.
-
in 2015 there were 600,000 American companies with at least 20 employees, of which just 3,600 were publicly listed.
Explains the gravity of the situation and how there is such a widespread of companies in the US.
-
“The Markets Are Not the Economy.”
Multiple attempts to educate the people on how the economy and the stock market are two different things.
-
Treating stock prices as an economic indicator distorts Americans’ views about what’s actually happening, who exactly is winning and losing,
Providing an outlook to the greater idea. Because of lack in education of financial topics people are starting to think of stocks as an indicator of the countries economy. Hence, if a stock is skyrocketing, people would assume that the economy is great and vice versa.
-
r/wallstreetbets
A reddit page designed to attract teenage and millennial population into stocks.
-
The connection between the markets and the economy has never been especially solid, but these days it couldn’t be more off, and the GameStop saga suggests a further dip into abstraction and entertainment
The author knows how the market and economy have never really been the same, and he talks about how this could cause a major distraction from the reality of what is really happening around us.
-
Why was I — why were so many of us in media — spending so much time obsessing about a story that mattered to so few people?
Question he is asking to himself and the people on why Gamestop was such a important topic in the news in just a matter of days.
-
GameStop saga compelling.
Gamestop was prominent in the market and was a popular talk throughout all of the major publications.
-
Was this the beginning of a genuine revolt against billionaires — or were billionaires likely to win whatever happened, because they always do?
Billionaires are always prominent in society and successful, in the stock market with this condition the people expected billionaires to make more money but the question was how.
-