“Wikipedians have discovered that the wisdom of crowds cannot prevent the idiocy of individuals.”
, London, on new restrictions that prevent ordinary users from making any immediate changes to Wikipedia entries on living people
“What we are seeing here is yet another of the large-scale, potentially tragic, uncontrolled experiments that humans have conducted on their environment without intending to.
on the discovery that plastics break down in seawater much more quickly than expected, releasing damaging contaminants into the ocean
“I think we’re in the midst of a literacy revolution the likes of which we haven’t seen since Greek civilization.”…
