A week-long discussion with our friends at Scientific American about things ending – good things, bad things, essential things – and how our lives will change as they do.
MoreAll week long, in partnership with our friends at Scientific American, we’ve been talking about "the end" on The Takeaway. The end of the world, the end of our own lives, or, today, the end of things that we could do without.
From Daylight-Saving time to the Space Shuttle, landfills to human drivers, we talk to Scientific American editor Michael Moyer about an eclectic mix of things that the world — and humans — might be better off without.
What do you think? What are some of the things we'd be better off without?
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Comments [5]
The end has already come for social conventions like courtesy, honor and respect. This is a worldwide phenonmenon that perpetrates rudeness and amorality. So what I would like to see is an end to civilization as we currently know it.
The end of Republicans
We'd be better off without right wing paranoia, fear and loathing. Also, high fructose corn syrup.
We'd be better off without legalized abortion: for all kinds of reasons.
hatred like the hatred in DC this weekend
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