Is this a fucking joke? http://nordic.businessinsider.com/s

https://undergrad.stanford.edu/advising/approaching-stanford/three-books

Can't believe a professor of the hard sciences would be pick such trash.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIGeDAZ6-q4

>>9848136
Still ranked 3rd in the world. And the Sixth extinction is a good book.

>>9848622
muh ranking
muh insecurity

>>9848638
They don't rank you 3rd unless your academic accomplishments are sufficient and represent a certain degree of high-level education and research

>>9848651
You don't go around touting this as evidence of merit unless you're insecure that your personal experience at the institution was insufficient

>>9848663
I didn't even study at Stanford, nor did I apply. I wouldn't even want to be found dead at a non top-2 university.

>>9848671
>he'd be caught dead at the 2nd best university in the world

You're never gonna make it.

>>9848679
Bitch please, I'm an Oxonian

>>9848671
>>9848679
>>9848680
>Nietzsche didn't teach at his University
Kek

>>9848689
What are you even talking about, he actually did

>In part because of Ritschl's support, Nietzsche received a remarkable offer to become professor of classical philology at the University of Basel in Switzerland. He was only 24 years old and had neither completed his doctorate nor received a teaching certificate ("habilitation"). He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Leipzig, again with Ritschl's support.[36]

Despite the fact that the offer came at a time when he was considering giving up philology for science, he accepted.[37] To this day, Nietzsche is still among the youngest of the tenured Classics professors on record.[38]

>>9848693
Basler?

>>9848136
The Sixth Extinction is a great read.

>>9848722
muh ecosystem

evolution is exstinction, erverything is natural

>>9848734
youre right that us causing a max extinction isn't "unnatural." it's happened before https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxygenation_Event. we're still causing mass ecocide and gradually making the planet more and more uninhabitable for humans.

>>9848722
>>9848734
"So careful of the type?" but no.
From scarped cliff and quarried stone
She cries, "A thousand types are gone:
I care for nothing, all shall go.

>>9848734
whats wrong with caring for the environment. A destroyed ecosystem can produce a score of problems ranging from food shortages, increased immigration etc. Seriously, its not a "liberal" issue, its a existential issue for everyone regardless of political leanings.

>>9848768
so? humanity is part of the so-alled naure and its time to face our own extinction. whats wrong with vanishing from this miserable planet?

>>9848774
*so-called nature

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>>9848774
Because not everyone is a fucking nihilist. There is a life outside stay indoors miserable about everyone else, you may like to try it some time

>>9848787
this is not about nihilism, this is about facing the inevitable fate of humanity.

And if your thesis is true, why are all those people outside are littering the environment, driving cars, polluting the atmosphere? i have a very good ecological footprint just by staying at home

>the sixth extinction

hey, we gotta rape the earth if we want to become a type 1 kardashev ecumenopolis

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>>9848774
>>9848777
we're not going extinct, bucko. even if we reach the worst case scenario with climate chance of 5+ degrees C warming there will still be millions of us kicking around in the global north. humans are like cockroaches.

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>>9848802
do nothing is almost as bad as what you're decrying against. As well, staying in really limits your world view and experience.

If we really are here for a short period of time, why not try to help ourselves by bettering the world or trying to provide a more better future for the inevitable generations.

What should they have been told to read instead then?

>>9848848
heaven is for real

>>9848848
The Nag Hammadi Library

>>9848848
Start with the Greeks.
/lit/ has better recommendations for fucks sake.

>>9848848
Nietzsche

>>9848870
Not everyone is a pleb like /lit/ who started the Greeks in their 20s. Most of them have probably already read them.