Could Parables Help Solve The World's Thorniest Problems?
How the Asteroid Saved Mankind A just-so story Richard Gayle via Consider the Facts A finalist in our #CrowdGrant challenge hopes to inspire people to think about the world's toughest problems in positive, creative ways A common response to global problems like climate change and overpopulation is apathy ("I won't be around to see the effects, so what does it matter?") or pessimism ("Nothing we do will stop it"). So, we keep producing greenhouse gases and making babies, and we fail to generate any truly creative, new responses to these problems. So says Richard Gayle, a finalist in the Popular Science #CrowdGrant Challenge and president of SpreadingScience, an organization that trains scientists to improve their methods of sharing their findings, research, and ideas. Gayle wants to alter the fundamental way we approach these problems, and see if that allows us to imagine new solutions. His strategy, unconventional though it sounds, is to...