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Previously, David was the Editorial Director, Journals Policy for Oxford University Press. He oversaw journal policy across OUP’s journals program, drove technological innovation, and served as an information officer. David acquired and managed a suite of research society-owned journals with OUP, and before that was the Executive Editor for Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, where he created and edited new science books and journals, along with serving as a journal Editor-in-Chief. He has served on the Board of Directors for the STM Association, the Society for Scholarly Publishing and CHOR, Inc., as well as The AAP-PSP Executive Council. David received his PhD in Genetics from Columbia University and did developmental neuroscience research at Caltech before moving from the bench to publishing.</p> <div> <a href="https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/author/dacrotty/" class="cta-link hidden-print">View All Posts by David Crotty</a> </div> </div> </article> <div class="ad ad--leaderboard ad--article-comments"> <!-- /220861129/tsk-article-comments-2016-12 --> <div id='div-gpt-ad-1481750508871-0'> <script> googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1481750508871-0'); }); </script> </div> </div> <section class="container-comments" id="comments"> <header class="comments-header"> <h2 class="comments-header__title">Discussion</h2> <p class="comments-header__subhead"> 3 Thoughts on "The Important Questions of Our Time — What if…." </p> </header> <div class="comments"> <div class="comments__thread"> <article class="comment even thread-even depth-1" id="comment-131372"> <div class="comment__avatar"> <img alt='' src='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ee9501b2ca542c3bdb89529b0beabdd1?s=96&d=mm&r=g' srcset='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ee9501b2ca542c3bdb89529b0beabdd1?s=192&d=mm&r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-96 photo' height='96' width='96' decoding='async'/> </div> <div class="comment__body"> <div class="comment__content"> <p>I got to see Randall Munroe speaking live in the UK (in Bath) last Saturday night. The first half of his show was an amusing talk by him about his time at NASA and how he got to be a cartoonist and question-answerer. That was very charming, amusing and interesting.<br /> The second half was him being interviewed, and attempting to answer some questions posed by the interviewer and by the audience (via Slido). This was less successful, mainly because the interviewer, popular economist and statistician Tim Harford did a very poor job of interviewing, asking sensible questions – he asked about cricket (absurdly) and economics, not science, and choosing interesting questions from the audience suggestions. (Tim Harford s usually very sensible and interesting on the Radio and in the Financial Times, so maybe he just had an off day.)<br /> <a href="https://www.fane.co.uk/randall-munroe" rel="nofollow ugc">https://www.fane.co.uk/randall-munroe</a><br /> This is my favourite Randall Munroe cartoon:<br /> <a href="https://xkcd.com/552/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://xkcd.com/552/</a></p> </div> <div class="clearfix"></div> <ul class="comment__meta"> <li class="comment__meta__author"><span class="byline">By</span> Mark Carden</li><!-- --><li class="comment__meta__date"><a href="https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2024/11/22/the-important-questions-of-our-time-what-if/#comment-131372">Nov 22, 2024, 11:14 AM</a></li><!-- --><li class="comment__meta__cta hidden-print"> <a rel='nofollow' class='comment-reply-link' href='#comment-131372' data-commentid="131372" data-postid="59825" data-belowelement="comment-131372" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Mark Carden" aria-label='Reply to Mark Carden'>Reply to Comment</a> </li> </ul> </div> </article> </div><!-- #comment-## --> <div class="comments__thread"> <article class="comment odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="comment-131375"> <div class="comment__avatar"> <img alt='' src='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/9b99642852204d81e79f9d419a78dbdd?s=96&d=mm&r=g' srcset='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/9b99642852204d81e79f9d419a78dbdd?s=192&d=mm&r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-96 photo' height='96' width='96' loading='lazy' decoding='async'/> </div> <div class="comment__body"> <div class="comment__content"> <p>This reminds me of a series of books I read in my teenage and college years called the Imponderables series by David Feldman.</p> </div> <div class="clearfix"></div> <ul class="comment__meta"> <li class="comment__meta__author"><span class="byline">By</span> Kate Kosturski</li><!-- --><li class="comment__meta__date"><a href="https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2024/11/22/the-important-questions-of-our-time-what-if/#comment-131375">Nov 22, 2024, 1:03 PM</a></li><!-- --><li class="comment__meta__cta hidden-print"> <a rel='nofollow' class='comment-reply-link' href='#comment-131375' data-commentid="131375" data-postid="59825" data-belowelement="comment-131375" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Kate Kosturski" aria-label='Reply to Kate Kosturski'>Reply to Comment</a> </li> </ul> </div> </article> </div><!-- #comment-## --> <div class="comments__thread"> <article class="comment even thread-even depth-1" id="comment-131390"> <div class="comment__avatar"> <img alt='' src='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/50c3b1766395ad1e43af3115846094ed?s=96&d=mm&r=g' srcset='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/50c3b1766395ad1e43af3115846094ed?s=192&d=mm&r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-96 photo' height='96' width='96' loading='lazy' decoding='async'/> </div> <div class="comment__body"> <div class="comment__content"> <p>All the moon cats would go wild!<br /> Ps: that’s the dumbest thing of posted here or maybe anywhere, but I don’t care!!</p> </div> <div class="clearfix"></div> <ul class="comment__meta"> <li class="comment__meta__author"><span class="byline">By</span> Jess</li><!-- --><li class="comment__meta__date"><a href="https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2024/11/22/the-important-questions-of-our-time-what-if/#comment-131390">Nov 23, 2024, 9:51 AM</a></li><!-- --><li class="comment__meta__cta hidden-print"> <a rel='nofollow' class='comment-reply-link' href='#comment-131390' data-commentid="131390" data-postid="59825" data-belowelement="comment-131390" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Jess" aria-label='Reply to Jess'>Reply to Comment</a> </li> </ul> </div> </article> </div><!-- #comment-## --> </div> <div class="comment-form hidden-print"> <div id="respond" class="comment-respond"> <h3 id="reply-title" class="comment-reply-title">Leave a Comment <small><a rel="nofollow" id="cancel-comment-reply-link" href="/2024/11/22/the-important-questions-of-our-time-what-if/#respond" style="display:none;">Cancel reply</a></small></h3><form action="https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/wp-comments-post.php?wpe-comment-post=scholarlykitch" method="post" id="commentform" class="comment-form"><div class="comment-form__group"><textarea class="comment-form__textarea" name="comment" placeholder="Enter Your Comment Here..." cols="35" rows="5" required></textarea></div><div class="comment-form__group"><input class="comment-form__field" name="author" size="30" type="text" placeholder="Name" value="" required></div> <div class="comment-form__group"><input class="comment-form__field" name="email" size="30" type="email" placeholder="Email" value="" required></div> <p class="comment-subscription-form"><input type="checkbox" name="subscribe_comments" id="subscribe_comments" value="subscribe" style="width: auto; 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