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About This Quiz
Some people know exactly how they are destined to change the world, while others figure it out as they go. Take this quiz to find out where your destiny lies!
Shakespeare said some were born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. Which are you?
Born great
Have greatness thrust upon me
Achieve greatness
A little of each
Do you have a Muse?
Science is my muse.
No, but I have an inspiration.
My muses are Thalia, Terpsichore, and Calliope!
Chaos is my muse.
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What's definitely fully ready in your post-apocalypse bunker?
Medicine
Food and water
Books
I have some batteries and a spare pair of sneakers.
Are you good at science?
I am the best.
I am good at communicating science to civilians.
I am not great at it, honestly.
I have a sort of insane genius for it.
Do you care about the planet?
Yes, it's our home.
Yes, it's our mother.
Yes, it's where all our great achievements happened.
Yes, it's pretty.
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Do you like to study?
I love it!
I like it!
Only subjects that inspire me.
I like it in fits and starts.
How do you feel about cancer?
Cancer sucks and I will destroy it.
It sucks, but it's not the worst thing happening in the world.
It is a beautiful and hideous tragedy all at once.
It's a mean jerk and it needs to respect karma more and only strike those who deserve it.
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Do you love humanity?
In the abstract more than reality, sometimes.
Yes, but I love animals and the Earth equally.
Yes, we are a great and glorious mystery.
I love some people, others suck though.
What's your carbon footprint?
20 metric tons, which I know is too high.
Negative 2 metric tons: I buy offsets and have rooftop solar.
5 metric tons: I don't leave the house much and live in a tiny apartment I can't afford to heat or cool.
40 metric tons: I fly a lot.
Do you play well with others?
Yes, if they are smart.
Yes, that's how you get things done.
Yes, if they are tragic, creative, or both.
Only if they're awesome.
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Do you have a lot of free time?
No, I work 70 hours a week.
No, I work, volunteer, and have a family to look after.
Sometimes - I have three part-time jobs.
Loads, I can't hold a job.
Are you a good writer?
No, but I don't care.
Yes, but it's all learned.
Yes, and it's mostly innate.
I have moments of greatness.
Do you inspire others?
I will, eventually.
That's my calling.
Not on purpose
I probably scare them and inspire them in equal parts.
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What was your childhood nickname?
Brainbox
Green Thumb
Bookworm
Rosemary's Baby (and my mom's name isn't Rosemary)
Do you think laterally?
No, I'm very literal.
I can - I see how systems interconnect.
I can't think any other way.
I don't know how I think, it just happens.
Are you into macro or micro solutions?
Micro
I like to add up millions of micro ones to get a macro one.
Macro
I'm not really into solutions.
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Would you rather lose 100lbs once, or 1lb a hundred times?
100lbs once
1lb, one hundred times
I would like to try both, to know the full range of human experience.
Neither: I have 5 extra pounds, they're staying, they're not getting any bigger, and I'm OK with that.
Do you appreciate the arts?
Honestly, not really
I do, but I can't create them.
Yes, they are what makes us human.
I sure do, unless they're boring or pretentious.
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How do you think the world will end?
A pandemic
Runaway climate change
Nuclear war
Robots will kill us all.
Do you plan to live forever?
Yes please
No, I know my limits.
Only in my words
I haven't really thought about it, but a legacy would be cool.
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What's something you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy?
Huntington's disease
Starvation
Being able to see the future
Being cursed to always arrive in the subway just as the train is leaving - that'd be so bad you guys.
Where would you like to live?
Boston, MA
Denver, CO
Portland, ME - or Portland, OR - I don't mind which.
Washington, DC
Who is your ally?
Dr. Craig Venter, the geneticist
Tom Steyer, the environmentalist
William Shakespeare, for he is the original and best writer.
My cat is my ally.
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Have you ever planted a tree?
Yes, in my garden
Yes, as part of a project
Yes, in college when I volunteered one time.
No, but I would like to - trees are cool.
Do you finish what you start?
Always
I not only do, I help others do it too.
Not always, but when I do, boy, I really do.
Nah
Where would you like to work, ideally?
A lab in Cambridge (Boston or the British one, they're both great)
Among nature, restoring mangrove swamps and setting up solar farms
A garret in Paris, writing
Someplace with beanbag chairs - they just look so comfy.
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