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Summary: What makes a new theory interesting? If it contradicts your assumptions, it's interesting. If it reaffirms your assumptions, it's not. Here is a list of sociology papers which the author considers interesting, with some historical context for each.

At the forefront of technology we occasionally get a chance to steer the language around a new concept while it's still pliable. A bit of imagination at the right time has given us variacs, dynamite, scuba gear, and lasers.

In that spirit, I hope you'll join me in pronouncing the word bioink as /'bjɔɪŋk/, with a single syllable, like boink.