Two hundred years ago, Huth points out, any bumpkin farmer—even if they hadn’t gone to school and learned the earth rotates on an axis—would know that it is warmer in the summer because the earth is getting more direct light. “All empiricism has to start with stuff that is immediately palpable to you,” Huth told me. “The march of education—especially in the sciences—has been divorced from reality and I think that’s where you have to start.”
