> Linus Pauling won two Nobel Prizes, one in Chemistry and one in Peace, making him one of only five people to win the Peace Prize twice.

Pretty sure this is meant to say he’s one of five people to have won a Nobel prize twice.

I'm not sure Newton deserves shade for working on transmutation. The reason chemical reactions can't turn lead into gold was totally unknown at the time.

cognitive capacity is an engine, and switching gears can become difficult with the over focus on certain things and practices, such as cunning, which like self interest can become so dominant that other complexities become uninteresting, and that final objective of a conclusion, impossible.

I think I needed to hear this.

See also "Gell-Mann Amnesia"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#Gell-Mann_amn...

(I wish the source was otherwise, but I do think this is a true effect)