The Best Way to Learn Online? Be a Lurker | WIRED

The internet has made me immune to a coherent narrative. In order to truly understand anything, I've taught myself to read networks.

Save this story Save this story Lately I have been trying to get through the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's big report, the one that came out late last year, called “ Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis .” It's a challenge because (a) I must, um, learn as I go, and (b) the PDF is nearly 4,000 pages of aggregated, footnoted, illustrated scientific consensus about weather. That's too much consensus; everyone agrees . Yet obviously they—the hundreds of IPCC-affiliated scientists who compiled this behemoth— want us to read it, right? The thing exists, so I should at lea

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