Ardal O'Hanlon: What problem are you still trying to solve?

The question

What problem are you still trying to solve?

Originally asked

Lifehacker, to people about their working day, How I Work

Lifehacker repeatedly used this exact closing prompt in its named How I Work questionnaire.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Ardal O'Hanlon

Irish comedian and actor

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

I was always a watcher.

The Guardian, The Guardian, 27 December 2013 source ↗

Others on this question

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Ada Yonath Structural biologist; Nobel laureate in Chemistry, 2009

Try to make better antibiotics. I’m not sure we can cure everything, that we can win the game against bacteria, but we can try to control it, to make the appearance of resistance more controllable. We can look for new antibiotics, not overuse antibiotics, not use antibiotics where they are not needed. If possible, if somebody has an idea for something completely new, I would love that.

Recorded Eugene P. Wigner Distinguished Lecture, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 21 June 2015 source ↗

Mohamed ElBaradei Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, 1997-2009; Nobel Peace Prize 2005

Well, I think the most single important issue today is to make sure that nuclear weapons will not proliferate beyond the eight, or nine, countries that already have nuclear weapons; and absolutely make sure that none of these nuclear weapons or this nuclear material will fall into the hands of any extremist or terrorist group, because if they got hold of this material, they would use it. That would be the beginning of the end for civilisation as we know it.

Recorded Nobel Prize telephone interview, 7 October 2005, 7 October 2005 source ↗

Ursula K. Le Guin Novelist, poet and essayist

For a serious writer seriously concerned about any moral, social, political, environmental issues, it is a major concern. I’ve been wrestling with it ever since I was 18.

Recorded iurgi, Book View Café, 5 October 2015 source ↗

Ahmed Zewail Chemist; Nobel laureate in Chemistry, 1999