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The Great Filter: Humanity's Final Exam
The Great Filter is the collective events the prevent the formation of living community from becoming immortal. Humanity is now wise enough to ask the questions; is humanity on track to pass the Great Filter? And are there any other civilizations nearby that succeeded?
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Why Cancel Culture Sucks
Blacklisting, boycotting, cancel culture have a long history and social media has moved it into overdrive. But it has some problems. There is no opportunity to defend oneself. Punishment is not proportionate. Often the wrong persons are impacted. And others.
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Everything We Don't Know
Here is a meandering stroll through questions we ask but struggle to answer. Sometimes things are just hard to define like music. Sometimes it's hard to categorize things like, is music an invention or a discovery. And sometimes we just wonder 'Why?" with no foundation to offer an answer.
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Origami: The Art of Paper Folding
Beloved art form of Japan, origami transforms a single sheet of paper into three dimensional figures of seemingly unlimited complexity by doing nothing more than folding it. This seemingly archaic technique has become an essential part of our technological society in fields as diverse as microsurgery and space exploration.
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The Black Swan Theory
A black swan refers to an unexpected, radical event that runs totally contrary to past experience. When it occurs it has an exceptionally high impact. Following a black swan event it is common to take precautions against a recurrence. But those precautions eventually lead to complacency.
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How you're going to die..
Statistically you are more likely to die of suicide than murder. If you are murdered it's more likely by someone you know. If you're shot with a gun you most likely shot yourself. Then there's drug overdoses, obesity, diabetes, accident, cancer, heart disease. Here's how likely each is to get you. In the mean time, make the most of your life.
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Why your passwords suck..
The most common passwords are common. Which means lots of people use them and they are easily guessed so they provide virtually no security. Is you're favorite password among them. Here's the list. And if you share and reuse that password you're at even greater risk.
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