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Something I wrote for something that I somewhat like

The concept of "Too big to fail" reminds me of the game Jenga. The basic principle: you question the nature of the system, you question your ability to pull out a piece without having to watch the tower crumble and you question the ability of your opponent to do the same. It might be an oversimplification on my part to claim that Jenga is a game of risk that focuses on the possibility of negative outcomes. Each action is an attempt to prevent collective demises. That of mine in losing and that of everyone else's in the game coming to a jarring halt.

I think it is important to consider and question both the possibility of success and failure. Both paths give us the opportunity to reflect on what went wrong and how we could have fixed it.

To quote Yoda: "In a dark place we find ourselves, and a little more knowledge lights our way." and then to quote him again "So certain were you. Go back and closer you must look." I have cited these two quotes to shed light on the fact that the act (or art) of questioning is aimed at seeking information one lacks. It gives us the ability to ask about our failures why they happened, why we took certain risks or why we didn't.

Referring back to the Jenga analogy the worst outcome is that the tower no longer stands and we have one winner. The result of this failure is the revelation that we don't really have a sound understanding of architecture. But more importantly thinking about this possible failure allows us to consider if we could have used a different strategy to win this? Is this a game of luck or could better tact have let it go on forever?

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Der Moment When you start denken auf  zwei sprachen  at the same Zeit

A T-shirt I saw

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Musical infographics. 

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YAS!

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Slightly Improved

#Task 2 print("Let me find that A for you :)") cities =[] entries = "" while True:    if entries=="quit":        print("\n","Okay Thanks - Please wait for awesomeness! ")        break    else:        entries = input("Enter a city or quit: ").lower()        cities.append(entries)

cities.remove("quit") print("\n","These are the cities you listed: ", cities)

a_City =[] no_a_City = []

for city in cities:    location = city.find("a")    if city[location] =="a":            a_City.append(city)

   else:        no_a_City.append(city)

print("\n","With a: ", a_City) print("\n","Without a: ", no_a_City)

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Only took forever. BUT. I did it. All by my lonesome.

#Task 2

#Sort for the thing with the “a”

cities = ["New York", "Shanghai", "Munich", "Tokyo", "Dubai", "Mexico City", "São Paulo", "Hawaii"]

a_City =[ ]

no_a_City = [ ]

for city in cities:

   location = city.find("a")

   if city[location] =="a":

           a_City.append(city)

   else:

       no_a_City.append(city)

print(a_City)

print(no_a_City)

Output: 

a_city = ['Shanghai', 'Dubai', 'São Paulo', 'Hawaii']

no_a_city = ['New York', 'Munich', 'Tokyo', 'Mexico City']

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In support of plastic free July (Day 1) - re-cycleops

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Cambodia

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Proof of kayaking (a biathlon actually )

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acquiesce - accept something reluctantly but without protest.

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Das Nichts nichtet-"the nothing nothings"

Quiddities: An Intermittently Philosophical Dictionary

?? - **Explanation to follow** - ??

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Rebus Principle

"A rebus is a message spelt out in pictures that represents sounds rather than the things they are pictures of. For example the picture of an eye, a bee, and a leaf can be put together to form the English rebus meaning “I be-lieve”, which has nothing to do with eyes, bees or leaves."

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Dear intelligent but non-specialist individuals,

As I wander this unconventional world I find myself invariably embracing conventional wisdom. I suppose like my peers I have often come to believe that ‘meaning’ is intrinsic to verbal language and that practices such as deconstruction reveal the opacity of colloquialisms and therefore their lack of merit. This idea has often confounded my perception as we continually blame the inherent inaccuracy of semantics for the monopolization of power in our society. However, the rules that govern language were not discovered by our species, they were invented. The misconstrued convention that undermines the significance of various colloquial terms has polarized our world-view causing us to ignore the fact that it is through linguistic means that power is assigned.

If you place a cat in a box with a radioactive atom that may or may not decay, the cat is both dead and alive. Yet, if it is dead perhaps we could claim (through an oversimplification), “Curiosity killed the cat”. An Idiom is a manner of expression whose meaning is not derived from the meaning of its constituents. As such the simplest of ideas can be distorted within the context of different cultures and societies. Conventional wisdom regarding language and idioms does not account for this confusion. What is more bizarre is the conventional wisdom contained within these idioms, which dictate so many of our decisions. Tracing back to the idiom mentioned before, the phrase “curiosity killed the cat” advises people not to be too inquisitive, to stray from impulses that could leave us in an unpleasant situation. Society increasingly informs us that ignorance and disingenuity make it much less likely for people to get hurt.  

As a teenager that enjoys reading and watching TV as much as missing countless shots in a game of basketball, I have always been stuck between wanting to go everywhere and not wanting to leave the couch. While my definition of curiosity might not be that of early humans that were propelled by their intuitive nature to venture across oceans or that of the Einstein’s of the world who single handedly changed our notion of the way things work, I am plagued by the need to know. While curiosity often means taking risks that our rational mind advises against, in many cases it might just enable the cat to theorize special relativity.