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The Whole Earth is Back!

My wife is holding our first daughter, as we take a sunset ride over the hay field on a sled pulled by Sue & Sal, our matched Percherons. When we were Back-to-the-land hippies, this was our Bible. The Whole Earth Catalog has been saved on the internet. Whole Earth Index

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What To Do About Space Aliens

Suppose we are contacted by Aliens? Should we keep quiet or answer back?

3 Body Problem: is the universe really a ‘dark forest’ full of hostile aliens in hiding? Published: April 3, 2024 11:51am EDT Author Disclosure statement Tony Milligan does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment. Partners King’s…

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Chri$tma$ Tree$

Oh, Christmas tree: The economics of the US holiday tree industry Published: December 6, 2023 2:41pm EST Authors Jay L. ZagorskyClinical Associate Professor of Markets, Public Policy and Law, Boston University Patrick AbouchalacheLecturer in Strategy and Innovation, Boston Univ Christmas today is a big business, and one part of that is the multibillion-dollar business of selling Christmas…

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How We Die Has Changed

A few things – the number of transportation deaths per 100k people was 20% higher in 2000 vs 2020. – Suicides have gone up, but have always hovered around the transportation rate, so it didn’t take much to overtake it – Fentanyl scourge is China’s revenge for the Opium wars- cancer treatments have Improved

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Kids, Grandma and Grandpa are here

Thanx to Bob Bopp for sharing this gem

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25 Psychological Biases that Influence your Decision-Making

Here’s an overview of 25 psychological biases with a short explanation of each. Confirmation Bias – We interpret new information as confirmation of our existing beliefs. Availability Bias – We rely on information that comes to our mind easily/the quickest. Action Bias – We favor action over inaction. That’s why we sell or buy prematurely. Overconfidence – We overestimate our own knowledge and…

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How I try to stay informed...

Since the news business has changed from reporting to profits, keeping eyeballs is what it is all about.  Fox found this out after they accurately reported that Trump was projected to lose Arizona. Tucker Carlson then ranted about how their viewership was going down, along with the stock price with which he was richly compensated. He understood that their viewers were  there to hear what they…

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Why the Megalodon Shark went Extinct

Published: June 20, 2022 8.29am EDT Author Michael Heithaus Imagine traveling back in time and observing the oceans of 5 million years ago. As you stand on an ancient shoreline, you see several small whales in the distance, gliding along the surface of an ancient sea. Suddenly, and without warning, an enormous creature erupts out of the depths. With its massive jaws, the monster crushes one…

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Will the Server Farms of today turn into Server Cities to supply the Fifth Industrial Age’s insatiable drive for more computing power? Or will it be like the Main Frame Computer being overtaken by the PC? ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Glen Beck (background) and Betty Snyder (foreground) program the ENIAC in building 328 at the Ballistic…

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Feel Hot? Blame a Volcano

NPR chose today to follow-up on a story that literally blew up on Jan. 20, 2022 when the underwater eruption of Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha‘apai sent megatons of water vapor into the stratosphere, contributing to an increase in global warming over the next 5 years. TONGA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY TEAM, WIKIMEDIA COMMONS (CC BY 3.0) NPR picked up on the story today https://whttp://NPR picked up on the story…

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See What Happens When Barbie and Oppenheimer Run Into AI

You want to see why the writers and actors are on strike? Because they have seen the future and they are not in it. This Barbie/Oppenheimer trailer was all made with AI tools that are available to the Public. Yes some of them require subscriptions, but the fees are nominal. That’s how I mad this hot date night for them. Now it is time for your feature Trailer…

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Actually It Was This Hot 175,000 Years Ago

Published: July 21, 2023 8.28am EDT in The Conversation How I imagined life was like the last it was this warm, with the help of AI Author Darrell Kaufman, Paleoclimate Scientist, receives funding from the US National Science Foundation. As scorching heat grips large swaths of the Earth, a lot of people are trying to put the extreme temperatures into context and asking: When was it ever this…

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You won't believe what it takes to make ink by hand

Cheap ink was made by mixing burnt sheep’s wool with water. But high quality Sumi ink is used for calligraphy. Sumi is made from the soot of pine branches selected from trees in the beautiful groves on the mountainsides close to Nara and Suzuka. These two regions of Japan are prized for the highest quality ink. In harmony with the environment, Master Sumi Ink artisans create ink from the purest,…

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This would be the Story of the Century...

I was once fortunate enough, over dinner, to sit next to Dr. Pippa Milgram’s father, who had been an White House advisor to multiple Presidents. On that basis, I have been following his equally talented daughter. Her pedigree has given her access to many in-the-know. Just over a year ago, she drew my attention to the UAP (UFO) inquiries bubbling up; which have since burst into the public’s eye,…

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What if We Had Built But Not Dropped The Bomb?

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If Barbie and Ken were in the Soviet Union

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The Pentagon is no longer the world's largest building.

This picture is the Pentagon under construction in 1942. Since then it had held the record for the world’s largest building. A $338 million building in India, for their diamond trade,now holds the distinction. Click the link below to be taken to a video about this… https://www.cnn.com/videos/architecture/2023/07/05/india-largest-building-surat-diamond-borse-orig.cnn