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…hysiology, global seismic monitoring and philosophical foundations. He also works for the United Nations, developing a new global seismic monitoring system for the nuclear-test-ban treaty. His current concerns include the threat of autonomous weapons and the long-term future of...

…d himself Kirtanananda Swami, or just Swami, when he founded a Hare Krishna community in West Virginia, which he called New Vrindaban. He became the absolute ruler of this cultish community, whose members testified that he exercised total control over all aspects of community lif...

…any infinities. In fact, there are a greater than infinite number of them! He did this through a rigorous analysis of a new branch of mathematics called set theory. Set theory is now the cornerstone of modern mathematics, but it was treated with suspicion in Cantor's time. Rathe...

…o. Adaptation is the human specialty. Its what gets us through the day. Innovation is adaptation that happens to become new norms. It started leaving a record of embodied growth about 50,000 years ago. That doubled pace about 400 years ago. The costs of being human are the same f...

…mily issues today - mother 102 in May.) RADICAL BREAKTHROUGHS - Initial Revisions (working model for discussion, red is new) Expand and Modify Mathematical Breakthrough episodes 1. Mathematics and Truth / Overview / Show Excitement/Importance 2. Mathematical Fields / Diverse New...

…mily issues today - mother 102 in May.) RADICAL BREAKTHROUGHS - Initial Revisions (working model for discussion, red is new) Expand and Modify Mathematical Breakthrough episodes 1. Mathematics and Truth / Overview / Show Excitement/Importance 2. Mathematical Fields / Diverse New...

…ng. American hedge funders, in their secre support of China against the interests of the American middle class, wet the new fifth column. How much of this did Trump understand? How much was Trum committed to the ideas that moved Bannon and, by some emotion osmosis, the base? Tru...

…n lly wrote: ICYMI My occasional roundup of interesting links and writing I've shared - in case you missed them. :) New and Notable * we are thrilled to welcome Sarah Tavel to Greylock Partners. LINK<http://reidhoffman.us7.list- manage. com/track/click?u=3a27d4e452178cc8fF19...

…medical student, a Korean American named Jim Yong Kim... Farmer offered what for Jim Kim was a convincing vision of the new organization. The reality was less impressive -- a charity with a board of advisers and no hired staff... They talked about issues such as political correct...

… earlier age— as by their modern-sounding insights. I detect that same doubleness—the zig-zag origami folds of old and new—in Norbert Wiener’s classic The Human Use of Human Beings. First published in 1950 and revised in 1954, the book is in many ways extraordinarily prescient....

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…tive order on regulatory review. The first amendment would require agencies specifically to assess potential effects of new regulations on job creation-so focusing in on jobs-and to consider market-based and nongovernmental alternatives to regulation. This would broaden the scope...

…atantly ignored last night, I was out to piss him off so I didn’t remove my shirt. I put on my headphones and before I knew it had fallen into a deep slumber from my self-made therapeutic cocktail, the only way I knew how to cope with the emotional turmoil on the inside. Despera...

…wo parties running their ceremonious and seemingly illogical nominating process to select a candidate? (Why do Iowa and New Hampshire play such outsized roles? What kind of small-d democratic process relies on superdelegates?) The system failed in 2016, with both parties producin...

…“tape” could move either left or right and was both interpreted (transcribed) as the instructions (translation) for the new “machine” being built and then copied (replicated)—with the new copy being placed inside the new machine for further reproduction. Francis Crick and James W...