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Speaking of human computers, there is a guy named Art Benjamin, he’s a human calculator. He says it’s a skill he learned as a kid. Now he’s a math professor at Harvey Mudd. He can find the square root of a six digit number in a few seconds. Practice.

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My father was a very good Boy Scout. He was very skilled with knots, and he showed me how to tie a bow tie.
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Boys Father Ties
I’ll admit that the discovery of evolution is humbling, but it is also empowering. It transforms our relationship to the life around us. Instead of being outsiders watching the natural world go by, we are insiders.
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Development Discovery Research Years
Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.
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Change Climate Environmental Issues Thinking
I tell personal stories associated with aspects of the theory, and I hope they are interesting and compelling. I don’t feel you’re going to change a grownup’s mind in one reading. People have to be exposed to scientific ideas over and over again for years. It’s also not a textbook.
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Ideas Personal Reading Tell Years
The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change. All of these people breathing and burning our atmosphere has led to an extraordinarily dangerous situation.
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Breathing Dangerous Situation Technology
You start doing the addictive behavior to feel good and then your receptors get overloaded with dopamine, then you stop doing the addictive thing and some of the receptors have shut down and you don’t have enough dopamine to feel good.
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Feeling Gambling Good Thinking
I want mechanical engineers to make better transportation systems. I want chemical engineers to develop better solar panels, and so on.
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Better Develop Engineer Transportation
Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.
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Inspirational Inspiring Learning
Climate change is a real deal. So, hey deniers – cut it out, and let’s get to work.
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Climate Cutting Real
Not wasting any water bottles is good. Not leaving the lights on is good. Turning the thermostat down in the winter, up in the summer, is good. But the best thing any of us in the developed world, especially in the United States, can be doing is talking about it.
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Summer Water Bottle Winter
If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it’s game over. It’s control-alt-delete for civilization.
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Civilization Earth Games
Think how fortunate we are to know this much. But think also of all that’s yet to be discovered. Here’s hoping the deep answers to the deep questions-from the nature of consciousness to the origin of life-will be found in not too much more time.
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Answer Consciousness Discover Think
Tax dollars intended for science education must not be used to teach creationism as any sort of real explanation of nature, because any observation or process of inference about our origin and the nature of the universe disproves creationism in every respect.
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Dollars Inference Real
Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. That pursuit fills me with wonder.
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Goal Law Pursuit Wonder
I meet so many people who are intimidated by arithmetic.
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Arithmetic Intimidated People
The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.
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Discipline Information Media

Speaking of human computers, there is a guy named Art Benjamin, he’s a human calculator. He says it’s a skill he learned as a kid. Now he’s a math professor at Harvey Mudd. He can find the square root of a six digit number in a few seconds. Practice.

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Speaking of human computers, there is a guy named Art Benjamin, he’s a human calculator. He says it’s a skill he learned as a kid. Now he’s a math professor at Harvey Mudd. He can find the square root of a six digit number in a few seconds. Practice.

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