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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The world’s going to change climatically. We just want to control the change. We want to have a high quality of life for billions of people as we pass through this era.
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The strange thing about grinding that might surprise many people is that you can grind things and shape them using materials that are generally somewhat softer than the thing you’re grinding and shaping.
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In another couple centuries I’m sure that worldview won’t even exist. There’s no evidence for it.
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That’s what makes a human a human, if we store information outside our bodies.
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Along with the evidence of common sense, researchers have proven scientifically that humans are all one people. We’re a lot like dogs in that regard. If a Great Dane interacts (can we say interact?) with a Chihuahua, you get a dog.
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Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.
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Evolution is a theory, and it’s a theory that you can test. We’ve tested evolution in many ways. You can’t present good evidence that says evolution is not a fact.
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I speak with dogs frequently. They don’t really talk, but I feel they’re communicating.
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I understand that you take the Bible, as written in English, translated many many times over the last three millennia as to be a more accurate, more reasonable assessment of the natural laws we see around us than what I and everybody in here can observe. That, to me, is unsettling.
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There are just two people entitled to refer to themselves as “we”; one is the editor and the other is the fellow with a tapeworm.
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Some of the most wonderful aspects and consequences of evolution have been discovered only recently.
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From an evolutionary standpoint you can’t just wipe everything out and start over, and I don’t think you can do it in the school system either.
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The Big Bang banged, and for some reason we’re here. And that’s astonishing. And that we can understand that, that’s the most astonishing.
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I used to play ultimate Frisbee, and I just got a reputation for making popcorn at parties. I don’t mean to brag on myself, but I make the popcorn in the pot, and it comes out fine every time.
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Apparently there is redundancy in memory: You store the same memory in different parts of your brain for accessing at different speeds. That speed would depend on the frequency of use and the importance of the knowledge.
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