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Understanding the concept of the self
The importance of living in the present moment
The illusion of control
Talk about once-in-a-lifetime chances! And this gets even more impressive, considering the next lesson.
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Let’s reconsider the point above. Humans not falling prey to all the dangers in the world pales in comparison to all the dangers that threaten earth’s existence from the outside.
There are around 1,000,000,000 asteroids flying around space close to the earth, and about 10% of the...
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With all this expanding, how wide is the universe today? About 100 billion light years – that’s the distance light can travel in a year times 100 BILLION. And light is fast . It travels 300,000 km (or 186,000 miles) ...
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The 18 year old, who thought science classes in high school were boring, the 29 year old engineer, who knows a lot about his particular field, but could use an update on science in general, and anyone who doesn’t think life is awesome at least once a week.
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All of a sudden, it explodes , splattering all of its contents into the void. This moment is known as the big bang . When it happened, the entire universe was created in the time it takes you to prepare a sandwich . Im...
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What a brilliant book to learn a little about all the core pillars that make up our existence and the universe we live in. A Short History Of Nearly Everything should be obligatory reading in all s...
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A Short History Of Nearly Everything tries to explain (almost) all of it. At least as much as we know. Bill Bryson has done a tremendous job ...
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"If you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive but all of which had once been you."
-Bill Bryson
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What’s the most fascinating thing about our world to you? Is it space, other planets, galaxies far far away ? The depth of the ocean and the mysterious, alien-like creatures that live down there? The
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If you think about how easy it is to die, it becomes clear how frail human life actually is. I mean, you fall down a couple stairs, hit your head, and that’s it. You dive too deep in the sea, climb too high on a mountain or get stung by the wrong plant or insect, and you’re done.
But an ev...
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A Short History Of Nearly Everything explains everything we’ve learned about our world and the universe so far, including how they formed, how we learned to make sense of time, space and gravity...
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A singularity is defined as a moment in which nothing is defined and everything is unpredictable . It’s a massive inflection point. When scientists talk about the ...
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