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Exploring the Synapses that Form Our World
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Sustainability: Go Big or Go Home Fernando Garcia
I really like HEB, the Texas grocery store, but one thing that grinds my gears is their incorrigible reluctance to use the old shopping bags that I bring to save plastic. One day, the cashier placed my groceries in the bag I brought – then before I could stop her, placed that bag in a new shopping bag. Of course, saving the individual bag’s 5.5 grams / 0.19 ounces of polyethylene would do nothing to mitigate the harmful effects of the plastic bag industry’s use of energy and material. Nor would the ⅓ or ½ kilogram I might save in a good year. However, if as a society we tried to reform our habits, what kind of positive effect might we have?
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Podcast: Quick Hits, May 2018 Ethan Swan and Fernando Garcia
Ethan and Fernando debut a new style of pod: just chatting about what’s on their minds.
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Podcast: Book Club: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Ethan Swan, Greg Moore, and Phil Anderson
Ethan, Greg, and guest Phil review Yuval Noah Harari’s New York Times Bestseller.
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From the Ground Up Matt Gillham
Well, I’ve missed the one-month mark and the two-month mark in Colombia, but yes, I’m Alive and Will Still Write Here. There have been, of course, several things I’ve noticed about my time in Colombia. Here’s one: I shouldn’t try to start a bunch of new things at the same time. But alas, here I am…
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Web Speed Trends Ethan Swan
What is the meaning of life? While the last generation posited 42 and considered the issue settled, I beg to differ. I am a millenial, and as such, the only things that I believe to be important are avocado toast and wifi speeds. Since data analysis on the former seems impractical, I recently put some time into answering a few questions about the latter using nothing but basic computer and statistics knowledge.
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Don't You See the Starlight, Starlight / Don't You Dream Impossible Things Fernando Garcia
Nine years from now, to the day, where will you be and what will you be doing? Scientists and engineers staked $700 million on the belief that they could answer that question precisely – within a few minutes – for a small spacecraft 3 billion miles away.
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