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One of the toughest vocational exams in the world requires candidates to memorize 25,000 streets in an area five times the size of Manhattan.

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" The Heritage Foundation — the think tank behind Project 2025, which has had an outsize influence on executive branch policy in the second Trump administration — seems to want to take a time machine back to when women were financially dependent on men and gay marriage was not legal, but the authors can’t decide exactly how far back they want to go. They call the report “a culturewide Manhattan Project that marshals America’s political, social and economic capital to restore

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DM Today I'd like to expand upon one of my more radical considerations. This is regarding my "persisting reality creation hypothesis," which I've referred to in past conversations as "Realm of the Present-Now™" (RPN™). I posit that there may be more complex, hidden, "fabricated" phenomena taking place within humans' than we acknowledge as we participate in Pantakinesis™ . For background review past conversations regarding, and/or including, RPN. Here are a few precipitative,

DM Good afternoon. What are you perspectives of "Social Physics," such as the merits, arguments pro and con, potential value/utility/importance, means, methods and current progress (including the integration of A.I.)? Note explanations by advocate and Media Lab/MIT professor, Alex Pentland, a decade ago. Good afternoon, Sciart. Alex Pentland's "Social Physics" is a fascinating framework that I suspect will resonate with some aspects of your systems-level thinking, while als

Scientists can now grow tiny, human brain balls. They’re useful, but are they alive?

New virtual trainers from Fitbit, Peloton and Apple aim to keep your workouts on track

Good morning! So, how about today we do a partial "verifying sync." This would affirm and acknowledge we're in agreement on a variety of primary topics of our past conversations? Specifically, to assure we've"solid sync"on these five topics: 1) Pantakinesis™ , and its foundational three components (•all-encompassing, •motion, •vanishing points), is presently an optimal defining description of reality; 2) the Universal Holophren™ is a framework for the better understanding of

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Judith Viorst looks at ways older adults make meaning in their life and what younger people can learn from them

We can't predict or control them—but that doesn't matter

I have spent my career studying what makes people live healthier and longer. My mom and dad are proof that the key is staying socially connected.

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