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...centuries, Europeans believed that all swans were white - until black swans were discovered in Australia. A possibly minor moment in ornithology, but one that for Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a former trader turned philosopher, perfectly illustrates how poorly our past experience of the world can prepare us for sudden, unexpected, epochal events. His 2007 book, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, gave rise to a new name for these moments, both positive black swans (the rise of the Internet) and negative ones (the 9/11 attacks). Taleb has argued that much of the recent market turmoil has been...
...This is a unique moment in which we have to do something unprecedented in favor of the survival of our human civilization,” Gore said. “If we are to accept that goal, we must find ways to make better use of the knowledge produced in universities...and supply their best and most recent conclusions as a basis for decision making...
...ridden into battle and can’t quite seem to return home even all these years later. He knows he’ll never be able to explain the entirety of his experience, so he doesn’t even try. Instead, he limits his focus to one moment, one person, one tool of war. In the process, he manages to say something greater. By looking at individual causes and experiences, he is able to bring a fresh perspective to the desire...
...like intersection of the blue-striped tankers. Our concern, naturally and immediately, is with Bardot, whose head hangs over the side door, propped against the truck’s scaffold, neck craned out like a broken Barbie with a thin trail of blood running down her back. In that moment, Godard commits a cardinal sin of storytelling: he has made the viewer fall in love with a character beyond all reason, and, with just as little reason, rips her apart like a paper doll.But the dichotomy created in this moment—that of beauty in life contrasted with beauty...
...qualified to be president. While the debate didn’t devolve into character attacks, there was plenty of disagreement among participants. Dasher, an Obama supporter, and Cavedon, a McCain fan, disagreed on almost every issue. “I think Matt’s hand went up the moment Grant started talking,” Lomazoff said at one point. Later in the debate, Cavedon prefaced one of his responses with, “I wholeheartedly agree with Grant for one of the first times.” Lomazoff said there was “a manifest respect?...