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I just finished listening to this book (Hope for Cynics: The Surprising Science of Human Goodness by Jamil Zaki). Basically, it's an argument against cynicism (the modern version, not the ancient Greek one) by showing how cooperation and skeptical hope lead to much better outcomes and a more accurate view of other people, all backed up by studies and data (complete with an appendix rating the quality of the evidence for each claim). I particularly liked how he argues that the antidote to cynicism is not hope, but healthy skepticism and an openness to ideas, data, and trust.

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In 'Hope for Cynics,' researcher explores how seeing the good in others is good for you

At Stanford Social Neuroscience Laboratory, scientists have spent years studying kindness, connection and empathy. But those can all seem in short supply at a time of deep divisions. But the head of that lab offers a data-driven reason to be hopeful about each other and the future. Amna Nawaz...
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LeSamourai said:
I just finished listening to this book (Hope for Cynics: The Surprising Science of Human Goodness by Jamil Zaki). Basically, it's an argument against cynicism (the modern version, not the ancient Greek one) by showing how cooperation and skeptical hope lead to much better outcomes and a more accurate view of other people, all backed up by studies and data (complete with an appendix rating the quality of the evidence for each claim). I particularly liked how he argues that the antidote to cynicism is not hope, but healthy skepticism and an openness to ideas, data, and trust.

www.pbs.org

In 'Hope for Cynics,' researcher explores how seeing the good in others is good for you

At Stanford Social Neuroscience Laboratory, scientists have spent years studying kindness, connection and empathy. But those can all seem in short supply at a time of deep divisions. But the head of that lab offers a data-driven reason to be hopeful about each other and the future. Amna Nawaz...
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Thanks, added to my library wish list
 
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Amateur Mathematician Discovers the Largest Known Prime Number, With More Than 41 Million Digits

Called M136279841, the value belongs to a rare class of prime numbers called Mersenne primes and was found using a supercomputer system spread across 17 countries
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Called M136279841, the value belongs to a rare class of prime numbers called Mersenne primes and was found using a supercomputer system spread across 17 countries

Now, Luke Durant, a 36-year-old researcher and former employee of tech giant NVIDIA, has discovered the 52nd Mersenne prime, which also happens to be the largest prime number known to mathematicians: 2^136,279,841 minus one. This goliath number, dubbed M136279841, has 41,024,320 decimal digits. The feat, which beats out the previous record by 16 million digits, was announced in a statement by the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) on Monday.
 
Djxfactor511 said:
I read somewhere that we are due or overdue for a reversal of planetary polarity, so I wonder if this is that process starting up.
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Possibly, but only if this is a sign of it weakening verses just the wobble over time.

A sign that we are about to flip will include drastic weakening and multiple poles before it flips.

We do have an anomaly in the southern hemisphere already that is likely a bigger indicator that we are approaching a flip than the wobble of magnetic north.

The "anomaly" in the Southern Hemisphere magnetic field refers to the "South Atlantic Anomaly" (SAA), a region where the Earth's magnetic field is significantly weaker than normal, primarily located over South America and the southern Atlantic Ocean, allowing charged particles from the sun to dip closer to the Earth's surface than usual; this anomaly is growing and moving westward, raising concerns for satellite operations in the area.
 
November went down as being the second hottest November on record. This means that unless December goes down as one of the coldest Decembers on record, 2024 will go down as the hottest year on record continuing the trend of each year getting hotter.
 
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