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What would you do if you thought the world was going to end? How would you live? That’s the question Adri, Kelsey, and I have been asking ourselves. I’ve been really existentially depressed lately and thought I should finally talk publicly about it. Why have I been depressed? I think humanity is going to be …
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The Bunny “Eight villages in our district have had significant to total structural damage from mudslides. Furthermore, the weather conditions conducive to mudslides have only been increasing in the past decade.” Professor Cristian Avendaño clicked the button and a list of temperatures, wind conditions, and annual rainfall popped up on the screen. He looked every …
Our biology affects our thinking more than our thinking affects our biology. Grandpa Grandpa always liked to tell you about his glory days, as a schoolboy and when he was a young buck in the Navy. “I was so rowdy as a youngster. The dumb things us boys would feud about… mostly girls,” he says, …