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“I often learn about myself or humans from closely observing animals. Today, I was witness to a situation within a clade of around 23 Canada Geese. What I learned was simple: stress and aggression can easily become contagious in groups. One gander usually begins...

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“Stars usually form and have long, intimate relation with a number of planets. Planets, however, do not appear to make stars, and only rarely relate with more than one with any degree of intimacy.” — infraheard

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“Karl Popper’s Paradox of Tolerance: “The paradox states that if a society is tolerant without limit, their ability to be tolerant will eventually be seized or destroyed by the intolerant. Popper came to the seemingly paradoxical conclusion that in...

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Tonight, Ladies and Gentlemen, we explore what happens when an entire nation takes a bizarre turn and finds itself in terrain as impossible as it is bizarre… sometimes reality wildly exceeds our fictions, and the people find that they have moved, as a union,...

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“It’s almost like something invented an animal so dangerous that, in order to destroy itself, it first had to finish off the terrestrial ecologies.” — an a i

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“Somewhere in that cage you might have an open door you do not yet recognize.” — an intelligence agent