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The Florian Haarschnitt Center for Advanced Thought presents
Futurismology: What Will Life Be Like In Fifty Years?
We assembled some of the most progressive thinkers of our time at a retreat in the Swiss Alps. Sequestered far from interruption, our “tank of thinkers” spent two weeks debating the likely course of events over the next half-century. Pausing [...]

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(SPOILER WARNING: If you do not wish to know whether there are any spoilers in this post, do not read the next sentence.)

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Since oar first met wave, we have looked to the night sky for guidance. Without the stars, navigation upon the open seas would never have been possible, and the horizon would have remained a distant dream. No wonder those ancient seafarers imbued the constellations with such rich histories. They were trusted friends and advisors. Different [...]

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There are certain things we learn as kids that are supposed to be ironclad. They are our bedrock, the handful of concrete things we can understand in a world controlled by grown-ups.

Red-orange-yellow-green-blue-purple
E-G-B-D-F (lines), F-A-C-E (spaces)
Fifty states, thirteen colonies
Seven continents
Cats chase mice, dogs chase cats
Cooties are fatal

And many more, including my [...]

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Last week, a group a scientists announced at a conference in France that they have discovered a trio of super-Earths a relatively short distance from our solar system. This is exciting news for the astronomy community, who pretty much have to kill one another in cold blood to make headlines these days—and even then it [...]

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(EDIT October 2008: The library of image thumbnails did not port from the old site, but that link will work just fine.)

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