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(Adventure works in any strand—it calls to those who care more for living than for their lives.)


“Autocracy, it suggests, upturns the ‘naturalâ€� order of things and replaces reality with sham, undermining your trust in what you think you see.”
― Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
― Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World

“Many perceive global warming as a sort of moral and economic debt, accumulated since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution and now come due after several centuries. In fact, more than half of the carbon exhaled into the atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuels has been emitted in just the past three decades. Which means we have done as much damage to the fate of the planet and its ability to sustain human life and civilization since Al Gore published his first book on climate than in all the centuries—all the millennia—that came before.”
― The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
― The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

“You can do linear regression without thinking about whether the phenomenon you’re modeling is actually close to linear. But you shouldn’t.”
― How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
― How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking

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