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The Big Bang 💥
The Big Bang expansion happened from a point called a singularity that is almost infinitely dense, and almost infinitely hot, and yet it occupies no space and no time, as we know those things. The poi
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AK-47 🔫
The Russian AK-Avtomat Kalashnikova-was designed by Mikhail Kalashnikov in the 1940s, in response to German armament innovations. Toward the end of the Second World War, German army generals disobeyed
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We're motivated by the drive for...
Freud said we're motivated by the drive for sex. Adler disagreed, and said that it was the drive for power. Then Victor Frankl, he said sex and power were important drives, but when you can't get eith
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The measure of the metre 📏
After the revolution in France, the scientists and government officials decided to put some sense into the system of measuring and weighing things. They introduced a decimal system based on a unit of
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Why we crave love...
One of the reasons why we crave love, and seek it so desperately, is that love is the only cure for loneliness, and shame, and sorrow. But some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only lonelines
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Pain and suffering
Pain and suffering are connected, but they are not the same thing. Pain can exist without suffering, and it is also possible to suffer without feeling pain. The difference between them is that what we
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The ocean in us 🌊
'But in a way you can say that after leaving the sea, after all those millions of years of living inside of the sea, we took the ocean with us. When a woman makes a baby she gives it water, inside her
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Who runs the world?!
The world is run by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards. There are only one million of them, the truly evil men, in the whole world. The very rich and the very
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The way the universe works 🌌✨
The history of the universe is a history of motion. The universe, as we know it, in this one of its many lives, began in an expansion that was so big, and so fast that we can talk about it, but we can
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