We need a hypothesis that accounts for both the fine-tuning of physics for life but also the arbitrariness and gratuitous suffering we find in the world.
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If argumentation led to nothing, it would soon be thrown into the evolutionary dustbin.
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Ginni Rometty shares lessons in leadership learned during her 40 year tenure and recent executive position as former CEO of IBM.
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Successful alpha leadership is more about caring and healing than dog-eat-dog supremacy.
Nobody knows where the word “penguin” comes from.
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How one man’s divine dream became a poultry-shaped reality.
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Fossil Cycad National Monument held America’s richest deposit of petrified cycadeoid plants, until it didn’t.