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10,000 Year Clock Begins Construction Thanks to $42 Million from Amazon’s CEO | Singularity Hub

This is a great project! I’m glad to see it moving forward. I first heard about it from a TED talk that I quickly favorited. I hope to see more projects like this that leave a lasting legacy of our time for future generations.

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It is also of great benefit for us now by allowing visitors to think about time on a longer scale. For me, it has a calming effect when I think about people, aliens, or sentient technology 10,000 years from now imagining what life was like in my lifetime. It’s an exciting time to be alive!

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Bilingualism May Boost Your Brain and Stall Alzheimer’s Symptoms - Lifehacker

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I’ve been thinking about learning Mandarin, and this gives me even more reason to do so! Though, I know it’s really hard for English speakers to learn.

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In thirty to forty years…

In thirty to forty years, the biosphere will either be so radically altered that most life currently sustained by it will be dead/dying OR humans will learn to live sustainably and the biosphere will be on the path to recovery.

I think most people are becoming aware of the problem we face and want to help, but don’t know how or feel like it’s just too big a problem for anything they could do to matter. That’s the kind of thinking that will lead to disaster.

We need to take action now before it’s too late, and to do that we need lots of voices to tell our leaders what to do. But people lead busy lives, and the biosphere doesn’t have the time remaining for change to occur as it has in the past through revolt and revolution.

Fortunately as a consumer powered society, we each have a hand in producing that power. This is one small effort that really can influence the path of progress. Vote with your wallet.

With every purchase we make, we are voicing approval for more of that item to be manufactured or more of that service to be provided. If enough of us choose products that are sustainably made or services that are sustainably rendered, then those sustainable processes will win out and future generations of humans, plants, and animals will thank us.

Happy shopping, choose wisely.

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Dakar Rally 2010

Now this is racing! 9,000 Km through South America with every obstacle nature can throw at them. Imagine driving off a cliff like these guys in their BMW rally car! Wow, that’ll get your stomach!


BMW’s driver France’s Stephane Peterhansel and co-driver Jean-Paul Cottret cross a valley during the seventh stage of the Argentina-Chile Dakar Rally 2010 between Iquique and Antofagasta, Chile, Friday, Jan. 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

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