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Gotta be the coin flipping scene from No Country for Old Men - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqMdQBox15s&ab_channel=TheTogoPogo The intense and suspenseful nature, as well as its symbolic significance within the context of the film is why this is my favorite. Javier Bardem's calm yet menacing ...

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This scene from The Shining gives me chills every time I watch.

A year back, the max AI I knew was essay checker and spell checks which had commonly crept into daily internet life. But generative AI and ChatGPT has just been unprecedented. Who thought you could give prompts and have an entire essay and short story written. However, the usage of AI should be rais...

I'm a few pages through Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish . I was captivated towards his works after reading the power-knowledge relation theory. Foucault has been one of those writers who changed the way I think and question. He has an inverted alternate angle to the daily events that happen ...

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That was a lot to take in. I had never heard of the Sophia mythology. My grandfather used to always speak of math, philosophy, deduction, logic and metaphysics. These last few months we have been remembering him and all his conversations. My nephew took a class in Deductive Reasoning in Math , but i...

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I was reading about changing structure to change colors using the peacock tail as a biomimicry example. As more of these technologies are introduced, physics textbooks need to be updated with such stuff. This is exciting for younger people and keeps the subject fresh.

Sometimes extreme joy and sorrow just burst through. The stoic can hold it in, but occasionally it bursts through the cracks.

Talk talk and more talk. Between the genders. And a genuine interest in healing. Secondly the convincing can come from within. Also kids from high school on must be introduced to some introduction to sociology . Kids need to look around and understand the world they live in. As they have more and mo...

James Bond was a character created at a certain time, for a certain audience. It worked. For creative people, reach is important. As times change, audiences change and then, the characters change to appeal to the new audience. Movies need an audience, so the the movie-makers tweak character, plot li...

I look forward to a lot of new learning.