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Today the World Game continues to be played across universities and is currently being further developed by o.s.Earth. John Hunter, a public school teacher in Virginia, carries the torch lit by Fuller by engaging his grade-school students in playing the World Peace Game, which he describes in a TED Talk.34 In a similar but more far-reaching
Marina Gorbis • The Nature of the Future
Jabotinsky and Trumpeldor worked with Patterson (who later described Trumpeldor as “the bravest man I ever knew”) to form the Zion Mule Corps.
Daniel Gordis • Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn
“Some wars are necessary evils,” he once wrote, “but Vietnam was stupid.”
Steven Heller • Design Literacy: Understanding Graphic Design
Vannevar Bush, who ran the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development during World War II, controversially suggested the medical advances that came about from the war—most notably the production and use of antibiotics—may have saved more lives than were lost during the war.
Morgan Housel • Same as Ever: Timeless Lessons on Risk, Opportunity and Living a Good Life
Fighting and winning that war had taught Washington the art of projecting power without claiming colonies. New technologies helped it achieve, as a writer in the forties put it, “domination without annexation.” Those technologies laid the foundation for our world today. It’s a far cry from the world Teddy Roosevelt envisioned, in which the strong v
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as the bubble grows, it becomes an increasingly pure bet on a revolution
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Condorman • A Conceptual View of a UAP Reverse Engineering Program
Was another president going to take the country into yet another war by the back door?