Year: 2021
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Dear reader from the future, It’s been more than a year since we’ve been living smaller lives. And yes, governments addressed the situation differently from one another. Some were successful, and some were not. But we shouldn’t totally blame them for the outcome of the rules they impose to keep the surge of cases from…
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I was feeding our chickens one afternoon, and if you haven’t been around chickens before, they clack while running to wherever the food is. Yes, they gather around the food and peck some of whatever they can get. But every time I toss the food around, one particular hen went berserk and chased everyone off.…
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“Read-and-write” neurotech implants are a reality. A device can be implanted in your brain that both “reads” your thoughts and feelings, and also “writes” new, artificial thoughts and memories directly into your head. The first successful read-and-write implant intercepts and records 80% of data sent to the brain’s hippocampus, giving users close-to-perfect recall of anything…
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Just because you are a part of a family doesn’t mean you’re having life easy. Easier must be. But easy? I don’t think so. Why would I say that? Because admit it or not, you’re still learning how to deal with everybody in the family. Even if you have the same upbringing or values, there…
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Even if you have the most cutting-edge technology in the palm of your hands, if you don’t know how to use it or maximize its potential, it becomes as common as any tool you have. You might have heard people who are already flourishing in their field tell you that, “What you have in your…
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As I was doing my daily Bible reading, I came across this story about how Jepthah went back to the essence of the conflict between Israel and its neighboring enemies. How often do we jump into a part of a dispute without knowing its roots, believing that what we have to say about it is…
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At one time or another, you’ve been fascinated by bubbles. Here now and poof! Gone. So you make them again and again and again. It’s as if your mind is numb from doing anything else but making bubbles until you are out of breath. Then you pause and do it one more time (again). The…
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