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In fact, the Mesozoic, when dinosaurs lived, had much higher CO2 than today, was much warmer than today, and is one of the interesting proof points for the effects of CO2 on climate.
What I want to point the finger at is the legal and regulatory system, a system in which there are networks of agreements just like this one which serve to silence people and seal off data points from public health experts and epidemiologists, a system in which regulators will even refrain from issuing a violation notice in the event of pollution if the landowner and the gas company agree to settle.
Even science – and you know it better than I do – points to an understanding of reality as a place where every element connects and interacts with everything else.
The words you see and hear in everyday advertising have been crafted to appeal to you and affect your behavior, as have the soundbites and talking points of political campaigns which rarely present the most nuanced perspective on the issues.
Standardized test scores in math and reading go up by two to three percentage points.
The effects of living in poverty, it turns out, correspond to losing 14 points of IQ.
And not only was he familiar with stoicism, but he pointed out, for all of his most important decisions, his inflection points, when he stood up for his principles and ethics, how he had used stoicism and something akin to fear-setting, which blew my mind.
The person next to me in the queue points to my existence and everyone is embarrassed.
I'm reminded that I'm a little person when a stranger points, stares, laughs, calls me a name, or takes a photograph of me.
They said, "We have millions of data points, and we don't see any indicators of anyone wanting to buy a smartphone, and your data set of 100, as diverse as it is, is too weak for us to even take seriously."
However, this goes away to zero in subsequent time points and remains negligible after subsequent points.
Astronaut Bill Anders frantically asks his crewmates where their camera is, grabs the Hasselblad, points it towards the window, presses the shutter, and takes one of the most important photographs of all time: "Earthrise."
In other words, not an autocracy in which I would lead and others would follow and not a democracy in which everybody's points of view were equally valued, but I wanted to have an idea meritocracy in which the best ideas would win out.
And it's great because if I don't let Jim, and people like Jim, to express their points of view, our relationship wouldn't be the same.
Now, origin myths are closely linked to tradition, and the word tradition points to something old and permanent, almost natural, and people assume tradition is just history, simply the past condensed into a nice story.
Now, these points about religious purity also apply to nationalism and to racism.
A few months ago, I was touring the manufacturing plant of a multinational aerospace company in Querétaro, Mexico, and the VP of logistics points out a completed tail assembly.
And to be honest, there were a couple of fair points.
You know, as fair as some of their points were, they were still trapped in their own echo chambers, recycling old, outdated points of view, never getting a diversity in perspective, not making them well-rounded in their worldview.
And so what I started doing was mining these alternative viewpoints from these alternative digital universes, dissecting them, breaking them down into controversial talking points.
And then here's the six-year-old in the seatbelt, and in fact, they get exactly within, you know, within one or two points of the same.
It's Calvino's idea of the quickest way between two points is the circuitous line, not the straight line.
Now, we can intervene to prevent divorce at two points: later, once the cracks begin to appear in an established relationship; or earlier, before we commit, before we have children.
Wells’ unwillingness to compromise any aspect of her vision of justice shined a light on the weak points of the various rights movements, and ultimately made them stronger— but also made it difficult for her to find a place within them.
The light passes through grid points with coordinates that are either both even or both odd.
Traveling diagonally – as the light does here – does both at once, so the x and y coordinates of any points the light passes through must be both even, or both odd.
In particular, it means that we have a way to identify the kinds of points the light won’t ever go through If one of the coordinates is even and the other is odd, the light will miss them.
That means it’ll miss the top two corners of the room, since those points have one even and one odd coordinate.
Departing from the lines, I decided to tackle the idea of points, like which is more similar to the type of representation that we find in photographs themselves.
And I think not only individuals, but perhaps nations, too, have their own tipping points.
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