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Here is how my mind works. While relaxing I decided to take a look at the world table tennis event that's on right now. I browsed through some video of one of the days and found myself focused on trying to understand the event itself because of having worked as a TTennis event organizer. Because I was in this mindset I found I was noticing inconsistencies. One of them was the name of a Swedish player. I got focused on it because I wasn't familiar with all the names and wanted to be clear who was who. Because I'm not watching it live I can deviate and research things. I was confused by the Swedish player's name because his shirt didn't match the score display. LIVE! | T3 | Day 5 | GS | ITTF World Team Table Tennis Championships Finals London 2026 | Session 1 - YouTube I found him on Wikipedia and was amused to see this: "In 2018, Mattias adopted his wife's surname, Falck, upon marriage. He resumed using his bir...

When Empathy Goes Both Ways Rethinking Autism and Social Difficulty Through the “Double Empathy Problem” For much of the past century, autism has been framed as a condition defined by social deficits - particularly a reduced ability to understand other people. This view shaped everything from clinical diagnosis to public perception. But a growing body of research is challenging that assumption. Instead of a one-sided deficit, scientists are now describing social difficulty in autism as a two-way problem of mutual misunderstanding . This idea is known as the double empathy problem , and it is reshaping how researchers - and increasingly clinicians - understand human connection. A Shift in Perspective The traditional model of autism suggested that autistic individuals struggle with empathy: reading emotions, interpreting social cues, and responding appropriately. The double empathy framework turns that idea on its head. It proposes that when two people have different ways of processing t...

Black Robe (1991) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HD 1080p] - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6MxdjqPfM8 Bruce Beresford in Sydney, Australia 2012, talking about Black Robe (1991) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUG4Jd_bk24 Movie , Black Robe (1991) - IMDb ,  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101465/ Book , Black Robe by Brian Moore | Goodreads ,  https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/219920.Black_Robe "Critics tended to give Black Robe mixed to favorable reviews, citing the award-winning cinematography of Peter James in capturing the beautiful but forbidding Canadian wilderness.  But the main concern of reviewers was for the "truthful" or "raw" depiction of relations between the French and the Algonquins and other tribes.  Frequently contrasted with Dances with Wolves, Black Robe is widely considered a more accurate and less fantasy-filled account of white men's encounters with natives.  Critics find the film enjoyable from an intellectual point of view, as...

Sovereign wealth fund - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Sovereign+wealth+fund&sp=mAEA ___________________________ Sovereign Wealth Fund Overview Discussion https://chatgpt.com/share/687d1406-3500-8004-8a0a-3ac9ef814370 The link above is a conversation that explores sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) as tools of modern governance—public-sector entities using private-market strategies. It discusses how SWFs reflect the evolution of global power, the challenges of transparency, and why trust and cooperation remain the core barriers to responsible progress. ___________________________ 2025-07-20 - SWF - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuvSV2vqUGiIUItuDlVkMNr1U4e7aUNZJ [ ] ___________________________ How Norway runs its trillion dollar state fund | DW News - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLZy4GUejU0 Living in Norway vs Living in the USA - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzT1jmcDNPI Norway's $1.4 Trillion Sovereign Wealth Fund Fully Ex...

Why Religion Helps People Some people are good at thinking deeply about life. They can figure out their own ideas about right and wrong, and what makes life meaningful. But most people don’t have the time, energy, or training to do that all on their own. That’s where religion comes in. For a long time—thousands of years—people got married, raised families, and went to church. These habits didn’t happen by accident. They helped people live better, more stable lives. Religion gave them rules to live by, a sense of purpose, and a feeling of being part of something bigger. Some thinkers believe that if we get rid of religion, many people will feel lost. Without something to believe in or something to guide them, people might feel empty or confused. That’s called nihilism—the idea that nothing matters. When that happens, people often turn to things like drugs, unhealthy habits, or angry politics to fill the gap. There are two big ideas about what to do next. One says we should go back to re...

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Sesame Street: Here Is Your Life: Bread https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BW9B7fP-Qg8 Betty White--This is Your Life. 1987 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g98-78G5b4

Lecture 1A: Overview and Introduction to Lisp https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLE18841CABEA24090   Summary 00:00:00 - 01:00:00 In this video, the lecturer explores the fundamental concepts of computer science and programming through the lens of Lisp language. The lecture covers the basic principles of computer science, such as abstraction and black box abstraction and the importance of controlling complexity, as well as the syntax and structure of Lisp. The speaker also covers essential programming concepts such as declarative knowledge, imperative knowledge, and the use of procedures in programming. Finally, the lecture discusses the importance of understanding the primitive elements, means of combination, and abstraction when learning a new programming language, with examples drawn from Lisp. The lecture introduces the concept of computing square roots in Lisp through a recursive definition that involves guessing a number's square root and improving upon it until a good enoug...

The Secret Life of Social Norms | Michele Gelfand, PhD | TEDxPaloAltoSalon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqkzp9C2VyI

= In her year and a half living as Ned, Ms. Vincent put him in a number of stereotypical, hypermasculine situations. He joined a blue-collar bowling league, though he was a terrible bowler. (His teammates were kind and cheered him on; they thought he was gay, Ms. Vincent learned later, because they thought he bowled like a girl.) He spent weeks in a monastery with cloistered monks. He went to strip clubs and dated women, though he was rebuffed more often than not in singles bars. He worked in sales, hustling coupon books and other low-margin products door-to-door with fellow salesmen who, with their cartoon bravado, seemed drawn from the 1983 David Mamet play “Glengarry Glen Ross.” Finally, at an Iron John retreat, a therapeutic masculinity workshop — think drum circles and hero archetypes — modeled on the work of the men’s movement author Robert Bly, Ned began to lose it. Being Ned had worn Ms. Vincent down; she felt alienated and disassociated, and after the retreat she checked herse...

"When it comes to train riding, you have to give that train all of your respect, but the train will never give you any. You can't rely upon the train to get you where you're going or to be a smooth ride or a safe one. I have a great concern about equipment failure. I have a concern about human error with regard to rail operations. These kinds of things I have no control over. You never know when you're going to be on a train that has a crew that's gone to sleep at the throttle and the next thing you know you're in a big pile up at the bottom of a hill." https://youtu.be/9ytesoB7gBI?t=2693 This is a great metaphor for just about anything that we depend on but can't control... a family, an employer, a government... as well as life itself. === Hobo - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobo watched, The American Hobo: History of the Railriding Worker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ytesoB7gBI Hobo (1992) - Full Documentary https://www.youtube.com/wat...

  Treaty 6 notes In reading more about Treaty 6 and Treaties in general, I've learned some basic things. Treaties are just agreements... contracts. Nothing more. However, the reason there seems to be a different name used for them is because they are typically created outside any single country's legal system. This is due to the fact that they are usually agreements between sovereign nations. There are three important things I learned at this point. First, there is no clear authority to enforce treaties because while there is such a thing as International Law, it is not an absolute authority... adherence to it is voluntary and therefore "possession is nine tenths of the law" is the reality of that system. Second, while treaties can be between any kinds of entities (individuals, businesses, etc), the most common kinds are nations... and the bigger and more established the nation, the more power it has to decide whether or not it wants to honor the treaty. The collectio...