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WWB Key Ideas
Timeless ideas at the intersections of science, philosophy, critical thinking, and history.
MODE:
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4 minutes
of short abstracts.
Wisdom Builder.
Some random key ideas.
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Estimates of ancient human populations can be misleading when they lean too heavily on DNA ancestry alone, because DNA traces direct surviving lines, not the full populations and branches that once existed.
3.
From History: 66.04 Million years ago (K–Pg extinction)
At the K–Pg boundary, birds were already diverse, but most of that Late Cretaceous variety died out, leaving only a small toothless slice of the bird world to continue.
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Confirmation bias distorts our interpretation of reality by filtering evidence through prior belief.
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Radiometric dating such as Carbon-14 and Potassium-Argon is scientifically sound, but it’s true that scientists need to carefully rule out contaminants.
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The split separates our ideas and the material world. To live in harmony with nature, embrace the idea that our rational ideas must be internally coherent, but only empirical contact with reality justifies belief.
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Clear thinking begins by distinguishing the material world from our ideas about it.
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“Middle Ages” is the accurate term, but “dark” still captures a real regression in human thought.
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From History: 215 Million years ago (+/- 5 million)
Pterosaurs were the first vertebrates to achieve powered flight, but they were not dinosaurs.
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Flourishing requires disciplined alignment between our evolving models and the material world they seek to describe.
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From History: 66.04 Million years ago (K–Pg extinction)
Even near the end, ornithischians remained a diverse and successful branch of plant-eating dinosaurs.
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