Our Time.
Quick Hits
10 random key ideas.
1.
Einstein had a daughter named Lieserl whose existence was unknown for decades, reminding us that history is often incomplete until hidden evidence comes to light.
2.
Quote:
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
- 1755.
Meaning:
Five Thought Tools < TST Framework < Critical Thinking
3.
From History: 1903 to 1950, aged 46.
George Orwell wrote about how corruption starts when language is twisted, facts are manipulated, and authority demands loyalty over reality.
4.
Time entropy is the arrow of time seen through irreversibility: causes leave traces, energy spreads, and the past becomes written while the future remains open.
5.
From History: 6 Dec 1865
After the Civil War, the 13th Amendment ended slavery as a legal institution in the United States.
6.
Critical thinkers should judge the Republican Party under Trump by its behavior under pressure: does it protect cardinal virtues and is it bending toward authoritarian power.
7.
By tradition, quantum theory was born on December 14, 1900, when Max Planck cracked classical physics with the strange idea that energy comes in discrete packets.
8.
Article summary:
History shows that when rights are left to the states, they’re often lost, limited, or delayed. Check out the story of women’s rights from gaining the right to property in 1900 to their right to own a business in 1988.
9.
Orwellian thought grew out of Orwell’s early experience with empire, poverty, and class. It sharpened dramatically in Spain when he saw propaganda and betrayal inside his own side.
10.
Embracing pragmatism, reframing coal as a temporary civilizational insurance policy turns it from a climate liability into an emergency asset.
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