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Upcoming Seminars About Long-term Thinking

Oct 06     Ainissa Ramirez

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Tue, Oct 6, 02020 @ 5:00PM PT
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  “The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another”

Oct 28 Roman Krznaric “Becoming a Better Ancestor”   Nov 17 Nadia Eghbal “The Making and Maintenance of our Open Source Infrastructure”   Dec 08 James Nestor “The Future of Breathing”      View All Seminars

The 10,000 Year Clock

A monument scale, multi-millennial, all mechanical
clock as an icon to long term thinking.

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Building an Archive of ALL Documented
Human Languages. Browse the interactive disk online and contribute to the archive.

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