A Black History Story — A Black History Story Outline Intro Name Slave DNA Pharaoh Legacy Sources “Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.” — George Orwell, 1984 Intro

https://twitter.com/JTLonsdale/status/1476075681301729282 — https://twitter.com/JTLonsdale/status/1476075681301729282 The founder of Palantir($PLTR), Joe Lonsdale, today publicly made controversial comments about Black entrepreneurs. Joe suggests that the low funding rate of Black Americans in corporate formation was due to the ills of “black culture” and “having so many kids born out of wedlock”.

What do the Scientific method and a single-celled organism called Physarum polycephalum have in common? — What do the Scientific method and a single-celled organism called Physarum polycephalum have in common? Last Spring I took a class on Human Behavioral Biology with Robert Sapolsky (the Lectures are online and I highly recommend them). During our lecture on Emergent Complexity & Spontaneous Order, Sapolsky gave an example…

A framework for Legal governance in the Digital Age — Overview 1. . Evolutions of Society & Technology The Nature of Humanity Agriculture Revolution and Rise of City-States The Industrial Revolution and The First Superpowers Liberating Technology and The Digital Revolution 2. Democracy 2.0 Rebirth of P2P Economy Social Physics and Data Sharing From Centralized to Decentralized Social Contracts and Digital Governance

Learning in today’s educational system is like a Teacher cleaning your room for you and, every once in awhile, leaving behind a new “thing”. When you walk in, you find it difficult to organize yourself. You know what’s in your room and, maybe, where you last used things, but you…

Yesterday, I started to think about cameras, an amazing technology that most of us have in our pockets. I thought about what it must have been like to take the first photograph. Like books or telescopes, cameras give us the ability to capture a moment in history—cameras are time-machines!

My college search and advice to college hopefuls — Off on an Adventure Half out of breath, I ran through the doors, threw my bag in the scanner and walked through the metal detector. As I grabbed my bag, the bell rang. I was late for school. I went to inner-city public school in Philadelphia. A place where drugs and gang violence took…