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Ryan North: How to Invent Everything

Long Now: Seminars About Long-term Thinking

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The History of Compasses and Stethoscopes

Stethoscopes could have been invented in 300 BCE. This is when we first came up with paper. They were actually invented in 1816 CE. Tying a rock to a string took us over 1000 years to figure out. Bad hypothesis paper is boring and I hate it.

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