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Are We Risking Our Ability to Think?

The Michael Shermer Show

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The Importance of Using a Slide Rule

Inventor Jerry Merriman took four days to invent and build a prototype. Everything it did inside its cover was totally invisible to us. It was magic, which is why I think in the subtype we talk about modern magic. To most people, not anyone with a scientific background like you, have no idea nor do they care what's going on as long as the GPS equipment takes me to our Dagetha's house.

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