“Long-term stability still means you can disappear. After 4,300 years, bam, you’re gone in decades.”

New Study Offers Clues to Swift Arctic Extinction
By Joshua A. Krisch
THE NEW YORK TIMES
August 28, 2014
http://www.nytimes.com/20....html?_r=0
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“What history generally ‘teaches’ is how hard it is for anyone to control it, including the people who think they’re making it.”

Does It Help to Know History?
By Adam Gopnik
THE ATLANTIC
August 28, 2014
http://www.newyorker.com/...w-history?
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“Humans are bad at creating and detecting randomness. Perceiving patterns has proven a great survival mechanism—the giant, spotted cats eat my children; this berry doesn’t make me sick—so we have evolved to be good at it. Perhaps too good.”
Does Randomness Actually Exist?
By Aaron Gordon
PACIFIC STANDARD
August 25, 2014
http://www.psmag.com/navi...ist-89285/