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17 Jul 06:41

The Black Swan PDF Download

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The Black Swan PDF Download

Nassim Nicholas Taleb - The Black Swan PDF Download eBook

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable is a New York Times bestseller book on philosophy/sociology written by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Covering subjects relating to knowledge, aesthetics, and ways of life, the book offers an extended discussion on the black swan theory: the extreme impact of certain kinds of rare and unpredictable events (outliers) and humans' tendency to find simplistic explanations for these events retrospectively.
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17 Jul 06:39

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15 Jul 05:45

New IMAX Super Short: Galaxies Across Space and Time

by Nancy Atkinson

“Hubble: Galaxies Across Space and Time” is an award-winning IMAX Super Short film. In less than 3 minutes you can explore 10 billion years of cosmic history as you fly through one of Hubble’s iconic images, the Hubble Deep Field. These galaxies were photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope as part of the Great Observatory Origins Deep Survey (GOODS) project. Hubble scientists and imaging specialists worked for months to extract individual galaxy images, placing them in a 3-D model according to their approximate true distances.
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