Documents tagged "Cornell"
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HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031734.txt
In this email, Robert Trivers updates Jeffrey Epstein about his personal and professional life. He has a new agent for his expanded memoir which covers topics like genetic conflict within ourselves and famous papers. However, he faces challenges in Jamaica where the murder rate is rising and encounters racism, especially from young thugs. He also discusses his financial plans for retirement and market predictions over the next three years.
HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026731.txt
The speaker at Cornell University gives an inaugural Carl Sagan Memorial Lecture emphasizing the need for optimism and thinking globally, rationally, and long-term. The lecture discusses how human activity has caused faster changes in vegetation, land use, carbon dioxide levels, radio wave emissions, and small projectile launches over just a few thousand years compared to Earth's 4.5 billion year history. This rapid change could not have been predicted by hypothetical aliens observing the planet.
HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023720.txt
The article discusses the concept of shame and its importance in society, particularly in relation to financial executives' behavior during the 2008 financial crisis. Jennifer Jacquet, a researcher at the University of British Columbia, is highlighted as someone who studies the effects of honor and shame on cooperation. The author raises questions about the necessity of shame in balancing individual and group interests in various social dilemmas such as energy, food, water shortages, climate disruption, declining fisheries, increasing antibiotic resistance, and nuclear warfare.