“What flavor are they?” I asked my son as I drove down the highway on a family roadtrip a few years ago. “Sour Cream and Onion? Oh, you’ll like those.” “No I won’t,” Luke responded from the back row of the minivan. “Just try them. They’re good.” “I don’t like sour cream or onions,” Luke […]
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“He who does not trust enough will not be trusted.” “Trust isn’t a nice-to-have; trust is a must-have.” “The more trust, the better the relationship.” I see quotes like these everywhere—and I cringe on the inside every time. I come across them in social media feeds, in the books I read, even in some research
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On July 2nd, 1863 Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain found himself fighting for his life on a small hill called Little Round Top. It was the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg and Chamberlain’s regiment, the 20th Maine, was the far left edge of the Union Army’s line of defense. Chamberlain’s commander, Colonel Strong Vincent, had placed the 20th Maine on the
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Marathon. Hastings. Agincourt. Waterloo. Gettysburg. Stalingrad. Odds are you’ve heard of some of these battles. However, there was a little-known battle during the Napoleonic Wars that had a huge effect on how modern warfare is conducted. And, interestingly, it was the losing side that led the revolution. In 1806, Napoleon obliterated the Prussian Army at the Battle
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There’s a scene in the movie Oppenheimer when, as a professor at Berkeley, he leads a discussion on the collapse of a giant star. One of his students, Harland Snyder, begins to grasp the compounding effects of all that matter caving in on itself. Density increases, which increases gravity, which increases density… “It’s a viscous cycle until…” Snyder
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