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Get the Summary of John McWhorter's The Story of Human Language in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: Language defines us as a species, placing humans head and shoulders above even the most proficient animal communicators. But, it also beguiles us with its endless mysteries, allowing us to ponder why different languages emerged, why there isn't simply a single language, how languages...
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#1 When Matthew Shepard was tortured and left to die on the high plains of Wyoming, his murder was followed by outpourings of anger and grief from editorial pages and political pulpits across the country.
#2 The Matthew Shepard killing was used by the left to rally behind society's victims, and the absence of conservatives and libertarians in the Capitol protesters...
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#1 The story of the villager who kidnapped and locked up vandals in his basement to prevent crime is a short political story that illustrates the difference between a government and a non-government person. Most people support the government's imprisonment of criminals, feel obligated to pay their taxes, and consider punishment of tax evaders both desirable and within...
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#1 On Yom Kippur, the 10th of the Hebrew month of Tishrei, Egypt attacked Israel. Syria followed suit a few minutes later. Israel was caught off guard as Egypt began its assault, crossing the Suez Canal, which had separated Egyptian and Israeli forces since 1967.
#2 On Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, Israeli reservists and volunteers commandeer cars...
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#1 I tried to build an autonomous vehicle several years ago. It didn't drive itself, but it did take me to some interesting places. The idea of a self-driving car is fascinating to me not for its capabilities, but for its place in our imagination.
#2 I wanted to understand AI better, so I trained the car to drive at random, taking almost every side road and turning...
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#1 The twins were excited to show me that they are not actually brother and sister, but rather two ten-year-old identical girls. They wanted to know if I was married, since their mother is a married mother of four.
#2 When I first met Azita, she was a member of the new Afghan parliament. She had promised her rural voters that she would direct more foreign aid to their...
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#1 I wrote, It is difficult to describe American government today. It is not a constitutional republic, because the Constitution has been and continues to be easily altered by a judicial oligarchy that mostly enforces, if not expands, the Statist's agenda. It is not a representative republic, because so many edicts are produced by a maze of administrative departments...
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Get the Summary of Chris Matthews's Bobby Kennedy in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: With his bestselling biography Jack Kennedy, Chris Matthews shared a new look of one of America's most beloved Presidents and the patriotic spirit that defined him. Now, with Bobby Kennedy, Matthews returns with a gripping, in-depth, behind-the-scenes portrait of one of the great figures of the American...
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#1 I was the Iowa spokesperson for John McCain's presidential campaign in 2007. The comprehensive immigration reform bill known colloquially by the political class as McCain-Kennedy and by Republican voters as amnesty for illegals was about to be reintroduced in the U. S. Senate.
#2 I was extremely nervous and excited to be at the rally. I was hoping McCain would shine...
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#1 Impressment was a hybrid of the modern military draft and state-sponsored kidnapping. It was used to force sailors into the Royal Navy, and it was common for cottagers to be impressed.
#2 The Vagabond Act of 1597 attempted to combat the homeless problem in England by making it punishable by public whipping if you were caught being homeless. The act also empowered...
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#1 Equatorial Guinea gained its independence in 1968, and was ruled by a dictator named Francisco Macias Nguema. His regime was brutal, and he allegedly killed his main electoral opponent. Teodorin's father, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, was in charge of the National Guard and Black Beach prison, and he was tasked with torturing any dissidents.
#2 Obiang's regime...
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#1 After the Berlin Wall was torn down, the German government was faced with demands that the communist officials who had ordered, executed, and abetted crimes against their own people be prosecuted.
#2 The Stasi, the East German communist police force, had more spies than any other totalitarian government in history. The Soviet Union's KGB employed 480,000 full-time...
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#1 The city of Washington, D. C. , is an imperial city. It produces laws, Supreme Court decisions, regulations in the Federal Register, circulars from the Office of Management and Budget, a trillion dollars of contracts a year, and gossip.
#2 While Washington was becoming more and more diverse, it was still largely a southern city, and its powerful committee chairman...
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#1 I was a first-year medical student at Duke. I had spent my first few weeks there expanding my insecurities about my classmates, but I had finally done well on my midterm exams. I was starting to feel comfortable.
#2 At Duke, I was often mistaken for a potential criminal, hired help when I was a paying customer, and most favorably, a budding professional basketball...
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#1 I was drawn to the psychiatric units at Spring Grove State Hospital, because I realized that the majority of the women there had been victims of sexual assault. They had been attacked, and then forced to manage the trauma on their own, silently, or face the likely consequence of being blamed for instigating their own assault.
#2 I began interviewing patients...
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#1 The young man in the new suit was trying to look purposeful, but his composure was a bluff. He needed to pick up a ticket and get to the small airport outside town, but he knew he might not make it. The war was barely six weeks old, but the distance between alive and dead had already become negligible.
#2 The National Council is doing everything it can to help the...
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#1 The Army Special Forces have a proud history of service to the nation. They were established in the mid-1700s, and their roots can be traced back to the mid-1960s. They were formed to fight the Vietcong in Vietnam, and they had to manage the tension between the small contingent of the Vietnamese army and the Montagnards.
#2 The work of modern Special Forces is a classic...
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#1 My mother told me that when I was born, the doctor said that I was beautiful. The next day, her brother came to the hospital just to see me. He said that I was the most beautiful baby he'd ever seen.
#2 I am in hair and makeup on a photoshoot, and the hairdresser's assistant asks me what my ethnicity is. I tell him simply: I'm a white girl. He laughs.
#3 My mother, who is classically...
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#1 The sea was warm, and Michael was able to swim five to ten miles off the coast of southwest New Guinea. He knew that the shore behind him receded quickly, and that the water was shallow. He should be able to stand when he was still a mile from shore.
#2 He was a Rockefeller, and he knew what was expected of him. He was responsible for doing good things, big things,...
100) Summary of Dave Snowden,Zhen Goh,Sue Borchardt,Riva Greenberg,Boudewijn Bertsch, and Sonja Bligna
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Get the Summary of Dave Snowden,Zhen Goh,Sue Borchardt,Riva Greenberg,Boudewijn Bertsch, and Sonja Blignaut's Cynefin-Weaving Sense-Making into the Fabric of Our World in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: The Cynefin® sense-making Framework, brainchild of innovative thinker Dave Snowden, has never been more needed. The Framework empowers leaders across organizations, governments, and...
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