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you have to innovate faster and faster in order to avoid the collapse

The system will collapse, because eventually you would have to be making a major innovation, like you know, IT every six months. Well, that's completely crazy.

There's a theorem you can prove that says that if you demand continuous open growth, you have to have continuous cycles of innovation. Well, that's what people believe, and it's the way people have suggested that’s how you get out of the Malthusian paradox. This all agrees within itself but there is a huge catch.

spinning balls suddenly change trajectory, from a smooth arc to a sharp inward curl

spinning balls follow a kind of circular arc as they slow from drag forces and are pushed from a linear path by the so-called Magnus effect

For a well-struck soccer ball, the researchers estimate, one might expect a gentle arc followed by a sharp hook at about 50 meters

"We found that on average the player who committed the foul is taller than the one who was the victim,"

Humans throughout evolution needed to be more afraid of bigger animals because bigger animals usually have more potential to harm us,"

Worldwide, shifts in climate are strongly linked to human violence, researchers concluded after examining quantitative studies from the past 25 on climate and various forms of violence.

A global temperature rise of 2-degrees Celsius could increase the rate of intergroup conflicts, such as civil wars, by more than 50 percent in many parts of the world, the study's statistical analysis found.

studies that find that heat waves lead to more violent crime in U.S. cities, for example, indicate that humans are poorly equipped to deal with exposure to hotter temperatures