How Much Could One Banana Cost? My title today is a paraphrase of a great line from the TV show Arrested Development.

How Much Could One Banana Cost?
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Sense of Urgency One restaurant where I cooked had these performance reviews every year.

Sense of Urgency
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Rare Earths? Like most other kids, I spent a lot of my childhood wondering about alien life. Our collective imaginations had been fueled by the likes of Star Trek, where a crew left Earth to discover other civiliz...

Rare Earths?
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Bitcoin Pizza Moment This isn’t about that moment when someone bought a pizza with Bitcoin.

Bitcoin Pizza Moment
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Best Served Cold First, the French thought the Germans went way too far.

Best Served Cold
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The Hazy Trail When ancient astronomers first looked out into the night sky, they could see thousands of stars.

The Hazy Trail
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Now You're Cooking The human body likes to be at about 37 degrees C.

Now You're Cooking
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Making Bank Everybody knows banking was invented in Florence.

Making Bank
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Gnat Up Your Nose You’re walking on a trail, on your way to nowhere in particular.

Gnat Up Your Nose
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Give Me a Minute Give me a minute here, and I’ll try to explain where minutes came from.

Give Me a Minute
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Where the Wild Things Aren’t Early on, the wild things were everywhere.

Where the Wild Things Aren’t
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I'm Just Asking Questions Why does almost nobody really just ask questions when they say they’re just asking questions?

I'm Just Asking Questions
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Virtuous and Vicious
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Conscientious Another Big Five personality trait is conscientiousness.

Conscientious
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Good Advices Last year, I wrote something called The Wrong Advices.

Good Advices
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Doubling You start with one in 1876.

Doubling
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All Right, All Right, All Right If it’s all right with you, I’d like for us to think about the phrase all right.

All Right, All Right, All Right
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Depression Judo Judo has an important principle that you’re taught early on, but which takes years to internalize.

Depression Judo
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Counting Centuries Correctly Napoleon’s rise began toward the end of the 18th century, but Napoleon died in 1821. The printing press was the hottest new invention of the 15th century, and by 1455, books were being printed and sol...

Counting Centuries Correctly
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The Mountain that Eats Men Sumaj Orcko is Quechua for beautiful mountain. Although the Inca Empire was multicultural and multilingual, Quechua was the official language of the empire. The Incas revered Sumaj Orcko for both its ...

The Mountain that Eats Men
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Races to the Bottom There was a bicycle boom during the 1890s that you don’t hear much about these days.

Races to the Bottom
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Iraq: a Hard Place The Nile floods regularly and predictably.

Iraq: a Hard Place
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Our Hill, and Our Beans Many of you won’t remember Sergeant Frank Drebin, Detective Lieutenant—Police Squad, but he had a huge impact on the lives of a lot of eventual writers and comedians.

Our Hill, and Our Beans
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I'll See Myself Out Whenever you hear a joke from a certain era, there’s a really good chance the follow up line I’ll see myself out will occur.

I'll See Myself Out
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Prompt Engineering Pharaoh Akhenaten needed a new capital, and fast.

Prompt Engineering
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The First Futurist The word futurist has a loaded connotation.

The First Futurist
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Opposite Day Growing up in the 80s, we did a lot of things to amuse ourselves that didn’t involve the internet.

Opposite Day
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Let's Find Out In the spirit of satisfying your own curiosity, few phrases have delighted me more than let’s find out.

Let's Find Out
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Dirty Work This world makes a crazy amount of energy, but there’s a great cost.

Dirty Work
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Pillar Talk Doric.

Pillar Talk
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