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TEACH US SOMETHING COOL | CRYPTOCURRENCY: Bitcoin, Ethereum, VeChain, Dogecoin, & More! | Recorded on May 12th, 2021

A cryptocurrency, crypto-currency, or crypto is a digital asset designed to work as a medium of exchange wherein individual coin ownership records are stored in a ledger existing in a form of a computerized database using strong cryptography to secure transaction records, to control the creation of additional coins, and to verify the transfer of coin ownership. It typically does not exist in physical form (like paper money) and is typically not issued by a central authority. Cryptocurrencies typically use decentralized control as opposed to centralized digital currency and central banking systems. When a cryptocurrency is minted or created prior to issuance or issued by a single issuer, it is generally considered centralized. When implemented with decentralized control, each cryptocurrency works through distributed ledger technology, typically a blockchain, that serves as a public financial transaction database.

Bitcoin, first released as open-source software in 2009, is the first decentralized cryptocurrency. Since the release of bitcoin, other cryptocurrencies have been created.

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TEACH US SOMETHING COOL | FERMI PARADOX: Why Haven't Aliens Visited Us Yet? | Recorded on April 28th, 2021

The Fermi paradox, named after Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi, is the apparent contradiction between the lack of evidence for extraterrestrial civilizations and various high estimates for their probability (such as some optimistic estimates for the Drake equation).

The following are some of the facts that together serve to highlight the apparent contradiction:

- There are billions of stars in the Milky Way similar to the Sun.

- With high probability, some of these stars have Earth-like planets.

- Many of these stars, and hence their planets, are much older than the Sun. If the Earth is typical, some may have developed intelligent life long ago. - Some of these civilizations may have developed interstellar travel, a step humans are investigating now.

- Even at the slow pace of currently envisioned interstellar travel, the Milky Way galaxy could be completely traversed in a few million years.

- And since many of the stars similar to the Sun are billions of years older, the Earth should have already been visited by extraterrestrial civilizations, or at least their probes.

- However, there is no convincing evidence that this has happened.

There have been many attempts to explain the Fermi paradox, primarily suggesting that intelligent extraterrestrial beings are extremely rare, that the lifetime of such civilizations is short, or that they exist but (for various reasons) we see no evidence.

Although he was not the first to consider this question, Fermi's name is associated with the paradox because of a casual conversation in the summer of 1950 with fellow physicists Edward Teller, Herbert York and Emil Konopinski. While walking to lunch, the men discussed recent UFO reports and the possibility of faster-than-light travel. The conversation moved on to other topics, until during lunch Fermi allegedly said suddenly, "But where is everybody?" (although the exact quote is uncertain).

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TEACH US SOMETHING COOL | COVID-19: Was It Made In A Lab? | Recorded on April 21st, 2021  

There are several ongoing efforts by scientists, governments, international organisations, and others to determine the origin of SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. The scientific consensus is that it is a zoonotic virus that arose from bats in a natural setting.

SARS-CoV-2 is a virus of the species severe acute respiratory syndrome–related coronavirus (SARSr-CoV). It is believed to have zoonotic origins and has close genetic similarity to bat coronaviruses, suggesting it emerged from a bat-borne virus. Research is ongoing as to whether SARS-CoV-2 came directly from bats or indirectly through any intermediate hosts. Initial genome sequences of the virus showed little genetic diversity, although subsequently a number of stable variants emerged (some spreading more vigorously), indicating that the spillover event introducing SARS-CoV-2 to humans is likely to have occurred in late 2019.

Health authorities and scientists internationally state that efforts to trace the specific geographic and taxonomic origins of SARS-CoV-2 could take years, and the results could be inconclusive. A number of conspiracy theories have been promoted about the origins of the virus. Echoing the views of scientists internationally, a World Health Organization (WHO) mission said that a laboratory leak origin for the virus was "extremely unlikely", supporting what most experts already expected about the likely natural origins of the virus and its early transmission. The WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he was ready to deploy additional missions for further investigation.

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TEACH US SOMETHING COOL | THE ORIGINS & EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE | Recorded on April 7th, 2021  The origin of language (spoken and signed, as well as language related technological systems such as writing), its relationship with human evolution, and its consequences, have been a centuries-long subject of study for the human race. The topic is difficult to study because of the lack of direct evidence. Consequently, scholars wishing to study the origins of language must draw inferences from other kinds of evidence such as the fossil record, archaeological evidence, contemporary language diversity, studies of language acquisition and comparisons between human language and systems of communication existing among animals (particularly other primates). Many argue that the origins of language probably relate closely to the origins of modern human behavior, but there is little agreement about the implications and directionality of this connection.  This shortage of empirical evidence has caused many scholars to regard the entire topic as unsuitable for serious study. In 1866, the Linguistic Society of Paris banned any existing or future debates on the subject, a prohibition which remained influential across much of the Western world until late in the twentieth century. Today, there are various hypotheses about how, why, when, and where language might have emerged. Despite this, there is scarcely more agreement today than a hundred years ago, when Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection provoked a rash of armchair speculation on the topic. Since the early 1990s, however, a number of linguists, archaeologists, psychologists, anthropologists, and others have attempted to address what some consider one of the hardest problems in science with new methods.  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  TEACH US SOMETHING COOL - LIVE Discussions On NEW Topics - EVERY Wednesday @ 8:30pm CST  |  Wanna join our future discussions or listen in as we record them EVERY Wednesday at 8:30pm CST? Follow this link to join our FREE Discord:  https://linktr.ee/mikeloweofficial​​​​​  |  Wanna spread some wealth with ya boy Lowedaddy? You can here:  https://streamlabs.com/growthsaloon/t...​  |  Wanna connect with Lowedaddy on the interweb? You can find me here:  https://linktr.ee/mikeloweofficial​​


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TEACH US SOMETHING COOL | CANNABIS INDUSTRY:  What Does the Public Not Know? | Recorded on March 31st, 2021  The cannabis industry is composed of legal cultivators and producers, consumers, independent industrial standards bodies, ancillary products and services, regulators and researchers concerning cannabis and its industrial derivative, hemp. The cannabis industry has been inhibited by regulatory restrictions for most of recent history, but the legal market has emerged rapidly as more governments legalize medical and adult use. Uruguay became the first country to legalize recreational marijuana through legislation in December, 2013 Cannabis in Uruguay. Canada became the first country to legalize private sales of recreational marijuana with Bill C-45 in 2018 Cannabis in Canada.  Marijuana (drug) sales in North America reached $6.7 billion in 2016, representing 30% growth year-over-year. According to a report by university researcher Jon Gettman, cannabis is the United States' largest cash crop and "a pervasive and ineradicable part of the national economy". A 2015 ArcView Group report stated that it was the fastest growing industry in the United States. The industry in the United States is expected to grow from $2 billion in 2014 to as much as $10 billion in 2018, depending on legalization outcomes. By one estimate the industry in the United States could be $35 billion in 2020. The legal market is estimated to be more than $10 billion as of September 2020, and a report by Morningstar predicts, "nearly 25% average annual growth for the U.S. recreational market and nearly 15% for the medical market through 2030."  According to GQ magazine in mid-2017, it was the second largest cash crop in the U.S., after corn, and worth over $40 billion.  The national (non-psychoactive) hemp market was $600 million in 2015, Accurate predictions of potential future legal markets for hemp are deemed impossible to predict due to "the absence since the 1950s of any commercial and unrestricted hemp production in the United States".  In a Huffington Post interview, Mark Kleiman, the "Pot Czar" of Washington state, said he was concerned that the National Cannabis Industry Association would favor profits over public health. He also said that it could become a predatory body like the lobbying arms of the tobacco and alcohol industries. Kleiman said: "The fact that the National Cannabis Industry Association has hired itself a K Street suit [lobbyist] is not a good sign."

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TEACH US SOMETHING COOL | US POLITICS: What Happens Behind Closed Doors? | Recorded on March 24th, 2021  US Politics are a game of leverage - but what really happens behind closed doors as both parties battle for control? Our special guests work for some MAJOR US politicians - and as always... bring your own popcorn!  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  TEACH US SOMETHING COOL - LIVE Discussions On NEW Topics - EVERY Wednesday @ 8:30pm CST  Wanna join our future discussions or listen in as we record them EVERY Wednesday at 8:30pm CST? Follow this link to join our FREE Discord:  https://linktr.ee/mikeloweofficial​​​​ Wanna spread some wealth with ya boy Lowedaddy? You can here:  https://streamlabs.com/growthsaloon/t...​ Wanna connect with Lowedaddy on the interweb? You can find me here:  https://linktr.ee/mikeloweofficial​​


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