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  1. Feb 2018
    1. However, "being in the habitable zone does not mean we know this planet is habitable,"

      Nay-say argument/ other side. May not answer my question at all #aplang18

    2. brightness of its star at high noon is only as bright as our sun appears to us about an hour before sunset

      Differences/disadvantages to Kepler supporting human life. #aplang18

    1. These so-called Big Five dimensions – Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism and Intellect – provided a basic model for conceptualising and measuring personality.

      There are 16 main personality traits

    1. Health care reform requires insurance plans to cover important preventive services, including critical immunizations, numerous health screenings, and counseling services, with no cost-sharing by women.
    2. Meanwhile, many Americans with a pre-existing medical condition—including asthma, heart disease, previous injuries, and cancer—would not have access to necessary, affordable care without health reform.

      !!!!!!!!1

    3. 6.6 million additional young adults, including more than 1.3 million minorities—many of them new college graduates—had access to coverage even if they were unable to find a job right away.
    1. What Naumov points out, however, is that while AI may not, in fact, replace the human interaction, it could, in fact, go hand in hand to offer a better customer experience when used as the incredible tool it was intended to be.
    1. "Disorders like phobias, depression and OCD, documented at zoos, don’t appear to have analogues among animals living in the wild."

      Zoos introduce new psychological issues that wouldn't be as present in the wild

    2. So much confinement and artifice is bound to drive the animals crazy, Wallace-Wells argues, even if they've never known anything else.

      While zoos might provide a "better" life and the animals might not have ever known life outside a zoo, they still might have issues dealing with their instinctual tendencies in a zoo setting

    3. the cushy lives of zoo animals have made them a bit soft. "An animal in the wild can’t afford to be depressed," she says in the Times piece. "It will simply be killed or starve, since its environment requires constant vigilance."