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post #1 Title: Assignment 1 - GNED WORLD MYSTRIES

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post #1 Title: Assignment 1 - GNED WORLD MYSTRIES

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BY: ESMAT DOOSTY
WORKED ON INDIVIDUALLY
STUDENT ID: 100852715
10/11/2022

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POST #2: RED FLAG - SUPPRESSION BY AUTHORITY

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POST #2: RED FLAG - SUPPRESSION BY AUTHORITY

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DEFINITION:
suppression authority red flags stand for power that can be used against you while thinking not really due to the powerhouse having different ideas and plans while suppressing your opinions on things.

Connection:
the picture shows how can having authority can be used against people due to power meaning domination over others in a way, despite saying that we should be good with something while having the power to hide things and view different plans without people knowing are a presentation of authority suppression.

while critical thinking this picture does indicate the idea of power suppression due to recognizing a pattern or connection in the picture.

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Red Herring could be defined as attempting to replace unimportant issues with important issues.

connection:
The child in the picture represents the red herring idea due to the childing talking about what he had today for lunch which isn't as important to the mother's view. she replaces the attention to homework because she thinks it is more relevant.

In terms of critical thinking, we can see the point of the distraction and observe the connection or the idea of it.

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Definition:
Red Flag-conformation biases could be defined as challenges against your ideas, beliefs, conformations, and sources.

Connection:
The picture shows how people can ignore things due to things being realistic which can be a  bit harsh so they create the idea of a lie or generalize things to believe in something that isn't really that fit their theories or ideas.

This picture shows that people are willing to change their perspectives on things because of the similarities between their ideas, beliefs, and biases even if it's not realistic.

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Ideology support is a set of beliefs, Ideology support is a collection of concepts, and people that are willing to risk an ideological stance to defend it.

connection:
The connection in this video is that Jordan Peterson is explaining a story on an ideology about how Egyptian God would Emerge and what they are, he goes on to explain to support the story. As I finished watching the video and looked at the content of the ideas in this video it concludes the ideological supports of how different ideas are spread and are supported due to different views and beliefs.

The ideas spread among different cultures, and beliefs have changed views on ideological supports where the ability to think about things and learn from different perspectives has become hard due to the ideology of many different views and sources.

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Definition:
Ancient wisdom represents knowledge, culture, tradition, beliefs, and philosophy that are passed down from generation to generation whether it's realistic or not.

Connection:
The source above explains how some of the ancient pearls of wisdom can be the key to our future. The website explains how time has changed but we still as humans tend to practice and follow some of the ancient wisdom because of how our minds work in a similar fundamental way.

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Have you noticed it? Time is speeding up. Either the functions of our mind are increasing in speed so that it appears time moves faster and faster, or the events of the world are happening at a much quicker rate. There is no doubt that technological innovations are advancing at an unprecedented pace. This makes it difficult to keep up with all that the world now has to offer, day by day, let alone contemplate the implications.

Once, mankind found itself in a much simpler time. In the ancient world, things changed very little over the course of several generations. While the people of this ancient world certainly did not know as much as we do today, they had the opportunity to experiment and refine their techniques over the course of hundreds of years. These techniques included everything from spiritual connections to healing. As they did these things over and over, they set the prototype for how the mind works at an integral level including the functions of perception and how beliefs are integrated.

Over the centuries, mankind has augmented this prototype mindset. The names, mythologies, and ideologies may change from culture to culture and from time period to time period, yet we are all still human. Our brains and minds still work in the same fundamental way. The basic intention of ancient practices still remain with us today: building a sense of community, connecting with something greater than ourselves and innovating in order to survive.

As we look to the future and attempt to see what is to come, it is important to remember where we came from as a species. There is a popular Buddhist saying that goes, "If you want to know your past life, look at your present condition. If you want to know your future life, look at your present actions." This applies just as much for the individual as it does for the whole of humanity. If we want to know why the world is in its current state, we must understand how we got here. In order to do this, we must study history and attempt to understand why the people of the past did what they did. As we do this, we can change our behaviors in order to create an even better future for generations to come. In essence, we study yesterday to live better today. This way, we can create the space for an even brighter tomorrow.

There is so much for us to learn about the ancient world and the discoveries they made. As we gain a deeper understanding of our modern world, the past innovators walk with us. Ancient guides lead us with their wisdom and inspiration, if only we learn how to listen to them. One day, when this era is considered to be an ancient world, we too will become the guides for distant future generations. They will look to us to lead them to even brighter horizons.

There is much to see atop the shoulders of giants.

View our full collection on Ancient Wisdom to continue unlocking secrets from the past.

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Have you noticed it? Time is speeding up. Either the functions of our mind are increasing in speed so that it appears time moves faster and faster, or the events of the world are happening at a much quicker rate. There is no doubt that technological innovations are advancing at an unprecedented pace.

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Definition:
Unexplained is something that we cannot explain or make it clear to understand due to not having knowledge of it or we cannot access the information due to impossible.

Connection:
This website indicates that we are aware of many mysteries that we don't have an explanation for. One of the unexplained mysteries that the website tells us about is Twilight Zone, we have zero knowledge about the Twilight Zone due to sunlight fading and our knowledge of the dark depths of the sea.

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To investigate some of the biggest mysteries in science, you have to venture to some pretty far-out places: the bottom of the oceans, inside the human brain, the tops of mountains, and even the end of time.

That's what we've done on Unexplainable, a science podcast that Vox launched in March to explore the most important, interesting, and awe-inspiring unanswered questions in science. We set out to ask big questions that inspire scientists to do their work - questions that fill them with wonder or a sense of purpose, or remind them that the universe is still an enormous place with untapped potential.

In exploring these stories, we've learned some of the surprising reasons why major scientific mysteries can go unsolved for years or even decades: Some are due to the limits of technology, others are because of human failings. Regardless, working on Unexplainable has reminded us there's hope in a question. Why ask one if you don't believe an answer is possible?

Here, we rounded up 11 questions that astounded us the most.

For more mysteries, subscribe to Unexplainablewherever you listen to podcasts.

What is most of the universe made out of?

It's a simple question that's also bafflingly unanswered: What makes up the universe? It turns out all the stars in all the galaxies in all the universe barely even begin to account for all the stuff out there. Most of the matter in the universe is actually unseeable, untouchable, and, to this day, undiscovered. It's called dark matter, and despite searching for it for decades, scientists still have no idea what it is.

Further reading: Dark Matter, unexplained

What lives in the ocean's "twilight zone"?

As you dive deeper into the ocean, less and less sunlight shines through, and about 200 meters beneath the surface, you reach an area called the "twilight zone." Sunlight fades almost completely out of view, and our knowledge about these dark depths fades too.

"It's almost easier to define it by what we don't know than what we do know," Andone Lavery, an acoustician at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, told Vox's Byrd Pinkerton.

Yet this region of the ocean is extremely important. It's possible - but not certain - that there are more fish living in the twilight zone than the rest of the ocean combined, and creatures of the dark ocean play a large role in regulating the climate.

Further reading: "It's deep. It's dark. It's elusive." The ocean's twilight zone is full of wonders.

What killed Venus?

"Hellscape" is the most appropriate word to describe the surface of Venus, the second planet from the sun. At 900 degrees Fahrenheit, it's the hottest planet in the solar system, thanks in part to an atmosphere of almost entirely carbon dioxide. Clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid are draped over a volcanic landscape of razor-sharp lava flows. Most crushingly, the pressure on the surface of Venus is about 92 times the pressure you'd feel at sea level on Earth.

Yet some scientists suspect Venus was once much like Earth, with a liquid water ocean like the ones that support life on our planet. This prompts an existential question for life on Earth. "It really is a question about why are we here," says Robin George Andrews, volcanologist and author of Super Volcanoes: What They Reveal about Earth and the Worlds Beyond.

"Venus and Earth are planetary siblings," Andrews says. "They were made at the same time and made of the same stuff, yet Venus is apocalyptic and awful in every possible way. Earth is a paradise. So why do we have a paradise next to a paradise lost?"

There are two leading hypotheses. One is that the sun cooked Venus to death. The other is that volcanoes did.

Further reading: Venus could have been a paradise but turned into a hellscape. Earthlings, pay attention.

What will animals look like in the future?

It's impossible to completely predict how evolution will play out in the future, but that doesn't mean we can't try. Reporter Mandy Nguyen asked biologists and other experts to weigh in: What could animals look like a million years from now?

The experts took the question seriously. "I do think it's a really useful and important exercise," Liz Alter, professor of evolutionary biology at California State University Monterey Bay, told Nguyen. In thinking about the forces that will shape the future of life on Earth, we need to think about how humans are changing environments right now.

Further reading: The animals that may exist in a million years, imagined by biologists

What causes Alzheimer's?

There is no cure for Alzheimer's, a neurodegenerative disease that causes dementia, and no highly effective treatments, despite decades of research. Why? For one thing, scientists don't have a complete understanding of what causes the disease.

For years, the prevailing theory has been that Alzheimer's is caused by pile-ups of proteins called amyloids, which effectively create plaques in the brain. But drugs that help clear amyloids from the brain don't seem to work very well in combating the disease.

Some scientists think Alzheimer's researchers have been too focused on this one theory, at the expense of studying other potential causes, like viral infections.

Further reading: The new Alzheimer's drug that could break Medicare

How is a brainless yellow goo known as "slime mold" so smart?

Slime mold is an extremely simple organism that is also extraordinarily complex.

Technically, they are single-celled organisms. But many individual slime mold cells can fuse themselves together into a huge mass, capable of, well ... thinking.

Slime mold can solve mazes and seems to be able to make risk-benefit decisions. There's even evidence that slime mold can keep track of time. They do this all without a brain or even a single brain cell. Whatever mechanism allows slime mold to solve these problems, it's evolved in a manner different from humans. How exactly do they do this? And what can it teach us about the nature of intelligence?

Further reading: Hampshire College promoted a brainless slime mold to its faculty. And it's working on border policy.

What's the oldest possible age a human can reach?

Is the first human to live to 150 years old alive today? We don't know. On average, the human lifespan has risen over the decades in most of the world, but it's unclear if there's a ceiling. Could a human live into their second century? The technology and medicine that could make that possible may already be in development. But if it works, there will be unsettling questions for societies to answer.

Further reading: Science reporter Ferris Jabr's piece " How Long Can We Live? " for the New York Times Magazine inspired this episode.

Are long-haul symptoms unique to Covid-19?

Millions of people around the world have dealt with long-term symptoms of Covid-19 for weeks or months after their initial infection has cleared. Some scientists say these "long-haul" symptoms are not unique to Covid. Instead, they argue that many types of viral infections can leave people with long-term symptoms, which often can go under-recognized in medicine. The question is: What connects all of these long-haul symptoms?

"It has always been [and] is the case that patients who get sick experience high levels of symptoms like those described by long-Covid patients," Megan Hosey, assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, told Vox's Julia Belluz. "We have just done a terrible job of acknowledging [and] treating them."

Further reading: The nagging symptoms long-haulers experience reveal a frustrating blind spot in medicine.

Why don't doctors know more about endometriosis?

In people with endometriosis, tissue similar to what grows inside the uterus grows elsewhere in the body. It's a chronic condition that can be debilitatingly painful. Yet doctors don't fully understand what causes it, and treatment options are limited.

Worse, many people with endometriosis find that doctors can be dismissive of their concerns. It can take years to get an accurate diagnosis, and research into the condition has been poorly funded.

Vox reporter Byrd Pinkerton highlighted how frustrating it can be to suffer from an often-ignored, chronic condition. "It's just so, so, so soul-crushing to just live in this body day in and day out," one patient told Pinkerton.

Further reading: People with endometriosis experience terrible pain. There's finally a new treatment.

Why do we have anuses - or butts, for that matter?

This is a question we never even knew we wanted to answer - until we heard the Atlantic's Katherine Wu explain that "the appearance of the anus was momentous in animal evolution." Before the appearance of the anus, animals had to eat and excrete through the same hole. The anus allowed for a more efficient system, and allowed animal life on Earth to grow bigger and take on new shapes and forms.

But scientists don't have a complete picture of the evolutionary history here; they don't know which creature developed the anus first, and when. "It's so hard to study something that must be millions and millions of years old and doesn't fossilize," Wu says.

And then there's a whole other question: Why is the human butt so big, compared with other mammals?

Further reading: Katherine Wu's " The Body's Most Embarrassing Organ Is an Evolutionary Marvel," at the Atlantic.

What the heck is ball lightning?

For millennia, people have been telling stories about mysterious spheres of light that glow, crackle, and hover eerily during thunderstorms. They've been spotted in homes, in rural areas, in cities, on airplanes, and even passing through windows.

They seem out of this world, but scientists believe they are very much of this world. These apparitions are called ball lightning, and they remain one of the most mysterious weather phenomena on Earth.

Ball lightning usually only lasts for a few moments, and it's impossible to predict where and when it'll show up. You can't hunt ball lightning and reliably find it. Ball lightning finds you.

It's rare, but many people have seen it. Scientists don't know exactly where it comes from, but that hasn't stopped them from trying to make it themselves, in their labs.

Further reading: Ball lightning is real, and very rare. This is what it's like to experience it.

And so many more...

Those are just 11 of the mysteries we've explored in Unexplainable. There are so many more! They include questions like: Can we predict when tornadoes will form? Where does all the plastic go in the ocean? Why do some people think they can talk to the dead? What's the deal with "Havana syndrome"? How will the universe end? How tall is Mount Everest? Why does the placebo effect work? Find all the episodes here.
If you have ideas for topics for future shows, send us an email at unexplainable@vox.com.

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11 epic mysteries scientists totally can't solve

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To investigate some of the biggest mysteries in science, you have to venture to some pretty far-out places: the bottom of the oceans, inside the human brain, the tops of mountains, and even the end of time.

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post #7: Reason to Beliefs - patternicity

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post #7: Reason to Beliefs - patternicity

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Definition:
Patternicity is the idea of creating meaning out of something that we see in our vision and building an idea in our minds whether it's something important or completely irrelevant.

Connection:
The image above shows the idea of patternicity and creates the recognition of the connection in our minds. although it's just a pattern we still see a dragon created by could due to our minds reacting to it.

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post #8: Reason to Beliefs - Emotional Connection

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post #8: Reason to Beliefs - Emotional Connection

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Definition:
Emotional connection represents the idea of the connection and bonds created between people that are loved and cared for.

Connection:
This video explains how hard it is to overcome certain attachments due to those emotional connections and bonds that were created for people that are loved or were loved.

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Why Is It Hard To Overcome Emotional Attachment? | Sadhguru

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POST #10: CRITICAL THINKING- I CHOOSE TO GO OVER ANCIENT CIVILIZATION DUE TO IT BEING MY FAVOURITE TOPIC FROM THIS COURSE.

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POST #10: CRITICAL THINKING- I CHOOSE TO GO OVER ANCIENT CIVILIZATION DUE TO IT BEING MY FAVOURITE TOPIC FROM THIS COURSE.

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Define problem:
Ancient civilization is still a mystery to us, unexplained events and things are very interesting and fun to discuss over.

Gather Information:
The website above has some interesting documentary videos about ancient civilizations, showing people lived and how people were back then.

Evaluate Information:
The website has many videos about ancient Civilizations and I believe the website is credible due to its very informative and valuable information.

Recognize Assumptions, Emotions, and Bias:
This website does not seem to have any biases but I would not approve of all the sources in it due to me being a bit spectacle due to some of the pieces of information about ancient times.

Synthesize Evidence, Identify Alternatives:
There is much unproven evidence on the ancient civilization, we have seen and heard about my different theories and beliefs but non of them made sense to a point where a lot of people would agree with the ideas.

select the best alternative:
The Best Alternative I believe is the podcast from Joe Rogan In which Graham Hancock Explains his view about how there is some sort of explanations for ancient civilization but over time history has been forgotten so that's why we lack the information to understand things about the ancient civilizations.

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Correspondence from that time attributes the fall of Bronze Age empires, at least partially, to invasions from a band of raiders, referred to as Sea Peoples. Other scholars studying this period point to natural disasters, such as earthquakes or drought. Research recently published in PLOS ONE reveals a more insidious culprit: Climate change may have fueled drought, the invasions, and eventually the collapse of these civilizations in what historians call the Late Bronze Age crisis David Kaniewski ,Elise Van Campo,Joël Guiot,Sabine Le Burel,Thierry Otto,Cecile Baeteman, Environmental Roots of the Late Bronze Age Crisis, PLOS.

Key to the Bronze Age stability was the need for supplies of copper and tin to make bronze for weapons and tools. Copper was abundant, but the source of tin at the time was in distant Afghanistan. Long-distance trade in metals, therefore, needed to be maintained. The states in the Middle-East formed a diplomatic community, based on intensive correspondence, international treaties, dynastic intermarriage, and the exchange of gifts and courtesies. Whatever the political balance and regardless of who was fighting whom, tin for bronze was delivered.

The collapse began in 1.200 BCE and ended 300 years later with the rise of the Assyrian Empire. The first sign was the destruction of the Mycenaean citadels in Greece, most likely by northern invaders, climate change, droughts and earthquakes. It seems that dispossessed Myceneaens flooded outwards to new lands. This is probably the origin of the story of Troy. What follows in the scant records available seems to be a cascade of mass migration, disruption of trade routes and destruction. Around 1.180 BCE the Hittite Empire abruptly disappeared from history. The Egyptians fought of invasions by groups they called the "Sea Peoples", who may have been bands of displaced Myceneans and Hittites plundering together.

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Ancient History Timeline - The First Civilizations (70.000 - 400 BCE)

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Correspondence from that time attributes the fall of Bronze Age empires, at least partially, to invasions from a band of raiders, referred to as Sea Peoples. Other scholars studying this period point to natural disasters, such as earthquakes or drought.