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Neanderthal King: A Medieval Epic Adventure: Part Three

Neanderthal King: A Medieval Epic Adventure: Part Three

Imagine Game of Thrones, but Neanderthals never died off

It’s 1107, and the once-great Neanderthal empire is no more, laid waste by the dark Sapien king, Isaac, the same bastard who slaughtered the Thal queen’s young heirs. A brutal reversal of medieval power forged in blood and fueled by Sap ingenuity.

But one babe escaped the mad king’s wrath.

Raised the son of a simple Thal herder, Maralek’s a…

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Neanderthal King: A Medieval Epic Adventure: Part One

Neanderthal King: A Medieval Epic Adventure: Part One

Imagine Game of Thrones, but Neanderthals never died off It’s 1107, and the once-great Neanderthal empire is no more, laid waste by the dark Sapien king, Isaac, the same bastard who slaughtered the Thal queen’s young heirs. A brutal reversal of medieval power forged in blood and fueled by Sap ingenuity. But one babe escaped the mad king’s wrath. Raised the son of a simple Thal herder,…

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Neanderthal King: A Medieval Epic Adventure: Part One

Neanderthal King: A Medieval Epic Adventure: Part One

Imagine Game of Thrones, but Neanderthals never died off

It’s 1107, and the once-great Neanderthal empire is no more, laid waste by the dark Sapien king, Isaac, the same bastard who slaughtered the Thal queen’s young heirs. A brutal reversal of medieval power forged in blood and fueled by Sap ingenuity.

But one babe escaped the mad king’s wrath.

Raised the son of a simple Thal herder,…

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190. Rewriting the Black American Dream to Building Better Communities at Home | Majora Carter

Rewriting the #Black #AmericanDream to Building Better Communities at Home @MajoraCarter #blacklivesmatter #georgefloyd #racism #inequality

Majora Carter (@MajoraCarter) is an American urban revitalization strategist and broadcast producer/host from the South Bronx in New York whose career has spanned environment, economy, social mobility, and real estate development.

Majora’s work has won major awards including a MacArthur ‘genius’ Grant, a Peabody Award, the Rudy Bruner Award Silver Medal, nine honorary doctorates, and is quoted…

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189. Objectivity is a Fictitious Thing We Like to Pretend Exists | Charles Arthur

Objectivity is a Fictitious Thing We Like to Pretend Exists @CharlesArthur #media #socialmedia #news #data #privacy

Charles Arthur (@CharlesArthur) is a former technology editor of the Guardian and the author of Cyber Wars: Hacks That Shocked the Business World covering some of the world’s biggest cyber attacks. He also played a large role in the UK’s Free Our Data campaign to persuade the government to make non-personal government data available for free reuse.

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184. Investing in Meditation, Mindfulness, Psychedelics for a Better Mental Health Future | Charlie Hartwell

#Investing in #Meditation, #Mindfulness, #Psychedelics for a Better #MentalHealth Future | @shiftit_inst @

Charlie Hartwell (@ShiftIt_Inst) is an Operating Partner at the Bridge Builders Collaborative, a consumer health tech investment group that invested early in Pear Therapeutics, Insight Timer and Headspace, in addition to being a “Change Agent” focused on igniting consciousness, mindfulness, and creating a more connected human world.

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183. Cory Doctorow on Political Fallout of COVID-19, Possible Economic and Healthcare Changes, and Why It's Time for a New Deal to Overcome Late-Stage Capitalism

@Doctorow on Political Fallout of #COVID_19, Possible Economic and #Healthcare Changes, and Why It's Time for a #GreenNewDeal to Overcome #LateStageCapitalism #covid #privacy #surveillance

Cory Doctorow (@doctorow) is the best selling science fiction author, blogger, and technology activist. He is the co-editor of the popular weblog Boing Boing), a contributor to many magazines, websites, and newspapers and a special consultant to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org), a non-profit civil liberties group that defends freedom in technology law, policy, standards, and treaties.…

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REPLAY: Douglas Rushkoff - Avoiding Apocalypse by Doubling Down on Team Human and Reinventing 21st Century Business

REPLAY: Douglas Rushkoff – Avoiding Apocalypse by Doubling Down on Team Human and Reinventing 21st Century Business

Douglas Rushkoff (@rushkoff) is an author, teacher, and documentarian who studies human autonomy in a digital age. He has been named one of the “world’s ten most influential intellectuals” by MIT.

Douglas’ work explores how different technological environments change our relationship to narrative, money, power, and one another. He coined such concepts as “viral media” and “social currency,” and…

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181. The Divergence of AR and VR and Connectivity, Collaboration and Entertainment in a Post COVID World | Tony Parisi

The Divergence of #AR and #VR and Connectivity, Collaboration and Entertainment in a Post #COVID World @auradeluxe @unity3d

Tony Parisi (@auradeluxe) is a virtual reality pioneer, serial entrepreneur, and angel investor. He co-created several, 3D graphics standards, is Head of AR/VR Ad Innovation at Unity Technologies, and author several O’Reilly Media books on virtual reality and WebGL.

Today, Tony is has a leading spokesman for the immersive industry and was recently named one of Next Reality’s 30 People to Watch…

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180. Modeling COVID after the Polio Epidemic and What a Post Corona Future Looks Like | Mary Robinette Kowal

Mary Robinette Kowal (@robinettekowal) is a Nebula- and Hugo-award winning science fiction and fantasy author, a puppeteer, and podcaster. In addition The Calculating Stars: A Lady Astronaut Novelwhich was nominated for a Hugo in 2019 (sci-fi book of the year award), she’s also the President of the Science Fiction Writers of America, and very involved in the push for diversity in science, STEM,…

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179. Leading Spain in Paris Accords and Pushing Climate Policy Today | Miguel Arias Cañete

Leading Spain in #ParisAccords and Pushing #Climate Policy Today with @mac_europa @cgf_uk #climatechange #renewables #energy #co2 #pollution

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Miguel Arias Cañete (@mac_europa) was the European Commissioner for Climate Action and Energy and led the EU negotiations of the Paris Agreement.

He’s now involved with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation which has launched the Prize for Humanity, an annual €1m award for people or organizations from all over the world focused on mitigation of, and adaptation to climate change.

Miguel has…

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Cynetic Wolf Excerpt - My Dystopian Sci-Fi Technothriller

Cynetic Wolf Excerpt - My #Dystopian #SciFi #Technothriller - 1st Two Chapters of Audiobook #FREE #FREEbook on #Kindle #kindleselect

Hey guys, my book is finally live! You can grab it FREE for two days (3/26-27) at mattwardwrites.com/cynetic

After this Friday, it’ll be $2.99 and up so I recommend getting it while the getting’s good. Here’s the blurb.

It’s 2096, sixty years after ninety percent died from a man-made Bioplague. Humanity has splintered into four unequal subspecies: immortals, cyborgs, enhancers, and subservient…

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My Post-Bioplague Dystopian Audiobook: Cynetic Wolf - 1st Two Chapters for your COVID-19 Quarantine

My Post-Bioplague #Dystopian #Audiobook: Cynetic Wolf - 1st Two Chapters for your #COVID19 #Quarantine #scifi #sciencefiction #coronavirus

Hey guys, my book is finally about to be published! You can grab it FREE for two days (3/26-27) at mattwardwrites.com/cynetic (link won’t activate until 3/26).

After this Friday, it’ll be $2.99 and up so I recommend getting it while the getting’s good. Here’s the blurb.

It’s 2096, sixty years after ninety percent died from a man-made Bioplague. Humanity has splintered into four unequal…

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REPLAY: Bruce Schneier - Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security, Privacy, Social Media and Politics

@SchneierBlog - Click Here to Kill Everybody: #Security, #Privacy, #SocialMedia and #Politics

 Bruce Schneier (@schneierblog) is an internationally renowned security technologist, called a “security guru” by The Economist. He is the author of 13 books–including: Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World and Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-connected World.This episode is a reairing of another we broadcast long ago which…

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175. Accelerated Climate Change, the Melt and Science Fiction's Role in Saving Humanity | KE Lanning

Accelerated #ClimateChange, the Melt and #ScienceFiction's Role in Saving Humanity @KELanningAuthor #climate #scifi #environment

KE Lanning (@kelanningauthor) is an astrophysicist and sci-fi/speculative fiction author of The Melt Trilogy, a series of dystopian fiction novels set in in a world where climate came much faster than anticipated. She also interviews notable science fiction authors and futurists for FUTURISM magazine.

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174. Blockchain, Building Recycled Plastic Homes and Redistributing Wealth | Morten Bove

Creating Homes from #Recycled #Plastic Waste and Redistributing #Wealth with @mbove #homeownership #socialentrepreneurship #startups #blockchain

Morten Bove (@mbove) is the founder and CEO of Wohn Homes, a Danish startup revolutionizing modular, eco-friendly affordable housing designed with tokenized ownership for students. Morten also runs Block21, a blockchain-focused tech podcast on the future of decentralization.

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173. Eco-Friendly B Corps, Dropping Disposables and Building a More Equitable World for All | Carinne Chambers-Saini

#Eco-Friendly #BCorps, Dropping Disposables and Building a More Equitable World for All | @CarinneChambers @TheDivaCup #ecotech #sustainable #socialentrepreneurship

Carinne Chambers-Saini (@carinnechambers) is the founder and CEO of DivaCup, an eco-tech startup focused on making feminine health more sustainable. She’s been awarded the EY Entrepreneur of The Year for Sustainable Products and Services, been recognized as one of Canada’s 40 under 40, and her company, Diva has ranked 138 on the 2018 GROWTH 500 list and 103 on the 2017 PROFIT 500 list, along…

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