We can look at our own history. The late physicist Gerard O'Neill said,

Greece was the cradle of western civilization.

Imagine how vulnerable the system is to deliberate attacks.

The optimism bias has been observed in many different countries in Western cultures, in non Western cultures, in females and males, in kids, in the elderly.

He likes Western culture.

Now, is there any alternative to this?

We have something precious, which goes by many names

Let's kick some ass!!!

The Atlantic.

Pears.

Swimming.

One answer lies deep in our cultural history.

Atlantic. Of course.

Where I work, in the Arab region, people are busy taking up Western innovations and changing them into things which are neither conventionally Western, nor are they traditionally Islamic.

Atlantic islands

And so, what after that?

Anyway.

Yes, pears.

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Western

I will start at 1858.

Atlantic Time New Brunswick

(Laughter)

like civilizations.

On a transatlantic flight?

And yet, despite the enormous disparities today, we have seen 200 years of remarkable progress.

Atlantic Standard Time Quebec Lower North Shore

There we are today.

And we found three.

Pacific Time west British Columbia

Mosaddeq revolution.

Muslims. Sunni as well as Shiites.

Look what happened by 2000 to the average call.

It appeals to pity. It appeals to something called charity.

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Have I? Have I been corrupted by the West?

Twinkie... yellow on the outside, white on the inside.

The Panama Canal connects the Atlantic with the Pacific.

Now, Josh Rushing actually ended up leaving the military and taking a job with Al Jazeera.

They crossed the Atlantic Ocean.

Susan Parks of Penn State has actually studied this.

So here, if you look at this poster, it has all the trappings of Western culture.

The canal connects the Atlantic with the Pacific.

We, the United States had gotten everything from

We flew across the Atlantic.