December 5, 2023 9:03 AM
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🎁 Tim, here's your rundown for December
Monthly newsletter discussing André 3000's new album, creative coding course, technological innovations, and a December puzzle.
The perfect soundtrack to our current digital moment dropped last month. Was it a Bard remix of the latest AI Drake track? No. It was an entire album of flute songs written by André 3000 of Outkast. December MONTHLY NEWSLETTER The perf
December 5, 2023 9:03 AM
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notifications@account.brilliant.org
🎁 Tim, here's your rundown for December
Monthly newsletter discussing André 3000's new album, creative coding course, technological innovations, and a December puzzle.
The perfect soundtrack to our current digital moment dropped last month. Was it a Bard remix of the latest AI Drake track? No. It was an entire album of flute songs written by André 3000 of Outkast. December MONTHLY NEWSLETTER The perf
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</style></head><body style="background-color:#eee; margin:0; padding:0"><div style="display:none!important; visibility:hidden; font-size:1px; color:#ffffff; line-height:1px; max-height:0px; max-width:0px; opacity:0; overflow:hidden">The perfect soundtrack to our current digital moment dropped last month. Was it a Bard remix of the latest AI Drake track? No. It was an entire album of flute songs written by André 3000 of Outkast.</div><table class="nl-container" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color:#eee"><tbody><tr><td><table class="row row-1" align="center" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-size:auto"><tbody><tr><td><table class="row-content" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" width="480" style="background-color:#fff; background-image:url(https://braze-images.com/appboy/communication/assets/image_assets/images/656a6dc3149dcc00588eee47/original.png?1701473731); background-repeat:no-repeat; background-size:cover; border-radius:0; color:#000; width:480px; margin:0 auto"><tbody><tr><td class="column column-1" width="16.666666666666668%" style="font-weight:400; text-align:left; border-bottom:1px solid #e5e5e5; vertical-align:top; border-top:0; border-right:0; border-left:0"><div class="spacer_block block-1" style="height:60px; line-height:60px; font-size:1px"> </div></td><td class="column column-2" width="66.66666666666667%" style="font-weight:400; text-align:left; border-bottom:1px solid #e5e5e5; padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:60px; vertical-align:top; border-top:0; border-right:0; border-left:0"><table class="image_block block-1" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style=""><tbody><tr><td class="pad" style="padding-bottom:40px; padding-left:40px; padding-right:40px; width:100%"><div class="alignment" align="center" style="line-height:10px"><div style="max-width:115.99999999999999px"><img src="https://braze-images.com/appboy/communication/assets/image_assets/images/621535a839bebc0a18d79683/original.png?1645557160" width="115.99999999999999" style="display:block; height:auto; border:0; width:100%"></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="text_block block-2" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="word-break:break-word"><tbody><tr><td class="pad" style="padding-bottom:10px; padding-left:40px; padding-right:40px"><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><div class="" style="font-size:14px; font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color:#000; line-height:1.2"><p style="margin:0; font-size:14px; text-align:center"><span style="font-size:34px; color:#000000"><strong><span style="">December</span></strong></span></p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="text_block block-3" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="word-break:break-word"><tbody><tr><td class="pad" style="padding-bottom:10px; padding-left:40px; padding-right:40px"><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><div class="" style="font-size:14px; font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color:#666; line-height:1.2"><p dir="ltr" style="margin:0; font-size:14px; text-align:center"><strong>MONTHLY NEWSLETTER</strong></p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="spacer_block block-4" style="height:50px; line-height:50px; font-size:1px"> </div></td><td class="column column-3" width="16.666666666666668%" style="font-weight:400; text-align:left; border-bottom:1px solid #e5e5e5; vertical-align:top; border-top:0; border-right:0; border-left:0"><div class="spacer_block block-1" style="height:60px; line-height:60px; font-size:1px"> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="row row-2" align="center" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-size:auto"><tbody><tr><td><table class="row-content stack" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" width="480" style="background-color:#fff; background-size:auto; color:#000; width:480px; margin:0 auto"><tbody><tr><td class="column column-1" width="100%" style="font-weight:400; text-align:left; padding-left:40px; padding-right:40px; padding-top:30px; vertical-align:top; border-top:0; border-right:0; border-bottom:0; border-left:0"><table class="text_block block-1" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="word-break:break-word"><tbody><tr><td class="pad"><div style="font-family:sans-serif"><div class="" style="font-size:14px; font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color:#000; line-height:1.5"><p style="margin:0; font-size:14px; text-align:left"><span style="font-size:16px"><strong>The perfect soundtrack to our current digital moment</strong> dropped last month. Was it a Bard remix of the latest AI Drake track? No. It was an entire album of flute songs written by André 3000 of Outkast.</span></p><p style="margin:0; font-size:14px; text-align:left"> </p><p style="margin:0; font-size:14px; text-align:left"><span style="font-size:16px">F</span><span style="font-size:16px">or his first album in 17 years, the rapper swapped beats for an instrument he just picked up. “That’s one of the coolest things,” he said in an <a href="#" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration:underline; color:#2c6fef">interview</a>. “I'm actually listening to myself be a baby...at this new machine.”</span></p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="row row-3" align="center" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style=""><tbody><tr><td><table class="row-content stack" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" width="480" style="background-color:#fff; border-radius:0; color:#000; width:480px; margin:0 auto"><tbody><tr><td class="column column-1" width="33.333333333333336%" style="font-weight:400; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-top:0; border-right:0; border-bottom:0; border-left:0"><div class="spacer_block block-1" style="height:1px; line-height:1px; font-size:1px"> </div></td><td class="column column-2" width="33.333333333333336%" style="font-weight:400; text-align:left; padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:20px; vertical-align:top; border-top:0; border-right:0; border-bottom:0; border-left:0"><table class="image_block block-1" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style=""><tbody><tr><td class="pad" style="width:100%; padding-right:0; padding-left:0"><div class="alignment" align="center" style="line-height:10px"><div style="max-width:56px"><img src="https://braze-images.com/appboy/communication/assets/image_assets/images/656933e91a12fc004e9aac53/original.png?1701393384" width="56" style="display:block; height:auto; border:0; width:100%"></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td class="column column-3" width="33.333333333333336%" style="font-weight:400; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-top:0; border-right:0; border-bottom:0; border-left:0"><div class="spacer_block block-1" style="height:1px; line-height:1px; font-size:1px"> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="row row-4" align="center" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-size:auto"><tbody><tr><td><table class="row-content stack" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" width="480" style="background-color:#fff; background-size:auto; color:#000; width:480px; margin:0 auto"><tbody><tr><td class="column column-1" width="100%" style="font-weight:400; text-align:left; border-bottom:1px solid #ccc; padding-bottom:30px; padding-left:40px; padding-right:40px; vertical-align:top; border-top:0; border-right:0; border-left:0"><table class="text_block block-1" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="word-break:break-word"><tbody><tr><td class="pad"><div style="font-family:sans-serif"><div class="" style="font-size:14px; font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color:#000; line-height:1.5"><p style="margin:0; font-size:14px; text-align:left"><span style="font-size:16px"><strong>Back in the tech world,</strong> “new machines” like LLMs and AI image generators have sparked a new age of experimentation. Every day, people are using these new technologies to push the boundaries of what’s possible.</span><br><br><span style="font-size:16px">And the best part—since everyone is a baby in this brave new world, anyone can start learning (and creating) from scratch. That’s music to our ears. </span></p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="row row-5" align="center" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-size:auto"><tbody><tr><td><table class="row-content stack" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" width="480" style="background-color:#fff; background-size:auto; border-radius:0; color:#000; width:480px; margin:0 auto"><tbody><tr><td class="column column-1" width="100%" style="font-weight:400; text-align:left; border-bottom:1px solid #e5e5e5; padding-bottom:50px; padding-left:40px; padding-right:40px; padding-top:30px; vertical-align:top; border-top:0; border-right:0; border-left:0"><table class="heading_block block-1" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style=""><tbody><tr><td class="pad" style="padding-bottom:15px; text-align:center; width:100%"><h1 style="margin:0; color:#000; direction:ltr; font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:24px; font-weight:700; letter-spacing:normal; line-height:120%; text-align:center; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0"><span class="tinyMce-placeholder">Want to get creative now?</span> </h1></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="text_block block-2" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="word-break:break-word"><tbody><tr><td class="pad" style="padding-bottom:15px"><div style="font-family:sans-serif"><div class="" style="font-size:14px; font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color:#000; line-height:1.5"><p style="margin:0; font-size:14px; text-align:center"><span style="font-size:16px"><strong>Our Creative Coding course</strong> lets you generate stunning visuals while learning the basics of code.</span></p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="image_block block-3" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style=""><tbody><tr><td class="pad" style="width:100%"><div class="alignment" align="center" style="line-height:10px"><div style="max-width:400px"><a href="#" target="_blank" tabindex="-1" style="outline:none"><img src="https://braze-images.com/appboy/communication/assets/image_assets/images/6569350222d2ba004d902142/original.gif?1701393666" width="400" style="display:block; height:auto; border:0; width:100%"></a></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="button_block block-4" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style=""><tbody><tr><td class="pad" style="padding-top:20px; text-align:center"><div class="alignment" align="center"><a href="#" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none; display:block; color:#FFFFFF; background-color:#2c6fef; border-radius:6px; width:100%; border-top:0px solid #2C6FEF; font-weight:700; border-right:0px solid #2C6FEF; border-bottom:0px solid #2C6FEF; border-left:0px solid #2C6FEF; padding-top:8px; padding-bottom:8px; font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:16px; text-align:center; word-break:keep-all"><span style="padding-left:10px; padding-right:10px; font-size:16px; display:inline-block; letter-spacing:normal"><span style="word-break:break-word; line-height:32px">Check it out</span></span></a> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="row row-6" align="center" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style=""><tbody><tr><td><table class="row-content" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" width="480" style="background-color:#f7f7f7; border-radius:0; color:#000; width:480px; margin:0 auto"><tbody><tr><td class="column column-1" width="16.666666666666668%" style="font-weight:400; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-top:0; border-right:0; border-bottom:0; border-left:0"><div class="spacer_block block-1" style="height:60px; line-height:60px; font-size:1px"> </div></td><td class="column column-2" width="66.66666666666667%" style="font-weight:400; text-align:left; padding-bottom:15px; padding-top:30px; vertical-align:top; border-top:0; border-right:0; border-bottom:0; border-left:0"><table class="image_block block-1" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style=""><tbody><tr><td class="pad" style="width:100%; padding-right:0; padding-left:0"><div class="alignment" align="center" style="line-height:10px"><div style="max-width:32px"><img src="https://braze-images.com/appboy/communication/assets/image_assets/images/64c7d1645a82d6004e05a4cb/original.png?1690816868" width="32" style="display:block; height:auto; border:0; width:100%"></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="text_block block-2" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="word-break:break-word"><tbody><tr><td class="pad" style="padding-left:40px; padding-right:40px"><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><div class="" style="font-size:14px; font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color:#000; line-height:1.5"><p style="margin:0; font-size:14px; text-align:center"><span style="font-size:24px; color:#000000"><strong><span style="">Out in the World</span></strong></span></p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td class="column column-3" width="16.666666666666668%" style="font-weight:400; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-top:0; border-right:0; border-bottom:0; border-left:0"><div class="spacer_block block-1" style="height:60px; line-height:60px; font-size:1px"> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="row row-7" align="center" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color:#eee"><tbody><tr><td><table class="row-content stack" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" width="480" style="background-color:#f7f7f7; border-radius:0; color:#000; width:480px; margin:0 auto"><tbody><tr><td class="column column-1" width="100%" style="font-weight:400; text-align:left; padding-bottom:30px; padding-left:40px; padding-right:40px; vertical-align:top; border-top:0; border-right:0; border-bottom:0; border-left:0"><table class="text_block block-1" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="word-break:break-word"><tbody><tr><td class="pad" style="padding-bottom:20px"><div style="font-family:sans-serif"><div class="" style="font-size:14px; font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color:#000; line-height:1.5"><p style="margin:0; font-size:16px; text-align:left">🗣 <strong>Communication breakdown. </strong><a href="#" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration:underline; color:#2c6fef">This short quiz</a> reveals your “work age” based on how you communicate with coworkers.</p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="text_block block-2" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="word-break:break-word"><tbody><tr><td class="pad" style="padding-bottom:20px"><div style="font-family:sans-serif"><div class="" style="font-size:14px; font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color:#000; line-height:1.5"><p style="margin:0; font-size:16px; text-align:left">🤝️ <strong>Good game.</strong> Japanese researchers have finally <a href="#" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration:underline; color:#2c6fef">solved the 140-year-old game Othello</a>.</p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="text_block block-3" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="word-break:break-word"><tbody><tr><td class="pad" style="padding-bottom:20px"><div style="font-family:sans-serif"><div class="" style="font-size:14px; font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color:#000; line-height:1.5"><p style="margin:0; font-size:16px; text-align:left">🦀 <strong>Simple minds.</strong> <a href="#" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration:underline; color:#2c6fef">This article</a> makes the case that, when it comes to studying consciousness, we shouldn’t overthink it.</p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="text_block block-4" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="word-break:break-word"><tbody><tr><td class="pad" style="padding-bottom:20px"><div style="font-family:sans-serif"><div class="" style="font-size:14px; font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color:#000; line-height:1.5"><p style="margin:0; font-size:16px">⛄️<strong> Hacky holidays.</strong> Enjoy a month of programming puzzles with the <a href="#" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration:underline; color:#2c6fef">advent of code</a>.</p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="text_block block-5" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="word-break:break-word"><tbody><tr><td class="pad"><div style="font-family:sans-serif"><div class="" style="font-size:14px; font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color:#000; line-height:1.5"><p style="margin:0; font-size:16px">📸 <strong>Shake it like a...</strong> <a href="#" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration:underline; color:#2c6fef">This documentary</a> details the process of engineering the Polaroid I-2. </p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="row row-8" align="center" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style=""><tbody><tr><td><table class="row-content stack" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" width="480" style="background-color:#d1ece5; 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padding-top:20px; width:100%; padding-right:0; padding-left:0"><div class="alignment" align="center" style="line-height:10px"><div style="max-width:240px"><img src="https://braze-images.com/appboy/communication/assets/image_assets/images/656933e941e73d004d06c8f3/original.png?1701393385" width="240" style="display:block; height:auto; border:0; width:100%"></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="paragraph_block block-3" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="word-break:break-word"><tbody><tr><td class="pad"><div style="color:#000; direction:ltr; font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:16px; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:0; line-height:150%; text-align:left"><p style="margin:0; margin-bottom:0">Starting on the first day of autumn, leaves begin to fall. Suppose the probability that any given leaf falls starts at 1% per day and rises by 1% every day (so, on the first day it’s 1%, on the second 2%, and so on) until all the leaves have fallen.</p><p style="margin:0"><br>If the tree starts with 1,000,000 leaves, <strong>on what day will the greatest number of leaves fall off the tree, and what will that number of leaves be?</strong></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="button_block block-4" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style=""><tbody><tr><td class="pad" style="padding-top:20px; text-align:center"><div class="alignment" align="center"><a href="#" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none; display:block; color:#FFFFFF; background-color:#000000; border-radius:6px; width:100%; border-top:0px solid #2C6FEF; font-weight:700; border-right:0px solid #2C6FEF; border-bottom:0px solid #2C6FEF; border-left:0px solid #2C6FEF; padding-top:8px; padding-bottom:8px; font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; 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padding-top:30px; text-align:center; width:100%"><h3 style="margin:0; color:#000; direction:ltr; font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:20px; font-weight:700; letter-spacing:normal; line-height:120%; text-align:center; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0"><span class="tinyMce-placeholder">Solution to November's puzzle</span></h3></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="paragraph_block block-2" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="word-break:break-word"><tbody><tr><td class="pad"><div style="color:#000; direction:ltr; font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:16px; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:0; line-height:150%; text-align:left"><p style="margin:0; margin-bottom:0"><em>This puzzle stumped everyone! Click the solution link below to see how it was solved.</em></p><p style="margin:0; margin-bottom:0"> </p><p style="margin:0"><strong>Last month, we added our own twist to Sam Bankman-Fried’s hypothetical bet.</strong> Each Earth had probability <em>x</em> to double, and probability (1-<em>x</em>) to get wiped out. Further, once a year, the same bet would be taken for all resulting duplicated Earths.<br><br>We asked, how big would <em>x</em> have to be to have a 50% chance of everlasting life in the universe? The answer was <em>x</em> = 2/3, or approximately 0.67. The key was noticing the recursive structure of the bet.<br><br>Check out the full solution <a href="#" target="_blank" data-mce-attribute-name-1="" data-mce-attribute-value-1="" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration:underline; color:#2c6fef">here</a>.</p></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="row row-12" align="center" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style=""><tbody><tr><td><table class="row-content" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" width="480" style="background-color:#f7f7f7; border-radius:0; color:#000; width:480px; margin:0 auto"><tbody><tr><td class="column column-1" width="16.666666666666668%" style="font-weight:400; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-top:0; border-right:0; border-bottom:0; border-left:0"><div class="spacer_block block-1" style="height:60px; line-height:60px; font-size:1px"> </div></td><td class="column column-2" width="66.66666666666667%" style="font-weight:400; text-align:left; padding-bottom:15px; padding-top:30px; vertical-align:top; border-top:0; border-right:0; border-bottom:0; border-left:0"><table class="image_block block-1" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style=""><tbody><tr><td class="pad" style="width:100%; padding-right:0; padding-left:0"><div class="alignment" align="center" style="line-height:10px"><div style="max-width:32px"><img src="https://braze-images.com/appboy/communication/assets/image_assets/images/64c7d164f4a24b004f2edbb1/original.png?1690816868" width="32" style="display:block; height:auto; border:0; width:100%"></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="text_block block-2" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="word-break:break-word"><tbody><tr><td class="pad" style="padding-left:40px; padding-right:40px"><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><div class="" style="font-size:14px; font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color:#000; line-height:1.5"><p style="margin:0; font-size:14px; text-align:center"><span style="font-size:20px; color:#000000"><strong><span style="">See you next month!</span></strong></span></p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td class="column column-3" width="16.666666666666668%" style="font-weight:400; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-top:0; border-right:0; border-bottom:0; border-left:0"><div class="spacer_block block-1" style="height:60px; line-height:60px; font-size:1px"> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="row row-13" align="center" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-size:auto"><tbody><tr><td><table class="row-content stack" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" width="480" style="background-color:#f7f7f7; color:#000; background-size:auto; border-bottom:0 solid #000; border-left:0 solid #000; border-radius:0; border-right:0 solid #000; border-top:0 solid #000; width:480px; margin:0 auto"><tbody><tr><td class="column column-1" width="100%" style="font-weight:400; text-align:left; padding-bottom:30px; padding-left:40px; padding-right:40px; vertical-align:top; border-top:0; border-right:0; border-bottom:0; border-left:0"><table class="text_block block-1" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="word-break:break-word"><tbody><tr><td class="pad" style="padding-bottom:5px"><div style="font-family:sans-serif"><div class="" style="font-size:14px; font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color:#000; line-height:1.5"><p style="margin:0; text-align:center"><span style="font-size:16px">"All life is an experiment. 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