Session 40

We'll have a group exercise to do in class

Uncertainty deals with possible outcomes that are unknown,
risk is a certain type of uncertainty that involves the real possibility of loss.

We will be dealing with more uncertainty than risk,
but we might consider both circumstances.

Each group will be presented with a problem to solve using both the materials provided and, if you wish, any other techological tool at your disposal. The specific task for each group will be presented along with the materials.

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condition

• you can use any technology you have at your disposal to solve the challenges, but only if you absolutely know that you can use that technology in the situation
• you will have materials at your disposal that would have within them the answers to each team's challenge
• book your train travel at the closest location after arriving at the airport, but once you arrive in the area, you have to follow the rules in your team's challenge

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Each group will explain, in detail, the steps their team took to arrive at the final destination

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SOMETHING TO TAKE AWAY

Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66

The bandleader and musician, who died on (05 September 2024) at 83, was a bridge from Brazilian music to the world — and back. [New York Times]

Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 was the lineup that would bring Mendes hits through the 1960s, with women's voices carried by breezy Brazilian rhythms. The band's international breakthrough featured the irresistible melody of the Ben Jor song “Mas Que Nada.” The song's lyrics, in Portuguese, praise the deep Afro-Brazilian tradition of samba. But Mendes's finger-snapping version, with Lani Hall's lead vocals, also uses thick, bluesy piano chords to add a touch of Nuyorican boogaloo. He remade the song repeatedly through the decades — all the way up to an EDM update this year — but his first one endures.

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