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Tom Green on Instagram: "Sometimes, when I look back through the archives of my old web television show, I feel a real sense of sadness. I’m often seeing friends who have since passed away. Val Kilmer was one of them. Val would often come up to my house to do the web show. I think he was genuinely intrigued by what we were doing — the technology, the independence, and the idea that we were finding a way to make media on our own, outside the mainstream system. He was a forward-thinking artist, a

Father of modern philosophy. René Descartes was a 17th-century French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist often called the “Father of Modern Philosophy.” He believed that true knowledge had to be built on clear, rational thinking rather than tradition or assumptions. His most famous idea is “Cogito, ergo sum” — “I think, therefore I am” — which means that the act of thinking proves your own existence. Descartes also made huge contributions to mathematics by creating analytic geometry, whic