Category: Arrogance
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Cities. Smart people. Stupid people...
Cities are more crowded, more polluted, and more stressful to live in than any other kind of man-made environment in the world. But they are also where the smartest people want to live. A new study of American mobility patterns suggests that people with higher intelligence are more likely to be moving in and out…
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Old people do not use Internet. And that is a good thing!!!
Thanks to a decade of programs geared toward giving people access to the necessary technology, by 2013 some 85% of Americans were surfing the World Wide Web. But how effectively are they using it? A new survey suggests that the digital divide has been replaced by a gap in digital readiness. It found that nearly…
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3000-year-old trousers, Justin Bieber's, fashion, modern arrogance...
Mayke Wagner at the German Archaeological Institute in Berlin and her colleagues studied two pairs of woollen trousers from a cemetery in Xinjiang, China. Carbon dating shows they are about 3000 years old. Before that time, local people wore skirts and cloaks – but then horse riding became popular. "During normal movements the inner parts…
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Sand castles, dirt, God, "creation"...
For billions of years, the history of life has been written with just four letters — A, T, C and G, the labels given to the DNA subunits contained in all organisms. That alphabet has just grown longer, researchers announce, with the creation of a living cell that has two 'foreign' DNA building blocks in…
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Mississippi river and the "Change things" mania of modern civilization...
Maybe the Mississippi river delta isn't doomed after all. Upstream dams on the rivers that run through the delta were thought to be starving it of the sediment it needs to stay above sea level – but now it seems there's enough sand to feed the delta for centuries to come. (1) We spend so…
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