Category: Modern Civilization
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Komodo. Staying home.
Komodo dragons live on a handful of islands in Indonesia, but their reputation has spread far and wide. Reaching lengths of up to 10 feet, the razor-toothed monitor lizards hunt deer in packs and have even attacked humans on occasion. But actually, they are real homebodies, according to a study published Wednesday in Proceedings of…
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Spreading bad ideas.
How ideas move through academia may depend on where those ideas come from - whether from big-name universities or less prestigious institutions - as much as their quality, a recent study from the University of Colorado Boulder suggests. The new research borrows a page from epidemiology, exploring how ideas might flow from university to university,…
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(Modern) Slavery...
People bound to their relationships. Doing things just to please others. Employees tired to their employers. Doing things just to satisfy them. Managers enslaved to their customers. Adhering to whatever they say as long as they are happy. CEOs enslaved to their shareholders. Making everything possible to make them happy. People bound to their desires…
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Sacred mountain. Unholy science.
A mountain which used to be sacred, is for many years now a place for science. Following a protracted legal battle and years long protests that left a state deeply divided, the Hawaii Supreme Court in November 2018 cleared the final legal hurdle for a $1.4 billion telescope project to resume construction atop the Big…
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Inherited strength & Arrogance in religion, science and elsewhere.
Nowadays we often talk about the arrogance of people in various fields. Arrogant scientists do things simply because they can do them, without thinking about the consequences. Arrogant priests are almost celebrating that they quit the church and "moved on". Arrogant managers in companies behave unacceptably without any empathy for colleagues or customers. And the…
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