Muhammad Ali fought 50 men. Only one disappeared.
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Stanford’s Robert Sapolsky Lectures On Depression (Video):
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Does the SAT accurately predict college academic performance?
ristopher Berry of Wayne State University and Paul Sackett of the University of Minnesota. They pulled 5.1 million grades, from 167,000 students, spread out over 41 colleges. They also got the students’ SAT scores from the College Board, as well as the list of schools each student asked the College Board to send their SAT scores to, an indicator of which colleges they applied to. By isolating the overlaps–where students had applied to the same colleges, and taken the same…
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In-depth interview with David Simon, creator of “The Wire”:
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Why a new haircut can make a woman dramatically more or less attractive:
four separate experiments, the researchers asked university students to make paired comparisons of attractiveness between female faces with identical facial features but different eye-mouth distances and different distances between the eyes. They discovered two "golden ratios," one for length and one for width. Female faces were judged more attractive when the vertical distance between their eyes and the mouth was approximately 36 percent of the face's length, and the horizontal distance between their eyes was approximately 46 percent of…
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Which of our closely held beliefs will our grandchildren be appalled by?
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Scientific American: “Why do human testicles hang like that?”
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Why your boss is incompetent:
e idea that high-level incompetence is inevitable was formulated in the 1969 best-selling book The Peter Principle: Why things always go wrong. Its authors, psychologist Laurence Peter and playwright Raymond Hull, started from the observation that while jobs generally get more difficult the higher up any ladder you climb, most people only come equipped with a more or less fixed level of talent that corresponds to their intelligence, knowledge and energy. At some point, then, they will be promoted into…
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