Move a mente: Vitor Hugo Teixeira at TEDxBoavista. Science, Technology, and Society. Learn Interesting Facts Every Day. Animated Infographics of how things work. Can you name the answers to these 50 riddles. The Lesson of the Monkeys. I was first told of this experiment* by a former work colleague, and later discovered this illustration of it.
It’s both illuminating and disturbing. There is a clunky word that describes this phenomenon: filiopietism, or the reverence of forebears or tradition carried to excess. But I prefer another term for it: the tragic circle. I believe many of these tragic circles exist, mostly unseen, in across all cultures and societites, causing untold harm. When discovered, they should be terminated. The lesson is as obvious as it is important: question everything.
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They cannot move, so they can only look forward. Between A and B is a brick wall which cannot be seen through. They all know that between them they are wearing four hats--two black and two white--but they do not know what color they are wearing. Each of them know where the other three men are buried. In order to avoid being shot, one of them must call out to the executioner the color of their hat.
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The Ancient Greeks believed that one fell asleep when the brain filled with blood and awakened once it drained back out. Nineteenth-century philosophers contended that sleep happened when the brain was emptied of ambitions and stimulating thoughts. “If sleep doesn’t serve an absolutely vital function, it is the greatest mistake evolution ever made,” biologist Allan Rechtschaffen once remarked.
Even today, sleep remains one of the most poorly understood human biological functions, despite some recent strides in understanding the “social jetlag” of our internal clocks and the relationship between dreaming and depression. Most of us will spend a full third of our lives asleep, and yet we don’t have the faintest idea of what it does for our bodies and our brains. Lions and gerbils sleep about thirteen hours a day.
What, then, happens as we doze off, exactly? Donating = Loving. Alan S. Kennedy's Color/Language Project - The Idiom List. Speech Accent Archive. Lucid Dreaming Frequently Asked Questions Answered by The Lucidity Institute. Alignment_chart_by_4thehorde-d37w8l2.jpg (JPEG Image, 2250 × 1800 pixels) Talks. 31 Insanely Easy And Clever DIY Projects. How Our Economy Got Messed Up. Home > Fun Section > How Our Economy Got Messed Up Linda is the proprietor of a bar in Cork.
In order to increase sales, she decides to allow her loyal customers - most of whom are unemployed alcoholics - to drink now but pay later. She keeps track of the drinks consumed on a ledger [thereby granting the customers loans]. Word gets around and as a result increasing numbers of customers flood into Linda's bar. Taking advantage of her customers' freedom from immediate payment constraints, Linda increases her prices for wine and beer, the most-consumed beverages. A young and dynamic customer service consultant at the local bank recognizes these customer debts as valuable future assets and increases Linda's borrowing limit. He sees no reason for undue concern since he has the debts of the alcoholics as collateral.
At the bank's corporate headquarters, expert bankers transform these customer assets into DRINKBONDS, ALKBONDS and PUKEBONDS. Exciting Links for Boring Days. Crazy Physics Facts. Very cool illusion: the magic of the disappearing dots. Brain Gain - 12 Advances in Bionics. Life Hacks.
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Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2012 March 12 The Scale of the Universe - Interactive Flash Animation Credit & Copyright: Cary & Michael Huang Explanation: What does the universe look like on small scales? On large scales? The Final 3 - Amazing Math Card Trick. FGFM7RCFL5R9ZVG.LARGE.jpg (JPEG Image, 676 × 1024 pixels) 4.1.5 Rob Gruhl - How to Buy a New Car - Ignite Seattle 2007. Explore more. Web pages, photos, and videos. How to Lucid Dream: 16 steps.
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Know the difference! A life lesson.