Monday, 30 November 2015

Inside the once tranquil Swedish village at war with migrants

'The village integration works badly because people don't want immigrants in the village. This is no longer a happy community, it's divided and is not a pleasant place to live.'

Filipino Entrepreneur Creates Revolutionary Lamp That Runs on Saltwater

“Just imagine, if we’re able to power a whole island using ocean water. That’s what we’re trying to aim for.”

Sunday, 29 November 2015

College Students Say Remembering 9/11 Is Offensive to Muslims

Of course, it’s not just Muslim students’ whose feelings are zealously guarded by the new regime of campus censors. Students at university after university are demanding the right to turn campus spaces—even public spaces—into “safe” spaces: zones of total emotional and intellectual coddling. What’s more, these students assert that administrators are required to enforce these safe spaces, even at the expense of free speech.

Saturday, 28 November 2015

How creative sparks help humans make new tools

In the model, certain knowledge can be concentrated in a subset of a population, such as medicine men and medicine women. This concentration of knowledge subsequently leads to increased susceptibility to the loss of this knowledge.

Nature: An Antidote to Crime and Isolation

Weinstein explains that contact with nature accounts for five percent of the variance, or variation, in crimes rates between areas. That’s a significant amount, considering that previous research has shown that socio-economic deprivation (which is basically a fancy way of saying poverty) also accounts for five percent of the variance in crime rates.

The Pilgrims Were Definitely Not Like Modern-Day Refugees

If you have any liberal relatives or friends coming over for your Thursday feast, they’re going to relish the chance to tell everyone that the Pilgrims were refugees too — and hope that statement decimates all opposing view points.

Israeli Colonel Caught with IS Pants Down

It’s becoming increasingly clear that at least a faction in the Obama Administration has played a very dirty behind-the-scenes role in supporting IS in order to advance the removal of Syrian President Bashar al Assad and pave the way for what inevitably would be a Libya-style chaos and destruction which would make the present Syrian refugee crisis in Europe a mere warmup by comparison.