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.
Labels:
archaeology,
climate change,
consciousness,
evolution,
knowledge,
technology
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.
Labels:
economics,
empire,
government,
migration,
peace,
politics,
propaganda
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