The miracle of the ordinary
I had an epiphany the other day. I was driving to my home, in the inner north of Brisbane, from Archerfield on the southside of the town. The route is …
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Starving people to save them from starving
Policy-making, including in the area of environment (particularly in the area of environment) requires less emotion and more cost-benefit analysis, writes the “skeptical environmentalist” Bjorn Lomborg: When a “solution” to …
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What on Earth is a Kalashnikov electric car?
I know there is Christmas in July, but is there an April Fools’ Day in August? Russian arms maker Kalashnikov on Thursday presented its new electric car inspired by a …
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Out of your league
New research from the University of the Obvious sheds light on our online dating habits: Most people who use online dating websites seek partners who are out of their league, …
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When Blue Planet turns into Blueberry Planet
God bless science – thanks to Anders Sandberg, a computational neuroscientist at the University of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute we now know what would happened if the ball of space …
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Brain don’t lie: progressives less tolerant
A fascinating new study from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln: In a new study, University of Nebraska-Lincoln researchers found that self-identified liberals were more likely to notice when candidates deviated from the …
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