Most humans assume that we were always the ones in charge, lording over the rest of the animals. But Harari reminds us that long before we built the pyramids, wrote symphonies, or walked on the moon, there was nothing special about us. “The most important thing to know about prehistoric ...
s proposal. if the taung child, as the fossil was nicknamed, truly belonged to a hominin, surely it would have a far larger brain. its cranium was a bit bigger than that of a chimpanzee, but not by much. besides, it was generally believed that humans had evolved in asia, not africa...
After finishing with each of our morning destinations, my Dad and I returned to Imjingak Park and did a little bit of exploring there before meeting with the rest of the group that had signed up for the JSA portion of the tour. We were served a traditional Korean meal for lunch which ...
The identity of the ring maker has not yet been discovered, but it's believed that the ring was originally crafted in Asia. Next time you're at a pawn shop, take a closer look at some jewelry items. Sculptor Chauncey Bradley's Statue 'Undine Rising' 'Undine Rising from...
This one loads the keys and iterates over them instead (I did also try pulling the keys into a string[] but the difference was negligible. public static string Keys(Dictionary<string, string> dictionary) { string value; int count = 0; foreach (var key in dictionary.Keys) { value = di...
One of the great things about traveling on a shoestring on an open-ended trip on which you’re time rich (and in my case ten years ago, cash poor) is the ability to coast. Although I did some research for my year inSoutheast Asia, I also knew that I would learn a lot from the ...
This is going to become one the largest markets in the world if it isn’t already. As our AI overlords become more powerful, humans will struggle to find purpose. That’s where you can come in. The reasons I rank mental health so high are similar to the ones for crypto. It can ...
How to grow food in space if humans live there one day? For nearly 40 years, China has developed over 260 new types of seeds (种子) in space. Recently growing rice at Tiangong Space Station makes a big step forward. It can also...
It wasn’t even due to the devastation inflicted by two World Wars. Rather, apost-war bear marketfed by industrial nationalisation, high inflation, and currency depreciation did the real damage. The recovery began in 1983 and since then France has enjoyed excellent stock market returns. So th...
Dvorkin advises test-takers to resist the urge to engage in negative self-talk while prepping for the GED. "As humans, we have a tendency to feel bad when we get something wrong. I think that's drilled into us in school," he says. "In practice, the GED Testing Service doesn't know...