In March 2013, President Xi Jinping proposed the vision of a global community of shared future; in September and October that year, he raised the initiatives of joining with others to build a Silk Road Economic Belt and a 21st Century Maritime Silk Road (Belt and Road Initiative, or BRI)....
(because awareness seemed to be quite a key word); sometimes the 'human potential movement' (because of its insistence that the average and the normal are actually less than average and less than normal); and sometimes just 'personal growth', because of its belief that people could continue ...
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humans, their output hovers around what we expect pictures to look like. but because they are an alien ai, fundamentally mysterious even to their creators, they restructure the new pictures in a way no human is likely to think of, filling in details most of us wouldn’t have the artistry...
A survey by the Daycare Trust finds that a full-time nursery place in England for a child aged under two, who must be intensively supervised, costs £194 ($310) per week, on average. Prices in London and the south-east are far higher. Parents in Britain spend more on child care ...
in fact. They also found that people areless happyif they are not focussing on what they are doing. Even if you are doing something unpleasant, and your mind is wandering to something nice — even then, you’ll be less happy, on average, than if you were paying attention to what you...
And that’s why all these fights matter more than your average internet nastiness. Sure, there are big egos and vast sums of money at stake. But more than that, these disputes matter when industry leaders and opinionated scientists are summoned by heads of state and lawmakers to explain what...
The average reaction time for humans to a visual stimulus is 250 ms or 1/4 of a second. People are capped at around 190-200 ms with proper training. Imagine now that your car couldreact 250 times faster than you. Imagine it could also respond to hundreds of incoming information and comm...
What are the effects of sonar on divers? This is a difficult topic to study, because you don’t want to deliberately expose humans to harmful levels of sound. There are, however, anecdotes from various navies and accidental exposures. There have also been studies on what humans can hear und...
Olympic athletesin archery and sharpshooting are also said to have superior vision, with an average visual acuity of 20/16. For those who weren’t born with such excellent sight, modern technology can help. David Williams, the William G. Allyn Professor of Medical Optics at the University of...