In case u haven’t heard…
Ze bitcoins
//Category: General stuff
//Smart no more
//Watching my fellow humans dawdling away on all their electronic devices and doohickeys whilst developing the attention span of a fruit fly, I already had the vague feeling that us humans we’re not spinning upwards anymore… well now here’s an article by Tia Ghose @ LiveScience who had the same feeling, and investigated it…
Humans may be gradually losing intelligence, according to a new study.
The study, published in the journal Trends in Genetics, argues that humans lost the evolutionary pressure to be smart once we started living in dense agricultural settlements several thousand years ago.
“The development of our intellectual abilities and the optimization of thousands of intelligence genes probably occurred in relatively non-verbal, dispersed groups of peoples [living] before our ancestors emerged from Africa,” said study author Gerald Crabtree, a researcher at Stanford University, in a statement.
Since then it’s all been downhill, Crabtree contends…
Read the whole article here http://www.livescience.com/24713-humans-losing-intelligence.html
About peanuts and monkeys
//A little story for them who haven’t yet grasped the actual meaning of Schadenfreude:
I’m a Sydney based web producer. Last week I was told that a former client got a “great cheap website deal from overseas.” I was not impressed.
But now this client’s website is down ever since the ‘great deal’ eventuated. Their website is now down for more than a week [update: 2 weeks now].
Schadenfreude is the word that describes best my current state of mind about the whole situation – I just can’t help it.
As you know, there is a saying about how to secure quality services for your business…
If its good say so
//Prof Steven Pinker about free speech, taboos and pluralistic ignorance.
The scale of the universe
//Just in case you missed it: The universe just got a bit bigger…
Stop waffling
//Digitally we’re all pretty
//How do we want to live?
Genetic Engineering solves the world food problem, soldiers operate war drones via mouse click, high-tech coatings deliver energy, nano robotics fight cancer, and the world-wide-web answers every question.
Anything else?