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Maternal Age And IQ

A reader reveals a fascinating angle to the latest round of the Bell Curve debate: As a black man, I wish the Race vs. IQ debate were not so taboo; I feel that there are many angles to the debate that don’t get addressed due to the highly charged nature of this topic. For instance, […]

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Choose an Uncomfortable Seat to Stay Awake in Meetings

We all know how rough it is to stay awake in a boring meeting, whether it's a big company-wide event or just a small team discussion that's just a little too long. Find a seat where you have to support your weight a bit—that'll keep you on your toes, and get your attention focused on comfort instead of fighting to keep your eyes open.

Extending the Political Satire of Gulliver’s Travels: Mistress Masham’s Repose

Some scholars have suggested that Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels is—ahem!—nothing but a bitter satire on Human Politicks and the Despicable Ways of Human Nature. Others, such as the Learned Scholar T. H. White, perhaps best known for bringing us the True History of King Arthur and His Issues With Metal Objects Most Unaccountably Left in Stones, know better, and have Continued Researching some of the Remarkable People and Their Animals Encountered by Gulliver.

In Mistress Masham’s Repose , the Most Learned Mr. T. H. White takes the time to share his most Recent Researches with us, letting us know the eventual fate of that Most Remarkable Race, the Lilliputians.

[Look, the entire freaking book is like that.]

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Scientists Discover the First Protein That Can Edit Other Proteins

A new graphic shows how that DNA isn't the only thing in charge of handing out code for proteins.

The post Scientists Discover the First Protein That Can Edit Other Proteins appeared first on WIRED.

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US Supreme Court moving to digital filing system in 2016

The Supreme Court of the US has stuck stubbornly to its ways. No cameras in the court room, a paper filing system, those robes... which are so last century. That may begin to change over the next couple of years however. In a year-end report released...

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