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It occurs to me that perhaps leader-seeking is a hard wired human trait, favored by natural selection perhaps because beneficial cooperation works better with a leader than without (the committee problem). But perhaps it’s a promiscuous urge, and there is…
The New York Times reports the Platypus Genome has been decoded. “It was quite a difficult thing,” said Jennifer Marshall Graves of Australian National University in Canberra, who led part of the analysis after the St. Louis team derived the…
Quotes of the Day – The Quotations Page: “Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no…
It’s better to be shot out of a cannon than to be squeezed from a tube.–Koffskey
59-year-old Akira Haraguchi of Japan recently broke the world record for the recited number of digits of Pi. Haraguchi-san recited an amazing 83,431 digits of Pi during a 13-hour overnight stretch. See The PI World Ranking List for more records…
The Mediocrity Revolution
It is the conventional wisdom that there is a productivity revolution afoot in the global economy, and that America is at its forefront. One imagines that, if everyone is more productive, goods and services should be less costly, and everyone…