The date for domesticated kitchenware has just gotten pushed back. While it was believed that pottery dated back to 10,000 years ago, when humans changed from being hunter-gathers to farmers, the new archaeological findings push pottery well into the last Ice Age. Archeology may have brought a new anthropology puzzle, like why in Asia pottery is so far out of sync with...
read moreEugenics, the darling of elite, educated progressives 100 years ago in their quest to create Utopia, has been out of favor since those crazy Germans took it too far in the late 1930s, but there is one sound reason it found favor; why wouldn't we eliminate serious diseases beforehand instead of treating them after? read...
read moreMost people do not want war in their backyard. In geopolitics, people claim to love their neighbor but they still prepare to fight; Switzerland, the home of neutrality, still has hundreds of forts built into their mountains and young men are required to own a gun(1). read...
read moreProgressive wonderland San Francisco, the American leader in social authoritarianism, has already gone after Happy Meals, golf, goldfish, plastic bags and just about everything else. Now they want to control your water bottles. Remember when hippies used to be for more freedom? They wanted less rules, like in that “Signs” song by Five Man Electrical Band song. No YouTube video...
read moreWhy do clowns freak us out? And why are robots cute until they look too much like people, and then then they creep us out?It's our old friend the Uncanny Valley and it basically postulates that the more realistic something gets to a human likeness, the more repulsive it is. I don't mean like realistic special effects as in "Wrath Of The Titans" - that giant, flaming lava hand of...
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