* I lived in Vero Beach, Florida until the age of 10, when we moved to Pennsylvania. But living in Vero Beach – Dodgertown, spring training home of the Los Angeles Dodgers – instill a lifelong love of the Dodgers. Though not LA. In the early 1970s, Vero Beach had a number of retired former Brooklyn Dodgers and fans and they never quite got over the trauma of the team moving to...
read moreI believe in the wisdom of crowds.If I take one PhD in science and ask them to guess the number of pennies in a jar, it's not going to be close, but if I ask 1,000 regular people to guess, the mean average of their answers is going to be eerily accurate. read...
read moreI believe in the wisdom of crowds.If I take one PhD in science and ask them to guess the number of pennies in a jar, it's not going to be close, but if I ask 1,000 regular people to guess, the mean average of their answers is going to be eerily accurate. read...
read moreIf your child likes playing an instrument, or you want them to be well-rounded, by all means get them music lessons; but parents who bought into social science claims that it makes kids more 'intelligent' are basically wasting money.Music is great, I have played guitar for 35 years, but I never bought into the hype that music was a contributing factor in making me much smarter than...
read moreTurkey is the most secular of the Muslim countries in the world - some women wear headscarves (hijab), some do not. They are optional.So when Turkish astrophysicst Rennan Pekünlü, who teaches at Ege University in Izmir, told women they could not wear headscarves in his classroom, he was bought up on criminal charges after a woman complained. He was found guilty of violating the freedoms and...
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