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Latin America: Way more violent than the U.S.0
- Culture
- June 16, 2016
InSight Crime is “a foundation dedicated to the study of the principal threat to national and citizen security in Latin America and the Caribbean: organized crime.” Toward that end, the foundation put together a fascinating chart comparing the homicide rate between the various countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. Here it is: Regarding the
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Alien Contact ‘Likely’ in 1,500 Years, Astronomer Says 2
- Science
- June 16, 2016
A Cornell student will present an analysis in San Diego on Friday that contact with intelligent life in our galaxy becomes likely in about 1,500 years. “We haven’t heard from aliens yet, as space is a big place – but that doesn’t mean no one is out there,” said Cornell student Evan Solomonides. “It’s possible
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Campus Institutes 24/7 Surveillance of Students 0
- Culture
- June 16, 2016
Always ahead of the curve when it comes to getting top academic performances, China seems to have found a new way to make their students serious about studying. Their latest secret to success? Surveillance cameras. As The Guardian describes it: “A university in central China has reportedly been using surveillance cameras to monitor virtually every
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Being ‘Wise’ is better than Being ‘Smart’1
- Culture
- June 16, 2016
David Freedman reports in this month’s issue of The Atlantic that there’s a “war on stupid people” in America today: “As recently as the 1950s, possessing only middling intelligence was not likely to severely limit your life’s trajectory. IQ wasn’t a big factor in whom you married, where you lived, or what others thought of you.
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Why Are Basic Manners Becoming So Rare?0
- Culture
- June 16, 2016
Every so often the internet plays host to a viral sensation. One of the latest hits is a twitter post from the UK, which features a snapshot a grandson took of his grandmother’s Google search. The thing that set this Google search apart from the billions of other daily searches? The grandmother prefaced her request
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Ex-CIA Officer: US needs to hear ISIS’ policy concerns 0
- Culture
- June 16, 2016
The video featuring former CIA officer Amaryllis Fox is going bonkers on Facebook. We’re talking 61 million views, 1.2 million shares, and 21,000 comments in three days. So of course I had to watch and see what the ex undercover officer had to say. Here’s the clip: I don’t know about you,
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