Go ahead and stick with your first guess. Intelligence as a cognitive ability in this particular study:
In other words, it’s the ability of a person to solve a problem in the most efficient way—not with violence, but by thinking
I tend to think this intelligence is more accurately defined as a countries population possessing the ability to dominate and manipulate - the evolutionary ability to exert control? Does that make them smart or just wealthy?
Artist Clement Valla uses discovered distortions in Google Earth to portray surrealist interpretations of landscapes, specifically bridges.
| — | Easy there killer. Apparently the Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack is a bit sensitive when it comes to the idea that cities may be a good thing. His response is full of some of the most poorly constructed argumentation I’ve read in a long while. |
United States: “Text messaging? That’s a fad. It will blow over. We are focusing on making stamps more secure and more efficient for our prediction that more people will be sending letters in the mail in the next few years.”
Snow rollers
Snow rollers form when the snow has just the right combination of sticky snow that is light enough to be moved by wind. If the wind is strong enough, it picks up snow crystals and begins to tumble them over across “downstream” snow cover. Soon a little mini snowball forms. As it grows and increases surface area, the wind gusts push sheets of snow along.
Duly noted.
Break open that piggy bank, Heritage Auction Galleries has “The World’s Largest Shark Jaws” up for sale.
Reddit interviews Ken Jennings (his screename: WatsonsBitch [ha!]). I am shocked at how hilarious this guy is.
Update: OK, this guys is too much. Somebody asked him what his favorite album is and his answer?
Favorite record: man that is tough. I’m listening to the new Destroyer record as I type this. When the laws are changed I want to marry Dan Bejar.
oh c’mon!
Towler feels like that scene in the movie Full Metal Jacket, where all the guys in the barracks wrap bars of soap in their towels and beat the crap out of Vincent D’Onofrio.
Four more years pass.
| — | Ray Towler was wrongfully imprisoned for over 30 years. Truly unimaginable in the truest sense of the word. |
