They promised to build hundreds of thousands of homes for people left homeless by the devastating earthquake, but they have massively failed. To date, they have built only six houses, although about half a billion…
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Researchers Reveal the Real Reason You’re Addicted to Your Phone (and What You Can Do About It)
Use this technique to end the war with your thoughts. Do you ever wonder why it’s so difficult to put down your phone? The conventional answer is that you’re addicted. You’re hooked on distraction both because of their…
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A Bold New Theory Proposes That Humans Tamed Themselves
A leading anthropologist suggests that protohumans became domesticated by killing off violent males. The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution BY RICHARD WRANGHAM PANTHEON When i was studying for my doctorate, in the…
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The EU has revealed its true nature: a federalist monster that will not stop until nations are abolished
At the entrance to the Visitors Centre of the European Parliament, there is a plaque with these words: “National sovereignty is the root cause of the most crying evils of our times….The only final remedy…
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What Historical Figures Really Looked Like Will Change How You Perceive The Past
We all have a general idea of what people like Julius Caesar and George Washington looked like. The images of these historical figures and more have been immortalized with the help of paintings, portraits, and…
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11-Year-Old Iranian Girl Gets the Highest Mensa IQ Score, Beating Einstein, Hawking
An 11-year-old Iranian high school student in the United Kingdom is making headlines for getting a remarkable result on her Mensa IQ test that even surpasses those of great thinkers such as Albert Einstein and…
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Wisconsin workers embedded with microchips
A local firm here made good today on its vow to embed employees with microchips. Sporting “I Got Chipped” T-shirts, some 40 workers at Three Square Market, a firm that makes cafeteria kiosks aimed at…
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The FBI is calling conspiracy theories a terrorism threat — Here’s what that means for Facebook, others
The FBI has pegged “conspiracy theory-driven domestic extremists” as a burgeoning terrorist threat for the U.S., raising questions about the legal implications for websites where fringe groups sow those conspiracies. In an exclusive article for Yahoo…
In China, scoring citizens’ behavior is official government policy. U.S. companies are increasingly doing something similar, outside the law. Have you heard about China’s social credit system? It’s a technology-enabled, surveillance-based nationwide program designed to nudge…
Conspiracy theories involving the Clintons are circulating on social media. Jeffrey Epstein, the multimillionaire accused of sex trafficking, was found dead in his New York jail cell Saturday morning in an apparent suicide. Details of his death…