Half of its carbon 14 content decays into nitrogen 14 every 5,700 years, until
Large societies cannot function with band organization and instead are complex kleptocracies.
Or just inventing a new letter (as our medieval ancestors did when they created the new letters j, u, and w).
Our cognitive abilities as adults are heavily influenced by the social environment that we experienced during childhood, making it hard to discern any influence of preexisting genetic differences.
Success is not guaranteed to well-intentioned decent people, nor necessarily denied to evil people.
Throughout human history farmers have tended to despise hunter-gatherers as primitive, hunter-gatherers have despised farmers as ignorant, and herders have despised both.
在我年轻时，同辈人都准备过上20年苦日子，如果幸运的话，晚年也许会宽裕些。现在的年轻人一早就想过好日子，谈到工作，第一个问题就是‘薪水多少？工作时间多长？有没有假期？’每一个我认识的蒙大拿农民不是担忧自己...
Invokes the supposed stimulatory effects of their homeland's cold climate and the inhibitory effects of hot, humid, tropical climates on human creativity and energy. Perhaps the seasonally variable cl...
Neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.
Almost all studies of child development emphasize the role of childhood stimulation and activity in promoting mental development, and stress the irreversible mental stunting associated with reduced ch...
As a result of that confined distribution, peoples who pride themselves on being civilized have always viewed writing as the sharpest distinction raising them above barbarians or savages.
DOMESTICABLE ANIMALS ARE ALL ALIKE; EVERY UNDOMESTICABLE animal is undomesticable in its own way.
Dat wil zeggen dat de problemen van Montana voor het grootste deel niet eenvoudigweg kunnen worden toegeschreven aan zelfzuchtige booswichten die willens en wetens profiteren van hun buren. In plaats...
Finland’s crisis (Chapter 2) exploded with the Soviet Union’s massive attack upon Finland on November 30, 1939. In the resulting Winter War, Finland was virtually abandoned by all of its potential all...
I have often asked myself, What did the Easter Islander who cut down the last palm tree say while he was doing it? Like modern loggers, did he shout Jobs, not trees!? Or: Technology will solve our pro...
Many modern alphabets, including ours, retain with minor modifications that original sequence (and, in the case of Greek, even the letters’ original names: alpha, beta, gamma, delta, and so on) over 3...
Rigidity or inflexibility can be the result of a previous history of abuse or trauma, or of an upbringing that offered a child no permission to experiment or to deviate from the family norms. Flexibil...
The whole modern world has been shaped by lopsided outcomes.
There is nothing new about prophecies to the effect that the end of the world is near if we do not repent. What is new is that such a prophecy is now true, for two obvious reasons. First, nuclear weap...
Thus, Taiwan Strait may have served as the training ground where mainland Chinese developed the open-water maritime skills that would permit them to expand over the Pacific.
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