1943 Bohr was tipped off by the Swedish ambassador in Copenhagen that he faced immediate arrest as part of the plan to deport all of Denmark’s Jews.
They required three thousand Jews, the man said, and the line had apparently held 3,004.
Touch is our most highly developed sense when we are born, and it remains a fundamental mode of communication throughout a baby's first year and an important influence throughout a person's life.
People expect good luck to follow bad luck, or they worry that bad will follow good.
We unfortunately seem to be unconsciously biased against those in society who come out on the bottom. We
One of the things your unconscious mind does for you - and it's a great gift - is it gives you extra courage to view the outer world and it does that by giving you an extra-special view of yourself.
You want to succeed, double your failure rate. I
It is not uncommon for experts in DNA analysis to testify at a criminal trial that a DNA sample taken from a crime scene matches that taken from a suspect. How certain are such matches? When DNA evide...
Born, barred from teaching and worried about the ongoing harassment of his children, also immediately sought to leave Germany.
The invention of mummification. This was believed to be the key to a happy afterlife; certainly there were no disgruntled customers coming back to say otherwise.
Today we call our subspecies Homo sapiens sapiens, or Wise, Wise Man.
We all understand that genius doesn’t guarantee success, but it’s seductive to assume that success must come from genius.
The Drunkard’s walk: how randomness rules our lives / Leonard Mlodinow.
Today we know that gas as carbon dioxide. Priestley had inadvertently invented a way to create carbonated beverages, but alas, since he was a man of modest means, he didn’t commercialize his invention...
Heisenberg, who was attempting to hold German physics together, resented Schrödinger’s departure, since he was neither Jewish nor otherwise endangered.
IBM pioneer Thomas Watson said, If you want to succeed, double your failure rate. I
People seemed to decide how much to eat based on box size as much as taste.
Our subliminal mental processes operate outside awareness because they arise in these portions of our mind that are inaccessible to our conscious self their inaccessibility is due to the architecture...
If a lecture was not interesting or proceeded too slowly or too quickly, they would jeer and become rowdy.
We unfortunately seem to be unconsciously biased against those in the society who come out on the bottom.
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