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How to keep chicken out of your blood (why cereals are bad for you)

{A conversation I’ll have with my son in 12 years} Source My dear son, back in the year 2010 I was already planning a conversation I wanted to have with you during dinner in the year 2023 or so: Me: Allergies are a reaction from the immune system when it recognizes harmless molecules (chicken) as [ READ MORE ]

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Why the future is bright and stealing from Microsoft is not that bad

I am very optimistic for the future of our race. I believe from now on it will just get better and better, on average. Every kind of ethical code, every kind of event in our recorded history as a species points to one inevitable fact; humans want to have more. This is great news. Because [ READ MORE ]

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Arab nations

Hello my son, you might ask yourself why the hell am I telling you about the Arab culture. Well I suppose you reading this means, it is ca. 2030 by now and you have heard everything about 2001. When a few guys with Arab background decided to use 4 planes and kill Americans. From that [ READ MORE ]

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Why Japanese ganbaru

It does not pay of to be a CEO in Japan.In Japan the best in whatever field does not earn much more than the average. The opposite is true for the US. Where a CEO earns 600 times more than the average worker in the company.The best gets much more than the average, in every [ READ MORE ]

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iPhone apps showed me the real value of fun

I might be one of many who did not spend money on software for several years, but when I got an iPhone this changed completely. Recently I discovered, so far I spend about 150€ ( = 200 $) on iPhone apps. That is a lot of money. But it is a little price compared to [ READ MORE ]

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How I lost 3 kilos in 10 days

Well I improved my BMI for a whole point and reached my ideal weight (68 kilos = 150 lbs). For the first time in my life I understood the joy of closing that top button of my old jeans. How I got there: Every day I make push-ups until my arms shake. I stop eating [ READ MORE ]

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How to choose gifts for the female members of our species

There are 2 strategies for the exchange of gifts. strategy is evaluating the gift for its practical value. strategy is evaluating the gift for its socially perceived / implied value. Lets say a few thousand years ago a hunter would receive a great new spear. Now he can hunt 10%  more and is more likely [ READ MORE ]

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ivy league for free

  • January 16th, 2010
  • Posted in edu

Personal favorite online courses for free: Name Format Time Tests Rating Financial Markets Video & Text 26 h 2 5 Cognitive Neuroscience Audio & PPT 26 h 0 [ READ MORE ]

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Stop reading books, surf the net

Reading a book is good for your brain (left image) Surfing the Internet is much better for your brain (right image) As older people increase their cognitive abilities drastically by only surfing the internet for one week. All of us web-users are rewiring our brains improving abilities like multi-tasking, complex reasoning and decision-making[ READ MORE ]

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Unemployment vs. Vacacenies vs. Inflation

In his article arguing against an natural rate of unemployment, Mr. Farmer created an great graph showing the Beveridge curve develop over the past 50 years[ READ MORE ]