“People Everywhere Are Getting Smarter”
I’ve got to claim BS on this one. There are many studies that show the opposite:
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-11/are-people-getting-dumber-one-geneticist-thinks-so
Not if Congress is any indicator.
Through our children and grandchildren, we live on into the future...whatever that will entail.
bkmk
Clearly, before 1960 when these crimes were rare, they must have had awesome bandwidth for porn.
I'll bet that is 100% due to the fact that the number of cigarette smokers has dropped dramatically since the 1960’s.
The most important risk factor for cancer is age.
As our average age goes higher, eventually, the number of cancer victims will go higher, too.
"Herbert Gintis, co-director of the Preference Network team, speculates that markets bring strangers into contact on a regular basis, encouraging people to develop more concern for others beyond their family and immediate neighbors. Instead of parochialism, being integrated into markets encourages a spirit of ecumenism."
My father, who owned and operated his own grocery store, used to tell me that "Everyone who walks through that front door is my friend!"
Example: porn and rape. Porn went up, rape went down. Fine. But during the same time span:
Conversely...
Automation is great but how exactly does that increase the number of jobs for humans? Actually we're facing a new problem: for a small but growing percentage of the population there is no job available they can do that a computerized machine can't do faster, cheaper, better.
A bright side of the offshoring of American jobs is that we have gotten used to the idea of not having one. That will enable faster robotics adoption in America. But what are we going to do with our oversupply of human pets?
That average IQs are going up substantially all around the world?
Hmmmmmm though perhaps not in California
Obama Supporters Sign Petition to Repeal the BILL OF RIGHTS
Mark Dice asks California beach goers if they'll sign a petition showing support for Obama in his quest to repeal the Bill of Rights.