If I ask you, “What do you want out of life?” and you say, “I want to be happy and have a great family and a job I like,” it’s so ubiquitous it doesn’t mean anything.
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Source: Isaac Asimov Asks, “How Do People Get New Ideas?”
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This is the deepest X-ray image ever obtained, made with over 7 million seconds of observing time with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Penn State/B.Luo et al.An…
Crowds aren’t as smart as we thought, since some people know more than others. A simple trick can find the ones you want
Source: A mathematical BS detector can boost the wisdom of crowds