What the lines represent. In the diagram below, left of the vertical line represents above average people, to the right of the vertical line are those who are below average. The line at the bottom is zero people. Most people are near the center, where the curve is highest. Few people are at the extremes, where the curve is lowest.



Conclusion. Measuring the intelligence of large groups such as race or nationality produces results that are not useful or perhaps harmful. What matters is opportunities for individuals. In comparing races or nationalities, one who is below average who belongs to the brighter group can find ego enhancement despite his inferiority to a good number of people of the other race or nationality who are brighter than he. Ego enhancement is okay, but not at the expense of others. People should find self-worth somewhere other than in considering whether they are better than others.
Early Civilizations. Some have found ego enhancement in being descended from a people who became civilized earlier than others. This is a mistake. They do not know whether their ancestor was one of the lesser in intelligence of that early civilization. And those who were earlier in creating civilization were not necessarily superior to other peoples -- although they considered themselves as such and called the not-yet-civilized an equivalent to the word barbarian. . One people who proved themselves other than inferior but who were late in creating civilization were those who occupied the islands now called Japan. Geographical accident played a role in who was civilized earlier than others. The Sumerians, for example, happened upon the Ubaidians and took to their agricultural ways, and perhaps acquired their writing from the Ubaidians. Civilization rose where a greater opportunity for agricultural abundance existed rather than among people who were superior. Happenstance brought success to those early in creating civilization, but happenstance also brought an early demise. The Sumerians soon disappeared as a people. The Egyptians were overrun by the Assyrians and others. The great Assyrian Empire and a good number of Assyrians were wiped out around 600 BC. Those who appeared superior for awhile all eventually failed as a people.

the new observations are pointing to an ever-more puzzling Universe: a Universe whose birth was dominated by mysterious dark matter and dark energy.

"We're stuck with a preposterous Universe," he says.

The observations confirm the inflation theory of the early evolution of the Universe, which describes an explosive spurt of expansion when the Universe was young.

Feynman said this about the students he met in Brazil,"
After a lot of investigation, I finally figured out that the students had memorized everything, but they didn't know what anything meant. "
I believe I have met them also...we teach fact but no time left for meaning and understanding...

I got up at 2 then pretended to sleep till 2 30 wow guess who is tired now...

If you would like to throw a brick of correction into the Massive Glass Walls of the educational machine pass this site along to every intelligent human you may happen to meet...Engines for Education by Roger Schank, an extraordinary scholar of learning and teaching...

Why aren't more people listening to this program?

A reminder of a decade I lived in once upon a time...

Is war coming soon?