At Smarter every day, Destin shows us how to unlearn to ride a bike. This video is mind-altering.
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15 words you should eliminate from your vocabulary to sound smarter
Here are 15 words to avoid.
Super hydrophobic material
This is one of the neatest technologies ever. U of R researchers can etch a surface with a laser to create a material that repels water. Watch the video and see water bouncing off of the surface.
The Time Everyone “Corrected” the World’s Smartest Woman
The Monty Hall Problem illustrates how probability is often unintuitive. This article tells an interesting story about how Marilyn vos Savant (of “Ask Marilyn”) schooled many educated and math-savvy people. Her answer is correct but because it is not intuitive many people think the answer is wrong. It is humous to see people using their PhD as an appeal to authority to dismiss her solution. Math should be argued with logic.
The looming student loan bubble
This graph frighteningly displays the problem we have created. There are more in the full article. Total student loan debt, which is greater than one trillion dollars, has increase 4 fold in the last ten years. This is a bubble. It will burst.
