Новости за 21.04.2016

Interview with cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman about the mind, evolution, and quantum science. “Evolution has shaped us with perceptions that allow us to survive. They guide adaptive behaviors. But part of that involves hiding from us the stuff we don’t need to know. And that’s pretty much all of reality, whatever reality might be. If you had to spend all that time figuring it out, the tiger would eat you”

It’s an exciting sport but no longer a dangerous one. Modern kit is foolproof. If you panic during the descent, an “automatic activation device” will open your parachute in time A jump from 14,500 feet lasts six to eight minutes, including one minute of free-fall. “After leaving the plane, you accelerate to around 110 mph and the skin on your face starts stretching and distorting as you fall about 1,000 feet every six seconds”

Does Harriet Tubman deserve her place on the new $20 bill? “Hell yeah”. She was a “black, Republican, gun-toting veterans’ activist, with ninja-like spy skills and strong Christian beliefs”. She escaped from slavery, led others to freedom, fought with the Union Army, and championed women’s suffrage in her retirement. A much better model than Andrew Jackson, whose “demotion to the back of the bill is long overdue”