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Is The World Progressively Getting Dumber?
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Technology can even make a dunce cap look progressive
In our disposable world of high technology getting ever cheaper year by year, we feel a lot smarter than our forebears ever did. We have access to greater tools and more information in less time. I was just reading a June 1969 issue of LIFE magazine and an entrepreneur was talking about creating terminals that would allow you to ask any question and get the answer back on your screen, all ready to go by 1975. It took a lot longer than 1975 to get there, but now that we’ve arrived, all of can gloat at the 1969ers or 1975ers for how primitive and uneducated they were.
Scientists can back that belief up to some degree, with what is known as the Flynn effect. It has been observed that scores on IQ tests throughout the world have been going up continuously over time. Ulric Neisser, author of The Rising Curve: Long-Term gains in IQ and Related Measures, says that relative to the average IQ levels of today (100), the average IQ level of the United States in 1932 was only 80.
Cultural factors aren’t the reason. The IQ improvements are noted with infants and preschoolers at equal rates to older students and adults who’ve already had plenty of time to become acculturated. Perhaps nutrition and a change in cranial vault size lead to the improvements, yielding the IQ boost at the very youngest ages which is then maintained throughout the person’s lifetime. More stimulating environments and better schooling help, too. Even terrible schools of today would’ve had to benefit from more advanced learning materials and techniques compared with terrible schools of the past.
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Doug Knell`s Master Cleanse Day #2
Posted by: | CommentsDated 8 September 2010. Click here to see a list of complete video content on the Republic. Want to read all about Doug’s intense experience on the Master Cleanse? Good! Click here.
Doug Knell`s Master Cleanse Day #12
Posted by: | CommentsDated 18 September 2010. Click here to see a list of complete video content on the Republic. Want to read all about Doug’s intense experience on the Master Cleanse? Good! Click here.
Doug Knell crafting the salt water flush
Posted by: | CommentsDated 22 September 2010. Click here to see a list of complete video content on the Republic. Want to read all about Doug’s intense experience on the Master Cleanse? Good! Click here.
Doug Knell`s Master Cleanse Day #18
Posted by: | CommentsDated 24 September 2010. Click here to see a list of complete video content on the Republic. Want to read all about Doug’s intense experience on the Master Cleanse? Good! Click here.
Doug Knell crafting the lemonade for the Master Cleanse
Posted by: | CommentsDated 27 September 2010. Click here to see a list of complete video content on the Republic. And click here to read Doug’s kick-ass article on the Master Cleanse, okay?
Doug Knell`s Master Cleanse Day #23
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Doug Knell`s Master Cleanse Day #29
Posted by: | CommentsDated 5 October 2010. Click here to see a list of complete video content on the Republic. Want to read all about Doug’s intense experience on the Master Cleanse? Good! Click here.
The Baldness Song
Posted by: | CommentsI looked in the mirror
Guess what I saw?
The reflection that stared back at me
Revealed I’m bald, I’m bald, I’m bald, I’m bald, I’m bald
When I was twenty, I’d get ID’d
Ten years later, nursing homes were approaching me
Aging gracefully’s a hollow refrain
When you watch your hair slide down the shower drain
They polled women, and they said they don’t care
Then how come every leader since Ford’s got a full head of hair?
We can’t have our bosses be hair deficient
That’s why there’s a job in back as vice president
Meet my friend Roberto
He’s bald
You should hear the range of insults that he’s called
He could be a winner instead
If he had any hair left on his head
He’s got to do a comb over like a fool
Double O Seven’s a cool kind of guy
Would we have thought the same had he been a balding spy?
I’d wager James wouldn’t be Double O-kay
Now you get the picture why the first Bond wore a toupee
I run into a friend, she asks, “Are you doing fine?”
I’d say, “Couldn’t be better” if it weren’t for receding hairlines
The bad hair days of my youth are missed
At least I had hair then to look bad to get me pissed
Meet my friend Dmitrios
He’s bald
You should see the way his career prospects have stalled
He was in line for a raise
Till his hairline averted their gaze
He’s got to do a comb over like a fool
Rogaine wouldn’t grow it
Propecia wouldn’t slow it
There goes my hair
Life isn’t fair
I’m bald, I’m bald, I’m bald, I’m bald, I’m bald
They say the bald form the Virile Brigade
Am I supposed to feel better ‘cause when I’m bald I won’t be getting laid
Girls can’t be troubled with sticking around
They’ll beat a hasty exit like the last hairs did on my crown
I consult a doctor, he’s a transplant freak
He examines my scalp, shakes his head, the prognosis is bleak:
“Avoid mirrors unless you’re eager to cry,
And show up at auditions for the lead in The King and I.”
Meet my friend Akash
He’s bald
You can feel his sex appeal’s been mauled
Meet my friend Igor
He’s bald
Meet my friend Juha
He’s bald
Dated 14 November 2010. Click here to see a list of complete video and audio content on the Republic. To read all about Doug’s impressions of hair loss, click here
Are You Really Only As Old As You Feel?
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If it's true that you're only as old as you feel, then this guy must be in his early 300's
Who currently living on this planet hasn’t heard the statement that you are only as old as you feel? I know: deaf people. The rest of us have heard it over and over and over and over again until we wish we were deaf, too.
All of us actually have several ages. The first age is our chronological age. If you were born on January 1, 1960, then on January 1, 2005, you turned 45 – no ifs, ands, or buts. You have about as much leeway fiddling with your chronological age as you do making time run backwards. You can lie to other people about your chronological age or get a facelift to conceal it, but that doesn’t change anything. Your body is still that age.
The second age is our biological age. Basically, how well do we measure up in terms of fitness, weight, and mental acuity against an average cross section of people of similar chronological age? There are various tests you can find on the internet that purport to assess your biological age, your real age as they describe it, by asking a series of questions. For more accurate results, you could visit a medical office which could check your body for arterial plaques, bone density, body pH, skin laxity, and breathing capacity. These tests are meant to measure how fast your body is aging.
All of us chronologically age at the same rates. Any person born on January 1, 1960 is 45 years old on January 1, 2005. But we don’t biologically age identically. If you were to meet two men, both born on January 1, 1960, one could look significantly older than the other.
When someone asks us to guess his or her age, they mean their chronological age. How we assess that age, on the other hand, comes down to what I call someone’s physical age, the third type. If we saw a twenty-year old with gray hair, we’d age him as older; a sixty-year old with brunette hair and few wrinkles, as younger. A person’s physical age is usually related to his biological age, but not always. A thirty-year old man may be in fantastic physical shape and have a biological age of twenty-three, but if he’s completely bald, we’ll still guess him to be thirty-five.
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