So, it appears that a study has been performed by Satoshi Kanazawa, an evolutionary psychologist at the London School of Economics and Political Science, that states that “statistically significantly more likely to exhibit social values and religious and political preferences that are novel to the human species in evolutionary history”. Basically, people who veer away from evolutionary/social norms is more likely to be a more intelligent person.

People who always fall back on God as an answer to everything will not seek out an answer to the problem. Kanazawa stated that “humans are evolutionarily designed to be paranoid, and they believe in God because they are paranoid.” Teenagers ratioed 103/97 in IQ scores for no God/God believers.

Past social norms was to worry about one’s self and family first, but a lot more people now have been leaning towards helping others. The latter has shown to have a higher ratio of IQ scores as well…106/95 to be exact.

And men used to have multiple mates, although women generally kept the same mate. So, men who now keep just one mate have shown higher intellect.

So, according to this report, if you are a monogamous, liberal, atheist male, you should be brilliant! Well, I guess I’m getting there…

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I don’t normally promote bath products for men, but if a man absolutely had to have a bathtub playtoy, what better way than a bath fizzer shaped like a bomb, torpedo or mine? Now, it says these things are scented, but I hate to think of what…gunpowder? Sweat? Napalm in the morning? Please tell me it’s anything except tulips or cookies.

Also, I’d hate to give one of these as a gift to an old war tattered veteran and have a heart attack in the bath tub while reliving some World War II memory. Let’s hope not at least.

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Over at Information is Beautiful, they have generated a visual timeline of how science fiction movies interact with each other. It is quite interesting to see all the paradoxes in the timelines, and yet funniest is the Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure follow through. I have included a copy of the image, but you are probably best off going to their website to see it in all its glorious detail!

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Most of the time, XKCD‘s comics are way too high brow for the normal person to understand (and I actually lump myself into that group!), but today’s just really struck a funny chord with me. Just think, mixing Sauron and Beyonce in the same comic takes skill, just pure skill!

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Thought I would hop back on to good ol’ Enginerdiness and try my hand at it again. Cruising along, I found a post from Scott Johnson at Extralife that contained something…well…interesting. You just have to take a look at it yourself.

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…considering the head of the Doctor’s arch nemesis was found in a lake in the UK!

Marc Oakland was cleaning a pond in Hampshire when he stumbled the head of a Dalek…the famous enemy of the UK’s Doctor Who television series. To me, this proves one of two things…either this is a leftover prop from the show that gone thrown in the swamp, or the Daleks really do exist and this is one that got lost and died in the swamp. I vote for the latter…which makes me scared, really scared.

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I saw this video and was quite impressed. I never thought about the GPS embedded in planes to capture latitude, longitude as well as altitude. Capturing those and then tracking them all with a global satellite image has created quite a unique video.

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…who is the world’s biggest coffee addict. See what it can do to you! (For the younger crowd, there is a bit of foul language)

Thanks goes again to Scott Johnson! Great one!

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…at least, according to the Chicago Tribune.

So, the mafia, Cosa Nostra, in Sicily has long been getting money by bidding (and winning by cheating) on contracts for public works. Back in 2003, a proposal came up for a wind farm to be constructed on the island. Members of Cosa Nostra bribed officials with luxury cars, thousands of euros as well as breaking in to see a rival’s bid so they can counter it which all led to the eventual arrest of eight men. The businessman heading all this up had ties to Matteo Messina Denaro, one of the top bosses for the mafia.

Does this sound reminiscent of “The Sopranos” with the construction company? Maybe? That’s where they got all their ideas!

Who knew that the green power that Italy would have received would have been tied to their very own mafia that “protects” them?

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…thanks again to the brainiacs at MIT.

Shakeel Avadhany, the Project Leader, is a senior student in Materials Science at MIT. He and his team have created a shock absorber that can generate electricity from driving over bumps. This enery created is enough to power the alternator in a truck, thereby decreasing the drain on the battery and increasing the fuel efficiency by up to 10%. They seem to have thought of most every angle, including what should happen if the system failed. If that is the case, the shock absorber would go back to being a normal shock.

Right now, the tests have proved all of this based on large vehicles. The first official production will be done for the military, to increase the efficiency of Hummers out in the field.

Shakeel has created his own company looking into this, called Levant Power Corp., and by this summer they will be releasing their first fine tuned version ready for release this summer. Talks will then begin with Wal-Mart, for starters, in which the estimates they could save Wal-Mart up to $13 million a year in fuel costs.

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