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The Extinct Human Species That Was Smarter Than Us
The superintelligent Boskops had small, childlike faces and huge melon heads.

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. “Just as we’re smarter than apes, they were probably smarter than us,” they speculate. More insightful and self-reflective than modern humans, with fantastic memories and a penchant for dreaming, the Boskops may have had “an internal mental life literally beyond anything we can imagine.” Lynch and Granger base their characterization on our current understanding of how the human brain works, describing in detail its physiology and structure and comparing it with the brains of other primates. They also explore what the Boskops’ big brains tell us about evolution (why didn’t they survive?) and about the future of human intelligence (can we engineer bigger brains?).

Top 5 reasons why “The customer is Always Right” is wrong  :
Here are the top five reasons why “The customer is always right” is wrong.

1: It makes employees unhappy

I’ll let you read the rest of the list but that first one is something I observed at the original Gandalfo’s deli in Provo, Utah in the early 90’s. Craig Gandalph seemed to be more loyal to his employees than his patrons, which endeared him to his employees and brought some measure of reciprocal loyalty. It was off putting to the customers, but when a customer was being rude or demeaning to an employee, Craig had swift attitude and words for that customer. Among those employees were Craig’s first crop of franchisee’s and many of them expressed to me the desire to foster that collegiality to a degree. It was part of the esprit de corps or whatever. But if the food hadn’t been adequate or nostalgic I probably wouldn’t have gone back. I personally didn’t find it endearing to be made fun of by Craig. By Nancy Krueger, maybe, but not Craig.

Bird Brains Suggest How Vocal Learning Evolved:

“Gesturing is something that goes along naturally with speech. The brain areas used for gesturing may have been co-opted and used for speech,” Jarvis said.

This explains why I do it. - Nate

flickrvision:

http://flickrvision.com/

Watch a map and pcitures as flickr images are uploaded from around the world. Pretty cool.

Immersive Media:

http://www.immersivemedia.com/

This kind of immersive video has been around for a while but immersive media brings a pretty slick accessibility to the whole endeavor.

ABC News: ‘Iceman’ Continues to Baffle Doctors:

Kamler said the answer lies deep in the brain. “It’s a mystery that we have not yet come close to solving, although we do have tantalizing clues,” he said. “It tells us that there’s enormous potential within the brain that is going untapped. And if we can study them more, and study people like them more, maybe we can unleash that potential for the rest of us.”