It's interesting that the article names the victim but leaves the douche employee anonymous.

Why the use of the word "assassination" instead of "murder"? Was Otzi found wearing his robes of state?

It's not that the cultural level is declining, it's that culture in general has become more populist as it becomes more democratic. If novels and plays were smarter 150 years ago its because only the 'better half' had access to them while everyone else was wallowing in the slums.

Potato chip bags arent nearly as hard to open as those new bottle-seals with the plastic grip sticking out.

I guess its because math is the discipline most associated with "intelligence", so people who are bad at math need to belittle it to preserve their self-esteem.

You should read some John Holt, esp 'Why children fail'. A big part of academic achievement depends on the way the material is presented to students and how they are expected to perform their abilities.

Yeah, 10 years ago they predicted it would be done in 15 years, now its 10, and in ten more years Kaku will be telling us there's 5 years left.

The the top decks of the largest modern cruise ships are about as high as the top of the Titanic's funnels, and the ships are maybe a funnel's length longer on both ends.

Decor and utensils, mostly.

Most potential passengers wouldn't care about authentic engines and steel plates. They just want to go down the Grand Staircase in a pretty dress.

That would be one huge-ass yacht.

It's bound to be commercially successful though.

Is that a camerapigeon?

The Nazis may have run Germany in the 1930s, but Germany was and continued to be one of the world's most advanced countries, and the new gov't inherited non-Nazi bureaucrats and technocrats.

Parc Jean Drapeau/ Site of old Expo 67 in Montreal.

Enough to make the colours match the real world- to make it seem like Oz is possible in my reality,

Sorry, I read your original post to mean that you had gone before.

English can be such a limited language sometimes. It's not just that there are different words, its also and especially that its basic syntactic and grammatical organization of thought doesn't always reflect the way I actually think of things. Sometimes I want to apply 'the' to everything, like in Portuguese, or 'of'…

From the article it seems like a good way to calculate computing power.

I doubt it. Aren't the eyes the one part of the body that doesn't grow?