When Edwin H. Armstrong, an electrical engineer, invented FM radio in the 30s, which had a clearer and stronger signal than AM, Sarnoff did
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murder rates per 100,000 in 1920s
Chicago 13.3 New York 6.1 LA 4.7 Boston 3.9 Detroit 16.8 New Orleans 25.9 Little Rock 37.9 Miami 40 Atlanta 43.4 Memphis 69.3 modern
Alexis Carrel on eugenics
The concept of sacrifice, of it’s absolute social necessity, must be introduced into the mind of modern man” – Alexis Carrel. People who were
Charles Lindberg at Nazi Olympics in 1936
Germans had “a sense of decency and values which is way ahead of our own.”
Henry Ford, On experts
I never employ an expert in full bloom. If ever I wanted to kill opposition by unfair means, I would endow the opposition with
how people kill
241 cases of serial killing from 1800-1995, poison/medical care withheld men 8.7%, women 60.9% stabbed, blundegone, or burned, men 16.4, women 0 strangled men
Henry Wickham
1871 – moved with his extended family to Brazil where they failed miserably at growing crops, and a number died from fever. But while
Scott Adams
I no longer see reason as the driver of behavior. I see simple cause and effect, similar to the ways machines operate. If you
bill gates on giving money to art
That said, it’s one thing to bristle at big-bucks art auctions and another altogether to go along with Bill Gates, who said in a
Keeping Score Formula
quality rating x degree of difficulty x value of activity