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Trying to un-commoditize a commodity, a terrible business strategy. Apple can do it, but apple isn't reeeally selling computers, certainly not PCs.

Maybe it's the statistically well supported paradox that men are overrepresented at the extremes, both negative and positive extremes. And start-ups, for various reasons not limited to risk, are a kind of extreme case of (self) employment.

The idea of ideas as viruses is old. They can infect you, then can breed with other ideas, they spread, etc.

Religion world wide does seem to follow a pattern of more complicated and more energy demanding religions being replaced by religions which require less effort. One god instead of many, and lately that god doesn't even want sacrifices, oh and peace is better then war... most of the time.

Obviously it not that simple, religion can spread through war, some religions make themselves extinct by demanding life long celibacy from everyone. And there's been some studies which found the us vs them pattern common in religious groups can decrease and/or slow the spread of disease.

There's one particular thing about Christianity though. Well OK, a couple of things, one it's kind of a modern less complex flavor of Judaism, no offense meant to any Hebrews reading this.

But the other thing is Christ's rather extreme love your enemies, turn the other cheek message. You have to see that in the context of the Roman empire and Roman culture at the time.

Rome was EXTREMELY pro war, violence and punishment. Think crucifixion, gladiators, pax romana etc. But even more then that, Roman culture saw mercy as a dirty animalistic emotion, to be surprised like all animalsitic and primitive urges should be. Reason was human, emotions, especially mercy were disgusting instincts not to be trusted, but to be fought against, with reason.

In short it was an extreme culture, that must have put some unique psychological pressures on those living there. Think how people in Japan who remember the end of WWII describe how the emperor announcing Japan's surrender felt like a bow breaking and huge pressure being relieved.

Christianity is like the perfect counter culture to the old Roman culture. No wonder it successfully spread throughout the empire. And from Rome to all of Europe, to the new world.

The other parts of the old world, have not turned Christian, and it's not for lack of trying by well funded Christian missionaries, suggesting there really was something unique about Rome and early Christianity.

Modern American Christianity is often quite, shall we say unique, why with the pro Gun, pro war thing.

The industry, actually several industries both electronics manufacturers and media companies, need the new new thing to keep sales up. It is a consumer driven economy after all. And that is why 3D will pushed hard, for as long as it takes.

Yeah, that's what happens when actually have some competence, and thus you know that you know very little AND you also know the crowd here will call your BS on these subject. Oh but politics or other crap like that will fill with comments right quick.

You're... kidding, but I had to think about it.

I'll take a thoughtful essay on architecture and the power of government over the crap OMG look at this crazy Sh!t! and the self help How to lose weight/How to get a date/How to be social. articles which are hitting the front page more and more often.

It's a bit more then a social construct. The language family is called Indo-European because of shared ancestry.

From your wikipedia link: Blue eyes contain low amounts of melanin...

Blue eyes are most common in Northern Europe and Central Europe and to a lesser degree in Southern Europe,North America and southern Central Asia; Afghanistan is a notable example.[30] They're also found in parts of North Africa,[31] West Asia, and South Asia[32], in particular the northern areas of India and Pakistan. It can rarely occur as far south as Sri Lanka. However blue eyes are not found within the population of East Asia, due to the major pre-dominance of the brown eye gene in the area.

Central Asians, people from the Caucasus, Afghans, Pakistanis, and even Indians darker then many an African are considered Caucasian. They are Caucasians. And North Africa is full of Caucasians, hell even German tribes, Goths if I recall correctly, settled there during Roman times.

So only Caucasians have Blue eyes. Again because of a gene mutation which control how much melanin is deposited in hair, skin, and irises.

Someone with a lot of melanin could have blue eyes, but they wouldn't appear blue do the the melanin. That's why blue eyes contain low amounts of melanin.

And low amounts of melanin are related to vitamin D, which is related to living in northern climates.

Don't only Caucasians have blue eyes? And aren't they (full disclosure "we" in my case) also the only ones with the mutated version of the gene which controls how much melanin is deposited in skill, hair and... I think also irises? Asians and Africans both have the normal version of the same gene.

And melanin has many roles, sun protection being just one, the other is as a structural protein. Just compare how black skin ages vs. how a redhead of the same (advanced) age looks.

And why would Caucasians have a mutation which deposits less of such a useful protein? Vitamin D.

It is produced when UV light hits the skin. In northern climates with less sun, and skin being covered or you die of exposure, often even when the sun is up, people get a lot less vitamin D.

Inuit get more due to their diet, and modern man also gets much more again because of diet. And yet most people living in the north even today lack vitamin D.

Also, I thought all of the above is common knowledge which makes me question the whole article.

3 weeks unpaid time off, if my recollection is correct. And then they go spend that kind of cash on an acquisition, I doubt it will create a lot of good will inside the company.

Landscapers have been a problem for me absolutely everywhere I've lived. I have two choices, rid the world of early morning landscapers or sound proof the house, starting with better windows.