This is truly inspiring stuff from Jason Silva.
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Did the Irish bring horns to India 2,000 years ago?
Irish and the Indians jam together 2000 years ago — wow.
For example a large C-shaped bronze horn known as a kompu, which is used in Kerala in southern India, is similar to late Bronze age horns found in Scandinavia known as lurs.
Other instruments bear a striking resemblance to horns known as carnyx, used by the Celts in Ireland, Britain and France.
The findings suggest there was a lively exchange of culture between Europe and India more than 2,000 years ago.
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
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Snapchat’s new 3D scanning tech
This is the tech behind Snapchat’s secret acquisition http://tcrn.ch/2891kDQ
Gravitational diode could lead to futuristic Star Trek technologies — From teleportation to highly efficient energy generation
A very interesting press release appeared yesterday morning that was brought to our attention. A startup company, Gravitomagnetism, LLC, was granted a patent that enables it a multitude of applications ranging from energy generation to teleportation.
Why people who believe in God ‘are more likely to have a lower IQ’
Stupid people are more likely than eggheads to believe in God, a controversial new study claims.
In a move that is bound to offend millions of churchgoers, a British psychologist says he has found a link between having a high IQ and being an atheist.
The discovery helps explain why university academics are less likely to be religious than almost anyone else, he says.