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Top stories for Long   If you have an IQ of 100,but practice with a lot of IQ tests to the point of acing them, and get an IQ score of say 135, is your new score valid? Randy Carter • Updated February 10, 2020 There's a famous story from an Air Force psychologist who was trained to give the Air Force version of the Stanford-Binet IQ test. As a game he and his colleagues would dri... Read more » 9.5K 303   What are some examples of college professors who used the classroom to indoctrinate students? Justin Schwartz, Unhyphenated and unapologetic Marxist. • Answered April 11 In the first year of my very short career as a professor long ago, I taught at what was at least then an ultra liberal left woke Liberal arts school. I was teaching a semin... Read more » 190 10   Why do people have trouble accepting the very true fact that "The Blue Marble" photo of Earth is a composite and therefore (just like every other subsequent "picture" of Earth NASA has ever shown us) not a real photo but computer generated? Asked in Debunking Flat Earth • Answered by Shadowwalker • November 21 Okay, guy. This is the actual Blue Marble photo. It was taken by Apollo 17. It is NOT a composite image. That really is the Earth when viewed from space. The only edit they ... Read more » 7.1K 607   Why can't any programmer make a website like Facebook? Chris Prakoso, A Software Engineer for 20+ year • Updated March 3, 2017 These are screenshots of Facebook (then still called TheFacebook) circa 2004 - 2005. Any web developer who is worth his/her salt should be able to design and code a replica ... Read more » 5.9K 98   What is something people need to understand? Henrey Bradley, Purveyor of an eclectic kaleidoscope of history • Answered March 10 The Ruthless Hive hypothesis. In 1950, four physicists on their lunch break at the Los Alamos national laboratory, discussed the lack of evidence for extraterestial intellig... Read more » 858 134   If you have to choose among Mexico City, Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile, Bogota or Lima to live in, which city would you choose? Dennis Watson, Veteran, traveler, veteran traveler. • Answered September 14, 2024 TLDR: Bogotá I'll go over the cities listed and give my commentary on each as well as the score card for each city from the nomad website, The Earth Awaits. (Bolivar Square, ... Read more » 179 38   I asked my boss for a raise but he said I didn't deserve it, so I sent him my resignation letter. Now he is asking me to stay with a higher salary. Should I accept his offer? Wesley Long, worked at Bill Young Productions • Answered January 2, 2019 Let me explain how this works from your boss's point-of-view. I hire you for $40K per year (just for example. I have no idea what numbers you're actually working with). You c... Read more » 19.8K 783   My 12 year old son is crying because I deleted his 5 year old Minecraft world. How do I explain to him that it's just a game? Asked in Video Games Enthusiast 🎮🕹️👾🦕 • Answered by Vishal • March 29 You just taught your son 3 things - That authority breeds power enough to hurt people below them without consequences. That if he tells you the truth, you wouldn't be on his ... Read more » 277 65   What are the key differences between American and European car design philosophies? Donald Werve, MBA Management Information Systems, San Francisco State University • Answered December 8 American. Ridiculously large. Never goes off-road. Only carries one person for work and errands. Instead of an entire family while towing a boat. Czech. It's a people carrie... Read more » 3.5K 310   I've heard gabapentin withdrawal is brutal, why exactly is this? What does gabapentin withdrawal look like? Martina Bannister, Gabapentin • Answered January 7 It is hell. I've come off a lot of medications on my own because I just want to be myself again and to see where my pain levels actually are. There are obviously some that ... Read more » 1.8K 653   I accidentally put something in my pocket at Walmart and forgot to scan it and pay for it. Can I go back and tell someone and pay for it? Kathleen Smith, Personal Trainer, and Professional Communications at Business and Professional W... • Answered May 18, 2020 I was a retail manager for many years. One day, a staff member paged me and said that someone wanted to talk to me. It turned out that the woman had stolen something from t... Read more » 11.1K 1.3K   Why do some teachers choose to let minor instances of cheating slide? Michael Strauss, Spent too much time in academia • Updated April 13 My high-school history teacher had a counterintuitive reason, but I need to lay out a bit of context first. He was a respected historian, and a college professor. Way overqu... Read more » 875 46 Read more in your feed

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