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| February 2001 | Evolution in Action | |||||||||
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Ehren Achee submits an all-too-likely story from the China Post: A 23-year-old 'fisherman' who had planned to electrocute his catch (Gone Fishin') opted instead to kill them with poison. He then ate the fish in their tangy chemical sauce, destroying his kidneys and, lacking kidney translplant surgery, his life. "Tennis player Goran Ivanisevic recently was forced to forfeit a match because he ran out of racquets. He was so busy smashing one raquet after another that he did not realise that he was down to his last one until it was too late. While he did not die, the manner in which he lost the match via his own actions epitomises the very nature of the Darwin Awards." -Paul Kentish Women Tough As Nails in Face of Danger. This week in Hong Kong a group of women refused to evacuate a burning office tower until their nails were perfect. Staff were applying acrylic fingernails on to two customers when fire broke out on the rooftop. Security guards warned them to leave, but they refused. Happy with their polished nails, the women left more than an hour later, after the fire had been quelled. Cardinal Fang Reuters 4 January 2001 Book Review:
The Technical Details
Unskilled and Unaware Ig Nobel Prize Winner Empirical evidence suggest that incompetent people have more difficulty recognizing their true level of ability than competent individuals. Thus, the incompetent dramatically overestimate their ability and performance relative to objective criteria. The incompetent can gain insight about their shortcomings, but paradoxically only by making them able to see that they have performed poorly. [ the full text ] |
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