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The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous is a 2020 book by Harvard professor Joseph Henrich that aims to explain history and psychological variation using approaches from cultural evolution and evolutionary psychology. In the book, Henrich explores how institutions and psychology ...
The book contains lists of facts, normally four per page. All the sources for the facts are listed online on the QI website. [ 3 ] Other than Lloyd, Mitchinson and Harkin, credit for authorship is also given to QI researchers (also known as "Elves") Anne Miller , Andy Murray and Alex Bell.
Image credits: factz.unheard BSc meteorologist Janice Davila tells Bored Panda that one of the most unknown facts from her field of expertise is that weather radars are slightly tilted upward in a ...
Learning new things is important if we want to live a long and fulfilling life. Acquiring new skills and performing activities such as puzzles and other brain games strengthens our neurological ...
World's Weirdest Events Nature's Weirdest Events is a 2012 British nature documentary series produced by the BBC and presented by Chris Packham . The show looks at weird events from around the world, with introduced footage typically taken from eyewitnesses before the facts are given.
The series is now published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [2] which acquired Hungry Minds (the new name for IDG Books as of 2000) in early 2001. [3] Various books in the series. Notable For Dummies books include: DOS For Dummies, the first, published in 1991, whose first printing was just 7,500 copies [4] [5]
The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories is an anthology of weird fiction edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer. Published on 30 Oct 2011, [1] it contains 110 short stories, novellas and short novels. At 1,126 pages in the hardcover edition, it is probably the largest single volume of fantastic fiction ever published, according to Locus. [2]