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Many cultures have proverbs about respecting your elders. In theory, they've lived for longer, so they automatically have more experience, and with experience comes knowledge, right? Maybe some people would like to argue that wisdom doesn't come from how old you are. Yet you can't deny that people who have more years under their belt might have a different perspective on current trends and events.Well, one netizen had the idea to ask older adults which current social norms and things they find strange. The user…

One single dad might need to prepare for a full home inspection if he wants to follow through with the sleepover his daughter is excitedly anticipating.In a post on the subreddit ‘Ask UK,’ he explained that the parents of his daughter’s friend had requested the probe as a condition for allowing the overnight stay to take place.The father asked people on the internet to share their opinions on the situation, prompting a discussion about the line between genuine safety concerns and prejudice against men raising kids on…

Before we commence, let me make you a promise. The whole point of the “I was there!” Oscars report hinges on the manner in which the writer brushed against celebrities. Once brushed, the writer passes that experience along to the reader, so that we might all share in the secondhand glow of Hollywood’s starriest night. So, my promise is this: it’s coming. My meaningful celebrity encounter of the night is coming, OK? Just be patient.Now, I attended the Oscars for one reason: I wanted to see if it was better in person than…

Researcher Roy Amara was an American futurist who famously coined the following adage, which eventually became Amara's Law: "We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run."Expanding on the notion, Reddit user Every_Cartoonist3965 made a post on the platform, asking everyone, "What is normal now but won't be in 25 years?" and people immediately started sending in their answers.Continue scrolling to check out the most popular ones and set a reminder to…

It might sound like something out of the X-men but it came from a lab in California: mutant newts that grew perfect limbs after defective appendages were cut off. The findings help science get one step closer to understanding how regeneration works.Even though it's been reported that young children can regenerate their fingertips after they are cut off, as a species, humans fall pretty far behind in the "grow-a-limb-back-when-it's-cut-off" category. Not so for a range of other creatures on the planet, famously including…

It's been three decades since the publication of the bestseller 'Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus,' but the debate over how and why men and women are different is far from over.Most women who see gender differences in the way people express their feelings, excel at work, and approach parenting say they are primarily based on societal expectations, while men who see differences in these areas tend to believe biology is the cause.Interested in everyday examples, Reddit user Unfair_Quantity1413 made a post on the…

It’s interesting to think that work is a necessity in life and it’s all kinds of annoying and dreadful. Now, food, on the other hand, is also a necessity, but definitely in the top 5 of the best things that life has to offer. Until either reality or the internet hits.Yes, Reddit has recently been ruining food (but only a little bit) with folks sharing how much of something consumed is lethal. We’re talking about actual foods that, if consumed in excess, would be a lethal dose. Some of these are physically impossible to…

There’s nothing wrong with having different interests from your significant other. For one, having separate hobbies from your partner allows you to grow as a person and try new things. Therapists even claim that couples who share too much in common often become bored in the relationship.But redditor MotherNegotiation42’s husband wasn’t exactly supportive of her separate activities. He would often make snarky comments about her staying at home and working on her prized puzzles. Recently, they had an intense fight about…

Public domain/CC BY-SA 2.0 Deed/Public domain/Public domain/Image by Author/Public domainThe life and times of Abraham De Moivre, his famous theorem, and how it set the stage for the discovery of the Central Limit TheoremIt was around 1689 that one of biggest discoveries in probability unfolded in the Swiss Confederation. The protagonist was Jacob Bernoulli and the discovery was the Weak Law of Large Numbers. Bernoulli showed that the mean of a randomly selected sample converges in probability to the mean of the…

Tesla has started to deliver a new version of its yoke steering wheel and it now features a normal horn. When Tesla unveiled the new Model S with the “yoke” butterfly steering wheel, it was controversial. Some were worried about the actual shape of the wheel being problematic, while others were concerned about the lack of drive stalk to choose the drive mode. As for the former, we thought that the automaker wouldn’t risk bringing the controversial yoke steering wheel to market without a…