Ever wanted to become a cyborg? Well now you can, here's a lecture by a girl talking about augmenting her body without being rich. She has augmented her body using implants, and she isn't rich, she's trying to teach people how to "bio-hack" themselves and augment themselves without being rich or...
So basically Syria is the next Libya. There's a civil war forming there, and it isn't very civil. The Syrian government has fired upon Syrian protestors and it's getting bloodier by the hour. What do you think will happen in Syria? Will this spark a civil war? Who do you support, the...
Al Jazeera has put up an opinion piece that I found rather interesting and informative, it's about the struggle for Africa. It covers both American and Chinese interest in Africa's resources, and how (unfortunately) China is making Africa a better deal than the United States is. It's kind of...
USA is above England, but behind South Korea.
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After seeing some people, mostly Europeans, claim that all Americans are stupid because our "education system is worse than North Korea's" and making other baseless claims like that, I've decided to share my own experience with the education system of the United States. After going through...
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Being a conservative leaning libertarian, I obviously don't support universal healthcare. But would it be acceptable if it existed, but the ONLY people who had to pay taxes to support it would be people who wanted it. Everyone else would get normal privatized healthcare. But certain people can...
It's failed everywhere it was tried. It makes everyone pay higher taxes. It lowers the quality of healthcare. It makes longer waiting lines. It eliminates people's ability to choose their own healthcare plans and their own doctors. It means lesser healthcare for the elderly. It makes things even...
Hello, just seeing what everyone's thoughts are on intelligent design. Intelligent design is the idea that life and the universe were created by a highly sophisticated entity known as the intelligent designer, or intelligent agent. This intelligent designer then created the universe to it's...