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“inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa” because “all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours – whereas all the testing says not really”.

After all, the key to convincing others is simply to repeat your message more often than your opponents repeat theirs.

Pioneering work in the early 1980s by Gary S. Becker, a Nobel laureate in economics, found only a mild relationship between fathers’ earnings and those of their sons. But when better data became available a decade later, another prominent economist, Gary Solon, found the bond twice as strong. Most researchers now estimate the “elasticity” of father-son earnings at 0.5, which means that for every 1 percent increase in a father’s income, his sons’ income can be expected to increase by about 0.5 percent.

Using the classical game theory match-up known as the Prisoner’s Dilemma, they found that generous strategies were the only ones that could persist and succeed in a multi-player, iterated version of the game over the long term.

But now they’ve come out with a somewhat less rosy view of evolution. With a new analysis of the Prisoner’s Dilemma played in a large, evolving population, they found that adding more flexibility to the game can allow selfish strategies to be more successful.

bt4baidu 发表于 2014-12-5 12:31
送你一句话：the most successful investors are ones who own the supply when the demand comes ca ...

The signal broke a seven-hour wait of agonising intensity and sparked scenes of jubilation at the European Space Agency’s mission control in Darmstadt.

How is it possible that this is a first novel?

The mystery for the reader is not whether Lydia is still alive, or where she’s gone — we learn on the first page that Lydia is dead, her body found at the bottom of the lake.
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We watch instead as the police come to the Lees’ home to ask the uncomfortable questions
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— and her parents, sister and brother all find themselves unable to answer honestly. The mystery is why they can’t bring themselves to tell one another, or the police, what they believe is behind her disappearance.

Marilyn, Lydia’s mother, confidently goes to search the diaries she has given her daughter every year for over a decade:
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She checks May 2, the night Lydia disappeared. Nothing. Nothing for May 1, or anything in April, or anything in March. Every page is blank. She takes down 1976. 1975. 1974. Page after page of visible, obstinate silence. She leafs backward all the way to the very first diary, 1966: not one word. All those years of her daughter’s life, unmarked. Nothing to explain anything.”

What is Lydia keeping from herself?

Ng has structured “Everything I Never Told You” so we shift between the family’s theories and Lydia’s own story, and what led to her disappearance and death, moving toward the final, devastating conclusion. What emerges is a deep, heartfelt portrait of a family struggling with its place in history, and a young woman hoping to be the fulfillment of that struggle. This is, in the end, a novel about the burden of being the first of your kind — a burden you do not always survive.

bt4baidu 发表于 2014-11-15 10:33
需要科学上网的就不贴了吧，技术活，天天翻墙有点累

强烈推荐一部练听力的美剧：《Mad Men》（ ...

sou111 发表于 2014-11-15 13:44
1-6季，大家及时保存

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bolome1 发表于 2014-11-23 08:37
Mary Schmich于1997年发表的一篇流行一时的“毕业典礼演讲”，文章内容主要是给年轻人一系列的建议，旨在让 ...

bt4baidu 发表于 2014-11-23 21:23
这大姐用词太生僻，不好读。。。

第一句话就害我琢磨好一会，断断句

There are a lot of personalities in history we’d find fault with – but their discoveries transcend human foibles

bolome1 发表于 2014-12-1 23:46
比起身高，你更可能继承你父亲的社会地位
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/24/social-status-inher ...

bolome1 发表于 2014-11-30 11:41
1962年诺贝尔生物学奖获得者James Watson开始拍卖他的奖章了---因为没人愿意承认我的存在
http://www.tele ...