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Jumat, 27 April 2012
Black and white twins – one in a million
Parents in Germany are welcoming a
very rare set of twins, the first baby was born is called Ryan, and he
has light skin and blue eyes like his father. His brother, Leo, has dark
skin with brown eyes like his mother.
“None of us could believe it,” the
maternity ward’s head doctor, Birgit Weber, told one news source. “Both
kids have definitely the same father.”
Stephan Gerth is German and white. His wife, Florence Addo-Gerth, is from Ghana and has dark skin.
It was “a real surprise,” Gerth told the German newspaper Die Welt, adding that the most important thing to him isn’t color, but that everyone is healthy.
It was “a real surprise,” Gerth told the German newspaper Die Welt, adding that the most important thing to him isn’t color, but that everyone is healthy.
Doctors say that the odds are one in a
million to get twins with different skin color, but they have also said
it can happen due to genetic soup in our backgrounds.
The twins are in a good health condition and live in Berlin, Germany.
5 Of The World’s Most Intelligent People
Sir Isaac Newton:
This genius was born in 1642 and died in
1727, he was a mathematician and physicist and natural philosopher. Born
at Woolsthorpe, near Grantham in Lincolnshire, where he attended
school, he entered Cambridge University in 1661; he was elected a Fellow
of Trinity College in 1667. He formulated laws of universal gravitation
and motion-laws that
explain how objects move on Earth as well
as through the heavens. If you ever taken a physics you would learn
about his three popular laws, and you may hear the apply story that led
him to discover the theory of force and gravity. He basically saw an
apply fall in his orchard at some time during 1665 or 1666 that Newton
conceived that the same force governed the motion of the Moon and the
apple. He calculated the force needed to hold the Moon in its orbit, as
compared with the force pulling an object to the ground. He also
calculated the centripetal force needed to hold a stone in a sling, and
the relation between the length of a pendulum and the time of its swing.
These early explorations were not
soon exploited by Newton, though he
studied astronomy and the problems of planetary motion.. Because he was
cleaver in math, he invited the area of mathematics called calculus “used to be called method of fluxions“.
While still a student, Newton read recent work on optics and light by
the English physicists Robert Boyle and Robert Hooke; he also studied
both the mathematics and the physics of the French philosopher and
scientist René Descartes. All these amazing discoveries made his take our number one of the world’s most intelligent people.
Albert Einstein:
He is considered one of the greatest and most popular scientists of all time. He was born at Ulm, in Württemberg, Germany,
on March 14, 1879. After World War II, Einstein was a leading figure in
the World Government Movement, he was offered the Presidency of the
State of Israel, which he declined, and he collaborated with Dr. Chaim
Weizmann in establishing the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. At the
start of his scientific work, Einstein realized the inadequacies of
Newtonian mechanics and his special theory of relativity stemmed from an
attempt to reconcile the laws of mechanics with the laws of the
electromagnetic field. He dealt with classical problems of statistical
mechanics and problems in which they were merged with quantum theory:
this led to an explanation of the Brownian movement of molecules.
He investigated the thermal properties of light with a low radiation
density and his observations laid the foundation of the photon theory of
light. Albert Einstein received honorary doctorate degrees in science,
medicine and philosophy from many European and American universities.
One last note, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics 1921.
“I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term Natural Selection.” You may have guessed who I am talking about; yes it’s the naturalist Charles Darwin
who lived between 1809 -1882. Charles Robert Darwin was born on
February 12, 1809 in Shrewsbury, England. Darwin was born on the same
day as Abraham Lincoln. He was the fifth child and second son of Robert
Waring Darwin and Susannah Wedgwood. Darwin was the British naturalist
who became famous for his theories of evolution and natural selection.
Like several scientists before him, Darwin believed all the life on
earth evolved (developed gradually) over millions of years from a few
common ancestors.
Socrates: (469-399)
despite his foundational place in the
history of ideas, actually wrote nothing. Socrates wrote nothing
because he felt that knowledge was a living, interactive thing.
Socrates’ method of philosophical inquiry consisted in questioning people
on the positions they asserted and working them through questions into a
contradiction, thus proving to them that their original assertion was
wrong. Socrates himself never takes a position; in The Apology he
radically and skeptically claims to know nothing at all except that he
knows nothing. Socrates and Plato refer to this method of questioning as
elenchus , which means something like “cross-examination” The Socratic
elenchus eventually gave rise to dialectic, the idea that truth needs to
be pursued by modifying one’s position through questioning and conflict
with opposing ideas. It is this idea of the truth being pursued, rather
than discovered, that characterizes Socratic thought and much of our
world view today. The Western notion of dialectic is somewhat Socratic
in nature in that it is conceived of as an ongoing process. Although
Socrates in The Apology claims to have discovered no other truth than
that he knows no truth, the Socrates of Plato’s other earlier dialogues
is of the opinion that truth is somehow attainable through this process
of elenchus .
Leonardo Da Vinci 1452-1519:
A painter, a sculptor, an architect and
an engineer, Leonardo Da Vinci’s numerous skills have earned him the
title of renaissance master. Da Vinci’s fascination with science and his
in-depth study of human anatomy aided him in mastering the realist art
form. While Leonardo’s counterparts were known to create static figures
in their works, Leonardo
always tried to incorporate movement and expression into his own
paintings. All the personages in his works are painted with great
accuracy and detail that it is sometimes said that Da Vinci painted from
the bones outward. Leonardo was and is best known as an artist, the
creator of such masterpieces as the Mona Lisa, Madonna of the Rocks, and
The Last Supper. Yet Leonardo was far more than a great artist: he had
one of the best scientific minds of his time. He made painstaking
observations and carried out research in fields ranging from
architecture and civil engineering to astronomy to anatomy and zoology
to geography, geology and paleontology. In the words of his biographer
Giorgio Vasari. Leonardo knew well the rocks and fossils (mostly
Cenozoic mollusks) found in his native north Italy. No doubt he had
ample opportunity to observe them during his service as an engineer and
artist at the court of Lodovico Sforza, Duke of Milan, from 1482 to
1499: Vasari wrote that “Leonardo was frequently occupied in the
preparation of plans to remove mountains or to pierce them with tunnels
from plain to plain.” He made many observations on mountains and rivers,
and he grasped the principle that rocks can be formed by deposition of
sediments by water, while at the same time the rivers erode rocks and
carry their sediments to the sea, in a continuous grand cycle.
Kamis, 26 April 2012
The Highest IQs On Record
These smartest people were picked based
on their IQ (Intelligence quotient) test. IQ, is a score derived from
one of several different standardized tests designed to assess
intelligence. The purpose of the test is measure the mental ability and
horse power of the brain for any person. I have noticed that many of
these people are Chess players and champions. I don’t know if there is
any link between intelligence and chess, but this is my observations.
Many of my resources confirmed the name and the IQ score for each of the
people on the list. There were couple of other names with high IQ score
but I couldn’t really confirm that 100%. Note: All these people are
still alive as of 2010. IQ scores reflect general capacity for
performing intellectual tasks, such as solving verbal and mathematical
problems.
The average IQ score is 100. The standard deviation of IQ scores is 15. So, this means:- 50% of people have IQ scores between 90 and 110
- 2.5% of people are very superior in intelligence (over 130)
- 2.5% of people are mentally deficient / impaired / retarded (under 70)
- 0.5% of people are near genius or genius (over 140)
- 115-124 – Above average (e.g., university students)
- 125-134 – Gifted (e.g., post-graduate students)
- 135-144 – Highly gifted (e.g., intellectuals)
- 145-154 – Genius (e.g., professors)
- 155-164 – Genius (e.g., Nobel Prize winners)
- 165-179 – High genius
- 180-200 – Highest genius
- >200 – “Unmeasurable genius”
The Highest IQs On Record
People Still Alive
- Physicist / Engineer Kim Ung-yong has a verified IQ of 210
- Bouncer Christopher Michael Langan has a verified IQ of 195
- Engineer Philip Emeagwali is alleged to have an IQ of 190
- World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov is alleged to have an IQ of 190
- Author Marilyn Vos Savant has a verified IQ of 186
- Actor James Woods is alleged to have an IQ of 180
- Politician John H. Sununu is alleged to have an IQ of 180
- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is alleged to have an IQ of 180
- Mathematician Andrew Wiles is alleged to have an IQ of 170
- World Chess Champion Judith Polgar is alleged to have an IQ of 170
- Chess Grandmaster Robert Byrne is alleged to have an IQ of 170
- World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer is alleged to have an IQ of 167
- Mathematician / Physicist Stephen W. Hawking is alleged to have an IQ of over 160
- Microsoft Founder Paul Allen is alleged to have an IQ of over 160
- Actress Sharon Stone is alleged to have an IQ of 154
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