5 Computers From the Days Before Computers. Everyone knows what a computer is, right?
It's electronic, high-tech and digital. It's only existed for the last 50 or 60 years. It has defined the word "modern" in “modern world.” And it’s given hackers a useful role to play in big-budget action movies. But computers actually date back thousands of years. 1. A mysterious object recovered from a shipwreck, this first-century device has stunned researchers. When recovered in 1901, its discoverers had no idea of its origin or purpose. In recent years, computed tomography scans have revealed even more intricacies. 2. Wikimedia Commons Gottfried Leibniz, a German mathematician and all-around genius (he created differential calculus), invented the first four-function calculator in 1673. There was a fairly significant problem with Leibniz’s device, though. 3. Wikimedia Commons The most famous analogue computers were created—although not fully built—by the English pioneer Charles Babbage. 4.
Wikimedia Commons Babbage didn't stop to mourn. Men and Women Gauge Risk Differently. Small gains now or big rewards later?
The conundrum plagues every decision we make, whether we are investing or dieting. Now researchers find that men and women use different strategies to make such choices. Researchers use gambling games to understand what we do when immediate rewards are pitted against long-term gains. Most of these games find no major differences in how men and women play. An experimental setup called the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT), however, finds consistent—and large—differences between the behavior of men and women: men are better at figuring out the strategy that reaps the bigger payoff. Players are given four decks of cards, and they choose one card at a time from any deck they want. The Bright Side of Owning your Darkness. For as long as I can remember, New Age gurus have been telling us to ‘stay in the light.’
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