leviramsey Posted January 2, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted January 2, 2013 That's an infographic. not a map The general trend of the course of human history has been for humans to get less violent. Evolution? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coda Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 Didn't know where to put this. Geotagged tweets to postcodes. Villa only ranked third where I live. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troglodyte Posted January 11, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted January 11, 2013 That's an infographic. not a map The general trend of the course of human history has been for humans to get less violent. Evolution? I blame video games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qwpzxjor1 Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 Didn't know where to put this. Geotagged tweets to postcodes. Villa only ranked third where I live. That's quality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 Didn't know where to put this. Geotagged tweets to postcodes. Villa only ranked third where I live. Villa unranked where I live (CV11) which I find difficult to believe, just based on the number of geotagged tweets I have made in this area. I'm 17 miles from Villa Park as the crow flies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 If Alistair Cook played Baseball he could hit the ball into another country from a field in Nebraska. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voinjama Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 Possibly my favourite thread in the off topic section. I especially like the American cities overlay latitude one. Going from LA to New York is like going from Spain to Russia. Stating the obvious here but the USA is HUGE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 (edited) Yep. My favourite way of thinking about it is that New York isnt that much further from London than it is from Los Angeles. When Concorde was flying, New York to London was faster than New York to L.A. Another size comparison map; the Sahara Desert is really quite big. Edited January 21, 2013 by The_Rev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voinjama Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 With regards to the map on most popular sports in a country, I think the biggest sport in Kenya might be cricket. Not 100% sure, but I did have a Kenyan friend who told me how crazy they are about cricket in Kenya. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brumerican Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 That's an infographic. not a map The general trend of the course of human history has been for humans to get less violent. Evolution? Or the threat of nuclear weapons ? It would be hard to credit evolution for a propensity to be less violent as I can't see what sort of mutation would be selected for "positively" in that instance ? Maybe it's just that we are learning from past mistakes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coda Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 Or the threat of nuclear weapons ? It would be hard to credit evolution for a propensity to be less violent as I can't see what sort of mutation would be selected for "positively" in that instance ? Maybe it's just that we are learning from past mistakes. Stephen Hawkings said we don't want aliens visiting as they'll be more advanced and we'll be in trouble. Sir Patrick Moore reckons they'd be so far advanced they'd be likely to have put war behind them. Who knows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brumerican Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 It's an interesting point . Historically you would imagine that our more violent ancestors would have had more offspring than the meeker of the species but nowadays a tendency for violence would make you a less attractive mate, so maybe it is being slowly selected against. It would be nice to think that eventually the humans with a greater inclination for empathy (neurologically)would become more dominant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted January 22, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted January 22, 2013 Evolution != natural selection (that is to say, natural selection is not the only evolutionary process) ((no matter how much some fools wish it were)) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brumerican Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 Evolution != natural selection (that is to say, natural selection is not the only evolutionary process) ((no matter how much some fools wish it were)) Genetic drift and mutation ? It is only a theory anyway . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eames Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 Genetic drift Isn't that what you get when you have a wank in the bath? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted January 22, 2013 Moderator Share Posted January 22, 2013 It doesn't mean theory in that sense though Brumerican. It's not a 'theory' in the sense that it could be a half-baked brain fart. There's loooads of science behind it. Unfortunately my laziness means I won't be able to find the episode of QI that explains it using a creationist's 'humourous' mis-use of the word 'theory' in order to 'debunk' the theory of evolution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted January 22, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted January 22, 2013 I was merely referring to the tendency to see biological evolution as the explanation for decidedly non-biological phenomena. Absolute idiocy. Gould & Hayek FTW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brumerican Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 I was merely referring to the tendency to see biological evolution as the explanation for decidedly non-biological phenomena. Absolute idiocy. Gould & Hayek FTW. Oh I see, things such as economic trends/behaviour etc ? Got ya . Thought you had made a huge scientific discovery and were keeping it to yourself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brumerican Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 Oh and I would phunk the funjina off of Salma Hayek , Elliot Gould ? not so much . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThunderPower_14 Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 Yep. My favourite way of thinking about it is that New York isnt that much further from London than it is from Los Angeles. When Concorde was flying, New York to London was faster than New York to L.A. Another size comparison map; the Sahara Desert is really quite big. We were doing this with Australia and Europe on another forum I post on. It baffles me just how densely populated Europe is to what i'm used to. If I drive from Adelaide to Melbourne, i'm going 750kms and about 9 hours. I might pass through 3 towns with more than 1000 people but other than that it's just open road That distance in the UK would take me from Dundee to London and i'd pass by millions and millions of people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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