Day: December 20, 2017

Banned Santa Claus Nikita Aronov delving into professional problems of symbol of the New year. Professional Santas sent a letter to the editor. They are concerned about the prohibitions on work in kindergarten, with which the workers of beard face across the country. “Spark” has decided to find out what are the persecution of Santa clauses. While the whole country is writing letters to Santa Claus, “Light” he received a letter from him. More precisely, from an entire Guild of Santa clauses. The organization itself is based in Penza, but the letter was signed by grandfather from Moscow, St.-Petersburg, Petrozavodsk, Cheboksary, Magnitogorsk, Novokuznetsk, Kuznetsk, Khanty-Mansiysk, Pskov, Yaroslavl, Uglich, Saratov, Ryazan, Saransk, Kazan, Sochi and Krasnodar. “We, Santas from across the country, writing in the journal “Spark” to refer to all adults. Stupidity has gone too far, write a few dozen of Santa clauses.— Last year in kindergartens have become ubiquitous

10 most strange ancient animals Paleontology recently changed our view of dinosaurs, but not just them. In addition to dinosaurs at one time the Earth was infested with many animals, which would have ended for a person very badly. Imagine a centipede with its length in two human growth. Or a snake that can swallow a crocodile. Or dragonfly wings under 60 cm fish length of 12 meters with some semblance of a buzz saw in his mouth. But they all existed in a particular era, and their remains were found by paleontologists. These creatures looked so strange and incredible that if they were shown in a kind of analogue of “Jurassic Park”, it is likely that the audience would blame the writers too rich imagination. But helicoprion, meganeura and arthropleura do once swam, flew and crawled on the planet. About extinct and these unusual creatures will remind you live

Fish Orgy stun dolphins Fish in the Gulf of California publish in the mating period, so loud sounds that can stun other sea creatures. This is the biggest ever recorded fish sounds, which should help save an endangered species. Article describing results published in the journal Biology Letters. Mexican Corvina (Cynoscion othonopterus) is threatened with extinction species of fish only to the Gulf of California coasts of Mexico, as well as in the Delta of the Colorado river. One such fish during the breeding season produces a mating call resembling “really loud gun”, which consists of several individual sound pulses. When hundreds or thousands of animals gather to mate once a year, the “collective chorus sounds like the crowd in the stadium or perhaps as a very loud beehive”, says co-author Timothy Rowell of the University of San Diego. The sounds are so loud that it temporarily deafened by a

The poor were wiser than the middle class Representatives of the “lower” strata of the population show great wisdom in situations of interpersonal conflict than people with average incomes, they are impartial and consider the interests of others. Article with the results of the work, in which scientists figured this out, published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Canadian psychologists compared human judgments about conflict situations. Took into account such factors as social class, place of residence and different situations. The result was that richer people living in more densely populated areas adopt less “wise” decision. Also negatively on the quality of responses was affected by a situation involving people with high social status. “Wisdom” the researchers called ability to impartially, “intellectual modesty” approach to problem solving, taking into account the perspective of different people. “We are not surprised by the impact of culture on such characteristics

Professions of the future: what to study to succeed in the competition with robots Growing inequality, the extinction of occupations due to automation of working processes and other problems of a rapidly changing labour market today make us nervous and to think about finding their place in the world of the future. By 2050, there will be a new class of people whose experience, skills and education will be totally unfit in the society. For such “useless people” just will not be suitable work. Their appearance is predicted in her latest book, Homo Deus, one of the most famous futurists, historian and author Yuval Noah Harari. Such a prospect threatens those who are “deprived of any value in the economic, political, or even artistic terms, those who do not contribute to the prosperity of society,” says the scientist. Growing inequality, the extinction of occupations due to automation of working processes