- An average human would have a panic attack or worse when encountering an alien https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_6gHnpZDBg 43 comments aliens
- AI taught to decide who dies in an accident...What would the average human do? https://theoutline.com/post/2401/what-would-the-average-human-do 6 comments philosophy
- How would aliens decipher the Voyager Golden Record if average human beings cannot? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRuovINxpPc 55 comments space
- TIL It would take about 1,200,000 mosquitoes to fully drain the average human body of blood. http://yourmindblown.com/post/1025685984/it-would-take-about-1-200-000-mosquitoes-to-fully-drain 102 comments science
- If chess playing strength was necessary for survival since the first humans, how strong do you think the average human would be today? https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/amj0m8/if_chess_playing_strength_was_necessary_for/ 17 comments chess
- The average US worker would need 10 times the length of all human history to earn as much as Jeff Bezos https://qz.com/1723454/this-is-how-long-an-average-us-worker-needs-to-become-a-billionaire/ 88 comments politics
- Stanford geneticist: Human intelligence peaked thousands of years ago and we've been on an intellectual and emotional decline ever since. "If an average citizen from Athens of 1000BC were among us, he or she would be among the brightest, most intellectually alive, and most emotionally stable" http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/human-intelligence-peaked-thousands-of-years-ago-and-weve-been-on-an-intellectual-and-emotional-decline-ever-since-8307101.html?ipad 29 comments science
- Siberian heatwave 'made 600x more likely by climate change' | Siberia experienced its warmest June on record - up to 10C higher than average. Prolonged heat like the Arctic region experienced this year would only happen less than once in every 80,000 years without human-induced climate change https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/16/world/siberia-heatwave-climate-change-intl-scli-scn/index.html 15 comments worldnews
- Soil in the Arctic Is Now Releasing More Carbon Dioxide Than 189 Countries | Now that heat waves are occurring in winter, & the Arctic is warming 3x faster than the global average because of human activity, greenhouse gases that would have normally remained frozen in the ground are being released https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/arctic-soil-releasing-carbon-dioxide/ 15 comments worldnews
- Soil in the Arctic Is Now Releasing More Carbon Dioxide Than 189 Countries | Now that heat waves are occurring in the winter, and the Arctic is warming 3x faster than the global average because of human activity, gases that would have normally remained frozen in the ground are being released - study https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/arctic-soil-releasing-carbon-dioxide/ 15 comments worldnews
- An over-the-counter supplement designed to ease osteoarthritis prolonged the lifespan of lab mice by nearly a tenth, say scientists. This would translate into an average eight-year longevity gain if the result could be repeated in humans, researchers reported in the journal Nature Communications. http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2014/04/09/3981817.htm 17 comments science