petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 27 2008 | politics, interesting, history, books
Quoted: Machiavelli
petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 27 2007 | funny, people, history, characters, politics, interesting
He seems like quite a character.
Quoted: In 1854, Smith successfully petitioned the California State Assembly to change his name to "Amor De Cosmos" (inaccurately translated as "Lover of the Universe"), to pay tribute, as he said, "to what I love most...Love of order, beauty, the world, the universe."
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According to this research, the dramatic fall in crime during the 1990s can be attributed to restrictions on lead emissions in the 1970s. The evidence is pretty compelling.
Quoted: Other evidence has accumulated in recent years that lead is a neurotoxin that causes impulsivity and aggression...In 2002, Herbert Needleman, a psychiatrist at the University of Pittsburgh, compared lead levels of 194 adolescents arrested in Pittsburgh with lead levels of 146 high school adolescents: The arrested youths had lead levels that were four times higher.
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