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Chimps are smart, but humans are a lot smarter. Until now, there have been two competing ideas to explain why. The general-intelligence theory says that our bigger and more complex brains give us an overall edge. The cultural-intelligence hypothesis, by contrast, says that humans have specific areas of intelligence where we excel; our brains are not just bigger, but also better than those of our nearest evolutionary relatives...
...plans for this year's Festival? I've taken 10 days off work, and my brother has taken off seven days. Last year we bought a 25-pack [of tickets], then we found more films we wanted to watch so we bought individual tickets. This year we're going bigger. We're each getting two ten packs and a daytime pass, which is unlimited - so it's basically about 30 films each...
Selling off fixed-rate mortgages was one way of moving risk out of the banking system. The growth in the 1980s and 1990s of Fannie and Freddie--which can buy loans of up to $417,000--and of private markets for bigger, or jumbo, loans made this possible. It also enabled the rapid rise of independent lenders, Countrywide most prominent among them, that sold all their loans on the secondary market...
...taken risks with new materials and technologies and fashioned the Dreamliner into something that beleaguered airlines and their passengers might actually enjoy. Analysts say the 787 might be the first plane that passengers actually choose to fly because of new interior amenities, such as more pressurization, more humidity, bigger windows, more room as well as a lower carbon footprint per seat. That hits a sweet spot with airlines when coupled with savings in operations and maintenance costs...
Airbus' counterstroke to the Dreamliner is a bigger (average 314 seats), more technologically advanced, fuel-efficient A350, an "Xtra Wide-Body" plane planned for rollout in 2013. The goal is to compete with the Dreamliner for new business while rendering the economics of Boeing's transoceanic 777 obsolete. Boeing is already headed for a larger plane, the 787-10, a potential 320-seater, primarily because of demand from airlines like Dubai-based Emirates and Australia's Qantas Airways...