A genealogical journal
“The inheritance of social status appears to survive great levellers like universal education, the welfare state, world wars and revolutions.”
I think he’s wrong. It’s not that “the compulsion to strive, the talent to prosper and the ability to overcome failure are strongly inherited”. It’s that kids learn from their parents what’s important in life.
http://www.abroadintheyard.com/rare-surnames-reveal-how-success-is-inherited-over-centuries///cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js
Don’t be too quick to guess the future of bookstores.
I always thought it would be cool to learn Scots Gaelic. I even bought a dictionary and a grammar, but somehow never made time for it.
If you know what to look for, these names are all over the place.
“What we found was that people on paper started to ‘know’ the material more quickly over the passage of time,” says Garland. “It took longer and [required] more repeated testing to get into that knowing state [with the computer reading, but] eventually the people who did it on the computer caught up with the people who [were reading] on paper.”