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1. Telling your parents that you are just not going to agree with them about certain things (especially regarding your lifestyle choices), and that you are ready to deal with the consequences that might bring in your relationship. 2. Removing friends from your life that you grew up with who are simply no longer good for you, even if you have known them so long as to consider them just a part of your life — something you assume will always be there. 3. Telling these friends, should they ask, exactly why you don’t really hang out with each other anymore. Explaining to them what your issues actually are without trying to come off as though you have left them behind in some way (even if you feel like you have). 4. Deleting phone numbers of people you are very interested in dating but who are just never going to be interested in you in the same way. 5. Explaining to someone who is looking to date you seriously that you are just not in a phase of your life where you can offer that to t...

Statue of Mozart in Vienna. Image courtesy of Wien Tourismus on Flickr. Vienna’s cultured capital is full of great museums and galleries by day and classical concerts by night. Once you’ve filled your itinerary with major sights, here are 10 things you did not know about Vienna. People in Vienna speak German Vienna is in Austria, not Germany. So why do Austrians speak German? In the 13th century, Austria became part of the German-speaking Habsburg Empire and remained under their rule for 640 years. As part of the empire, the Austrians had to speak German. German did not develop naturally but was standardized from a series of dialects spoken in central Europe. In the 16th century it was the language of Martin Luther’s bible and the leading language of Europe. The difference between Austrian German and the mother tongue is similar to the disparity between American and British English today. Always stand to the right on public transport Always stand on the righ...

It is a quite extraordinary figure. Dr Curtis Cooper from the University of Central Missouri has found the  largest-known prime number  – written (2 74207281 )-1. It is around 22m digits long and, if printed in full, would take you days to read. Its discovery comes thanks to a collaborative project of volunteers who use freely available software called  GIMPS  (Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search) to search for primes. A number which can only be divided by itself and 1 without a remainder is called a  prime number . Here is a list of the primes less than 100: 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47, 53, 59, 61, 67, 71, 73, 79, 83, 89, 97. Unlucky 13 Numbers appear everywhere in our lives – and good and bad superstitions have developed out of them. Remarkably, most of these superstitious numbers are prime. The superstition that 13 is unlucky results in some hotels and office buildings  not having rooms or floors labelled 13 . And ...

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Here at Paleofuture, we love failed predictions. It’s kind of our bread and butter. But shockingly, some of the failed predictions being passed around on the internet are often misleading, frequently taken out of context, or sometimes completely fabricated. Fake quotes on the internet? Unbelievable,  I know . But today we have seven predictions you may have seen recently as examples of “bad predictions.” They sound too good to be true. And that’s because they are. 1) “Everything that can be invented has been invented.” - Charles H. Duell, Commissioner of the US patent office in 1899 This is perhaps the most popular “failed prediction” of our age. I think it’s now technically illegal to make a Powerpoint presentation about business innovation without this quote in your first slide. The only problem? It’s totally fake. There’s no evidence that Duell ever said it. It gets debunked from time to time in books like  Future Hype (2006) and  Atomic Aw...