Comment Necessary skills (Score 5, Insightful) 736

by antura on Wednesday December 30, 2009 @10:16AM (#30592866) Attached to: Why Do So Many Terrorists Have Engineering Degrees

I'd guess art students aren't as good at making bombs.

Comment Re:Not Quite. (Score 5, Insightful) 253

by antura on Sunday September 27, 2009 @08:37AM (#29555205) Attached to: Cooking May Have Made Us Human

... as we aren't the fittest animal out there we simply outthink our enemies which defies survival of the fittest...

Survival of the fittest, not survival of the strongest. Doesn't intelligence make us humans much more fit to our environment? Why would a human need te be able to run 100km/h when you can drive a car?

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