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Is Google Affecting Our Memory?

 Let me ask you something. How many of your friend's phone number can you remember? I guess it might be less than 5 or 6. Let us go a few years back when we were able to remember at least 5-10 phone numbers, we had diaries to write them down. And before that, if we ask our parents they tend to remember it all in their head. I know people who could remember more than 20 phone numbers. Well, with the advent of technology, we are conveniently living in a society where everything is getting readily available. But, we are becoming more and more passive, right? Isn't it affecting our brains too? Remember the film WALL-E? The movie actually depicts a not so optimistic future. We are forced to leave Earth because of what we have done to it that made it uninhabitable. We are forced to live in a space station where the conditions of Earth is simulated. Well, in that movie we can see how we have become boneless bodies. We are fed with everything at the tip of our fingers. It was

Why Women are (deemed to be) Less Funny?

  Before reading this I would want you to just go to YouTube and search for something. Type " Funny Actor" & "Funny Actress" and see what result you get. I know you are a lazy ass, so, here is what I found. Well, you can validate it with your results in your local search queries. Source: YouTube Source: YouTube Out of curiosity, I was just searching there for these and I observed something that needs attention.  Like when we think of a comedian, what we think of is a male actor. The thing is many people don't even know there is a feminine version of the word. "Comedienne" is the word you are looking for. So, coming back to the results I have shown above, have you seen the difference in results? Well, I think it reflects what society thinks about women and men being funny. Women are being bullied here as we can see. People think comedy is a