"But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought."
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Letang's diagnosis raises some serious questions. Do intensely trained athletes have thrombosis and embolism? (The Penguins have two. Two! And they were diagnosed only by a peculiarity.) Will Letange need his cardiac defect repaired? If so, can it be done through he vessels or will he need his chest opened?
80% of the people in the United States live within 500 miles of Cincinnati. I had no idea.
Years ago, a team of child abuse specialists from the Yale-New Haven Hospital, brought in to the case by prosecutors and police, concluded that Dylan Farrow had not been molested. So now what? Can anyone just say anything?
Labyrinth: a maze with many twists and passages or a tortuous procedure. It comes from the name of the maze Daedalus built for King Minos of Crete to hold the Minotaur, a monster part man and part bull, who was eventually killed by the great Greek hero, Theseus. Daedalus was an artisan, the word means "clever worker," who was the father of Icarus, whose wings brought him too close to the sun and melted. The best known story of Icarus is a late one, from the Roman writer Ovid., but there are ancient references to his flying.
The 1556 Shaanxi earthquake is the deadliest earthquake on record, killing approximately 830,000 people. It occurred on the morning of 23 January 1556 during the Ming Dynasty. More than 97 counties were affected. An 520 mi area was destroyed and in some counties 60% of the population was killed. Most of the population in the area at the time lived in yaodongs, artificial caves in cliffs, many of which collapsed with catastrophic loss of life.
A new report shows that 64 percent of Chinese millionaires have either emigrated or plan to emigrate—taking their spending and fortunes with them. The United States is their favorite destination. One third have already left.
A council of village elders in India ordered the gang rape of a 20-year-old woman after they found out she was in a relationship with a man from a different community, police reported. Police in a rural part of West Bengal arrested 13 people in connection with the alleged offense that left the woman in critical condition in the hospital. Such councils are not legally binding in India, but they are seen as the will of the local community. The councils decide on social norms in the village, and in some cases they dictate the way women can dress or who they can marry. Those who flout the councils risk being ostracized. Sometimes it is really reassuring that "all politics is local."
Golden Oldie:
Association vs. Causation: The rate of infection for gonorrhea declined every year from 1950 through 1959, and the rate of syphilis infection was, by 1960, less than half of what it had been in 1950. Both trends reversed and skyrocketed after "sex education" in public schools became pervasive.
A Pew Research Center poll found that nearly 1 in 4 Americans had not read a single book or e-book in the past year, nearly tripling the figure from 1978, when only 8 percent of Americans hadn’t read a book during the preceding 12 months.
banal \buh-NAL, -NAHL, BEYN-l\, adjective: devoid of freshness or originality; hackneyed; trite: e.g. a banal and sophomoric treatment of courage on the frontier. Banal originally comes from the French word ban which referred to compulsory military service. Since this law applied to everyone, the word came to be associated with what was commonplace.
"I would say it is the most secretive White House that I have ever been involved in covering, and that includes — I spent 22 years of my career in Washington and covered presidents from President Reagan on up through now......The Obama administration has had seven criminal leak investigations. That is more than twice the number of any previous administration in our history. It's on a scale never seen before. This is the most secretive White House that, at least as a journalist, I have ever dealt with."--Jill Abramson, executive editor of The New York Times, speaking to Al Jazeera.
A local councilor in England recently has said Britain's recent storms were caused by the legalization of gay marriage. Hard to prove they aren't.
I do not know which part of this story is the most amazing: A recently deciphered 4,000-year-old clay tablet from ancient Mesopotamia - modern-day Iraq - reveals striking new details about the roots of the Old Testament tale of Noah. It tells a similar story, complete with detailed instructions for building a giant round vessel known as a coracle - as well as the key instruction that animals should enter "two by two." Irving Finkel, the museum's assistant keeper of the Middle East and the man who translated the tablet got hold of it a few years ago, when a man brought in a damaged tablet his father had acquired in the Middle East after World War II.
The tablet went on display at the British Museum. This is pre-Gilgamesh.
In 19th Century navigation of the Mississippi, crewman would throw a long rope with a lead weight at the end as far in front of the boat as possible (and thus the crewman was called the leadman) to estimate the depth. The rope was usually twenty-five fathoms long and was marked at increments of two, three, five, seven, ten, fifteen, seventeen and twenty fathoms. A fathom was originally the distance between a man's outstretched hands, but since this could be quite imprecise, it evolved to be six feet. The leadman would call out the depth the rope implied, first with the attention-getting "Mark!" then the number of fathoms on the rope, one or two etc.. There was an old-fashioned lingo they used--"two," for example was said "twain." So, at a depth of two fathoms, one knot on the rope, the leadman would call out to the boat captain, "Mark Twain!"
Who is .....Gilgamesh?
The business secretary has told worried companies that there is a 5% chance Britain will leave the European Union. The chancellor, George Osborne, warned last week that Britain will quit if the EU does not reform.
A gold expert thinks there is a shortage of stored gold; that many of the contracts have been shorted or unfilled and that a lot of gold is missing. The World Gold Council estimates that 150 to 200 tons of smuggled gold will enter India in 2013, on top of the 900 tons of official demand. When it demanded its 300 tonnes of gold back in January, the Bundesbank was told it would have to wait seven years. No explanation was given and, apparently, none was demanded. If there is a lot of missing gold, it will be expensive to replace.
2014 Winter Games in Sochi is now estimated to have cost more than $50 billion, a price tag higher than the last 21 Winter Games combined and more expensive than any Summer Games ever held.
A funny graph recently showing the world's housing prices. So....the top three countries do not use the metric system, the bottom 22 have never been invaded by the British.
AAAAAAaaaaaannnnnnddddd.....a graph:
AAAAAAaaaaaannnnnnddddd.....a graph:
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