New shale oil discoveries “are threats to any oil-producing country in the world,” said Prince Alwaleed, a billionaire businessman and nephew of Saudi King Abdullah, in an interview with The Globe and Mail. “It is a pivot moment for any oil-producing country that has not diversified. Ninety-two percent of Saudi Arabia’s annual budget comes from oil. Definitely it is a worry and a concern.” Now that is really interesting. And nice. And well deserved.
There are 47 million people without health insurance. Of those, 18 million come from households with incomes of over $50,000 annually (more than the medical resident who would see him), 10 million from households of over $75,000. 10 million are not American citizens. Another 10 million are eligible for Medicaid but have not applied. That's 38 million people of the 47 million.
According to a recent study, individuals were less likely to remember details of objects they saw if they took photographs of these items rather than if they simply observed them.
The Boston Bruins' hockey guide is the only one in the league that lists fighting penalty minutes.
"'Rudolph the Red-nosed Raindeer' song banned because of bullying references!" (Just kidding.)
The free election of Peron worried Luis Borges about democracy as it was evolving in South America. Consequently he began to believe that what Argentina needed was an enlightened dictatorship that would train its citizens in the ways of true democracy, and then oversee free elections. His public support for the violently repressive juntas of Generals Jorge Rafael Videla in Argentina and Augusto Pinochet in Chile, in the 1970s, has left a permanent stain on his reputation.
Who is...Lynne Stewart?
While both North Dakota and Pennsylvania have fracking booms, North Dakota was first in population growth in 2013 while Pennsylvania was 48th.
"Trickle Down Economics" is a thesis that promotes giving to the rich with hopes it will "trickle down" to the poor. It is constantly denounced by Progressive politicians yet not one individual has ever quoted anyone who has actually advocated it. J.A. Schumpeter's monumental "History of Economic Analysis," more than a thousand pages long and printed in very small type does not mention it. It is more than a straw man argument, it is an invisible straw man.
A library belonging to a Greek Orthodox priest was torched in Tripoli, Lebanon, last week, according to Agence France-Press. Around two-thirds of the 80,000 books reportedly were destroyed. An unnamed "security source" told the news agency that the fire was started the day after "a pamphlet was discovered inside one of the books at the library that was insulting to Islam and the Prophet Mohammad."
A library belonging to a Greek Orthodox priest was torched in Tripoli, Lebanon, last week, according to Agence France-Press. Around two-thirds of the 80,000 books reportedly were destroyed. An unnamed "security source" told the news agency that the fire was started the day after "a pamphlet was discovered inside one of the books at the library that was insulting to Islam and the Prophet Mohammad."
The Netherlands is a geographically low-lying country, with about 20% of its area and 21% of its population located below sea level, and 50% of its land lying less than one meter above sea level.
Golden Oldie:
Researchers found that humans accounted for only 38.5 percent of the traffic on the Internet in 2013, with the remaining 61.5 percent of traffic being driven by bots, automated hacking programs, and various other computer scripts that emulate humans.
Paul Hellyer, former Canadian defense minister, went on television and declared that not only do aliens exist but that they walk among us and are responsible for some of our modern technology, like the microchip, LED light and Kevlar vest. Alien visitors come from near (one of the Saturn moons) and far (the Pleiades and Zeta Reticuli star systems). They get here via a portal in the Andes mountains in Peru. “[I’ve] been getting from various sources [that] there are about 80 different species and some of them look just like us and they could walk down the street and you wouldn’t know if you walked past one,” he said.
Sanguine: A word with an evolution. Originally meaning "bloody"--indeed "sanguinary" means "blood-thirsty" and the cool and calm man with "sang-froid" literally has "cold blood"--it has developed, as one of the four "humors" the Middle Ages thought controlled personality in various proportions-- blood, phlegm, choler, and black bile--to mean "ruddy" then "cheerful" then to its meaning today: "hopeful, optimistic." It is often use as a mood contrary to observation e.g. "He is quite sanguine despite the direction of the stock market."
AAAaaaaaannnnnddddd......a newspaper headline:
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