"It is a cruel mortification, searching for what is instructive in the history of past times, to find that the exploits of conquerors who have desolated the earth, and the freaks of tyrants who have rendered nations unhappy, are recorded with minute and often disgusting accuracy, while the discovery of useful arts, and the progress of the most beneficial branches of commerce, are passed over in silence, and suffered to sink into oblivion."--John Kenyon's 1983 volume, The History Men
On 26 January 1972, an explosion on JAT Flight 367, while over the Czech Republic, caused the plane to break apart. Vesna Vulović, 22 years old at the time, was a flight attendant on board. She was not scheduled to be on that flight; she had been mixed up with another flight attendant who was also named Vesna. Vulović fell approximately 10,160 meters or 33,333 feet. She survived. She suffered a fractured skull, three broken vertebrae (one crushed completely) that left her temporarily paralyzed from the waist down, and two broken legs. and was in a coma for 27 days. She experienced a full recovery from her injuries. She holds the Guinness record for surviving the longest fall without a parachute. She became a national hero and her fame seemingly protected her in some of her political activism that was unpopular with the government.
Who is....Kurt Gödel?
Two inspectors general have asked the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation into whether sensitive government information was mishandled in connection with the personal email account Hillary Rodham Clinton used as secretary of state, senior government officials said Thursday. The request follows an assessment in a June 29 memo by the inspectors general for the State Department and the intelligence agencies that Mrs. Clinton's private account contained "hundreds of potentially classified emails."
On 26 January 1972, an explosion on JAT Flight 367, while over the Czech Republic, caused the plane to break apart. Vesna Vulović, 22 years old at the time, was a flight attendant on board. She was not scheduled to be on that flight; she had been mixed up with another flight attendant who was also named Vesna. Vulović fell approximately 10,160 meters or 33,333 feet. She survived. She suffered a fractured skull, three broken vertebrae (one crushed completely) that left her temporarily paralyzed from the waist down, and two broken legs. and was in a coma for 27 days. She experienced a full recovery from her injuries. She holds the Guinness record for surviving the longest fall without a parachute. She became a national hero and her fame seemingly protected her in some of her political activism that was unpopular with the government.
Who is....Kurt Gödel?
Two inspectors general have asked the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation into whether sensitive government information was mishandled in connection with the personal email account Hillary Rodham Clinton used as secretary of state, senior government officials said Thursday. The request follows an assessment in a June 29 memo by the inspectors general for the State Department and the intelligence agencies that Mrs. Clinton's private account contained "hundreds of potentially classified emails."
There is a reality show called "I am Jazz," about a transgender child. This is really heartrending stuff. Worst is the presentation of these problems to the general public for digestion when whatever sparse science exists is inadequate for any reasonable discussion.
This was in the Financial Times:
This was in the Financial Times:
"Arresting the central bank's governor. Emptying its vaults. Appealing to Moscow for help. These were the elements of a covert plan to return Greece to the drachma hatched by members of the Left Platform faction of Greece's governing Syriza party.
They were discussed at a July 14 meeting at the Oscar Hotel in a shabby downtown district of Athens following an EU summit that saw Greece cave to its creditors, leaving many in the party feeling despondent and desperate.
The plans have come to light through interviews with participants in the meeting as well as senior Greek officials and sympathetic journalists who were waiting outside the gathering and briefed on the talks.
"Obviously it was a moment of high tension," a Syriza activist said, describing the atmosphere as the meeting opened. "But you were also aware of a real revolutionary spirit in the room.""
So part of Syriza's solution to the problem was a coup?
In the Middle Ages the words 'hic sunt dracones' (here be dragons) appeared on a number of maps to indicate dangerous or unexplored territories.
They were discussed at a July 14 meeting at the Oscar Hotel in a shabby downtown district of Athens following an EU summit that saw Greece cave to its creditors, leaving many in the party feeling despondent and desperate.
The plans have come to light through interviews with participants in the meeting as well as senior Greek officials and sympathetic journalists who were waiting outside the gathering and briefed on the talks.
"Obviously it was a moment of high tension," a Syriza activist said, describing the atmosphere as the meeting opened. "But you were also aware of a real revolutionary spirit in the room.""
So part of Syriza's solution to the problem was a coup?
In the Middle Ages the words 'hic sunt dracones' (here be dragons) appeared on a number of maps to indicate dangerous or unexplored territories.
"[G]old is an investment in monetary and financial disorder - not a hedge. You look around the world and you see exchange rates are properly disorderly, when you look around the world of lending and borrowing -- we are in a regime of price control by another name, so-called zero percent rates and quantitative easing by the world central banks - we are in one of the most radical periods of monetary experimentation in the annals of money," Jim Grant told Kitco News Thursday.
"Price control by another name!"
"Price control by another name!"
Meretricious: adjective: 1. alluring by a show of flashy or vulgar attractions; tawdry. 2. based on pretense, deception, or insincerity. 3. pertaining to or characteristic of a prostitute. 1620s, "pertaining to harlots," from Latin meretricius "of or pertaining to prostitutes," from meretrix (genitive meretricis) "prostitute," literally "woman who earns money," from merere, mereri "to earn, gain." "Merit" comes from this line.
On Clinton's e-mail questions: Department of Justice officials initially said that they had received a criminal inquiry to investigate the email situation before reversing course hours later and saying that the referral wasn't criminal. According to memo by two inspectors general, a State Department review found that Mrs. Clinton's email archive of about 30,000 messages contained "hundreds" with potentially classified information. The inspectors general urged the State Department to ensure that no classified material was released publicly. "At least one of these emails has been released to the public and can be accessed on the Department's FOIA website," the two IGs wrote in a memo to the State Department earlier this month. Two different government agencies are at odds about whether classified material found on Mrs. Clinton's email server was classified when it was sent.
Golden oldie:
Antibiotics have been under scrutiny for years as they cause overgrowth of other bugs, destroy the environment of helpful bugs. There's a new concern. One of the great breakthroughs in disease was the movement of our understanding of ulcer disease away from the subjective neurological and acidic explanation to the bacterium H. pylori. We have been slowly eradicating H. pylori with antibiotics - the organisms have become quite uncommon in developed countries. But as they vanish a small epidemic of esophageal disease follows, with inflammation causing heartburn and even cancer. It turns out that this bad germ is also good, instrumental in protecting the human esophagus from trouble. There's another question: We use antibiotics to help fatten farm animals; does it help fatten us?
The coal industry accounts for 7% of the gross business product of West Virginia, but the industry pays 60% of the business taxes.
The Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fish is one of the Holy Land's most famous Catholic churches and one of the places most visited by pilgrims to the Holy Land, with more than 5,000 people visiting it daily. It was attacked recently with several arson sites. The Rabbis for Human Rights group says there have been 43 hate crime attacks on churches, mosques and monasteries in Israel and the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem since 2009.
Kurt Gödel was the most acclaimed logician in the Western world; his name is mentioned with Euclid.
"Einstein and Gödel were walking home from the Institute together. They were talking about work Einstein was doing and Einstein looked over at Goedel and asked him what he was currently doing. Gödel said he was collecting all the manuscripts of Leibniz's work in calculus (you have to understand that Gödel could have gotten practically anything he asked for). This puzzled both the other parties, since of course this was by no means any sort of advanced mathematics. Einstein asked, so Kurt, what are doing with them. Gödel said in somewhat hushed tones, that he was collecting them to compare their readings. Why? was the response. My source was completely taken aback by the response: because in libraries, at night, misprint demons come out, and make small changes in manuscripts and books, to confuse us. Gödel wanted the manuscripts to actually form a kind of critical text of what Leibniz actually wrote. Gödel's companions were silenced."--W V Smith
Cyrano de Bergerac, of big nose and sword fighting fame, is regarded as one of the pioneers in science-fantasy writing, though his interest in fantastic journeys -- like Swift, who read him -- was really to satirize what he found ridiculous at home. He died at the age of thirty-six from injuries caused when a piece of lumber, perhaps dropped intentionally by one of his enemies, fell from a third story window and hit him on the head.
An article from the Post on the astonishing approval from the federal investigators to investigate Clinton:
"Somebody very high in the food chain leaked the memos requesting the probe. The New York Times, which broke the story, identified its source only as "a senior government official."
My money is on Valerie Jarrett, the Obamas' Rasputin, who is known to despise Clinton. If it was Jarrett, she would not do this against the president's wishes.
That also would be true for any "senior government official" who leaked the memos. Targets don't get any bigger than Hillary Clinton, so this was not a rogue operation. This was an approved hit."
--One of the motives suggested in the article is Clinton's use of private servers which the White House sees as an effort to escape their oversight.
For the first time since records began, hedge funds are net short gold futures, according to CFTC data.
In 1896, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Plessy v. Ferguson that states could constitutionally provide segregated facilities for African Americans, so long as they were equal to those afforded white persons. The Plessy v. Ferguson decision, which announced federal toleration of the so-called "separate but equal" doctrine, was eventually used to justify segregating all public facilities, including railroad cars, restaurants, hospitals, and schools. However, "colored" facilities were never equal to their white counterparts, and African Americans suffered through decades of debilitating discrimination in the South and elsewhere. In 1954, Plessy v. Ferguson was finally struck down by the Supreme Court in its ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.
An article from the Post on the astonishing approval from the federal investigators to investigate Clinton:
"Somebody very high in the food chain leaked the memos requesting the probe. The New York Times, which broke the story, identified its source only as "a senior government official."
My money is on Valerie Jarrett, the Obamas' Rasputin, who is known to despise Clinton. If it was Jarrett, she would not do this against the president's wishes.
That also would be true for any "senior government official" who leaked the memos. Targets don't get any bigger than Hillary Clinton, so this was not a rogue operation. This was an approved hit."
--One of the motives suggested in the article is Clinton's use of private servers which the White House sees as an effort to escape their oversight.
For the first time since records began, hedge funds are net short gold futures, according to CFTC data.
In 1896, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Plessy v. Ferguson that states could constitutionally provide segregated facilities for African Americans, so long as they were equal to those afforded white persons. The Plessy v. Ferguson decision, which announced federal toleration of the so-called "separate but equal" doctrine, was eventually used to justify segregating all public facilities, including railroad cars, restaurants, hospitals, and schools. However, "colored" facilities were never equal to their white counterparts, and African Americans suffered through decades of debilitating discrimination in the South and elsewhere. In 1954, Plessy v. Ferguson was finally struck down by the Supreme Court in its ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.
J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series, is the first person to become a billionaire (U.S. dollars) by writing books.
Technology as such destroys no particular jobs. What ultimately destroys particular jobs is consumer and worker choice. For example, the technology behind Uber is destroying the jobs of traditional cab drivers only because consumers choose to use Uber and because many workers choose to drive for Uber. So to use the democratic process to protect particular jobs by 'controlling' technological progress is really to use the democratic process to protect particular jobs by controlling consumer and worker choice. (Bordeaux)
AAAAAaaaaaaannnnnndddddd......a graph:
It is getting even more expensive to go to school. Even after adjusting for inflation, college costs have gone up more than 400% in the last 30 years.
AAAAAaaaaaaannnnnndddddd......a graph:
It is getting even more expensive to go to school. Even after adjusting for inflation, college costs have gone up more than 400% in the last 30 years.
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