'Politics is not the art of the possible. It is choosing between the unpalatable and the disastrous'.--gailbreth
Africa will mark one year without polio this month. The last case was in Somalia in 2014. But in Kenya the country's Conference of Catholic Bishops declared a boycott of the World Health Organization's vaccination campaign, saying they needed to "test" whether ingredients contain a derivative of estrogen. They fear children may be sterilized. The fear of autism was also raised.
Jesse Lazear began growing mosquito larvae from the laboratory of Dr. Carlos Finlay, who had long argued that mosquitoes transmitted yellow fever. In Lazear's breakthrough discovery, mosquitoes that had fed on an active case of yellow fever 12 days before did indeed transmit the disease to two volunteers. He was one. About a week later, Lazear fell ill. He had not told his colleagues that he experimented on himself but notes he took at the time gave evidence that he did. Lazear died of yellow fever on September 25, 1900, at age 34. He left a wife, a newborn child, and an infant. Despite his insight and sacrifice his observations were only slowly accepted. The 20,000 men working in the Panama Canal had no protection and 4,000 died despite the fact that Lazear's discovery was well known.
Who is....Hypatia of Alexandria?
You never know. A British article claims that Obama has joined with Turkey to make the area over Syria a "no fly zone." While this ostensibly seems to be an effort to control the Syrian battlefields, the article claims it is specifically designed to limit Russian-backed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and to replace him with one of the Islamist militant groups. This policy, they say, is aimed at diminishing Russia at the expense of allowing a more Islamist Syria. What will happen with the Russians actively in Syria now is anyone's guess.
According to Reuters, Tesla loses about $4000 on every car it makes.
You never know. A British article claims that Obama has joined with Turkey to make the area over Syria a "no fly zone." While this ostensibly seems to be an effort to control the Syrian battlefields, the article claims it is specifically designed to limit Russian-backed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and to replace him with one of the Islamist militant groups. This policy, they say, is aimed at diminishing Russia at the expense of allowing a more Islamist Syria. What will happen with the Russians actively in Syria now is anyone's guess.
According to Reuters, Tesla loses about $4000 on every car it makes.
I do not know if this is true, but it says on Quora....Airlines and Online travel agencies surreptitiously use computer “cookies” they’ve implanted on your Web browser to track your activity on their sites and then raise prices when it appears that you’re interested in a fare. So remember to clear your Browser Cache before booking a ticket!
And, for those thieves among us, allegedly, swiping any card with a magnetic strip to pay for the TV in front of you will work, so long as there's no WiFi on the plane. When there’s no connection to verify your card, the transaction is held until the plane lands. If you swipe while still on land, WiFi is usually not active yet.
Golden oldie:
The boundaries continue to erode as people rise above traditional restraints. Four civilians carrying military-style rifles and side-arms patrolled a riot-torn street in Ferguson, Missouri, saying they were there to protect a media organization. The men identified themselves as part of a group called "Oath Keepers," which describes itself as an association of current and former U.S. soldiers and police who aim to protect the U.S. Constitution.
Jules Verne has been the second most-translated author in the world since 1979, ranking between writers Agatha Christie and William Shakespeare.
He was born on an island in a major whaling port; and while preparing Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas he spoke to mariners in Nantes and Amiens, including his brother Paul, a retired naval officer. In 1865 he bought a fishing-boat of 8 or 10 tons and used it as a study while sailing along the Brittany and Normandy coasts. 'I am not in any way the inventor of submarine navigation,' he said and, indeed, submarine vessels had been around for a long time. Verne's own mathematics teacher had built a working submarine.
If a single mother raising two children were to accept a pay raise from $12 to $18 per hour, her total resources would fall by nearly 33%.
If a single mother raising two children were to accept a pay raise from $12 to $18 per hour, her total resources would fall by nearly 33%.
Underlying the analytical framework of Keynes’s General Theory is a comparison of capitalism and socialism in terms of risks and consequent rates of interest, rates of investment and capital accumulation, and levels of employment and output. Keynes’s social philosophy and corresponding vision of macroeconomic reality biases his comparison in favor of socialism, or, more precisely, in favor of “a comprehensive socialisation of investment.” .....
This imagined world is one in which capital yields no return apart from compensation for supervising it and bearing the associated risks. Interest, which “rewards no genuine sacrifice,” would be nil. Its elimination would mean “the euthanasia of the rentier, and, consequently, the euthanasia of the cumulative oppressive power of the capitalist to exploit the scarcity-value of capital.” Once the “high stakes” of the capitalist system are eliminated, “the State will have to exercise a guiding influence.” In Keynes’s reflective judgment,”a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the only means of securing an approximation to full employment.”---Roger Garrison’s 1993 article in Critical Review.
Seemingly Keynes saw the economy as reducible to a number of unproven but manageable elements rather than a complex, emergent and evolved creation of history. He also apparently believed that an inherently benign central, executive power could analyze and control such a thing.
Regarding Obama's new regulatory laws on power plants, Laurence Tribe, a liberal constitutional expert and someone who wants to tackle climate change, says flatly that the EPA “is constitutionally forbidden to exercise powers Congress never delegated to it in the first place.”
Oscar Wilde's central character in The Portrait of Dorian Gray was named for John Gray, a twenty-five year-old post office employee and budding poet described by George Bernard Shaw as "one of the more abject of Wilde's disciples." He was spectacularly replaced by Lord Alfred Douglas, who would become Wilde's most famous and fatal attraction. Not only was Douglas younger, richer and better looking than Gray, but having been given Dorian Gray by a mutual friend, he had read it "fourteen times running." By June of 1891 he had contrived his first meeting with the author; by June of 1896 their relationship would have Wilde behind bars; by June of 1900 Wilde would be in the last months of disgrace, exile and life, deserted by even Douglas.
Gleydson Carvalho, a well-known radio journalist in Brazil who repeatedly denounced political corruption, was gunned down in the middle of one of his broadcasts.
Hypatia of Alexandria was, in her time, the world’s leading mathematician and astronomer, the only woman for whom such claim can be made. Hypatia, the daughter of the mathematician and philosopher Theon of Alexandria, became head of the Platonist school at Alexandria in about 400 AD. She was also a popular teacher and lecturer on philosophical topics of a less-specialist nature, attracting many loyal students and large audiences. Her philosophy was Neoplatonist as described by Plotinus. Plotinus taught that there is an ultimate reality which is beyond the reach of thought or language. The object of life was to aim at this ultimate reality which could never be precisely described but an underlying reality was partially accessible via the human power of abstraction from the Platonic forms, themselves abstractions from the world of everyday reality. Plotinus stressed that people did not have the mental capacity to fully understand both the ultimate reality itself or the consequences of its existence. Neoplatonism--and Hypatia-- was seen as “pagan” by some at a time of bitter religious conflict. Her Neoplatonism brought a more scientific approach. Her philosophy also led her to embrace a life of dedicated celibacy. All Hypatia's work is lost except for its titles and some references to it but she seems to have been revered, especially by some Christian scholars.
Hypatia became the victim of a particularly brutal public murder at the hands of a gang of Christian zealots. Her murder is seen as a point of exodus of scholars from Alexandria which led to its decline as a center of learning.
Hypatia became the victim of a particularly brutal public murder at the hands of a gang of Christian zealots. Her murder is seen as a point of exodus of scholars from Alexandria which led to its decline as a center of learning.
The Athenian custom was to cast votes by means of pebbles. Ergo "Psephology," the study of elections, from the Greek word for "pebble," psêphos. It entered English in the mid-1900s.
Daily Rituals is a book by Mason Currey on the work habits of 161 famous writers, painters, scientists, mathematicians and philosophers. While the details vary greatly and some have little quirks, one thing is constant for the vast majority of them: They work hard. And they work hard almost every day, belying the myth that creativity is the province of sudden inspiration rather than of commitment and a deeply-seated work ethic.
Most of the corporate cash flow of public companies being used for stock buybacks – a record $700 billion annualized rate this year at the expense of corporate investments in expansion. Thus, well into the seventh year of economic expansion, we have uniquely had no hint of a surge in capital spending, which remains well below average.
Separatists in Catalonia won a parliamentary majority in an election cast as a referendum on independence, though it was unclear whether they had enough of a mandate to break away from Spain.
The Roman Empire did not require the Christians to give up their beliefs and rituals, but it did expect them to pay respect to the empire's protector gods and to the divinity of the emperor. Christian refusal to do this was the source of the four Roman persecutions. Surprisingly, only a few thousand were killed in total. There is an interesting idea that the polytheistic cultures--the religion of most empires--are by their nature very tolerant of other religions and not at all evangelical or confrontational. This may imply that Old Testament conflict was not defensive on the part of the Jews.
AAAAAaaaaaaaannnnndddd....a graph of estimated oil reserves: (or maybe not)
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