Nothing is more suicidal than a rational investment strategy in an irrational world.
~John Maynard Keynes
When a snake strikes, it moves so fast it could hit you four times within the space of one eyeblink. If a human moved that fast they would lose consciousness. According to research, an average "snake strike" lasts somewhere between 44 and 70 milliseconds. To put that in perspective, it takes humans around 200ms to blink an eye. In the same time, the most ruthless snake could theoretically have carried out four strikes.
Medical school applicants generally have to complete a series of basic science courses, including biology, chemistry, organic chemistry, and physics. These requirements came to be after 1910, when the educator Abraham Flexner wrote a report on medical education for the Carnegie Foundation. Back then, medical schools had lax admissions standards and inconsistent, nonscientific curricula. But Flexner argued that medical training should be science-based and that applicants should complete undergraduate coursework in basic sciences in order to apply. His recommendations were transformative. Since Flexner’s report, basic science classes have formed the foundation of how we screen aspiring doctors in the United States.
Since 1987, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai has run a Humanities and Medicine Program (HuMed) that admits non-traditional applicants who haven’t taken the usual pre-med requirements. In 2010, faculty there published a study of hundreds of students and found HuMed students and traditional pre-med students performed at virtually the same level in medical school.
Since 1987, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai has run a Humanities and Medicine Program (HuMed) that admits non-traditional applicants who haven’t taken the usual pre-med requirements. In 2010, faculty there published a study of hundreds of students and found HuMed students and traditional pre-med students performed at virtually the same level in medical school.
Who is....Maria Cosway?
The Peace of Westphalia, was the beginning of the European nation-state where the individual subsets, ethnicities and loners were all, arbitrarily, organized as nations. There are some very interesting notions about this. Nations may not be natural; the tribe might be. The nation may be the result of industrialization and its demands for norms; agricultural communities may not fit nations. Most interestingly, the state is a practical legal administrating entity, the nation demands a spiritual sense of self.
In May of 2016, Dr. Lawrence Wyner, of Huntington, WV, presented a paper on the urologic hazards of the zipper. Nearly 100 years ago, Swedish-American engineer Gideon Sundback received a patent for major improvements he made to the clasp locker, Whitcomb Judson's unreliable boot-lacing mechanism. Sundback called his invention the "separable fastener," but it remained virtually unnoticed until B.F. Goodrich president Bertram Work decided to put it on rubber galoshes in 1923, and also had the foresight to give his product the catchy onomatopoetic name "zippers." For about 10 years, the device was relegated only to footwear and tobacco pouches. Although fashion designers saw the zipper's potential for clothing, the device was slow to catch on for both sexes, and was irreverently satirized in Aldous Huxley's 1932 novel, Brave New World. While slow to "catch on," in the mid-1930s, as British royalty began wearing zippered trousers, this new device for fastening one's fly suddenly became the rage. The first report of a zipper-related penile injury (ZIRPI) appeared in JAMA in 1936. It is estimated that about 2,000 of these occur annually in the U.S. alone.
Personally, I feel that the decline of the U.S. and the loss of the zipper patent occurred about the same time. That may not be a coincidence; the cheaper, less reliable modern zipper has made all of life less reliable and may have infiltrated unreliability into our very psyche. But Dr. Wyner paper raises another concern: How can the people of this great nation allow the potential hazards to innocent citizens by this product to exist? Certain the risks--especially now with the inferior products loosed upon us--merits a conference, a committee or even a bureau to assess the risks and possible regulatory solutions.
I would like to be part--i.e. president-- of an advocacy group.
The Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation, a group that tracks human rights and political repression in Cuba, reported more than 8,600 politically motivated detentions in 2015, a 315 percent increase from five years ago. In the first two months of this year, there had already been more than 2,500 arrests.
O)n the California drought: Droughts are defined by reduced precipitation and increased evaporation, and California’s 2011-2015 drought had both. What happened over the last three winters was a major reduction in precipitation (a reduction of 0.9 mm per day) with only a minor increase in evaporation (less than 0.1 mm per day). In short, the reduction in precipitation was an order of magnitude more than the increase in evaporation. “California lost essentially one full year of precipitation,” according to Richard Seager, a climate model specialist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. “The [reduced] precipitation was the essence of this drought,” added Marty Hoerling, a meteorologist at the NOAA Earth System Research Lab: "Farmers were praying for rain, not cooler temperatures." According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),“The current drought is not part of a long-term change in California precipitation, which exhibits no appreciable trend since 1895.”.
Hillary wants to end the disabled-workers’ exemption from the minimum-wage requirement. This symbolic act will certainly make almost all of them unemployable. If almost none of the workers who are today classified as disabled are capable of producing $7.25 per hour of value for employers, who will hire them for more?
But form triumphs over substance.
The use of the corpses of criminals to discover the secrets of human anatomy dates back to the 4th century BC, when Herophilos and Erasistratus of Alexandria were given permission to perform live vivisections. Live. The times, however, had changed and criminals were now only dissected after execution. Families who wanted to protect their loved one from vivisectionists turned to innovators and thus emerged the "mortsafe." The mortsafe was ingenious: a complex of iron rods and plates descending in to the ground and rising above it. Above the ground they were weighted either with stone or iron.
In 1998, Kodak had 170,000 employees and sold 85% of all photo paper worldwide. Within just a few years, their business model disappeared and they went bankrupt.
47% of all Americans do not put a single penny out of their paychecks into savings.
Dierdre Mcclloskey is getting more and more interesting. She is a professor of economics, history and English, has written on a number of topics in all areas, has a huge reservoir of thought and ideas, is an expert on Jane Austin, has a gargantuan trilogy of books out trying to explain the explosive growth in wealth in the 17th Century.
She used to be named Donald, is a father of two and – in 1995 at the age of 53 – decided to become a woman. McCloskey is also an award-winning author and economist, a former “Chicago Boy” who worked for several years alongside the famous free-market guru Milton Friedman.
The professor has since written a book on her experience. Crossing: A Memoir was cited as the "Notable Book of the Year" by the New York Times. Although her sex change did not affect her career, McCloskey writes about how it did end up separating her from her family. Her recent trilogy, Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions Enriched the World, threatens to be a significant work of the early century.
Edward Albee was inspired to write "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" after seeing the line scrawled in soap on a graffiti mirror in a Greenwich Village hangout called "College of the Complexes."
The professor has since written a book on her experience. Crossing: A Memoir was cited as the "Notable Book of the Year" by the New York Times. Although her sex change did not affect her career, McCloskey writes about how it did end up separating her from her family. Her recent trilogy, Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions Enriched the World, threatens to be a significant work of the early century.
Edward Albee was inspired to write "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" after seeing the line scrawled in soap on a graffiti mirror in a Greenwich Village hangout called "College of the Complexes."
At age seven, George Ruth's truancy from school led his parents to declare him incorrigible, and he was sent to an orphanage, St. Mary’s Industrial School for Boys. Ruth lived there until he was 19 in 1914, when he was signed as a pitcher by the Baltimore Orioles. That same summer, Ruth was sold to the Boston Red Sox. His teammates called him “Babe,” short for baby, for his naiveté, but his talent was already mature, and he was almost immediately recognized as the best pitcher on one of the great teams of the 1910s. He set a record between 1916 and 1918 with 29 2/3 consecutive scoreless innings in World Series play, including a 14-inning game in 1916 in which he pitched every inning, giving up only a run in the first.To the great dismay of Boston fans, Ruth was sold by the Red Sox to the New York Yankees before the 1920 season by Red Sox owner Harry Frazee, so that Frazee could finance the musical No, No, Nanette. Ruth switched to the outfield with the Yankees, and hit more home runs than the entire Red Sox team in 10 of the next 12 seasons.
Surly: adj: 1. churlishly rude or bad-tempered: a surly waiter. 2. unfriendly or hostile; menacingly irritable: a surly old lion. 3. dark or dismal; menacing; threatening: a surly sky. Interesting ety: 1560-70; spelling variant of obsolete sirly or lordly, arrogant, equivalent to sir + -ly . So churlish from lordly.
Former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell and his wife Maureen were convicted of accepting over $150,000 in gifts while in office from a businessman.The Clintons raked in seven hundred times that amount — $105 million— under the pretext of speaking fees while Hillary Clinton was in public office. Yet the McDonnells face time in prison, while the Clintons are aiming for the White House.
Former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell and his wife Maureen were convicted of accepting over $150,000 in gifts while in office from a businessman.The Clintons raked in seven hundred times that amount — $105 million— under the pretext of speaking fees while Hillary Clinton was in public office. Yet the McDonnells face time in prison, while the Clintons are aiming for the White House.
In 1786, a widowed Thomas Jefferson met Maria (pronounced Mariah) Cosway in Paris while he was serving as the U.S. minister to France. Cosway was born to English parents in Italy and, by the time she met Jefferson, had become an accomplished painter and musician. She was also married. The two developed a deep friendship. The usually self-contained Jefferson acted like a giddy schoolboy with Cosway, at one point leaping over a stone fountain while the two were out walking and falling and breaking his right wrist. After the wrist healed, a chagrined Jefferson wrote his famous Head and Heart Letter to Cosway in October 1876, just after she left for London with her husband for an undetermined period of time. The letter reveals him to have been a lovesick man whose intellect battled with a heart aching for a woman he could not have.
Golden Oldie:
"In a nationally-televised debate among three of the Libertarian candidates for President a highly unlikely hypothetical question was raised about whether a Jewish baker has the right to refuse to serve a Nazi sympathizer asking for a "Nazi cake". I responded to that question in the legal context of whether a public business has the right to refuse to serve a member of the public, as distasteful as it might be. The simple answer to that question is, whether all like it or not, U.S. law has recognized the principle of public accommodation for more than 100 years: The principle that, when a business opens its doors to the public, that business enters into an implied contract to serve ALL of the public. Further, when that business voluntarily opens its doors, the owners voluntarily agree to adhere to applicable laws and regulations -- whether they like those laws or not."
This comes from a Facebook post by Former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson, running for the Presidential nomination of the Libertarian Party. Is what he says true? Or right?
AAAAaaaaannnnndddddd..........a chart:
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