A ship in port is safe; but that is not what ships are built for. -Grace Hopper, computer scientist and US Navy Rear Admiral (1906-1992)
David Hume was born in 1711 and entered Edinburgh University at the age of ten, where he studied Latin, Greek, logic, metaphysics and the natural sciences. Religious precepts infused his courses. Hume was unimpressed. He instructed a friend in 1735 that “there is nothing to be learnt from a Professor, which is not to be met with in Books.”
Gung ho: adjective: Extremely eager and enthusiastic. ETYMOLOGY: From Chinese gonghe, an acronym from the Gongye Hezuoshe (Chinese Industrial Cooperative Society). The term gonghe was interpreted to mean “work together” and was introduced as a training slogan by US Marine Corps officer Evans Carlson (1896-1947). Earliest documented use: 1942.
Former Pittsburgh Penguins and Anaheim Ducks defenseman Simon Despres signed a one-year contract with Slovan of the KHL.
Who is....Walter Duranty?
Amazon.com said it will begin slashing prices on grocery staples at Whole Foods, the first of several changes it plans at its latest and biggest acquisition.
Years ago the NYT's correspondent in Russia, Walter Duranty, won a Pulitzer Prize for detailed news reports denying Joseph Stalin's Ukrainian genocide. (Up to 30,000 people died a day as a result of Stalin's pointed anti-Ukrainian program.) Now Malkin uses that as an argument against current NYT's editorial policy.
All sides have Purity Police.
Some "Homeland" fans are so angry about the final episode of this year that they took out a full page ad in the Hollywood Reporter to complain.
Here's a scary analysis. An investment group, GMO, predicts U.S. stocks over the coming seven years will lose 6% due to P/E multiple contraction, and another 2.8% from margin contraction. While dividend yield and profit gains will contribute 5% to stock returns,, that still amounts to a real total return of -3.9% for the period. Seven years.
A good line from Will: "...progressives believe that unfettered presidents are necessary to surmount the inefficiencies, as progressives see them, inherent in the framers’ great mistake, as progressives see it — the separation of powers."
Golden oldie:
http://steeleydock.blogspot.com/2013/07/reinhart-rogoff-and-repudiation-by.html
On August 25, 1835, the first in a series of six articles announcing the supposed discovery of life on the moon appeared in the New York Sun newspaper.
Known collectively as “The Great Moon Hoax,” the articles were supposedly reprinted from the Edinburgh Journal of Science. The byline was Dr. Andrew Grant, described as a colleague of Sir John Herschel, a famous astronomer of the day. Herschel had in fact traveled to Capetown, South Africa, in January 1834 to set up an observatory with a powerful new telescope. As Grant described it, Herschel had found evidence of life forms on the moon, including such fantastic animals as unicorns, two-legged beavers and furry, winged humanoids resembling bats. The articles also offered vivid description of the moon’s geography, complete with massive craters, enormous amethyst crystals, rushing rivers and lush vegetation.
Neuralink, the startup co-founded by billionaire Elon Musk, has taken steps to sell as much as $100 million in stock to fund the development of technology that connects human brains with computers.
There is an article in the New York Times about identity theft.
The one thing all these people had in common? They were vocal on social media about investing in bitcoin. They got hacked—and their bitcoins disappeared. In some cases, seven figures’ worth.
The 20-year-old woman who died late Aug. 17 or early Aug. 18 hiking on the Conundrum Creek Trail suffered from "acute altitude sickness," her mother said on social media. Susanna (Susie) DeForest from Collegeville, Pennsylvania, was on the popular trail to the Conundrum Hot Spring with friends when she became ill late Aug. 17 and died that night or the morning of Aug. 18.
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David Hume was born in 1711 and entered Edinburgh University at the age of ten, where he studied Latin, Greek, logic, metaphysics and the natural sciences. Religious precepts infused his courses. Hume was unimpressed. He instructed a friend in 1735 that “there is nothing to be learnt from a Professor, which is not to be met with in Books.”
Gung ho: adjective: Extremely eager and enthusiastic. ETYMOLOGY: From Chinese gonghe, an acronym from the Gongye Hezuoshe (Chinese Industrial Cooperative Society). The term gonghe was interpreted to mean “work together” and was introduced as a training slogan by US Marine Corps officer Evans Carlson (1896-1947). Earliest documented use: 1942.
Former Pittsburgh Penguins and Anaheim Ducks defenseman Simon Despres signed a one-year contract with Slovan of the KHL.
Who is....Walter Duranty?
Amazon.com said it will begin slashing prices on grocery staples at Whole Foods, the first of several changes it plans at its latest and biggest acquisition.
Years ago the NYT's correspondent in Russia, Walter Duranty, won a Pulitzer Prize for detailed news reports denying Joseph Stalin's Ukrainian genocide. (Up to 30,000 people died a day as a result of Stalin's pointed anti-Ukrainian program.) Now Malkin uses that as an argument against current NYT's editorial policy.
All sides have Purity Police.
Some "Homeland" fans are so angry about the final episode of this year that they took out a full page ad in the Hollywood Reporter to complain.
Here's a scary analysis. An investment group, GMO, predicts U.S. stocks over the coming seven years will lose 6% due to P/E multiple contraction, and another 2.8% from margin contraction. While dividend yield and profit gains will contribute 5% to stock returns,, that still amounts to a real total return of -3.9% for the period. Seven years.
A good line from Will: "...progressives believe that unfettered presidents are necessary to surmount the inefficiencies, as progressives see them, inherent in the framers’ great mistake, as progressives see it — the separation of powers."
Golden oldie:
http://steeleydock.blogspot.com/2013/07/reinhart-rogoff-and-repudiation-by.html
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On August 25, 1835, the first in a series of six articles announcing the supposed discovery of life on the moon appeared in the New York Sun newspaper.
Known collectively as “The Great Moon Hoax,” the articles were supposedly reprinted from the Edinburgh Journal of Science. The byline was Dr. Andrew Grant, described as a colleague of Sir John Herschel, a famous astronomer of the day. Herschel had in fact traveled to Capetown, South Africa, in January 1834 to set up an observatory with a powerful new telescope. As Grant described it, Herschel had found evidence of life forms on the moon, including such fantastic animals as unicorns, two-legged beavers and furry, winged humanoids resembling bats. The articles also offered vivid description of the moon’s geography, complete with massive craters, enormous amethyst crystals, rushing rivers and lush vegetation.
The Edinburgh Journal of Science had stopped publication years earlier, and Grant was a fictional character. The articles were most likely written by Richard Adams Locke, a Sun reporter educated at Cambridge University. Intended as satire, they were designed to poke fun at earlier, serious speculations about extraterrestrial life, particularly those of Reverend Thomas Dick, a popular science writer who claimed in his bestselling books that the moon alone had 4.2 billion inhabitants.
“The Constitution does not say that a person can shout…yell ‘wolf’ in a crowded theater. If you are endangering people, then you don’t have a constitutional right to do that,” goofy Pelosi said in an interview with San Francisco TV station KRON. This is the wonderful thing about politicians; you sort of know what they mean. The politician always has the good heart of the citizen to lean on. Too bad it doesn't go the other way.
There is an article in the New York Times about identity theft.
The one thing all these people had in common? They were vocal on social media about investing in bitcoin. They got hacked—and their bitcoins disappeared. In some cases, seven figures’ worth.
Commoditizing yesterday’s luxuries: While there will always be poor and rich, the definition of modern poor would in certain ways have registered as rich in 2005, and unquestionably rich in 1905. As inequality rises, the lifestyle gap between the rich and poor shrinks. Of course it does. Innovators get rich by virtue of commoditizing yesterday’s luxuries, and the innovators of today once again get to serve the needs of a much greater number of people. (tamny)
The 20-year-old woman who died late Aug. 17 or early Aug. 18 hiking on the Conundrum Creek Trail suffered from "acute altitude sickness," her mother said on social media. Susanna (Susie) DeForest from Collegeville, Pennsylvania, was on the popular trail to the Conundrum Hot Spring with friends when she became ill late Aug. 17 and died that night or the morning of Aug. 18.
A tablet, known as Plimpton 332, was discovered in the early 1900s in Southern Iraq by the American archaeologist and diplomat Edgar Banks, who was the inspiration for Indiana Jones. The true meaning of the tablet has eluded experts until now but new research by the University of New South Wales, Australia, has shown it is the world’s oldest and most accurate trigonometric table, which was probably used by ancient architects to construct temples, palaces and canals.
However unlike today’s trigonometry, Babylonian mathematics used a base 60, or sexagesimal system, rather than the 10 which is used today. Because 60 is far easier to divide by three, experts studying the tablet, found that the calculations are far more accurate.
The tablet, which is thought to have come from the ancient Sumerian city of Larsa, has been dated to between 1822 and 1762 BC.However unlike today’s trigonometry, Babylonian mathematics used a base 60, or sexagesimal system, rather than the 10 which is used today. Because 60 is far easier to divide by three, experts studying the tablet, found that the calculations are far more accurate.
Americans spend more than half of their digital media consumption time -- 57 percent -- in apps, according to a report. That's about the same as a year ago -- evidence that the dramatic shift to mobile has now leveled out in the U.S. These are the winners, according to comScore, as measured by their penetration of the U.S. mobile app audience: Facebook (81 percent), YouTube (71 percent), Facebook Messenger (68 percent), Google Search (61 percent), Google Maps (57 percent), Instagram (50 percent), Snapchat (50 percent), Google Play (47 percent), Gmail (44 percent), and Pandora (41 percent). 8 out of 10 apps here are owned by Facebook and Google.
"We've got to ... try to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong ... we will be doing the right thing anyway in terms of economic policy and environmental policy."--Sen. Timothy Wirth, D-Colo.
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