Question 27
Platitudes can be righteously mined forever.
The Va. Governor race has some real implications. The Left will simply have to disguise themselves better.
The National Geographic Society has recognized a new ocean, called the Southern Ocean, around Antarctica, because it is a distinct body of water with its unique characteristics.
The Virus: Over one in five US adults believe that the risk of hospitalization is 50% according to a Gallup survey, whereas it is actually less than 1% for most of the population. The estimated age-specific infection fatality rate is very low for children and younger adults (e.g., 0.002% at age 10 and 0.01% at age 25) but increases progressively to 0.4% at age 55, 1.4% at age 65, 4.6% at age 75, and 15% at age 85.
The National Geographic Society has recognized a new ocean, called the Southern Ocean, around Antarctica, because it is a distinct body of water with its unique characteristics.
The esteemed academic and Moscow University graduate, Saule Omarova, appeared in a 2019 documentary, 'Assholes: A Theory,' in which she called finance “a quintessential asshole industry.” In the film, she spoke of the law as a way to reduce the economic rewards for self-serving behavior. This lady just gets creepier and creepier. Are you sure this is the best we can do? And, if it is, maybe we should change how we pick these powerful people.
And while we're on the topic, should we change the basics of the flow of capital in the most successful economic engine in the history of mankind? That would be a pretty radical experiment, right? And what is it about any of these leaders, the Moscow University grad included, that makes anyone feel they are up to the task? And if they are up to it, what if it doesn't work?
Kids are getting their Halloween costumes together, and this year there's a particularly spooky one going around: some kids are wearing a popular new mask that depicts a human face not wearing a mask.--The BeeThe Virus: Over one in five US adults believe that the risk of hospitalization is 50% according to a Gallup survey, whereas it is actually less than 1% for most of the population. The estimated age-specific infection fatality rate is very low for children and younger adults (e.g., 0.002% at age 10 and 0.01% at age 25) but increases progressively to 0.4% at age 55, 1.4% at age 65, 4.6% at age 75, and 15% at age 85.
A new national poll from the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) published on Monday shows that 31 percent of Americans believe the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump.
Zhang argues that government competes for talent to the detriment of the culture. 'The reason some countries are undeveloped is not that they lack entrepreneurial resources; it is because their entrepreneurial talents have been allocated to the government or to other nonproductive sectors.'
I regret I have seen such little talent in government that I can not corroborate this.
'Nothing is more attractive to the benevolent vanity of men than the notion that they can effect great improvement in society by the simple process of forbidding all wrong conduct, or conduct which they think is wrong, by law, and of enjoining all good conduct by the same means; as if men could not find out how to live until a book were placed in the hands of every individual, in which the things to be done and those not to be done were clearly set down.'
Zhang argues that government competes for talent to the detriment of the culture. 'The reason some countries are undeveloped is not that they lack entrepreneurial resources; it is because their entrepreneurial talents have been allocated to the government or to other nonproductive sectors.'
I regret I have seen such little talent in government that I can not corroborate this.
Are eugenicists 'following the science?'
There's always somebody willing to fix the ovens at Auschwitz.PETA has been riding this story recently and I agree with their outrage.
Distraught monkeys were chained by the neck in tiny cages and tormented with rubber spiders and mechanical snakes, objects the primates instinctively fear, just to observe their reactions. NIH “white coats” sucked out parts of these monkeys’ brains or destroyed them with toxic acid to intentionally worsen the primates’ fear. In the video, a callous NIH “white coat” can be heard joking, “Where the hell is the dancing monkey?” after one of the tests on the terrified monkeys ends.
There are probably a lot of opinions you could offer here but the main one is that science often attracts people unlike you and me. And, by the necessity of self-preservation, at least, we should always be on guard.
There are probably a lot of opinions you could offer here but the main one is that science often attracts people unlike you and me. And, by the necessity of self-preservation, at least, we should always be on guard.
How heavy a governmental hand will be required to redistribute the rewards of effort and achievement of others?
This quote is from James Carter and suggests the basic problem that faces all society: must civic virtue be grown from the bottom (childhood) up or can it be created by imposition from above (government) down?
Friedman has a remarkably upbeat article on how America's distancing itself, global warming, and the decline of fossil fuel are reordering and pacifying the Middle East. Buried in it is this line: Egypt and Ethiopia could actually go to war over the water-trapping dam that Ethiopia has built upstream on the Nile. (P.S. That dam is Chinese-built and they are the landlord.)
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