Friday, September 13, 2019

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  • Make peace with your past. So that it doesn’t ruin your present. Remember your past cannot establish your future. Your expectations and behavior do. What others think of you is...
  • Inevitability, you will cross paths with a toxic grudge bearer in your lifetime. Most people who get angry tend to express it openly, and then there are the few who use other tactics...

    • Why is it so common for earthlings to blame every unfortunate occurrence on the “Full Moon”? People tend to interpret information to confirm their beliefs. When life is hectic...

    Featured Health News from Medical News Today



  • People can eat 1,200 calories a day to lose weight safely by adding more filling foods, such as protein rich foods, to their diet. Learn more about how to eat 1,200 calories a day and stay...
  • Some people are allergic to latex or other elements of condoms. Learn more about the allergy symptoms that a person may experience after using condoms or similar products during sex...

    • Hepatitis C is a curable liver infection. With the appropriate treatment, it is possible to clear the virus within 12 weeks. Learn more here.
    • Over the past couple of weeks, Red Clay Consolidated School District Board of Education member Jason Casper has been a lightning rod of controversy over Facebook posts supporting...

      Have You Heard



  • TweetIn the latest episode of Have You Heard we go back to school. And not to the idealized, romantic notion of school but to the harsh reality that awaits too many students and teachers...
  • TweetStep one: become an expert in the regulations governing (and more importantly, not governing) charter schools in your state. Step two: recruit as many students as possible...

    • TweetIn the latest episode of Have You Heard, economist Marshall Steinbaum talks free college, human capital theory, educationism and why it’s time to disrupt the individualized...

  • The first story is Robert Heinlein’s The Year of the Jackpot.  A consulting statistician with the unlikely name of Potiphar Breen observes that many strange social trends are...
  • I like to check up on these topics in historical linguistics every few months, just to see if anything new and sexy has come in. Eurasiatic and Nostratic are linguistic macrofamilies...
  • Ehud Barak

    2 days ago

    • Via Powerline, an interview with Ehud Barak. I forget that political controversies and lines drawn in other countries are not quite the same as here, and it is good to be reminded. Barak’s...

      Centinel2012



  • The progressives, like Jack Petsche, are fixated on creating a Utopia every place they reside. Unfortunately, as we know, utopias do not exist and  when despite a 100% failure the...
  • Armstrong Economics Blog/Basic Concepts Re-Posted Sep 13, 2019 by Martin Armstrong QUESTION: I mentioned that you said the stock market rallies with rising rates and declines...

    • Armstrong Economics Blog/ECM Re-Posted Sep 13, 2019 by Martin Armstrong QUESTION: Marty, Sometime you compare today’s financial markets and economy to what was going on in...

  • It's NICOLE SANDLER, back to guest host another episode of the BradCast. Brad and Desi are in Arizona dealing with a family medical emergency. Angie Coiro and I will hold down the fort...
  • It's NICOLE SANDLER here, guest hosting another episode of the BradCast. My first guest is JOSHUA POTASH from SOS America 2019. I learned of his efforts to get Americans to take to the...

    • IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Global trade unions commit to walk out for Global Climate Strike on Sept. 20th; Parts of the planet have already warmed 2 degrees Celsius; Benefits of investing...

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  • Bumper snickers

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  • Wednesday weirdness

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  • As made clear by postings at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC) website on September 5, 2019, Interim Storage Partners (ISP) has moved to moot the only contention admitted...
  •   Ian Zabarte, secretary, NCAC, speaks at a press conference at UNLVAs reported by the Las Vegas Sun, a coalition of Nevadans -- from Western Shoshone Indians, to environmentalists...

    • Japan's new environment minister, Shinjiro Koizumi, son of the former prime minister, Junichiro Koizumi, says Japan should close down its nuclear power plants. At a news conference...

  • Juan Guaido may have some explaining to do. Photos have emerged depicting the Venezuelan opposition leader with gang members, confirmed by Colombian police to be leaders in the violent...
  • US Energy Secretary Rick Perry said on Friday he will meet the new Saudi energy minister on Monday and likely discuss plans Saudi Arabia has to build nuclear reactors...

    • The New York attorney general’s office said Friday that it had tracked about $1 billion in wire transfers by the Sackler family, including through Swiss bank accounts, suggesting...

  • By Matthew Warren. We can minimise the "illusory truth effect" by comparing information against our own knowledge when we first encounter it.
  • By Emma Young. People's political beliefs influence how they perceive users of un-PC language.
  • ( Likely part of the problem with p.c. 'greenhouse gas' alarmist sales programs )

    5 days ago
  • Episode 18: How To Boost Your Creativity


    • Presenter Ginny Smith learns how we can develop our creativity and tries out the riddles psychologists use to study creative problem solving.

      Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Places



  • Built at the turn of the 19th century, the Hayground Windmill was named after its original location in Haye Ground, a village in Bridgehampton on Long Island. The windmill processed...
  • At many a world-class museum, food and drink aren’t allowed near any of the artifacts. To be fair, it’s for good reason: Insects drawn by crumbs can damage displays, and curators...

    • For many people, butternut squash usually conjures images of falling leaves, warm soup, and other aspects of the autumnal season. But inside an old souk in Tripoli, Lebanon, there's...

      Accidental Deliberations



  • The Philosopher Kings - Still The One
  • Friday Morning Links

    14 hours ago
  • Assorted content to end your week.- Richard Wilkinson, Kate Pickett and Wanda Wyporska neatly summarize the insidious social effects of inequality:(I)nequality is socially divisive...

    • This and that for your Thursday reading.- Lily Patchelder and David Kamin study the policy options available to increase public revenue by focusing on the wealthy, and find that there...

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