Friday, January 17, 2020

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  • Your soulmate will not be the one to make you a better person. They will inspire you to become a better person yourself. A true soulmate is not someone who completes you. A soulmate is...
  • From the outside, you look at that confident, cheerful, optimistic person, and think, they probably have everything going for them. Here’s where you wrong, even the strongest...

    • The world is made up of energy; energies move through our bodies, transferring information with it. Two types of energies that we possess are negative and positive. Positive energy...

    Featured Health News from Medical News Today



  • Ethmoid sinusitis is an inflammation of the ethmoid sinuses, which sit between the eyes. This article provides an overview of the condition.
  • Genes determine around 80% of a person's height, but environmental factors can also affect it. This article looks at how people can increase their height during development...

    • Dental implants are artificial structures that replace missing teeth. Learn more about the different types and implantation procedures.

      Have You Heard



  • TweetHave You Heard heads to rural Wisconsin to investigate a puzzle. Communities in the “reddest” parts of the state keep voting to hike their own taxes to pay for schools, even...
  • The PISA Problem

    a month ago
  • TweetThe sky is falling! The sky is falling! That was the reaction when the PISA results were announced – the global ranking of 15-year-olds. But scholar Oren Pizmony-Levy tells...

    • TweetFor more than a decade, Denver has been a model for a brand of school reform centered on closing low-performing schools, opening charter schools and rewarding teachers for boosting...

      Chicago Boyz




  • I posted on this new topic of Tyler Cowan’s almost two week’s ago.  I have seen other commentary since then.  Law and Liberty had this mostly-negative take on the idea. But my...

    • For the life of me, I cannot recall who first observed that environmentalists now make the most perfectly hissable villains, because they almost invariably make matters worse in...

      Centinel2012



  • As we watched Nancy Pelosi sign the articles of impeachment, we were overcome with disgust. What was supposed to be a sad and somber affair (her words), was unnecessarily made into...
  • CplFattig 1.79K subscribers General Kelly spoke to the Gold Star Families of California in 2014 and told the story of two Marines bravery. He tells of how they stood their Post and did...

    • Armstrong Economics Blog/Rule of Law Re-Posted Jan 16, 2020 by Martin Armstrong QUESTION: I heard that several coin dealers conspired with the government in hopes of getting all...

      The BRAD BLOG



  • Is Bernie "unelectable" as many well-paid pundits and columnists have argued? We take an evidence based approach to that question on today's BradCast. [Audio link to full show is...
  • "They wanted substantive change and were willing to burn it all down to get it." These words, from a neighbor in the rural north country of New York, describe the thinking of some who...

    • Really just blockbusters and bombshells from top to bottom on today's BradCast. From historic impeachment proceedings to game-changing disclosures to potentially big legal trouble...

      bluebird of bitterness







  • Beyond Nuclear board of directors member Karl Grossman is the host of Enviro Close-Up, a television show produced by EnviroVideo for decades. The latest episode, "The Threat of Nuclear...
  • As reported by CNN. The Bushehr nuclear power plant, on the coast of the Persian Gulf in southwestern Iran, was under construction from 1975 to 2011. During the 1980s, the pre-operational...

    • Maryland.govOn December 17, 2019, Maryland’s Republican Governor Larry Hogan trumpeted his plan for a “Clean And Renewable Energy Standard” (CARES) which carves out state...

  • The FBI believes the Saudi Arabian government “almost certainly” helps its citizens flee the country after they are accused of serious crimes, “undermining the US judicial...
  • Mikhail Mishustin has been ratified as next Prime Minister of Russia by MPs, after the cabinet resigned on Wednesday. Vladimir Putin had earlier proposed Mishustin, formerly head...

    • If the networks of the U.S. military, the U.S. intelligence community and a slew of other U.S. federal agencies were running the software of a company with deep ties, not only to foreign...

  • Our weekly round-up of the best psychology coverage from elsewhere on the web Researchers from tech company DeepMind have drawn…
  • By Emma Young. Simply encouraging sharers to think about accuracy could reduce sharing of misinformation.

    • By Matthew Warren. Tip-of-the-tongue states can have a surprising influence on unrelated behaviour, study finds.

      Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Places



  • It takes a village to run a hospital, and Duke University Hospital is no exception. There are doctors, nurses, medical technicians, administrative staff, an “infection preventionist”—even...
  • The U.S. government's forced relocation of Native American communities in the 1800s not only separated countless families from their ancestral homelands, but severed ancient...

    • Ariel Waldman doesn’t have anything against penguins. It's just that they already get a lot of love: When people imagine Antarctic wildlife, she suspects, the tuxedo-clad birds...

      Accidental Deliberations



  • Matthew Good - There For the First Time
  • Cats on the level.

    • Miscellaneous material to start your week.- James Bradley writes about the range of responses to an increasingly threatening climate. And Emma Morris offers some suggestions as...

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