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The United States is in a very tough spot, economically and politically.
HERE'S WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE ECONOMY... (And How To Fix It)
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Editorials & Opinion Pages | Blue Scholars' Prometheus Brown writes a song for the city
Here’s chapter and verse on a more-or-less comprehensive list of things banned in the Leviticus book of the bible. A decent number of them are punishable by death.
Banned by the Bible
1. ”Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour…..” – Albert Einstein 2. ”When you can’t smoke” – Rory Sutherland
30 Best Quotes in Pictures of the Week - May 05th to May 12th, 2012
Russia in color, a century ago
With images from southern and central Russia in the news lately due to extensive wildfires, I thought it would be interesting to look back in time with this extraordinary collection of color photographs taken between 1909 and 1912.Allegory of the Cave
Plato realizes that the general run of humankind can think, and speak, etc., without (so far as they acknowledge) any awareness of his realm of Forms. The allegory of the cave is supposed to explain this.
What I especially love about bad predictions and prophets of doom is that they both highlight the danger of extrapolating from a single trend or from seeing the world with a single lens.
Timeline of Failed Predictions (Part 1) | Fast Company
by Lisa Wade, PhD , Sep 22, 2010, at 10:48 am Don Waisanen at Thick Culture highlighted Norm Magnusson’s I-75 project . The project involves installing historical markers with a primarily political instead of historical message.