Buses, planes, Bulgarians, Romanians and The Daily Mail. 26 comments The Daily Mail: Buses and Planes - full or not?
On 31 December 2013 the UK’s Daily Mail published a story claiming that buses and planes to the UK from Bulgaria and Romania were sold-out, fully-booked, and single plane tickets were selling for up to £3,000 each. The story carried the bold headline: 6 Harsh Truths That Will Make You a Better Person. 2017, motherfuckers.
Yeah! LET'S DO THIS. "Do what? " you ask. Wait but why: Putting Time In Perspective. Humans are good at a lot of things, but putting time in perspective is not one of them.
It’s not our fault—the spans of time in human history, and even more so in natural history, are so vast compared to the span of our life and recent history that it’s almost impossible to get a handle on it. If the Earth formed at midnight and the present moment is the next midnight, 24 hours later, modern humans have been around since 11:59:59pm—1 second. And if human history itself spans 24 hours from one midnight to the next, 14 minutes represents the time since Christ. To try to grasp some perspective, I mapped out the history of time as a series of growing timelines—each timeline contains all the previous timelines (colors will help you see which timelines are which).
Lust for life: Breaking the 120-year barrier in human aging. How Long Can You Wait to Have a Baby? - Jean Twenge. In the tentative, post-9/11 spring of 2002, I was, at 30, in the midst of extricating myself from my first marriage.
My husband and I had met in graduate school but couldn’t find two academic jobs in the same place, so we spent the three years of our marriage living in different states. After I accepted a tenure-track position in California and he turned down a postdoctoral research position nearby—the job wasn’t good enough, he said—it seemed clear that our living situation was not going to change. Is being liberal a choice? It’s become something of a fad of late to apply neuroscience to partisan behaviors.
A recent brain scan study distinguished the Republican from Democratic amygdala: The first is more driven by fear and reward, the latter by more generous-spirited emotional connectivity. In several books, the well-established linguist and cognitive scientist George Lakoff argues the basis for Republicans’ attachment to a rigid concept of paternalistic discipline and enforced obedience to an idealized authority. Should Top U.S. Colleges Expand Overseas? - Newsweek and The Daily Beast.
15 Budget Ideas That Are Better Than Sequester Plan. Let’s get something straight: Sequestration doesn’t prove that the government is broken or that it can’t get anything done.
If anything, it proves the opposite. This is the American government working. Compromising, even. In the summer of 2011, both parties came together and agreed that they wanted to reduce the deficit. Intre iubire şi note bune la scoală. Hai sa intram in pielea, de fapt sub pielea, unui copil de 11-12 ani.
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Lia Bugnar: Cred că frumuseţea ia forma omului pe care-l iubeşti 30 de ani. Povestea unei iubiri pierdute si a unei vieti regasite. L-am văzut cu adevărat în autobuzul dinspre Foișorul de Foc către Universitate.
The Platinum Coin: It’s a Really Bad Idea. “The history of coinage is indeed, in many cases, a melancholy record of fraud, folly, and ignorance.”
So wrote Sir John Lubbock in his classic 1902 book, “A Short History of Coins and Currency.” And I will freely admit that my first reaction, on hearing about the platinum coin, was to nod sagely and tell myself that Lubbock was right. But as an ever-longer list of people whose views I respect lined up in favor of minting the special trillion-dollar coin as a temporary measure to get around the debt ceiling, I decided to have another look. Quick Study: Charles Morris on American industry: A case for optimism.
Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond? - Edward Jay Epstein. De Beers proved to be the most successful cartel arrangement in the annals of modern commerce. Cunningham-What Reading Does for the Mind.pdf.