Adam Smith, author of “An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations” is to be honored by appearing on the new 20 pound note according to the Bank of England:
Making the announcement yesterday, Bank of England Governor, Mervyn King, said, “It is such a pleasure to use the occasion of the […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)An analytic social psychologist crunched some UNESCO data to generate a “World Map of Happiness” and determined that:
a. The happiest people in the world live in: 1. Denmark, 2. Switzerland, 3. Austria and 4. Iceland.
b. The unhappiest people live in: 176. Democratic Republic of the Congo, 177. Zimbabwe, and 178. Burundi.
c. Canadians are much […]
That insignificant-looking, little spec is our world.
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From an anonymous email submission:
In September, the Cassini spacecraft in orbit around Saturn took the picture you see when … [with] Saturn eclipsing Sol. The camera was facing back toward the inner solar system, so the sun is behind the ringed planet. Look closely at the 10 […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Fascinating.
Particularly relevant to those who think tag clouds are destined to the Web 2.0 trash heap.
Make sure to use the slider to look at the changes in rhetoric throughout U.S. history. For example the words “Pagan,” “Sober” and “Breasts” all appeared in John Adams’ speeches but not those of later Presidents.
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h/t: IFTF
Photo of the day:
What are the people who make thongs in the size on the right even thinking?
h/t: Anonymous email.
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Video speaks for itself.
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)It is sickening to everyone coming out of the woodwork to protect the little boy from being adopted by Madonna. (See this post here.) I’m pleased to see the dad of the little boy dishing it back and at the human rights groups who’ve banded together to try and stop the adoption:
The father of the […]
There are two times when it is really good to live in L.A. The first is when you want to see big silicone induced hooters on every street corner.
Unknown Los Angeles resident waits for the bus
The second is when some nutcase has put your town up on the web as a target for a […]
Tuesday morning America will hit 300 million people. How do we know this? Well, we have a more or less accurate number from the last census and we then interpolate the current number as follows:
One birth every……………………………. 7 seconds
One death every……………………………. 13 seconds
One international migrant (net) every………… 31 seconds
Net gain of […]
Since that b*st*rd Castro won’t have the decency to stay dead when I report it I am shifting targets.
The French newspaper L’est republican is reporting that Saudi Arabian police have told the French DGSE that Osama bin Laden died of Typhoid Fever in Pakistan last month.
“According to a commonly reliable source, the Saudi police believes […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)h/t Ace of Spades
For those of you who haven’t been paying attention ABC’s “The Path to 9/11″ miniseries has come under attack by members of the Clinton Administration for factual inaccuracy.
In order to compress 10 years of events into 4 hours the director utilized composite scenes showing a number of failed or aborted […]
What in the world went wrong at the criminal trial? Why did the civil case go the other way? These and many, many other questions are answered in detail at Patterico’s blog in a 6-part series starting here.
My favorite is part six which includes plaintiff attorney Daniel Petrocelli’s final argument to the jury. A […]
*67% chance to be exact. But don’t worry, you’re hardly alone; in fact, you’re in the majority.
The above map is for obesity, click here for a table of overweight. (Obesity is defined as a BMI of 30.0 or over, overweight as a BMI of 25.0 to 29.9.)
According to the single-year 2005 survey figures, Mississippi […]
The Seattle Times: Local News: Circumcision foes doubt practice can halt AIDS spread
A recent study has shown a correlation between male circumcision and a decrease in the incedence of HIV infection in men.
Naturally it is a cheap, easy and apparently effective preventitive so someone has to protest:
Just when the genital-integrity advocates thought they […]
While we are not a technology blog per se, this graphic caught our eyes and speaks for itself:
The rise of social netorks
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