From The School of Life blog by the author of How To Speak Money, here are a couple of useful definitions: interest rates and real and nominal amounts (also related to interest rates). Helpful and funny too … interest rates If I had to pick one term which summed up my reason for wanting to …
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5 feet of snow and zero degrees in every US state. “I’m not a scientist”, but that’s not normal.
Freezing temperatures were recorded across all 50 US states, including Florida and Hawaii, and a massive snowstorm dumped 5 feet of snow in the Buffalo area (North East US). It’s pretty. But deadly. So far 7 people are dead. Three had heart attacks while shovelling snow – which is a sad commentary on health, diets …
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We’re ALL living next to slaves. 36 million of them.
Walk Free published the 2014 Global Slavery Index which makes for sad reading. 167 countries have them, including some which really shouldn’t: Japan 240 thousand South Africa 110 thousand Singapore 5 thousand USA 60 thousand Italy 11 thousand Germany 11 thousand France 9 thousand UK 8 thousand Ireland 300 The report defines slaves as people …
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Omnivore’s Dilemma – Meat is sooo good but it’s killing the planet.
I love meat. But I don’t eat it any more. My parents still make fun of me for being vegetarian and might still think I should see a shrink. Ha ha. Why would a meat and potatoes guy who liked steak for breakfast quit meat? There were reasons and the most important is that I …
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Only the strongest can kill themselves for peace.
In a Japan, a man set himself on fire to protest a change in policy allowing Japan to fight overseas, which goes against the constitution which bars the country from using force in conflicts except for self-defence. It follows another self-immolation in June, in an apparently similar protest. Suicide is not an easy option. It …
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The power of thought can flip a switch.
The study upon which this report was made is unusual, but the message is clear: thoughts have power. In the study, brainwaves from human participants activated a tiny LED light which had been implanted in mice which then activated light-sensitive genes. This study is the first to combine the thought control technology and the light …
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Population and wealth – a picture of the sad, obvious inequality.
This graphic from The Economist sums up what we all know but don’t like to face (as @RustyRockets just pointed out). So 0.7% of the people have 44% of the wealth, and 68.9% of the people have 2.9% of the wealth. That doesn’t sound fair, or like democracy, or Christian/Islamic/Bhuddist, or … anything to be …
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DTRTTRW in yoga pants: FouseyTube
More than 15 million people have watched Yousef Saleh Erakat’s most popular video – the Yoga Pants Prank. It’s funny and it works. Erakat highlights embarrassing aspects of modern culture, like men gawking at women (when they shouldn’t) and women flaunting their booty in public, which encourages men to be misogynistic and other women to flaunt …
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Poor in America: conditions influence behaviour too.
Try being poor. OK, that’s not going to happen. The closest some people come of us come is “slumming it”. Or maybe we eat at a roadside kiosk while backpacking during a year “off” before or after college. Actually not having resources, no cash, no car, no home, no job, no education, no family, no …
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In my lifetime, we’ve wiped out half earth’s wildlife
And more than doubled the weight of humans (not including all our stuff). Will they all be gone when my children are my age? The latest edition of the Living Planet Report is not for the faint-hearted. The Living Planet Index (LPI), which measures more than 10,000 representative populations of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and …
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