Maybe Harold Camping wasn’t completely bonkers…This asteroid is the size of a small city bus, it’s going about 15,000 MPH, and the thing has some serious mass. A couple days ago the sucker asteroid shows up out of nowhere, and scientists plotted its course less than a couple hours away from what appeared to be … Continue reading »
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Is There Really Gold in Ft. Knox? – The Atlantic Monthly
By Joshua Green, a senior editor of The Atlantic and a weekly political columnist for the Boston Globe I’m quite fond of Ron Paul. I enjoyed spending time with him for this Atlantic profile. I liked learning about Austrian economics. I like the fact that he thinks differently than other Republicans and has the courage … Continue reading »
New 747-8F jumbo jet performs ultimate aborted takeoff
The new Boeing 747-8F is one majestic aircraft. Along with all the majesticness (yes I just made that a word) comes a lot of weight. The 747-8F can take off weighing nearly one million pounds and for the flight tests, Boeing needs to make sure the aircraft can successfully complete an aborted landing, fully loaded. … Continue reading »
NYT: Expert on Mental Illness Reveals Her Own Fight
Are you one of us? The patient wanted to know, and her therapist — Marsha M. Linehan of the University of Washington, creator of a treatment used worldwide for severely suicidal people — had a ready answer. It was the one she always used to cut the question short, whether a patient asked it hopefully, accusingly … Continue reading »
Video: “Rescue Me: Sensitivity Training in HD”
One of the funniest takedowns of Human Resources ridiculousness ever broadcast on television, courtesy of Denis Leary’s excellent series ‘Rescue Me‘ on the FX Network: Related links: Rescue Me for your mobile device Video on demand: view entire episodes YouTube: more clips from Rescue Me YouTube: Funny retro HR training videos
The key to compromise? Human dignity
The [Minnesota] Legislature and governor are locked in impasse, largely because it is difficult to find compromise unless transcendent values are held in common. I’d like to suggest one value that liberals and conservative share: the human dignity of every person. Consider the human dignity of Freddy, working all of his adult life, primarily in … Continue reading »
Six Things You Should Never Say to a Friend (or Relative) Who’s Sick
MY friend sat down and ordered a stiff drink. I didn’t think of her as the stiff-drink kind. An hour later, after our spouses drifted off into conversation, she leaned over the table. “I need your help,” she said. “My sister has a brain tumor. I don’t know what to do.” Three years ago this … Continue reading »
Top 100 Lists: The Highest Paid CEOs in 2010
Check out the boss’s pay package in the Minneapolis Star Tribune’s annual executive compensation survey. Median total pay of chief executive officers in 2010 was flat after dropping the two previous years. Here are the 100 largest CEO pay packages among the public companies the StarTribune examined: See the list of 100 Highest Paid CEOs … Continue reading »
Lunar Eclipse Pictures: See Today’s Red Moon Rising
A partially eclipsed full moon hangs in the evening sky over Belgrade, Serbia, on Wednesday during the start of a total lunar eclipse. The sight heralded the longest and deepest total lunar eclipse seen in more than a decade. “The path that the moon is taking through Earth’s shadow is almost directly through [the shadow's] … Continue reading »
Google, SolarCity in $280 million deal to fund solar homes
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Google and rooftop solar power company SolarCity announced a $280 million investment deal Tuesday, the largest such deal for home-based solar power systems in the United States. The investment will give San Mateo, Calif-based SolarCity the funding to build and lease solar power systems to a 7,000 to 9,000 homeowners in … Continue reading »
