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It’s a sticky subject. For much of human history, the Arctic Ocean has been largely unnavigable: The polar ice cap posed enormous risks for any would-be sailors. Over the course of 1903 to 1906 Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen managed to navigate the Northwest Passage, but the seasonal growth of ice rendered the route impassable much of [...]
In light of Osama bin Laden’s death, it may be worthwhile to evaluate what he has accomplished. From this page, here is a description of Al-qaeda’s long-term strategy against the United States: On March 11, 2005, Al-Quds Al-Arabi published extracts from Saif al-Adel’s document “Al Quaeda’s Strategy to the Year 2020″.[37][38] Abdel Bari Atwan summarizes [...]
There is no question about it – this new anti-piracy ad produced by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureau is brilliant: It seems completely right – it seems like the ad presents a bullet-proof, unassailable argument against piracy. But then, if you think about it, you realize that the ad really is completely wrong. [...]
The title of the article is provocative: How Dumb Are We? So is the subtitle: “NEWSWEEK gave 1,000 Americans the U.S. Citizenship Test -38 percent failed. The country’s future is imperiled by our ignorance.” And the statistics aren’t particularly inspiring: When NEWSWEEK recently asked 1,000 U.S. citizens to take America’s official citizenship test, 29 percent [...]
This episode of 60 Minutes opens with the following quote: “Unemployment improved a bit last month, but it is still nearly 9%. And the trouble is, job creation is so slow that it will be years before we get back the 7.5 million jobs lost in the great recession. American families have been falling out [...]
The results of an MSNBC/Wall Street Journal poll show what the American people are looking for from their leaders: Key results of the poll mentioned in the video: Percentage of People Who Believe We Should Tax Millionaires to Close the Budget Deficit – 81% Percentage of People Who Believe We Should Eliminate the Bush Tax [...]
As a parent, this article is fascinating: Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior I’m trying to find a paragraph to quote that is representative – to give you a taste of the philosophy of Chinese mothers – but every paragraph is interesting. So let’s take the first paragraph: A lot of people wonder how Chinese parents [...]
I was at a big Christmas party last week. In attendance was a wide spectrum of people – young and elderly adults, democrats and republicans, religious and non-religious, etc. The topic of the latest round of tax cuts came up, and an amazing thing happened. There was not a single person who could understand how [...]
Two million more Americans fell into the abyss that follows unemployment. Congress did not extend Federal unemployment benefits, so two million more Americans lose their only source of income: Last unemployment check is in the mail About 2 million people are expected to stop receiving checks in December. Though President Obama on Tuesday called on [...]
Deserves a mention – China unseats U.S. as king of the Supercomputer
by Marshall Brain | October 28, 2010
So many people covered this development today, and it got so much conversation going, that it deserves a mention. China now owns the world’s fastest supercomputer: – China Unveils 2.507-Petaflop Supercomputer, the World’s Fastest Earlier this week China unveiled the world’s fastest bullet train, and today it boasts the world’s fastest supercomputer. Unveiled earlier today, [...]
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