Federal Court Rules Citizens Have No Right to Film Politicians & Police in Public (Free Thought Project)
The Books You Could Read With The Time You Waste On Your Phone
Social media is not making you smarter
Bring Me the Head of Jeff Bezos Unz Review No comment ...
Partner at private equity firm denies being jogger who pushed woman into bus Guardian Unbelievable. The perp really did change his path to knock the woman over
Rain, rainbow and lightning in Arizona’s Tonto National Forest on July 31. (Double Barrel Images) Mother Nature displays a hat-trick
Those sued including the governors of Maine, Maryland and Kentucky, while all of Utah's Congressional representatives have been sent letters warning them of legal repercussion if they prevent constituents from accessing their public pages. President Donald Trump is also being sued for blocking critics on Twitter. Governors and Senators Social media Blocking...
Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People IdleWords
A press gallery Twitter spat between Phillip Coorey and Samantha Maiden, and The Australian Financial Review hits the wrong button again
By Jack Gao, a Program Economist at the Institute for New Economic Thinking. Published at the Institute for New Economic Thinking website
New research shows that access to elite colleges varies by parents’ income—reinforcing inequality across generations.
If your parents count themselves among the top 1%, you’re 77 times more likely to attend an Ivy League college than your peers from families in the bottom 20% of the U.S.’ income distribution. So much for meritocracy and equal access.
EUROPEAN markets have started the day with losses of 1% or so, following a 2% decline in Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index and the 1% loss in the S&P 500 index on Thursday. The Vix, a much used measure of market fear, jumped to 16, its highest level since the presidential election.
These are significant moves by the standards of recent months but, to anyone who lived through 2008 (or 1987) they are hardly signs of outright panic. Gold is at $1,288 an ounce, up 2% or so over the week. The Japanese stockmarket was barely changed on Thursday, and Japan is right in the firing line of North Korea’s missiles. South Korea would suffer terribly in any war but the Seoul market was down just 1.7% today, and 3.2% on the week.
Clearly, the markets are more worried than they were on August 9th, when President Trump warned of “fire and fury” against Kim Jong-Un’s regime. Investors did not take too seriously the statement from the president, who is known for his intemperate (and often factually inaccurate)...How do you solve a problem like North Korea?
WHEN Heathrow airport opened, in 1946, the only retail facilities were a bar with chintz armchairs and a small newsagent’s. The first terminal was a tent, a far cry from the four halls, resembling vast shopping malls, at the London airport today. Retail spending per passenger is the highest of any airport. This summer’s consumer crazes include Harry Potter wands and cactus-shaped lilos.
Heathrow’s journey from waiting room to retail paradise is the story of many airports. Before the 1980s, most income came from airlines’ landing and passenger-handling charges. Then “non-aeronautical” revenue—from shops, airport parking, car rental and so on—rose to around two-fifths of their revenues, of $152bn worldwide in 2015. But amid signs that non-aeronautical income is peaking, especially in mature aviation markets such as North America and Europe, the industry fears for its business model.
When airports were state-owned, and run not for profit but for the benefit of the... Airports at the Time of War
At last, a kosher cryptocurrency: BitCoen
What is it like to become Israeli? These bloggers tell all
The Times of Israel
Say what you will about Jews and opinions – in the case of Sunday night's roomful of bloggers-slash-immigrants at Jerusalem's Nocturno Café
Number of social media users passes 3 billion with no signs of slowing.
Number of social media users passes 3 billion with no signs of slowing.
Troops, Trolls and Troublemakers: A Global Inventory of Organized Social Media Manipulation Computational Propaganda Research Project
Fake news changing memories and harming kids' world view: experts
The 8 Great Writing Habits Of Highly Effective Bloggers
ValueWalk
Blogging is interesting and blogging is hard. Despite everyone can become a blogger these days, not everyone actually can succeed in it
Bloggers Wanted: Fake it until you make it
Destructoid
This month's bloggers wanted prompt is something we stole. You see, by stealing this idea, you have no idea how truly inept I actually am.
Finding Bigfoot: 7 Seriously Strange Datasets on data.world
