23 December 2016

Interesting Reads for Friday, 23 December 2016: Obama Protects Atheists, Berlin Terrorist Shot Dead, How Life Began


Obama Signs Law Protecting Atheists from Religious Persecution (Snopes)































22 December 2016

Interesting Reads for Thursday, 22 December 2016: Sea Creatures, Millenials, Peak Cars & More



This Russian Deep Sea Fisherman Posts His Discoveries on Twitter and OH MY GOD KILL IT WITH FIRE (Gizmondo)


Peak Car Market: 32% of Trade-Ins On Car Lots Now Upside Down On Their Loans . . . Negative Balances on Trade-Ins Are Now An Average ($4,832) (The Detroit News)


Young Americans Living With Parents At 75 Year High (Wall Street Journal)


Is Age 30 The New 20? (Marketwatch)


How to Convince Someone When Facts Fail (Scientific American)


Smog refugees flee Chinese cities as "airpocalypse" blights half a billion people


China's Alibaba back on US counterfeits blacklist (BBC)


Trump Appoints "Death By China" Author Peter Navarro To Head Trade Office, Hints At Trade War With Beijing (Zero Hedge)


India’s Small Businesses Facing “Apocalypse” After Demonetisation Experiment KOs The Economy (The Guardian)


Strange Music, Owned By A Gangster Rapper, Enforces The Toughest "On The Road" Rules for Artists (Wall Street Journal)


Find the No. 1 Song on the day you were born (Playback.FM)






21 December 2016

Interesting Reads for Wednesday 21 December 2016: Energy Storage, Science Rocks, Obama Blocks & More


It's Energy Storage's Time To Shine (Travis Holum - Motley Fool)


Ford To Close F-150 Kansas Plant For One Week To Decrease Slow Moving Inventory, GM To Lay Off Another 1,300 Workers In March  (Reuters)


Does Elon Musk really want to create The Boring Company to build underground roads? (International Business Times, UK)


7/11 and Flirtey Beat Amazon and Deliver 77 Packages by Drones in Reno, Nevada (Phys Org)



President Obama Invokes 1953 Law To Indefinitely Block Drilling In Arctic And Atlantic Oceans (CNBC)


Alaska's Indigenous People See Their Culture Slipping Away As Sea Ice Vanishes (Guardian)


A Feminine Response To Iceland's Financial Crash (TEDTalk)


Carl Sagan on Humility, Science as a Tool of Democracy, and the Value of Uncertainty (Brain Pickings)


Donald Trump's War On Science (The New Yorker)


Trump Rejects Climate Change, But Mar-A-Lago Could Be Lost to the Sea (Bloomberg Business Week)





01 September 2016

News You Can Use for Thursday, 1 September 2016

Alien Like Clouds Over America's Northwest In A Slide Show




Utility Stocks Just Hit A Sigma 3 Deviation: Odds Of This Happening Are 1 In Every 1200 Years


Bonds Are Priced For Armageddon; Stocks Priced For the Golden Age


Earnings recessions such as we are experiencing now have always ended badly over the past 50 years


Iran's Middle Class Still Waiting For The Economic Recovery Promised By Leaders When Sanctions Were Dropped By The USA 


Iranian Oil Exports To Asia Rise 61% Year Over Year Since Sanctions Dropped by the USA


Secretary General of OPEC, Mohammed Barkindo, to arrive in Iran soon to persuade them to join the "oil freeze"


Newly Expanded Panama Canal Benefits New LNG Exports From the USA: Also, New Spot Price Trade for US LNG Coming


South Korea's Hajin Shipping, world's 7th largest container ship firm, falls into receivership . . . ships stuck in ports worldwide which refuse to unload/load them


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