If you were discouraged, as I was, by the recent study that purportedly showed that consumption of erythritol--used in the delicious sugar-free soda I consumer, Nature's Twist, and the delicious ice creams I eat, Nick's and Halo Top--was dangerous, this piece could well cheer you up.
Once again, yet again, chronic inflammation appears to be a health problem to be concerned about.
While not for certain folks, specifically
The altMBA is not for people who are looking for a traditional MBA education.
We do not cover topics such as economics, accounting, supply chain, or data analytics.
It’s also not for people who care about certificates or grades. We are unaccredited, informal, and non-bureaucratic. We don't give tests or grades.
. . . it could be of interest to young(ish) people you know. It's a summer program, one month, 20 hours per week, and it's remote.
The is a 31-day online leadership workshop that celebrates our shared humanity and provides students with the skills they need to be impactful leaders and make meaningful change.
For the same price, dark blue would be my color of choice, but I guess I am in a shrinking minority.
I'm not "obsessed" but Master and Commander easily makes the top ten movies I've seen in the last 20 or 30 years. It's beautifully acted, written, and photographed. The leads are two people you can really root for. And it ends--it's not too difficult to write a movie's protagonist into an interesting jam, but it's much harder to write an interesting, satisfying way for him or her to get out--really well.
The author makes a good try, but, sorry, I don't buy it.
I’m not rich. I don’t drive a nice beamer like my homegirl who studied Engineering does. But I’ve made a solid living using the skills I honed as an English major. And I’m not alone.
Because while, yes, many English majors go on to become writers, professors, journalists, or players in the world of film and television, just as many end up in adjacent, less-creative fields that pay well, like marketing, public relations, management, law, nonprofits, and even tech.
One reason is the skills he supposedly acquired are, I think, the exceptions rather than the rule. (For instance, at my former employer and I believe many other colleges and universities English professors now try like crazy to avoid teaching composition skills.) And two, I think he misses how the major has changed. See, for example, "The Humanities: Another Example Of Leftism Ruining Everything It Touches". For another example, see "Who Killed English Literature?"
Quora discussion with an interesting answer to start.
Reminds me again of Mike Munger's wisecrack, "Work is what we do between meetings."
An encounter with the Smog Lady and more: "Bribery is the only way to get things done".
And how's that "high speed rail" coming? "California high-speed rail costs going up and projected ridership going down".
You'll never guess. (/Sarcasm off.)
Success is difficult. Sustained success is much more difficult: "What ails Google. And how it can turn things around."
For me, the answer is a big no: ". . . were you aware that the government of South Africa has basically collapsed?"
"The most cutting jokes are the ones with a bit of truth behind them. While the increasingly popular quip that 'colleges are just real-estate hedge funds with classes attached' may inspire eye rolls, recent moves are making the joke cut deeper."
Features a list of 15 lies told by the mainstream media just in the last several years.
Even if we give them the benefit of the doubt and say that some of them aren't "lies" but different interpretations of the world and that for others, an original "fact" was modified by subsequent learning, what is objectionable is the utter arrogance with which the media's conclusions were presented and even worse, their attempt to dismiss any differing interpretations or dissenting views.
John Nolte has an even longer list in "Fact-Checkers Busted Again--Biden Seeks to Eliminate 96% of Gas Stoves".
Related: "America's COVID Response Was Based on Lies" and "I Heard the News Today, Oh Boy." The latter has the following statement that I fully agree with:
I’m getting a little tired of presidents of the United States repeating things that could only be spoken by an idiot or a liar, and then trying to intimidate people out of contradicting them.
Long, interesting read. It ends this way:
All of Gen Z got more anxious and depressed after 2012. But Lukianoff’s reverse CBT [Cognitive Behavioral Therapy] hypothesis is the best explanation I have found for Why the mental health of liberal girls sank first and fastest.
A disagreement on the timing: "Teen Mental Health Distress Didn't Start with the Phones".
Maybe you're tired of reading my posts on Baghdad by the Bay. But trust me, for an indication of shocking social disorder this one is hard to top.
Got robbed. Again. @jasonkCNN & I were at city hall in San Francisco to do an interview for @CNN. We had security to watch our rental car + crew car. Thieves did this in under 4 seconds. . . .
BTW; @jasonkCNN and I are in San Francisco doing a story about voter discontent bc of rampant street crime.
Bonus: Just another day in San Francisco.
Amazing. But at least in relatively free markets sooner or later this behavior is strongly sanctioned and almost surely stopped.
Difficult to argue with this: "Ideas matter, policies matter, leadership is essential."
Correlation doesn't prove causality. But it is interesting that education, health care, and housing, subject to much subsidizing by government, have had large postwar rises in their prices.
Related: "Yet another way the government screws over the middle class".
Vocalremover.org--"Separate vocals from music of any song"--and 7 others.
Fastest, according to the video, was Arjen Robbin at 190 km/hr.
I don't know about "ever," but it is a fine set from the late Mitch Hedberg.
Would have fooled me.
It's been a long time since I played and I don't know if the author's right, but if he/she is, use with care.
I agree with this comment: "I was thinking of climbing the mountain, but thanks to this video, I can stay home and watch 'Netflix.'"
I think this argument is worth taking seriously:
However, those who defend “overemployment” point out that if it’s such a problem for employers, managers should be able to spot it.