i wish this wasn’t on a crappy slideshow site (Huff post), but:
wealthy individuals have $32t in private financial wealth tucked away in offshore havens — equivalent to the size of the US and Japanese economies combined.
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Month: April 2013
i wish this wasn’t on a crappy slideshow site (Huff post), but:
wealthy individuals have $32t in private financial wealth tucked away in offshore havens — equivalent to the size of the US and Japanese economies combined.
must watch.
“No I don’t buy a ticket every night. I buy a ticket one time, as long as it’s not punched it’s good. As long as it doesn’t have a hole in it. I done had this for 2 months.” If you never get on a train to get your ticket punched, your ticket will never expire. Some of the homeless people at Newark Penn Station have been there for years. One has been at the station for 19 years; another for 26 years.
clever hack
some of greek mythology might be the earliest of human history. greece has had human settlement for 70 ka, plenty of time.
bizarre. penn as trump apologist. wtf?

The paper map visible in that photo shows the Pacific on the left and the continental US on the right, with missile trajectories drawn from North Korea to a number of locations in the US, including Hawaii. The only problem: Missile trajectories from North Korea to the continental US fly over Kamchatka and Alaska… because the Earth is not flat. North Korea’s military probably knows about great circles, but its propaganda department obviously failed geography. Or perhaps the photo above depicts Kim Jong-un providing on-site cartographic guidance to his aerospace engineering team, and the problem will by now have fixed itself.
If students could complete their education 1 year faster, the many benefits would include increased personal wealth, decreased government spending, and more sustainable entitlement programs.
not that there would be more jobs per se, but less debt for basket weaving.
superhydrophobics are here. this is so much fun.
citizen journalism, not so much.
The myth of the “Harlem Shake” is that its viral spread was spontaneous, not directed by financial interests–a pop culture, popular uprising.