Definitely glad we're gone. Things were starting to get worse when we left in 2014, but I couldn't have guessed it'd get this bad this soon. For the...
I'd highly recommend the Werner Herzog documentary "Little Dieter Needs To Fly" about another pilot shot down and imprisoned at the same time as John...
I thought this video of Hamas firing a rocket was pretty interesting, since they normally make sure that reporters can't see it. They set up the...
This article chimes with your posts about the Gamestop credit card, except sort of worse. The companies deliberately target crappy credit offers at...
While Hamas were democratically elected to govern Gaza in 2005, that was only because the previous Palestinian leadership, Fatah, were massively...
You could venture the Glorious Revolution in England, which more or less created modern parliamentary democracy. The Irish War of Independence left...
I read a good post about this just today. Apparently a big reason that Silicon Valley could take off is that California courts don't enforce NCAs Non...
I think it's interesting that these are deliberately rubbish emails, since they weed out the people who will figure out it's a scam. If the email was...
I though this site was mildly amusing: Spurious Correlations Example: US Spending on Science, Space & Technology correlates with Suicides by...
I've always thought that there are strong parallels with history of the Roman Empire and Arnor / Gondor (if you turn the map of Europe 90 degrees...
I'm pretty sure I've posted this here before, but I think this is a real issue. I'm not someone that worries about privacy too much for my own sake,...
I'm not sure. In this case the plants they're talking about aren't for food, so it doesn't relate to the potential problem of tying farmers to seed...
That's his brother, Richard Attenborough, who also directed Gandhi and was a major character actor in 1950s British cinema. David Attenborough is a...
I think it's a bit of an understatement to say they were the fist to conceive of a standing army, as though it was just the idea that counted. After...
Actually, this is an intesting piece about just that, from the NYT in April. This is an excerpt:
A hundred years is a very long time, and the empire in the west lasted until the early 400s, so that's close to 500 years. In the east, where the...
I'm dying to watch this. We've had this on DVD for a few weeks but haven't had time to watch it yet, and since we're having a kid in a week or two...
I haven't seen it, but I came across this short discussion of it, and was wondering if people here thought there was anything to it. Also, I thought...
Congratulations everyone :D
This is from a facebook post by an English friend who's been out protesting since the start. It gives a good idea of what's going on in Istanbul at...
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