all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned
Most drugs are developed by Big Pharma–Brobdingnagian corporations with vast teams of scientists who have, to date, failed to cure the common cold. Airborne’s creator is “Knight-McDowell Labs”–Victoria Knight-McDowell is a schoolteacher and her...
The low-tax, high-income countries are mostly English-speaking ones that share a direct historical lineage with 19th-century Britain and its theories of economic laissez-faire … Budgetary outlays for social purposes average around 27 percent of...
How is [Hugh Hefner] who’s 78 years old able to have sex with that many women?He doesn’t really do anything. He just lies there with his Viagra erection. It’s just a fake erection, and...
What the ancient Mayans relished was not solid chocolate as we now know it. Rather, it was a thick, gritty, generally unsweetened frothy beverage composed of ground cacao beans, water, and other spices and...
People’s incomes are swinging wildly—like winnings in a casino. In 1970, a [US] family in any given year had a one-in-fourteen chance of its income dropping by half; today, the chance is one in...
One-third of U.S. patients with health problems reported experiencing medical mistakes, medication errors, or inaccurate or delayed lab results—the highest rate of any of the six nations surveyed [Australia, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, UK,...
The latest [US] BLS employment situation report states 4.5% unemployment, and 167,000 jobs created in December … the headline “unemployment” number we see every month isn’t the unemployment number — it’s one of many,...
It will only take a few tens of thousands of years at most before almost every trace of our present dominance has vanished completely. Alien visitors coming to Earth 100,000 years hence will find...
Working in Morgan Stanley for a few months. It’s strange working just beside Wall Street – before it was something I usually only saw doing the tourist thing… now I am sourly pushing through...
[Saddam] was particularly phobic about germs. Even top generals summoned to meet him were often ordered to strip to their underwear and their clothes were then washed, ironed and X-rayed before they could get...