This changes everything.
A sedentary lifestyle can amplify a genetic disposition to obesity, but just walking briskly, and briefly, each day can cut that effect in half, a new study showed Wednesday.
Destroying the Confidence of Math Students, One Child at a Time
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
In The E-Mail
Rita Royale a new e-novel by Saskatchewan author (and SDA sponsor) Terry Anderson.
Reader Tips
In August of last year, Australian-born choreographer Lloyd Newson and the London-based dance troupe DV8 Physical Theatre debuted Can We Talk About This?, a work that examines the way in which such events as the death threats against Salman Rushdie and the murder of Theo Van Gogh have altered the climate of freedom of expression in the west. While some reviewers have praised the the production as courageous, Michael Billington of the left-wing Guardian dismisses the spectre of Islamist revenge with this little piece of spineless weasel-logic:
The idea that people are afraid to speak out about Islamist extremism is disproved by the very existence of this production.
Yeah, and by the existence of the books of Salman Rushdie and the films of Theo Van Gogh. Here’s a short video promoting DV8 Physical Theater’s production of Lloyd Newson’s Can We Talk About This?.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Hashtag Of The Entitlement Generation
Excuse me, sir. Would you like your grass mowed? (h/t Ian)
Take Me, Dear Leader
Via WFTV
Those Moderate Muslims!
Pamela is right. If you want to be treated with respect by The New York Times and the rest of the multiculti establishment, make it clear you’re willing to kill them. That’s an interesting message to send.
This Is Awkward
“Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs.”
What are three quick ways to become a leader? a) Execute on the firm’s “axes,” which is Goldman-speak for persuading your clients to invest in the stocks or other products that we are trying to get rid of because they are not seen as having a lot of potential profit. b) “Hunt Elephants.” In English: get your clients — some of whom are sophisticated, and some of whom aren’t — to trade whatever will bring the biggest profit to Goldman. Call me old-fashioned, but I don’t like selling my clients a product that is wrong for them. c) Find yourself sitting in a seat where your job is to trade any illiquid, opaque product with a three-letter acronym.
Today, many of these leaders display a Goldman Sachs culture quotient of exactly zero percent. I attend derivatives sales meetings where not one single minute is spent asking questions about how we can help clients. It’s purely about how we can make the most possible money off of them. If you were an alien from Mars and sat in on one of these meetings, you would believe that a client’s success or progress was not part of the thought process at all.
Update: Ed Driscoll has plenty more gooey awkwardness.
The Sound Of Settled Science
Via Planet Gore;
What happened last March 11 wasn’t supposed to be possible. The seismic hazard maps didn’t entertain the idea of a 9.0 magnitude earthquake off the Tohoku coast of Japan.
But the Earth paid no heed to scientific orthodoxy. A massive slab of the planet’s crust lurched 180 feet to the east. It rose about 15 feet, lifted the ocean and tipped the Pacific’s waters onto the Japanese coast.
The quake and the resulting tsunami killed about 20,000 people, wiped out entire towns and triggered power outages and then meltdowns at the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
It also humbled the scientific community.
Oh, that’s unlikely.
If No Man Has The Right To Tell Me What To Do With My Body…
Nerenberg Lecture 2012
With the Rt. Hon. Christopher Monckton. Details here.
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
Reader Tips
The Open Road was a series of short travelogues filmed between 1924 and 1926 by British cinematographer Claude Friese-Greene using an early colour process called BioColour. Watch the remarkably high-quality footage in the recently-restored The Open Road London.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Ezra RoboCalls Stephen Maher
Via BCF
Terry Does Tehran
It’s at times like this that I miss Raskolnikov.
If You’re So Much Smarter Than Your Grandparents
The Tolerant Left
I’m as shocked as you are: Pew Research reveals liberals most intolerant online.
(Via.)
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
It’s Probably Nothing
Via John Mauldin;
“As manageable as Spain’s public debt would appear to be at face value, her private debt is an altogether different story – standing at a staggering 227% of GDP and, according to McKinsey, Spanish corporations hold twice as much debt relative to their output as US companies and, in comparison to Germany, that number goes up to six times….
“As Spain reduced its deficit in accordance with the EU’s Growth & Stability Pact, it meant an increasing reliance on private debt was needed in order to prolong the enormous construction boom that had been ongoing in Spain since the 1970s but which really picked up steam in the 90s and 00s. The outcome of that reliance? A tripling of average household debt.”
Throw in the part about the Spanish unemployment rate skyrocketing toward the 25% mark this year (and twice that for those under 25) and the bit where the new Spanish prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, draws a line in the sand by unexpectedly announcing that his government’s budget deficit would be 5.8% of GDP in 2012, more than 30 percent higher than the 4.4% agreed on with his supposed masters in Brussels, and we have all the makings for quite a spicy little paella.
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