June 2012
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“Winnipeg, Manitoba
Canada
July 30, 1964
Dear Mr. Fuller:
I was struck...”
– Cowboys must be deranged — In July of 1964, a reader named Marian Forer wrote the following letter to John G. Fuller, the editor of a popular column in Saturday Review magazine called ”Trade Winds” that collated whimsical news items and thought-provoking anecdotes from all corners....
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“It is easier to ship recipes than cakes and biscuits”
– ascribed to John Maynard Keynes / Simply, use the Internet to trade ideas that eliminate the need to ship stuff.
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And now...
English: A dog
Swedish: What
English: The dog
English: Two dogs
Swedish:
Swedish:
Swedish: En hund, hunden
Swedish: … hundar, hundarna
German:
English: No, go away
Swedish: No one invited you
German: Der Hund
English: I said go away
German: Ein Hund, zwei Hunde
Swedish: Stop it
German: Den Hund, einen Hund, dem Hund, einem Hund, des Hundes, eines Hundes, den Hunden, der Hunden
Finnish: Sup
English: NO
Swedish: NO
German: NO
Finnish:
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German:
Swedish:
Finnish: Koira, koiran, koiraa, koiran again, koirassa, koirasta, koiraan, koiralla, koiralta, koiralle, koirana, koiraksi, koiratta, koirineen, koirin
German:
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English:
Finnish: And now the plural forms
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Economists See More Jobs for Machines, Not People →
Productivity growth in the last decade, at more than 2.5 percent, they observe, is higher than the 1970s, 1980s and even edges out the 1990s. Still the economy, they write, did not add to its total job count, the first time that has happened over a decade since the Depression.
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“One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are...”
– ascribed to Bertrand Russell
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“It has often and confidently been asserted, that man’s origin can never be...”
– Charles Darwin (1871). “The Descent of Man”
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46% of Americans are Creationists →
Forty-six percent of Americans believe in the creationist view that God created humans in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years. The prevalence of this creationist view of the origin of humans is essentially unchanged from 30 years ago, when Gallup first asked the question. About a third of Americans believe that humans evolved, but with God’s guidance; 15% say humans...
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