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Obama is a Republican. I agree.
Athletes at UNC were taking classes which basically didn't exist. How exactly are student athletes getting an education again?
All those brain training companies are full of shit according to scientists. But they definitely prove the practice effect!
American's don't really understand what's in their economic best interest.
Wealth Inequality in the United States sine 1913: Evidence from capitalized income tax data. (.pdf) Short version: the middle class is no better off than in 1986.See, for instance, this Wall Street Journal video "Do You Make $400,000 a Year But Feel Broke?" from September 5, 2014 depicting the purported hard times for a couple in Chicago making $400,000 a year, buying a $60,000 car every four years, paying a mortgage on a $1.2 million house along with $25,000 a year in maintenance and , entertainment ($10,000 a year) going on vacations ($25,000 a year), club dues ($12,000 a year), and paying for their children's sports ventures ($10,000 a year). These and other "necessities" and (purportedly reasonable) discretionary expenditures take all of their after-tax money.Given that perspective, no wonder those in the top have so little consideration and sympathy for ordinary Americans who have incomes in the $50,000 to $60,000 range, much less for the poor who struggle to put food on the table and heat in the furnace! They can't even imagine such limited lives. With the growing inequality in this country, the gap between the upper class and the rest of us is increasingly wider.
Now that oil prices are down, will be go back to our gas guzzling and energy consuming ways? TNR says no but I was under the impression that we never stopped.
40% of people have been harassed online.
A realtime simulation of global births and deaths.
Why you shouldn't drink your own urine.
How marble is made. Well, mined. Quarried?
Magnetic north has moved from polar south to polar north within the space of a single lifetime.
More content for the spurious correlations machine: How musical tastes correlate with SAT scores. Apparently stupid people listen to The Used.
Some folks have been annotating MST3K to explain all the jokes.
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