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A good article in OZY about a bomb that went off on Wall Street in 1920

A good read.. http://www.ozy.com/flashback/when-wall-street-exploded-in-1920/39815?utm_source=FBOrganic&utm_medium=Social The Money quote: On September 16, 1920, a bomb planted on a red horse-drawn wagon exploded into the lunchtime crowd at Wall and Broad streets. This was just outside the House of Morgan (now known as J.P. Morgan), then the world’s most powerful financial institution. The force of the explosion, which killed … Read moreA good article in OZY about a bomb that went off on Wall Street in 1920

History made. In living color. A White House pool report June 26, 2015, preserved for history: As of 7:08 PM, the sunlight made it difficult make out the colors, but red, orange, yellow, green and violet were faintly visible As night fell, the Friday night lights were very visible for the world to see.

REAL MOMENTS IN JOURNALISM.. Photos have been leaked and broadcast–through GAWKER–to the world.. New York TIMES journalists in the late 90s and June 2001 mocking mass killings. One was the Heaven’s Gate suicides.. the other, the top photo, is a spoof of the murders committed by the Crown Prince Dipendra, who took the lives of … Read more

I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one. You may call me an agnostic, but I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist. I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own … Read more

There was no need for an evolutionary equal pay law: It was natural in most of recorded history, says a new study

New science now revealed: Early humans, we are told by leading anthropologists, had general equality. A research study concludes that for most of the evolutionary history of human, both genders had equal footing in the chaotic game of life..  MORE:  Mark Dyble, the leading anthropologist on the study at University College London, said: “There is still … Read moreThere was no need for an evolutionary equal pay law: It was natural in most of recorded history, says a new study