Call to arms against possessions

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_eye/2014/05/26/the_minimalists_everything_that_remains_is_a_new_memoir_about_living_with.html

BBC News: What should capitalism do?

BBC collection of viewpoints on capitalism. I always think of capitalism as just a pretty word for slavery.

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Read more:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-27517577

Comparison USA-Germany

Funny:


http://math-www.uni-paderborn.de/~axel/us-d.html

Interstellar trailer - it's not real

"The world doesn't need engineers anymore . . . . We didn't run out of planes and television sets.  We ran out of food."

http://youtu.be/zSWdZVtXT7E

The release date is our due date.  Murphy is seeming like a good name!

Humanity gets what it deserves . . . .

You know your species is doomed when, among failing a multitude of other obvious moral quandaries, it can't even decide whether or not to eradicate a horrible disease:

Keep Or Kill Last Lab Stocks Of Smallpox? Time To Decide, Says WHO
by Rob Stein

NPR - May 9, 2014

"If smallpox is outlawed, only outlaws will have smallpox," says one NIH virologist. Others say keeping vials of deadly virus just invites a horrific accident or theft. WHO is about to vote — again.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/05/09/310475511/keep-or-kill-last-lab-stocks-of-smallpox-time-to-decide-says-who?sc=ipad&f=1001

How can you expect silver spoon kids not to cheat?

As if they need to cheat to get a leg up . . . .

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Harvard plans student honesty pledge

Harvard University is going to introduce an "honour code" in which students will promise not to plagiarise or cheat in exams.

Read more:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-27326404

What are the odds?

That this line of precipitation travels in a line directly over our region?

Dammit.