graph showing the dispersion of hypothetical and actual
monetary unions
“... JP Morgan analyst Michael Cembalest calculates
that the major countries on the euro are more different
from each other than basically every random grab bag
of nations there is, including: the make-believe reconstituted
Ottoman Empire; all the English speaking Eastern and
Southern African countries; and all countries on Earth
at the 5th parallel north.”
Dispersion describes the degree of
difference between the members of a group such as, in
the case of the above graph, a monetary union. Thus, the
member countries of the euro zone have more differences
than even countries whose name begin with the letter M.
“One recent morning when staff arrived at for
work, they noticed a hole had been chewed in a box of
Danish pastries delivered for the staff cafeteria, and
opened it to find THIS happy chappy.
“It was so full of pastries (see stomach!) that
it couldn't move, and had to go to the hospital for
2 days until its sugar levels returned to normal.
“A warning about overindulgence for all the sweet
tooths among us!”
another brilliant socialist with a mind of someone else
Posters for the 2012 French
presidential elections
the official posters of the ten candidates
Observe that the more rabidly far left
the candidate, the more words there are on the poster,
see particularly n°.6, the poster for the Communist
candidate.
Most of the rest have ‘statesman’-like
slogans, appealing to the intellectual classes:
Eva Joly: Ecology, the real
change
Marine Le Pen: Yes, France
Nicholas Sarkosy: Strong
France
J-L Mélenchon: Take
power
Philippe Poutou: For the
capitalists to pay for their crises
Natalie Arthaud: Confirm
your conviction that the unfair and mad capitalist sociey
cannot be the future of humanity.
Jacques Cheminade: A world
without the City or Wall Street
François Bayrou: United
France
Nicholas Dupont-Aignan:
Free France
François Hollande: It’s
now.
Their poses in the photos also o-o-z-e
sincerity and seriousness.
The human soul weighs exactly three-quarters
of an ounce, or exactly 21.2621423 grams - Scotch science
is wonderful.
“Dr. MacDougall, seeking to determine "if
the psychic functions continue to exist as a separate
individuality or personality after the death of brain
and body," constructed a special bed in his office
"arranged on a light framework built upon very
delicately balanced platform beam scales" sensitive
to two-tenths of an ounce. He installed upon this bed
a succession of six patients in the end stages of terminal
illnesses (four from tuberculosis, one from diabetes,
and one from unspecified causes); observed them before,
during, and after the process of death; and measured
any corresponding changes in weight.”
—
“At the end of three hours and forty minutes he
expired and suddenly coincident with death the beam
end dropped with an audible stroke hitting against the
lower limiting bar and remaining there with no rebound.
The loss was ascertained to be three-fourths of an ounce.
“....
“MacDougall repeated his experiment with fifteen
dogs and observed that "the results were uniformly
negative, no loss of weight at death." This result
seemingly corroborated MacDougall's hypothesis that
the loss in weight recorded as humans expired was due
to the soul's departure from the body, since (according
to his religious doctrine) animals have no souls.”
St. Michael weighing a soul, the
Virgin Mary using her rosary to lift the good soul’s
scale on the left,
while the devil pulls down the right scale holding a bad
soul.
From Pembroke College Chapel, Cambridge. Image: Laurence
OP
“Flying robot quadrotors perform the James Bond
Theme by playing various instruments including the keyboard,
drums and maracas, a cymbal, and the debut of an adapted
guitar built from a couch frame.”
—
“Video produced and directed by Kurtis Sensenig;
quadrotors and instruments by Daniel Mellinger, Alex
Kushleyev and Vijay Kumar [of the University of Pennsylvania’s
School of Engineering and Applied Science].”
