What About the Real (or Surreal) Thing?
(Image: Columbia Business School Publishing)Excerpted from “Acts of God and Man: Ruminations on Risk and Insurance”, by Michael R. Powers. Copyright © 2012 Michael R. Powers. Used by arrangement with Columbia University Press. The world of risk and insurance — replete with cagey underwriters, callous claim adjustors, and canny actuaries — is often viewed as staid [...]
Eurozone watch, December 7
A well-covered German bund auction this morning set the tone for the rest of the day. Some €5bn of five-year bonds were sold, with the national bank only taking €1bn of them. a much better outcome than last week’s sale, which saw the Buba buying almost half of the issuance. Germany’s 10-year government debt yields [...]
Link Found Between Mother’s Pregnancy Diet And Child’s Chances Of Obesity
Scientists have discovered that a mother’s nutrition during pregnancy can strongly influence her child’s risk of obesity many years later. An international study, led by University of Southampton researchers and including teams from New Zealand and Singapore, has shown for the first time that during pregnancy, a mother’s diet can alter the function of her [...]
Pond Scrum: No ignoring Tiger in the room, and his ex … caddie
Ah, the old standards. last week was like going to a bar and hearing the house band break into rollicking old tunes by Zeppelin or Skynyrd, the critical golfing equivalent of standing in the back of the room and screaming Freebird. for instance, the PGA Tour contested an event on a vintage course with a [...]
Williams Wages War on Sin in "Ghost Rider"
In the Marvel Universe, great power often comes with great responsibility. However, not everyone wants to bear that sort of power, especially when it burns your flesh off every time you use it. For years, Johnny Blaze played host to the Spirit of Vengeance, a motorcycle-riding supernatural entity known as the Ghost Rider. Whenever innocent [...]
A glorious, transcendental treat
Jane Johnson It should have been such a treat those of us who love a good epic tale: a head-to-head between the Arthurian legend cycle and a great modern myth-in-the-making. On the surface of things, Channel 4’s Camelot should have had the edge over Sky Atlantic’s Game of Thrones: stellar cast, time-honoured story, prime-time terrestrial [...]
in High Summer : Casaubon’s Book
We shared two cherry tomatoes this morning, the first ripe ones of the year, and that, to us, is the proof we’re fully into high summer. if I don’t pick the zucchini every day, I’m sorry. the weather is hot and sultry, the apricots are close to ripe and the peaches are following. the boys [...]
New World Order: Texans — best of the best
over the holiday break last winter, the terrific remake of one of the 10 best westerns of all time pared a humorous bit of dialogue from the original version of the John Wayne classic True Grit. throughout the original, the Duke repeatedly referred to co-star Glen Campbell as a “Texican,” which became a running joke [...]
Scythe Mine drugiej generacji już jest
Japońskie Scythe wprowadziło w końcu na europejski rynek – zapowiedziany pod koniec ub. r. – cooler CPU o nazwie mine 2. W stosunku do poprzednika, mine 2 został znacząco powiększony. Podczas gdy mine pierwszej generacji mierzył 109x105x150 mm i ważył 560 g, nowy cooler Scythe ma wymiary 130x143x160 mm i waży 1150 g. Obie generacje mine [...]
White Lotus Aromatics Blog: Treasures of Aromatic Literature- from “By moorland and sea” … By Francis Arnold Knight
Treasures of Aromatic Literature- from “By moorland and sea” … By Francis Arnold Knight It was a pleasant fancy of the poet that, as Winter vanished, the fair young form of Spring took shape in the lighted foliage of the thickets. It is almost more than a mere fancy that we can hear, in the [...]