“Why do the Epicureans think they are offering any palliative. To be told one perishes completely and forever, soul, as well as body, is hardly a robust consolation.” (Cicero) Poor Cicero! So like a politician. The short-term thinking! Let me put his mind at rest: I don’t know where exactly you are, Cicero, but …
Boris Kingma of Maastricht University has published, in Nature Climate Change, a study on central heating and cooling The study shows that in offices across the Western world, the standard thermostat has been set since the 1960s to suit the metabolic rate of an 11-stone, 40-year-old male. The ideal temperature for the average woman is …
A study published recently in the journal Preventing Chronic Disease finds that working in one’s 60s and 70s is associated with better physical and mental health. Epidemiologists from the University of Miami analyzed data from more than 85,000 adults age 65 and older. (The mean age was around 75.) In general, people who kept working were nearly three times …
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“To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves”. (Aldous Huxley, quoted in The Times) Yes, those who repress free thought in China, try to force their extreme religious ideas on others, support guns for everyone (and so on, …
Quotation: “Our so-called free trade policies have been a disaster for the United States ever since NAFTA was enacted. Before NAFTA went into effect 20 years ago, we never had had a trade deficit of more than $135 billion. Every single year since then, for 20 years in a row, our trade deficit has been …
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