Top Retired Military Leaders Call for 30 Percent Reduction in U.S. Oil Consumption... -- WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 WASHINGTON, Nov. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Even a small interruption of the daily oil supply impacts our nation's economic engine, but a sustained disruption would alter every aspect of our lives -- from food costs and distribution to what or if we eat, to manufacturing goods and services to freedom of movement. A new CNA analysis finds if America reduces its current rate of oil consumption by 30 percent, and diversifies its fuel sources, the U.S. economy would be insulated from the impact of such disruptions-- even in the event of a complete shutdown of a strategic chokepoint like the Strait of Hormuz, the international passageway for 33 percent of the world's seaborne oil shipments. Released at U.S. House and Senate briefings today, "Ensuring America's Freedom of Movement: A National Security Imperative to Reduce U.S. Oil Dependence" is a report by the CNA research organization's Military Advisory Board (MAB). "We have seen oil shocks before. The CNA MAB
Italian Words The quest continues for more beautiful Italian words. It’s been a few months since we talked about Italian words. I figured it was time for another dose. This is an ongoing quest. You may remember More Favorite Italian Words and before that Lovely Italian Words. Here are some more new favorites. dondolare {swing, rock} evviva! chiocciola {scroll} stranieri {strangers, foreigners} azzurro {blue} principessa {princess} magari {maybe} assolutamente {absolutely} Riomaggiore {a town in the Cinque Terre} fagiolini {string beans} solamente {only} piccolo {little one} esatto {exact} arrivassero {they arrived} frigorifero {refrigerator} però {but, however} meraviglioso {marvelous} uffa! stuzzicadenti {toothpick} Dimmi, what are some of your favorite Italian words?
10 Strange Things About The Universe - Top 10 Lists | Listverse Space The universe can be a very strange place. While groundbreaking ideas such as quantum theory, relativity and even the Earth going around the Sun might be commonly accepted now, science still continues to show that the universe contains things you might find it difficult to believe, and even more difficult to get your head around. Theoretically, the lowest temperature that can be achieved is absolute zero, exactly ?273.15°C, where the motion of all particles stops completely. However, you can never actually cool something to this temperature because, in quantum mechanics, every particle has a minimum energy, called “zero-point energy,” which you cannot get below. One of the properties of a negative-energy vacuum is that light actually travels faster in it than it does in a normal vacuum, something that may one day allow people to travel faster than the speed of light in a kind of negative-energy vacuum bubble. Relativity of Simultaneity Antimatter Retrocausality
Why Aren't Our Gadgets Still Covered In Wood? The world of Mad Men is made up of wood of every conceivable grain and color. The show’s sumptuous design palette has been responsible for popularizing midcentury design again, showing everyday objects and funiture that were popular in the 1960s not as the cracked and fading relics of our grandparents’ basements but as objects that define the characters who inhabit Matt Weiner’s vivid, romantic world. But what about the design of 1960s technology? The Sylvania television set veneered in wenge? The record console cabineted in oiled walnut? The vintage hi-fi, pulsing its needles in a Santos Palisander shell? These everyday gadgets remain dead to most of us, and even in Mad Men, they look creaky and obsolete. There are two reasons. "I know why electronics companies stopped using wood," says Dave Laituri, founder of Vers Audio, a Massachusetts-based company that specializes in audio equipment made out of wood. It’s a simple observation, but an important one. It’s also expensive. So.
How To Choose An Ethical Career (With Help From Oxford Philosophers) If you need help choosing a career, there are aptitude tests, counselors and shelves full of best-sellers to help. But if your primary goal is moral achievement—as opposed to personal fulfillment—you might be better off asking a philosopher. That’s what I did. 80,000 Hours is a small, student-run organization with a not-so-small goal: to change the world by guiding young people into maximally ethical careers. Co-founder and philosophy Ph.D. student William MacAskill emphasizes that this doesn’t mean simply seeking out jobs with maximally ethical organizations. "That’s a common mistake," he says. According to the organization’s view of ethics-as-impact, a do-gooder job only "does good" insofar as you are better at it than the person who would have filled the job otherwise. So how do you make a difference? In an Oxford version of the Socratic method, the process started with MacAskill’s colleague and classmate Niel Bowerman probing my own philosophical views.
This is why Why is Sweden so revengeful against Julian Assange? The Swedish vendetta can be simply explained by this press clip: Meaning: Wikileaks disclosed in front of the world a) the phony Swedish neutrality in the issues of foreign-policy and military-alliances, Sweden was in fact acting under NATO. b) some government officials acted in deals compromising the nation's political independence (according to Swedish law is only the Parliament - ergo not single government functionaries - empowered to make such agreements). Sweden was in fact receiving "instructions" in both intelligence-gathering issues [For sources, see Note 1] as well as in legislation initiatives by a foreign power. c) the fact that after the all affair was made public by the Wikileaks cables there was practically no reaction from politicians, journalists, or the general public about the exposures. It was then when the international criticism started to pour over Sweden. by Marcello Ferrada-Noli 1. A. c x B.
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List of common misconceptions From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Each entry on this list of common misconceptions is worded as a correction; the misconceptions themselves are implied rather than stated. These entries are concise summaries; the main subject articles can be consulted for more detail. A common misconception is a viewpoint or factoid that is often accepted as true but which is actually false. They generally arise from conventional wisdom (such as old wives' tales), stereotypes, superstitions, fallacies, a misunderstanding of science, or the popularization of pseudoscience. Some common misconceptions are also considered to be urban legends, and they are sometimes involved in moral panics. Arts and culture[edit] Business[edit] Federal legal tender laws in the United States do not require that private businesses, persons, or organizations accept cash for payment, though it must be treated as valid payment for debts when tendered to a creditor.[1] Food and cooking[edit] Food and drink history[edit] Music[edit]