https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200728-why-australia-is-charging-more-to-study-history

Australia’s government recently announced some bad news for prospective university students planning to take subjects in the humanities, social sciences or law. To enrol in courses like history and philosophy, they’d have to pay more than their peers studying the sciences, maths or healthcare.

 

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Quite subjective, of course. But the graphic does put things into perspective:

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Thought for the Day.

 

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A wonderful essay on Thomas Sowell, one of my favorite economists and authors:

https://www.city-journal.org/thomas-sowell-race-poverty-culture

But the question is not why a man who lived Sowell’s life came to hold the views that he did. The question is why one would expect a mind so brilliant to submit itself to received opinion of any kind.

 

A wonderful essay on Thomas Sowell, one of my favorite economists and authors:

https://www.city-journal.org/thomas-sowell-race-poverty-culture

A very interesting person, from what I gather... thanks for sharing.

 

One of the co-inventors of the Mouse has passed away:

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53638033​

Neither man was made wealthy by their invention, which was patented but owned by their employer - and the intellectual property rights expired in 1987, before the mouse became one of the most common tech devices on the planet.

 

https://www.facebook.com/nationalparkservice/photos/a.74409236388/10157206218381389

READ: Please don’t run from bears or push your slower friends down in attempts of saving yourself.⁣⁣
He wasn't pushed, he was tripped.

Spoiler

 

Listen to your wife.

She is gonna use this against him forever...

 

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/american-bomber-drops-atomic-bomb-on-hiroshima
On August 6, 1945, the United States becomes the first and only nation to use atomic weaponry during wartime when it drops an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

In the context of making a factual statement of what would be lost in even a small exchange during the Cold War the decision to bomb Hiroshima was, in retrospect an extremely good decision for those alive today.

 

Another peaceful night in Portland.
https://www.kptv.com/news/mayor-whe...cle_8e01541e-d839-11ea-8736-4b746b521476.html

PORTLAND, OR (KPTV) - Mayor Ted Wheeler had strong words for rioters who blocked exits and started a fire at the Portland Police Bureau’s East Precinct building.

“When you commit arson with an accelerant in an attempt to burn down a building that is occupied by people who you have intentionally trapped inside, you are not demonstrating, you are attempting to commit murder,” Wheeler said during an online press conference Thursday.

 

Room with a view.

 

Deja vu : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_disaster

 

And now we are fouling the Nest!

https://ca.yahoo.com/news/oil-spill-threatens-ecological-disaster-150833230.html
Max.

 

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The Rule of Law is dead.
https://www.kptv.com/news/multnomah...cle_0289b146-dbff-11ea-aee8-5f1693753950.html

 

Not allowed to read this in the UK, nor many of the links my mate Mr Google found, however:
https://www.oregonlive.com/portland...da-to-announce-protest-policy-watch-live.html

 

Pretty impressive. Up and back down.

 

Pretty impressive. Up and back down.

And to think that video is already 7 years old!