Conservative Harvard professor Niall Ferguson reportedly told a large group of financial advisers and investors in California this week that the problem with John Maynard Keynes’ economic philosophy was that he didn’t care about future generations.
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Zubeidat K. Tsarnaeva, the mother of Boston bombing suspects Dzhokar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, suggested Friday that the FBI had been surveilling her older son for several years prior to Monday’s attack.
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The West (That is the US the EU and Japan) face only one potential threat in their global hegemony, and that is the China- and Russia-led Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). NATO will never allow Turkey to join.
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Dean Keith Simonton, a psychology professor at the University of California, has published a comment piece in the journal Nature, where he argues that it’s unlikely mankind will ever produce another Einstein, Newton, Darwin, etc. This is because, he says, we’ve already discovered all the most basic ideas that describe how the natural world works.
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Just as the world sighs in relief at having escaped the Mayan Armageddon, the ancient prophesy may still hold true. According to one archaeologist, the end could come as early as this Sunday.
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A top State Department official acknowledged Thursday that cables warning of serious security concerns at the U.S. compound in Benghazi went to department headquarters — and possibly to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s office — in the months leading up to the deadly Sept. 11 attack.
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Another study. Call me paranoid, but I am seriously starting to question how many of these studies are commissioned solely to divert attention away from the real causes of autism.
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Britain’s House of Lords member Lord Gilbert on Friday advised his government to drop a neutron bomb in the border areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan, in order to eliminate the safe heavens of militant outfits.
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Hillary Clinton would be on course for a landslide victory over Mitt Romney, with a lead five points larger than Barack Obama’s, if she was on the ballot paper instead of the president in Tuesday’s US election
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