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Dear CEO, As an asset manager, BlackRock invests on behalf of others, and I am writing to you as an advisor and fiduciary to these clients. The money we manage is not our own. It belongs to people in dozens of countries trying to finance long-term goals like retirement. And we have a deep…

Derek Brumby / AlexRoz / shutterstock / The Atlantic Does Twitter matter? The temptation is to say no. Its user base is small compared with Facebook— 321 million monthly active users versus more than 2 billion—and a quick glance at the trending topics reveals its fractious, claustrophobic…

1,353 views Ibn Riad - ابن رياض @IbnRiad 15 hours ago , 11 tweets,2 min read Read all threads [Thread] A translation of the below thread by Ahmad Khazraji on Iraqi caretaker Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi, in which he reveals the reasons he held his silence and resigned. (Most significantly, he…

There has always been hypocrisy in politics and government. But several cities in California may be taking that standard to a new level when it comes to their supposed battle against climate change. Here's the kicker: The people pointing that accusatory finger at the Golden State's top cities are…

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Small colleges across the United States are closing at an unprecedented pace as they struggle to attract students and face revenue shortages. Part of the problem is demographics. The number of high school seniors is dropping – dramatically in some parts of the country – and students are growing…

Shifts in technology lead to transformative shifts in human consciousness. The last big one happened during the 1960s, after the arrival of television.. For the first time, images from faraway lands traveled into our living rooms. As Marshall McLuhan wrote, “The plight of the slum child, via the TV…

Kim Jong Un has done a good job keeping the United States guessing about his next nuclear provocation. North Korea had threatened that it would pursue a more hardline “new path” by the end of last year unless the United States dropped its “hostile” policies toward the country. This was followed by…

You’ve likely used the internet to help you remember something, like a quote from a movie, only to discover the answer differed from what you had anticipated. Maybe you shrugged, telling yourself your memory was faulty, and went on with your life. But what if you found thousands of people online had…

New US television series By James Brewer and J. Cooper 4 October 2010 Rubicon Rubicon , which premiered on US cable network channel AMC (American Movie Channel) August 1, is one of the crop of more interesting programs recently appearing on American television. Interestingly, it drew the AMC’s…

By James Brewer 2 December 2010 US cable network AMC announced November 11 that Rubicon , its provocative series about the American intelligence apparatus, has been pulled from its roster after one season. AMC only offered a tersely worded statement as explanation: “ Rubicon gave us an opportunity…

“Patient Five” was in his late 50s when a trip to the doctors changed his life. He had diabetes, and he had signed up for a study to see if taking a “statin” – a kind of cholesterol-lowering drug – might help. So far, so normal. But soon after he began the treatment, his wife began to notice a…

It is nearly impossible to live in today’s world without having come across mention of the legendary Noam Chomsky . His work as a linguist, historian, political activist and philosopher, which spans nearly a century, has had an immeasurable impact on contemporary world views. Not only have his more…

Samsung may have the highest-end options for hardware if you want an Android smartphone, but that hasn’t stopped them from making some questionable decisions on the software they sometimes load on it. Often these phones come with “default” apps that can’t be removed through ordinary means, or can’t…

Advertisement ITV Report 9 January 2020 at 5:16am Habitual tea drinking ‘linked to longer life’ Photo: Kirsty O’Connor/PA Drinking tea at least three times a week could be linked with a longer and healthier life, scientists say. According to new research “habitual” consumption of the hot drink is…

Anesthesiology. Publish Ahead of Print():, NOVEMBER 27, 2019 DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0000000000003076 , PMID: 31809325 Issn Print: 0003-3022 Publication Date: November 27, 2019 Tobias Schneider;Julian Luethi;Eckhard Mauermann;Oliver Bandschapp;Wilhelm Ruppen; From the Department for Anesthesia, Intensive…

Introduction Inflammation is characterized by a cascade of cellular and molecular events leading to an increase in body temperature, capillary dilatation, and production of blood-borne soluble components (Allen et al., 2015; Gonzalo-Calvo et al., 2015). These responses, which can be induced by…

Journal of the American College of Cardiology Volume 75, Issue 1, 7–14 January 2020, Pages 60-71 Original Investigation Training for a First-Time Marathon Reverses Age-Related Aortic Stiffening Author links open overlay panel Andrew D’Silva MBBS c Camilla Torlasco MD b d Siana Jones PhD a Niromila…

T o visit Dr Dirk Obbink at Christ Church college, Oxford, you must first be ushered by a bowler-hatted porter into the stately Tom Quad, built by Cardinal Wolsey before his spectacular downfall in 1529. Turn sharp right, climb a flight of stairs, and there, behind a door on which is pinned a notice…

I saac Asimov loved large numbers. He was born a century ago this month, and when he died, in 1992, he was both the most famous science fiction writer in the world and perhaps the most prolific author in American history. He kept close track of his publications, most of which were nonfiction, and…

A mysterious repeating radio signal from space revealed last year is now the fifth fast radio burst to be tracked back to its source galaxy. It's a location unlike any of the others, and astronomers are having to rethink their previous assumptions about how these signals are generated. The origin of…

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite looks for exoplanets around stars roughly 60 parsecs from Earth. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre Honolulu, Hawaii Astronomers have discovered a world only a little bit bigger than Earth, whirling around a bright star about 31 parsecs from our…

Judge reopens Covington student defamation suit against Washington Post Todd McMurty, attorney for Nicholas Sandmann, on going forward with the lawsuit on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight.' CNN has settled a multimillion-dollar defamation lawsuit filed by Covington Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann…

It’s been awhile since I’ve written anything in my “President and the Bomb” series. You can read part I , II , and III if you are interested). It’s not that I’ve been inactive; much to the contrary, I’ve been researching this issue as one of my major research agendas, but most of that work has not…

Text size Mehdi Jahanghiri/Fars/Getty Unconfirmed reports started appearing on my Twitter feed late Thursday night claiming that Iranian Quds Force Commander Qassem Soleimani and six others were killed in a strike at Baghdad Airport. Big if true, as they say. But was it? I knew previous presidents…

Living in A variety of housing styles and good value for people priced out of metropolitan neighborhoods. Exploring the Terrain in Altadena, Calif. 8 Photos View Slide Show › Beth Coller for The New York Times Pinky Farnum and her husband, Mark Nishibayashi, have loved Altadena for a very long time.…

From the face scanner that will check in some attendees to the cameras-everywhere array of digital products, the CES gadget show is all-in on surveillance technology — whether it calls it that or not. Full Coverage: Consumer Electronics Show Nestled in the “smart home” and “smart city” showrooms at…

New York (CNN Business) A Facebook executive who backed Hillary Clinton's 2016 election campaign told colleagues in an internal memo last month that the platform could ultimately be responsible for President Trump's reelection. In the memo, Facebook VP Andrew Bosworth wrote that the Trump campaign's…

Thousands of feral camels will meet their end on Wednesday during a planned cull in the province of South Australia, where a severe drought has caused them to invade communities in search of water, menacing residents and destroying property and native vegetation. Also on rt.com For liberals, it’s…

World at War Some claim it was a warning. Published 3 days ago on The New York Times published a story about a hypothetical U.S. military strike on Qassim Suleimani in Baghdad hours before it actually happened. In an article entitled ‘Hypersonic Missiles Are a Game Changer’, Steven Simon, an analyst…

January 7, 2020 When I launched Actual (a subscription-based finance app) almost a year ago I didn't know anything about how to determine pricing or structure plans. My background is software development — finding insights in the mixture of churn rates, free trials, and all these other metrics…

War History shows that expertise is not the same as wisdom. | 1.6.2020 2:00 PM Media Contact & Reprint Requests (Arash Khamooshi/Polaris/Newscom) "The moment we all feared is likely upon us," Sen. Chris Murphy (D–Conn.) warned after the American drone attack that killed Iranian military commander…

Noel Casler worked with Donald Trump on The Apprentice , and the comedian has something to say about his experience with the man who is now president of the United States. According to Casler, Trump was a known drug user during his Apprentice years, and the comedian says that the president is so…

Hi, Welcome to BIG, a newsletter about the politics of monopoly. If you’d like to sign up, you can do so here . Or just read on… Last week I wrote about how the Trump administration, spurred by Senator Marco Rubio, has begun to organize an industrial policy , which is to say government officials…

When Jessie Battaglia started looking for a new babysitter for her 1-year-old son, she wanted more information than she could get from a criminal-background check, parent comments and a face-to-face interview. So she turned to Predictim, an online service that uses “advanced artificial intelligence”…

Samsung's Neon company has a booth Sunday at CES Unveiled, but it's not actually unveiling its technology there. Instead we have to wait until Tuesday. Roger Cheng/CNET This story is part of CES 2020 , our complete coverage of the showroom floor and the hottest new tech gadgets around. CES 2020 has…

People walk past a banner of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (left) and Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini during a ceremony marking the anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in Tehran in 2016. (Raheb Homavandi/TIMA/via Reuters) For 40 years, Tehran’s philosophy has been simple and direct: ‘Death to…

Will Hypersonic Missiles Start a New Arms Race? No existing defenses can stop such weapons — which is why everyone wants them. Mr. Simon is an analyst at the Quincy Institute and teaches international relations at Colby College. President Vladimir Putin, of Russia, during a meeting with top military…