Three recipes our Neanderthal cousins might have enjoyed
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Echoing a young Brett Kavanaugh, Trump workplace regulators say jobs in entertainment, sports, and other fields are too dangerous to be covered by safety protections.
Long-time viewers of Adam Curtis’s BBC documentaries might see a trailer for Shifty, his new five-part online-only series, and wonder if it is saying anything new. ‘There come moments in societies when the foundations of power begin to move’ reads the caption, and we see Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Stephen Hawking, Ian Curtis, […]
David Sirota and Rutger Bregman debate moral ambition, getting the powerful to admit when they’re wrong, and the fate of the Democratic Party.
Forecasting period-average exchange rates requires using high-frequency data to efficiently construct forecasts and to test the accuracy of these forecasts against the traditional random walk hypothesis. To achieve this, we construct the first real-time dataset of daily effective exchange rates for all available countries, both nominal and real. The real-time vintages account for the typical delay in the publication of trade weights and inflation. Our findings indicate that forecasts constructed with daily data can significantly improve accuracy, up to 40 per cent compared to using monthly averages. We also find that unlike bilateral exchange rates, daily effective exchange rates exhibit properties distinct from random walk processes. When applying efficient estimation and testing methods made possible for the first time by the daily data, we find new evidence of real-time predictability for effective exchange rates in up to fifty per cent of countries.
The eyes adjust to help us focus as we chat
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By pulling a “60 Minutes” segment, the new editor-in-chief is torching the network’s credibility to protect the Ellison family’s interests.
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A great star shines over a stable in Bethlehem. The Three Kings arrive and kneel before the Holy Family.
BALTHAZAR: We come bearing gifts for the newborn king, O Holy Ones.
MARY: Just put them on the table. We’re doing a white elephant thing this year.
MELCHIOR: White elephant?! Where?
MARY: No, we take turns opening gifts. You can keep the one you open, or switch with anyone else. What could possibly go wrong?
GASPAR: The King of Kings was meant to bring peace on Earth. This will surely cause hatred, greed, and jealousy.
MARY: Oh, it’ll be fun. I’ll start. Ooooh. Gold! Now THAT is a present. Thank you! You’re up, Melchior.
MELCHIOR: I want to go on the record saying I think this is a bad idea. But let’s see. Hmmm, myrrh. I’m going to be honest—I’m a wise man, and even I don’t know what myrrh is. So, I’ll switch it for the gold. Is that how this works?
The finale of Doctor Who spinoff The War Between The Land and The Sea ends with plot holes, an unconvincing love story, and sloppy writing.
Dear Valued Child,
This letter was slipped into your stocking to inform you that we recently identified a breach of our North Pole Magic Systems (NPMS) that may have compromised your personal data—namely, the thousands of hours of footage we have of when you are sleeping, as well as when you are awake.
How did the breach occur?
Shortly after Thanksgiving, we detected that a person within the NPMS organization (identity redacted for anonymity) clicked on a link entitled, “Winner!!! Claim FREE 6XL Red Coat With Fur Trim Now!” Regrettably, this turned out to be a phishing scheme that exploited a vulnerability in our system. We now understand that the innocent enchantment of believing hearts is not a reliable form of cybersecurity.
While we have yet to pinpoint the attacker’s identity, we have narrowed the suspects down to three previous perpetrators of crimes against the season: E. Scrooge, Mr. Grinch, and Big City Lady-Lawyer With Christmas Eve Deadline.
Corporate power has made winter sports like skiing and snowboarding the activities of the rich and famous.
Hedda, our 12-year-old Jack Russell terrier.
Which is saying something, because worthless has been in charge of the West for generations. There are no leaders in charge of any major Western country who aren’t functionally morons. Europe is run by utter idiots who want war with Russia, refuse to acknowledge that Ukraine is losing, are actively speeding up their loss of […]
Statens betalningar skapar de medel som sedan används av privata aktörer för att betala skatter och köpa statspapper. Staten är självfinansierad i sin egen valuta – staten är ju ensam utgivare och kan därför omöjligen låna samma pengar som bara den kan skapa.
Staten är således finansiellt obegränsad i sin egen valuta och kan alltid operativt […]
For one magical night a year, Santa and his friends bring holiday cheer to millions of people around the world. For the rest of the 364 nights? They’re just like us: hustling to get by in an ever-shrinking global economy.
Rudolph hasn’t had time for any reindeer games lately, thanks to the extra shifts he’s picked up as a Lyft driver. That glowing nose is easy for drunk people to find on Saturday night, but he wishes they’d stop asking him if it has a strobe setting.
The elves have still been working at Santa’s workshop, of course, but on weekends they supplement by working at one of Jeff Bezos’ sweatshops. Try their new line of Amazon elf-ssentials.
In rare interviews, Russians speak candidly about their lives in the presence of war – animated to protect their identities
- by Aeon Video
The intriguing reason many rom-coms end with a character dashing through an airport, street or station to profess their love
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Constant access, near-perfect memory, analytic reach – ChatGPT provides things a therapist never could
- by Sabela Guravich
Medical error kills hundreds of thousands yearly. If AI is sophisticated enough to help, doctors must not stand in the way
- by Charlotte Blease
Despite controversies and safety concerns, biotech firm Humacyte is pushing its cutting-edge lab-grown blood vessels for uses far beyond what regulators have allowed.
The right to protest, the right to free speech, and the right to be heard are absolutely essential in any democratic society. That’s why these rights are clearly enshrined in both the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the European Convention on Human Rights. The history of Britain is itself one of protest, protests that […]