Massive asteroid impact crater in Falklands linked with Great Dying mass extinction
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Credit: worldatlas.com
Something new for geologists to get their teeth into.
The Falkland Islands may be home to one of the world’s largest craters, reports the IB Times. A new analysis has revealed it has many characteristics of an asteroid impact and may date back to the ‘Great Dying’ extinction event.
About 200 similar large craters have been discovered so far on Earth but there are many other examples of them on other planets including on Venus, Mercury and Mars.
The Falkland Islands structure, which is described in detail in the journal Terra Nova, has a diameter measuring approximately 250 kilometres (150 miles). If it turns out to be an impact crater, this size would make it one of Earth’s largest – comparable to the famous Chicxulub crater discovered in the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico nearly four decades ago.
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The Apartment – Seinfeld – rent control
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in applied price theory, economics of regulation, Public Choice, rentseeking, television, urban economics Tags: rent control, Seinfeld
Don Rickles on a roll with a celebrity audience – A Couple of Dons 1971
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The Soldier Who Continued Fighting WWII 29 Years After It Ended, Because He Didn’t Know” on YouTube
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Ireland investigates Stephen Fry for blasphemy
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Blasphemy is a crime in Ireland; the Constitution of 1937 (see here) says the following:
ARTICLE 40
6. 1° The State guarantees liberty for the exercise of the following rights, subject to public order and morality: i. The right of the citizens to express freely their convictions and opinions. The education of public opinion being, however, a matter of such grave import to the common good, the State shall endeavour to ensure that organs of public opinion, such as the radio, the press, the cinema, while preserving their rightful liberty of expression, including criticism of Government policy, shall not be used to undermine public order or morality or the authority of the State. The publication or utterance of blasphemous, seditious, or indecent matter is an offence which shall be punishable in accordance with law.
Wikipedia has a good article on the blasphemy law, its history, and its implementation in…
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The Great Ideas of the Social Sciences
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by Gene Callahan
Let’s take social science broadly, in the sense of German wissenschaft, so that The Republic and Politics and The Social Contract are social science. (I would contend that they are, in fact, often much more scientific than the latest regression study of how detergent use correlates with the suicide rate.)
So what, then, are the most important ideas ever put forward in social science? I’m not asking what are the best ideas, so the truth of them is only obliquely relevant: a very important idea may be largely false. (I think it still must contain some germ of truth, or it would have no plausibility.) Think of it this way: if you were teaching a course called “The Great Ideas of the Social Sciences,” what would you want to make sure you included?
Here’s my preliminary list. What have I left off? What have I mistakenly included?
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The Corrs – ‘Toss the Feathers’ Unplugged
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Does Capitalism Exploit Workers?
07 May 2017 Leave a comment
in applied price theory Tags: distributive justice, Marxism
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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