The NY Times has a terrific interactive map on how people across the world spend their discretionary income. Some interesting findings include Japan spending more on recreation than clothing and Greece throwing money at clothing versus electronics. Read the full article here.
The US Government likes to keep unemployement between 2-5 percent, 0 unemployment is actually a bad thing (according to some economists), so it’s quite surpising to see the latest unemployment figures at over 6 percent.
Have you ever given much thought to what it must have been like for an intellectual during the Inquisition? Say, for example, you opposed the Church and read a little Plato; that could get you in some serious trouble, as it did for the sixteenth – century heretic Giordano Bruno.
