Pi (π) is both the sixteenth letter of the Greek alphabet and the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. The difference between what is round and what is straight has no exact value. The calculation of pi begins at 3.14159 and stretches indefinitely.Pi may provide a link between mathematics and sexuality. Since the phallic st ...

2016: the Great Pivot YearOur correspondent imagines what future generations will make of the year western society turned on its axisBY David Goodhart The great pivot year was, of course 2016. Brexit and Trump. It is now clear, from a 2049 perspective, that the Anglo-Saxons led t ...

Erdogan shows off new map drawn between himself and Libya's President. The "deal" dubbed as a Memorandum of Understanding(MOU) has been rejected by the Libyan Parliament and a letter has been sent to the UN by Libya's parliament declaring the MOU "null & void".[img]https://www.in.gr/wp-cont ...

We trained chickens to react to an average human female face but not to an average male face (or vice versa). In a subsequent test, the animals showed preferences for faces consistent with human sexual preferences (obtained from university students). This suggests that human preferences arise from general properties of nervous systems, rather t ...

Donald Trump has threatened to "totally destroy and obliterate" Turkey's economy if the country does anything that he does not like in Syria, amid criticism from Republicans over new US policy allowing the Turkish military to take over in the war-torn country.The statement follows after Mr Trump announced he had decided to pull back US ...

The court of protection has ruled that a man who cannot understand the issue of consent must be allowed to pursue sexual relationships.Mrs Justice Roberts ruled that the man, who has autism with impaired cognition and lives in a supported residential placement, has a “fundamental right to sex”.The court considers is ...

Household appliances will become easier to repair thanks to new standards being adopted across the European Union.From 2021, firms will have to make appliances longer-lasting, and they will have to supply spare parts for machines for up to 10 years.The rules apply to lighting, washing machin ...

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Inflation is a weapon of rich people to rob and exploit poor people.2% target inflation is generally an invention by rich people to enslave, exploit poor people.Rich people own many properties, own shares in companies. Mostly the amount of liquid cash held by rich and poor people is about same since rich people prefer to hold little cash be ...

Turkey’s military pension fund OYAK has been picked as the preferred buyer for British Steel, easing fears for thousands of jobs at the steelmaker that collapsed in May. Ataer Holdings, an affiliate of OYAK, plans to close the deal by the end of the year, OYAK said. Ataer now has exclusive rights to look into Britain’s second-largest steelmak ...

World Bank recently made headlines declaring that, sniff, sniff, the Republic of South Africa has the most unequal distribution of wealth in the world. Harumph.North Sentinel Island, in the Andaman Islands, unequivocally has absolute equality of distribution of wealth, which is zero. Everyone living there is a hunter-gatherer, with NOTHING. ...

Rush Limbaugh is in line with what MMTers have been saying, it seems.https://edition.cnn.com/2019/07/17/poli ... index.html

So I've decided to buy this Winnebago and use it as my primary means of transportation:By sticking a "hybrid" sticker on it and bribing the guy at my department of transportation office, I can get a $7,500 rebate ...

[size=85]The 16-year-old girl was visibly intoxicated, her speech slurred, when a drunk 16-year-old boy sexually assaulted her in a dark basement during an alcohol-fueled pajama party in New Jersey, prosecutors said.The boy filmed himself penetrating her from behind, her torso exposed, her head hanging down, prosecutors said. He late ...

After the young man who had accused Mr. Spacey invoked the Fifth Amendment, the district attorney said the prosecution could not go forward.Prosecutors in Massachusetts on Wednesday dropped a sexual assault charge against the actor Kevin Spacey, bringing ...