This year’s edition of ‘The World’s 50 Best Restaurants‘ by publishing group William Reed Business Media has just been released. As Statista’s Anna Fleck notes, the ranking is one of the most highly anticipated events of the culinary calendar. The so-called “Oscars of gastronomy” have named the Danish restaurant Geranium as the top restaurant in… Continue reading These Are The World’s Top 10 Restaurants In 2022
The Astrophysicist Who Sculpts Stars Before They Are Born
The prints are also helping us to distinguish different types of substructures. For instance, if you’re looking at a filament in two spatial dimensions, it might actually be a two-dimensional sheet that you’re just looking at on its side. And that’s hard to make out in a flat picture — or even a computer simulation.… Continue reading The Astrophysicist Who Sculpts Stars Before They Are Born
Stock Market Overview – August 1, 2022
Following Thursday’s GDP print of -0.9%, the US is in a recession by the standard definition of two consecutive quarters of GDP contraction. The stock market, however, is unbothered, rallying on the news. The “official” forecasts for Q2 GDP were -0.5%, while it came in at -0.9%. That the market rallied on this tells me… Continue reading Stock Market Overview – August 1, 2022
Amid Recession Fears, Economically Free States Continue to Outperform
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis recently responded to questions about California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s ads airing in Florida, “It’s almost hard to drive people out of a place like California given all their natural advantages, and yet they are finding a way to do it.” He noted that California is hemorrhaging its population because of bad… Continue reading Amid Recession Fears, Economically Free States Continue to Outperform
They Can’t Let Him Back In
Authored by Michael Anton via CompactMag.com, The people who really run the United States of America have made it clear that they can’t, and won’t, if they can help it, allow Donald Trump to be president again. In fact, they made this clear in 2020, in a series of public statements. Simply for quoting their… Continue reading They Can’t Let Him Back In
Are You a Naïve Realist?
When Lee Ross, a professor of psychology at Stanford, explained to his students what his term “fundamental attribution error” meant, he loved to quote George Carlin. “Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?” The late comedian perfectly captured our tendency… Continue reading Are You a Naïve Realist?
Maryland Governor Loosens Concealed Carry Law, Spurs Demand For Gun Permits
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan relaxed the state’s rules for obtaining a concealed handgun permit following the U.S. Supreme Court decision. The action spurred a surge in Marylanders seeking concealed carry classes — with some gun stores that offer firearms training saying classes are booked for the rest of the year. On Tuesday, Hogan directed the… Continue reading Maryland Governor Loosens Concealed Carry Law, Spurs Demand For Gun Permits
All the Trips to Davos Have Gone to Larry Fink’s Head
Larry Fink really has let all of those trips to Davos go to his head. In what is, so far as I know, the BlackRock CEO’s most recent act of public grandiloquence, he and BlackRock have urged the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) to modify its proposed greenhouse-gas emissions disclosure rule. That standard Fink megalomania comes not from… Continue reading All the Trips to Davos Have Gone to Larry Fink’s Head
Frozen Heaven, Lazarus Near Death Experience, Night Sky Paradox, Unfallen Children (Weird Questions)
Podcast: Download MYS217: It’s a fifth Friday so Cy Kellett of Catholic Answers Live is asking Jimmy Akin more weird questions from listeners, including will we be frozen in time in heaven; did Lazarus have a Near Death Experience; why is the night sky dark; ship of Theseus; and more. Get all new episodes automatically… Continue reading Frozen Heaven, Lazarus Near Death Experience, Night Sky Paradox, Unfallen Children (Weird Questions)
The Kingdom of Grace – SpiritualDirection.com
Editor’s note: Enjoy this first in a new series on grace by Fr. James Brent, O.P. We are blessed to have him contributing to our website and to our understanding of how God works in the soul and how we cooperate in the process of sanctification. As Fr. James explains below, this divinizing work is… Continue reading The Kingdom of Grace – SpiritualDirection.com