Niall Ferguson on the 6 killer apps of prosperity. His excellent documentary on the financial history of the world, The Ascent of Money, is free to watch online in its entirety. (via)
Delegates walk out of the United Nations General Assembly in the midst of the speech by Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the U.N. headquarters in New York. REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi
Thousands thronged the streets of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and other major cities and chanted, “The people demand social justice.” Protesters waved Israeli flags and placards that read: “work 3 jobs but don’t make ends meet,” “killing ourselves to live” and “social gaps are killing us.”
The Bible’s reference to the “four corners of the earth” need not mean that the world is flat.
It could be a tetrahedron.
