Hamed

“We’re a species that rushes through everything, then complains that time flies.”

Steve Maraboli

This isn’t correct.

In its glory days, NASA was all jocks.

Former (and active duty) fighter pilots, submariners, heavy drinkers, smokers, etc.

The American space program was so defined by jocks its *nerds* were jocks, too.

“A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the be... See more

"For one, the fiscal doomsayers are probably wrong: Countries that print their own currency can’t truly be pushed to default."

Can you REALLY be this economically ignorant? The US is on a track that leads directly and quickly to national bankruptcy in the form of reducing the dollar's value to zero, unless the current Congress cuts Federal spending ... See more

Can’t ever get this image out of my head… Great writers write musically.

Transjordan became independent, and Abdullah was crowned in Amman on May 25, 1946. He was the only Arab ruler prepared to accept the United Nations’ partitioning of Palestine into Jewish and Arab states (1947). In the war with Israel in May 1948, his armies occupied the region of Palestine due west of the Jordan River, which came to be called the W... See more

In the post-hipster era, you listened to what Spotify told you to listen to. If you read a book, it was because the precise pattern of blobby pastel-coloured shapes on its cover contained coded instructions to TikTok’s algorithm that sent it zooming to the top of your feed. Your tastes and preferences were decided for you by vast crystalline machin... See more