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Why Cant Religion Be Pay to Play? - Freakonomics - Opinion - New York Times Blog

October 14th 2008 by angol in Learned Today 0

Many European countries do it differently. When you move to a town in Germany, for example, you are asked to state your religion at the city office. Unless you say none, you are then assessed a surtax of 8 percent on your income tax liability, and the funds are paid directly to your religious community.
With [...]

Oh No Another Excuse For Being Fat!

September 16th 2008 by angol in Learned Today, personal AnGoL 0

I Don’t Like This Because This Will Affect How I View My and Other People’s obesity, It just feels dirty blaiming genetics for everything , but nonetheless facts are facts!
Somehow I Think I Knew This Already…
from Grasping Reality with Both Hands: Brad DeLong’s Semi-Daily Journal by Brad DeLong
From Gordon’s Notes:
Exercise cannot control obesity gene associated [...]

Learned Now 2008 08 04 2255H

August 4th 2008 by angol in Learned Today 0

from here:
As someone who’s spent a lot of time in Scotland, this idea appeals to me for a non-practical reason, too: I like the variety of banknotes one finds when the notes are issued by a range of different banks. (For historical reasons, Scottish banknotes are actually issued by private banks: the Bank of Scotland, [...]

Learned Today 2008 06 17 1536H

June 17th 2008 by angol in Learned Today 0

I’ve been a victim of this awhile ago, I think another side effect of this is that people with certificates automatically discount your knowledge because you lack the said certificate.
I’ve encountered this with managers from job listings for java programmer, web developer, database administrator and the like.
I sometimes had to restrain myself from correcting people [...]

 
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