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Ivanka Trump retweets Elon Musk’s advice: ‘Take the red pill’ Elon Musk

Ivanka Trump retweets Elon Musk’s advice: ‘Take the red pill’

Elon Musk says don’t believe everything they tell you — and Ivanka Trump apparently agrees. The tech entrepreneur, who is famously pushing back against coronavirus restrictions, wrote on Twitter on Sunday that people should “take the red pill," which means admitting an unpleasant truth. The first daughter replied, “Taken.” It’s…
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May 18, 2020
Martin Shkreli tried and failed to get out of prison early for coronavirus research New York City

Martin Shkreli tried and failed to get out of prison early for coronavirus research

Image: Drew Angerer/Getty Images By Mark Kaufman2020-05-17 22:15:57 UTC A federal judge denied Martin Shkreli's request to be released from prison to do coronavirus research, the Associated Press reported Sunday. Shkreli, popularly dubbed "pharma bro" and imprisoned for seven years for fraud, asked if he could do some laboratory work…
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May 18, 2020
Yes to Life, in Spite of Everything: Viktor Frankl’s Lost Lectures on Moving Beyond Optimism and Pessimism to Find the Deepest Source of Meaning Holocaust

Yes to Life, in Spite of Everything: Viktor Frankl’s Lost Lectures on Moving Beyond Optimism and Pessimism to Find the Deepest Source of Meaning

“To decide whether life is worth living is to answer the fundamental question of philosophy,” Albert Camus wrote in his classic 119-page essay The Myth of Sisyphus in 1942. “Everything else… is child’s play; we must first of all answer the question.” Sometimes, life asks this question not as a…
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May 18, 2020
GBP/USD refreshes seven-week low under 1.2100 on Brexit, BOE headlines Brexit Negotiator

GBP/USD refreshes seven-week low under 1.2100 on Brexit, BOE headlines

GBP/USD registers six-day losing streak after the biggest weekly loss in eight. UK diplomats restart preparing for no-deal Brexit, EU’s Barnier said not to bargain values for the benefit of the British economy. BOE’s Haldane reports the central is examining unconventional monetary policy measures more urgently. Comments from the Fed’s…
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May 18, 2020
Rembrandt Close Up Rijksmuseum

Rembrandt Close Up

The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam has posted an extraordinary image of Rembrandt's The Night Watch (1642) on its website. ".....Click again and you're propelled towards the outstretched hand of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq. Another click, and you're face-to-face with the leader of this group of not-so-merry-men. Once more, and you can…
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May 17, 2020
Unpriceable Risk of Climate Change Stalks $31 Trillion of Debt Bushfire

Unpriceable Risk of Climate Change Stalks $31 Trillion of Debt

View photos(Bloomberg) -- When English vineyards started producing sparkling wine that aficionados lauded as a rival to Champagne, Jack McIntyre took note.“England was suddenly growing grapes that typically grew in warmer climes,” said McIntyre, a three-decade investment veteran at Philadelphia-based Brandywine Global Investment Management. “No doubt temperatures are rising --…
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May 17, 2020