Author: No Author

MILLIONS of adults are unable to answer questions on a GCSE maths paper designed for 15-year-olds, are you one of them? When parents attempted to answer a sample GCSE paper, around 40 per cent gave the wrong answers. Take the five-question test below and see how you do, the answers will be revealed further down. Question one An ordinary, fair dice is rolled 420 times. How many times is the number 3 expected? a) 140 b) 210 c) 70 Question two 50 raffle tickets are sold for 25p each. The winning ticket is picked at random. Linda buys 14 tickets. … Continue reading →

The post Can You Ace This 5-Question Math Quiz? appeared first on LewRockwell.

Beggar, thief, or trader? The choices are narrowing. Guest Post by Robert Gore at Straight Line Logic There are three ways for a person to obtain something of value from another person: receive it as a donation, steal it by force or fraud, or exchange for it. It’s not much of an oversimplification to say that the advance of civilization has hinged on its movement from the first two methods to the third. The right to exchange, and the right to promise as part of a future exchange—the right to contract—are now taken for granted, but those rights are delicate … Continue reading →

The post Beggar, Thief, or Trader appeared first on LewRockwell.

Many Americans will be firing up the grill over the next few days in honor of Memorial Day weekend. This age-old human tradition of cooking meat with fire is said to have started by our ancestors one million years ago. What was once done with twigs, has evolved into a science that requires the perfect temperature, right humidity, and different cooking techniques in order to cook up a juicy piece of meat. The first discovery of using fire to cook meat was unearthed in 2012. Archaeologists discovered evidence of burned bones and plant ash inside Wonderwreck Cave in South Africa, … Continue reading →

The post Cooking Meat With Fire appeared first on LewRockwell.

Those lazy, hazy days of summer aren’t too far off, and hopefully you’ll be lolling like a slug at the pool, on the beach, or wherever warm days might take you. But even if you’re feeling lazy, your vocabulary doesn’t have to be. We’ve worked with the editors at the Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE) to come up with 13 regional idioms to describe the idle, indifferent, and lackadaisical. 1. MOLOWA In Hawaii and pretending to be sick to get out of work? You might get called molowa, moloa, ormoloha from the Hawaiian word moloā. 2. DON’T-CARE-ISH In Louisiana and … Continue reading →

The post Lazy Bum Nicknames appeared first on LewRockwell.

The enormous hole takes up much of the top half of the star The remarkable footage was captured by the US space agency’s Solar Dynamics Observatory between May 17 and 19. The video shows a giant dark area on the star’s upper half, known as a coronal hole. A NASA spokesman said: “Coronal holes are low-density regions of the sun’s atmosphere, known as the corona. “Because they contain little solar material, they have lower temperatures and thus appear much darker than their surroundings. “Coronal holes are visible in certain types of extreme ultraviolet light, which is typically invisible to our eyes, … Continue reading →

The post Is the Sun Disintegrating? appeared first on LewRockwell.

The post Will Trump Be Sabotaged or Worse? appeared first on LewRockwell.

Today, Manhattan is one of the iconic locations of the United States of America. It is also the place where New York was born. However, the origins of Manhattan are often forgotten these days. Modern Manhattan’s history is related to people who conquered many colonies – the Dutch. Nowadays, the island has a population of 1,626 million people (2013). It is the heart of New York City and a symbol of the USA. Its name comes from the Algonquian language, which was spoken by the earliest inhabitants of the area. The name means ”hilly island” or ”place of intoxication”. The … Continue reading →

The post The Fascinating History of a Dutch Island appeared first on LewRockwell.

Will the Federal Reserve raise rates in June? Peter Schiff says it’s immaterial. Peter appeared on CNBC’s Fast Money and created a firestorm when he said he sees this as a repeat of what happened at the end of last year and suggested everybody knows the Fed is at the end of its tightening cycle. You know, the Fed launches a trial balloon, they raise the possibility of a rate hike, and they wait to see how the markets react. And the markets are basically acting positively, just like they did in December last year. Everybody was convinced there was … Continue reading →

The post No Track Record of Getting Anything Right appeared first on LewRockwell.

Search queries reveal Americans would be quickly eliminated in the National Scripps Spelling Bee. And depending on the state they live in, some words are more troublesome than others. Google gathered data from its search trends to reveal the top words American’s ask ‘how to spell’ in each of the 50 US states – and most are commonly used words. Google gathered data from its search trends to reveal the top words American’s ask ‘how to spell’ in each of the 50 US states – and most are commonly used words. Words that were seen throughout the map of ‘America’s … Continue reading →

The post How Bad Is the Spelling in Your State? appeared first on LewRockwell.

President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama have leased a spectacular 8,200 square-foot home in one of DC’s most elegant neighborhoods as their first post-White House dwelling. The $4.3 million home features plenty of room for the Obamas to stretch out – with separate dressing rooms and his and her bathrooms, entertaining space, and a tranquil garden. The home was built in 1928 and features nine bedrooms and eight and a half baths, according to Politico, which first reported the address. The Obama’s area leasing the house from Joe Lockhart, who served as press secretary to Bill Clinton. Read the … Continue reading →

The post Room for Some Syrians? appeared first on LewRockwell.

With just over six weeks to go before the long-awaited release of the Chilcot report into the Iraq War, the calls for former Prime Minister Tony Blair to be properly held to account for the lies he told us in the lead up to the illegal invasion are increasing by the day. A few days ago, the foreign affairs spokesperson for the Scottish National Party (SNP) Alex Salmond MP, told RT’s Going Underground program that he would like to see Blair impeached by the British Parliament and also stand trial at the International Criminal Court, if the families of those killed … Continue reading →

The post Tony Blair in Big Trouble Over Iraq War Lies? appeared first on LewRockwell.

In the fuss to find the next James Bond, I’m surprised no one has yet mentioned Orville the Duck. A talented young actor, he may well be two foot tall, green and wear a nappy – but are we saying that society isn’t ready for a duckling Bond? Times have changed – get with the programme, grandad. I joke but Bond has evolved far from Ian Fleming’s alcoholic Tory with flashing fists – and is now, like everything old, subject to the iconoclastic whims of the young. For the record, there’s no reason why he can’t be black. He probably … Continue reading →

The post Jane Bond? No, Never appeared first on LewRockwell.

President Barack Obama will finish up his current Asia trip by becoming the first sitting US president to visit Hiroshima, Japan, site of the fateful atomic bombing attack on Aug. 6, 1945, that killed tens of thousands of Japanese citizens. The people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki suffered unspeakable horrors that day, and in the months and years, that followed. Some in the US government didn’t want Americans to see what really happened. For perspective — and revelations — on that paradigm-changing event, in concurrence with Obama’s visit, WhoWhatWhy revisits past coverage of a painful final chapter of World War II. … Continue reading →

The post Hiroshima Massacre Gets a Hollywood Makeover appeared first on LewRockwell.

Marc Faber is an international investor known for his uncanny predictions (and memory) of the stock market and futures markets around the world. Dr. Doom also trades currencies and commodity futures like gold and oil. In this wide-ranging and extensive interview, Faber states that because of central bank manipulation, he cannot imagine any scenario, REPEAT any scenario, under which there will not be significant pain for investors. He cautions that some money may be made in some asset classes — but one day the music will stop. He believes that all investors should be diversified  along the lines that he … Continue reading →

The post The Music Will Stop appeared first on LewRockwell.

To say that the Nazis caught the world off guard when they unleashed their military might at the end of the 1930s would be an understatement. In the 70 years since the fall of the Third Reich, there has been much theorizing and questioning to find out just how the German military became as strong as it did so quickly. Some of those theories venture into an area bordering on absurd. Absurd or not, however, they are possibly some of the more interesting conspiracy theories of their time. 10 1936 Black Forest Incident According to various reports that surfaced toward … Continue reading →

The post 10 Conspiracy Theories appeared first on LewRockwell.