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No fancy equipment, no cost, no waiting to see the GP – welcome to the quickest and easiest health check-ups yet. These simple tests, which you can do in the comfort of your own home, are surprisingly revealing about the state of your health. Best of all, they each take only a minute or so to do… WINDOW TEST TO CHECK YOUR SIGHT Do this:  Look at a door frame or large window frame from across a room, first with your right eye only (put your palm over your left eye for 30 seconds), then your left eye only. What … Continue reading →

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Obeying the law can sometimes get you killed. Humans – those not asleep at the proverbial wheel – know this. Self-driving cars don’t. They are programmed to be obey every law, all the time – regardless of circumstances. This is creating problems. Potentially, fatalities. Example: Up ahead, there’s a red light. Your autonomous Google car is coming to a stop because its sensors can tell the light’s red. But your Google car hasn’t got a brain, so it can’t override its Prime Directive to deal with the big rig coming up behind you that’s locked up its brakes and is clearly going … Continue reading →

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A meme is now circulating that gold is the investment equivalent of a pet rock, and that the smart investor should sell gold, and buy stocks. That’s a ridiculous notion. In fact, if you believe in buying low and selling high, this is the time to buy gold, and sell stocks. It pays to remain as objective as you can be when analyzing any investment. People have a tendency to fall in love with an asset class, usually because it’s treated them so well. We saw that happen most recently with Internet stocks in the late ’90s and with houses … Continue reading →

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When the British armed forces occupied the Middle East at the end of the war, the region was passive. From chapter 43: “The Troubles Begin: 1919 – 1921”; A Peace to End All Peace, David Fromkin With this sentence, Fromkin begins his examination of the troubles for western imperialists throughout the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia.  Of course, there were interventions before this time (Britain already had significant presence in Egypt and India, for example), yet – corresponding with the overall theme of Fromkin’s book – his examination centers on the aftermath of the fall of the Ottoman … Continue reading →

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