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[eamo]

Actually, I remember reading in "Readers Digest" (so it Must be true) of all places about a study into the relative intelligence of different performers in Circuses. A US study if I remember correctly and it covered many circuses and shows. I cant remember who came second or third but the clowns came first!!

[PaddyJoe]

Actually, I remember reading in "Readers Digest" (so it Must be true) of all places about a study into the relative intelligence of different performers in Circuses. A US study if I remember correctly and it covered many circuses and shows. I cant remember who came second or third but the clowns came first!!

Readers Digest. Jeezeus, In two words you've just encapsulated the horror of growing up in small town Ireland in the days long before de internet.
Well ok. Maybe not all the horror. But a good bit of it

[PaddyJoe]

Don't know how I never noticed the Grammar Guard before
https://twitter.com/#!/TheGrammarGarda
#NeeNaw

[eamo]

There were swaths of lake strewn Ireland where one would be considered as getting above themselves for reading such suspect publications as the Readers Digest!! not mentioning any particular northern county
I still think it was a marvelous little magazine, I can remember loads of stuff I read in it as a kid, and I cant remember yesterdays paper!
Its the sort of mag. that could get kids reading again, and away from those stupid video games, said the grumpy old man.

[PaddyJoe]

There were swaths of lake strewn Ireland where one would be considered as getting above themselves for reading such suspect publications as the Readers Digest!! not mentioning any particular northern county
I still think it was a marvelous little magazine, I can remember loads of stuff I read in it as a kid, and I cant remember yesterdays paper!
Its the sort of mag. that could get kids reading again, and away from those stupid video games, said the grumpy old man.

It was bought religiously in our house growing up and at some stage as a teenager I remember shelves of it going back to the early seventies.
I spend many rainy Sundays stuck in it and to be fair there was loads of fascinating stuff there. "How to increase your word power'

[bernadette]

I used to like Readers Digest and borrowed it from reception every month, failing that it was the only good thing about going to the doctors and dentists. Great unsuspected articles in there!

[disability student]

M Cooper.. a good readable book....How Ireland Really Went Bust? It gives a good account and possibily a timeline re run up to guarantee night here.

[fluffybiscuits]

http://therumpus.net/

Came across this while reading an article about the clients who use escorts. It was linked to in the seven deadly reads sections of the journal.ie section and has a few nice articles! Have not had a chance to sit down properly and read the links to most of the stuff but its a different take on culture.

Also read Red Pepper, they had great coverage of the election in Greece

[Dr. FIVE]

one for Baron

http://ht.ly/bpyG2

[Baron von Biffo]

one for Baron

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Thanks Doc.

"It is necessary implicit in this Constitution thus places a premium on honest and fearless debate. The drafters of the Constitution must have understood than an inert, supine and indifferent public posed the greatest threat to the public welfare, since a plebiscitary democracy will simply not function under such circumstances. The Constitution, therefore, calls, especially at a time of referendum, for robust political debate from an informed public. This is, in many respects, also reflected in Article 9.3 of the Constitution, which speaks of the duty which all of us as citizens owe, namely, fidelity to the Nation and loyalty to the State. It calls upon each of us to perform that duty for ourselves, for our neighbours and for our country, to inform ourselves and to make our own decision, informed as best as we can be, on difficult issues to which there is often no easy answer. It is not easy, but we must all try. Article 9.3 of the Constitution accordingly places considerable emphasis on individual civic responsibility of each citizen:"

If we ever get around to teaching civics in our schools that passage should be the core of it.

[Kev Bar]

one for Baron

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Shame the political realm doesn't feature more engagé types capable of such cogent analysis and cool logic as Jerry Hogan.

[Count Bobulescu]

Voyager II is about to leave the solar system.

When Voyager I and II left Earth, Jimmy Carter was president, platform shoes were all the rage and moviegoers were still discovering a summer blockbuster called Star Wars.

Some 35 years later, the spacecraft have traveled farther than anything ever built by humans. Now there is evidence one of the plucky probes may soon cross the undulating boundary between the absolute edge of our solar system and the terra incognita of interstellar space.

"It's not that clear because there's no signpost telling you that you're now leaving the solar system, but the evidence is mounting that we're getting really close," says Arik Posner, a Voyager program scientist at NASA's headquarters in Washington, D.C.

That boundary is a mysterious place called the heliopause, where scientists believe the solar wind — a stream of charged particles spewed out by the sun — fizzles out completely. Call it the cosmic doldrums, or perhaps even the heavenly horse latitudes. There are tantalizing signs that Voyager I, now some 11 billion miles from home, is nearly there. (Voyager II, which launched first, is about 2 billion miles behind its twin.)

A mission to embark on this "Grand Tour" had to be launched between 1976 and 1979. The next opportunity wouldn't come around for 175 more years.

Read more
http://www.npr.org/2012/06/21/155442...cc=sh-20120623

[Count Bobulescu]

A series of short interviews with Paul Krugman, on a variety of topics that ran this week on the PBS Newshour. 1st is longest.

1: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/busin...man_06-18.html

2: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/business...n-on-germ.html

3: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/business...e-doing-t.html

4: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/business...bernankes.html

5: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/business...artoon-ph.html

Krugman’s wife Robin Wells, also an economist comments on their relationship and more.

6: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/business...sal-cover.html

[Dr. FIVE]

Advise for accounts from Pontius Pilate in wake of the recent high profile tax avoidance headlines in the UK

http://www.accountancyage.com/aa/fea...voidance-traps

[Dr. FIVE]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Spvk7tADPaA"]My Conversation The Uniques & Slim Smith & Tribute To Slim Smith Tyrone Downie - YouTube[/ame]