Government response As of July 26, around 4.1 million cases of COVID-19 had been reported in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Testing for the virus ran into some early problems when initial diagnostic kits from the CDC were found to be defective. However, the United States has since performed around […]
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Looking at global GDP at constant 2017 prices, but adjusted for purchasing power/cost of living, China was the biggest economy in the world in 2019, with an adjusted GDP of more than $22.5 trillion, according to the World Bank. While the Chinese economy is projected by the International Monetary Fund to grow by a low 1.2 percent in 2020 due […]
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After Months of Dismissing the Seriousness of Coronavirus Brazil’s President Bolsonaro tests positive Bolsonaro has described the virus as a “little flu,” and used to appear in public and at rallies without a mask, hugging his supporters. Speaking on Brazilian TV Tuesday Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro announced the positive result for Covid-19, following months of […]
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By Contributing Author One of the most popular TED-talks ever is Tim Urban’s hilarious one-man show, “Inside the mind of a master procrastinator.” It is an engaging story of an epic battle between an instant gratification monkey and a rational decision-maker right inside the brain of an experienced procrastinator. Urban, one of the Internet’s most […]
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WATCH VIDEO The European Space Agency documented this well-preserved impact crater located in the northern lowlands, south of the large Olympia Undae dune field that partly surrounds Mars’ northern polar cap. The crater is filled with ice water year-round. This is not snow, which we know from Earth, but water ice. It is the largest […]
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Has E.T. Gone Home? The New York Times running an interesting article about several U.S. Navy fighter pilots encountering mysterious objects near the southeastern coast of the United States. UFO Contacts in Brazil There is some controversy as to whether World UFO Day falls on June 26 or July 02 with people seemingly celebrating it […]
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Pakistan International Airlines grounds 150 pilots over “bogus” licenses after deadly crash, a month after one of its planes crashed into houses killing 98 people. Pakistani Pilots/ Photo source dunyanews.tv/en/Pakistan Alarmingly, a preliminary investigation into a deadly plane crash in Pakistan has found that 1-in-3 of the country’s pilots have fake licenses and are unqualified […]
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Opportunity Insights researchers at Harvard University have been using credit card data to track U.S. spending levels throughout the pandemic. As this infographic shows, consumer spending plummeted between the middle and end of March. While it was 0.5 percent higher on March 13 than the same day in 2019, it plunged 33 percent by March […]
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‘Heartbreaking’: Global Experts Alarmed at Signs US Has ‘Given Up’ Fight to Stop Coronavirus The U.S. endures much higher, persistent negative effects from something that other countries have solved; I’m becoming convinced that Covid-19 is not far from taking on the characteristics of gun violence.” —Michael Rozier, St. Louis University Global health experts are looking […]
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Americans are having trouble financially preparing themselves for life after work. A recent Federal Reserve report found that nearly a quarter of U.S. adults have absolutely no retirement savings or pension. Even though the level of preparation increases as people get older, concern about inadequate savings is still readily apparent across all age groups, even older people in their […]
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