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salvador dali 
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"In his defeat the gambler finds none to pity him. No one has use for a gambler, like an aged horse put up for sale."
— ancient Indian text A special report on gambling: Shuffle up and deal | The Economist 
I took this. downtown summer. 
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"Government has greater prestige in Europe than in the United States and (a related point) socialism retains substantial support in Europe; individualism, with related notions such as self-reliance, freedom to fail, entrepreneurship, the “self-made” man, and the Horatio Alger story do not grip the public imagination of many Europeans. Government in Europe employs a higher percentage of the working population and engages in more redistribution of income, resulting in high taxes to fund retirement at earlier ages than in the United States, generous pensions and family leave, unemployment benefits generous enough to discourage work, and medical care. Lavish redistribution of wealth in turn entails barriers to immigration, lest the social safety net become an immigration magnet. Unions are strong in Europe, and they push up wages and (worse) encourage featherbedding, short hours, and other inefficient practices. Unions of government workers are especially pernicious, as they reinforce the natural tendency of government to overpay its employees because they are voters as well as employees. A third of the Greek work force is government-employed, for example, and much of it appears to be both overpaid and underworked relative to employees in the private sector."
Becker-Posner blog @ UChicago
If cetaceans seem, as Dr. Mann put it, “like intelligent aliens living among us,” well, their terrestrial ancestors parted ways with ours more than 95 million years ago, and took to the seas 40 million years later. The cetacean brain has been evolving to its own mariner rhythms ever since. Its neocortex, the uppermost layer of neural tissue associated with learning, memory and other cognitive feats, is notably thinner than that of a primate brain, yet at the same time more deeply convoluted than even our own; and the more corrugated the cortex, the greater the surface area, or potential work space, of the brain. “It looks like a giant general-information-processing organ,” said Dr. Mann. 
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