17 July 2026

Add "crack spread" to your economic vocabulary

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I found the "recent work" that Jonathan Ferro is referring to in his introduction to Jeffrey Currie.  Couldn't find a text ver...
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Do you remember the "alphabet game" ?

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My father's career was as a traveling salesman, driving five states selling electrical equipment to local utilities.  So when our family...
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How does music become "popular" ?

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Do you ever get the sense that many of the so-called mainstream pop stars whose images you unwittingly encounter dozens of times a day aren’...
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Just for fun: "Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die"

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I watched this DVD from our library last night and thoroughly enjoyed it (rated it 3.5 on my 0-4 scale, which means "good enough to rec...
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Two interesting numbers about teenagers

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Percentage of Americans who were paid to babysit as teenagers: 56 Who say they would trust a teenager to babysit today: 11 Numbers from the ...
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Fears of "weather modification"

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A radar tower stands alone in northeast Oklahoma City , surrounded by a green field. It is one hundred feet tall and topped with a smooth, w...
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16 July 2026

Interesting Swedish postal cancel

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I've had this pair of stamps in my collection for decades, labeled "ventilator" cancels , which I assumed without research was...
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A history of disinfected mail

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As soon as humans became aware that infectious diseases could be transmitted by fomites (inanimate objects), attention was directed to de...
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This would be a MAJOR escalation in the war

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When you see the words Bab al Mandab Strait in mainstream news sources, pay close attention.  This is the southern exit from the Red Sea an...
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15 July 2026

Pucker up

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The image is of a giant clam in the Red Sea (credit Tahsin Ceylan / Anadolu / Getty).  It is interesting to me that they have evolved that ...
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The price of in-flight snacks

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"A passenger was removed from a Breeze Airways flight that traveled from New York to Florida after allegedly taking snacks from the be...
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Magic trick props

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Chinese guy explains how every magic trick works by u/Adorable-Cattle-5128 in interestingasfuck
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Apparently some people hate (or love) semicolons

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TYWKIWDBI loves semicolons, so I was surprised and intrigued by the content of an article at Literary Hub :  "Here is a lesson in crea...
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U.S. to screen soldiers for testosterone deficiency

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"Pete Hegseth announced Wednesday that the Department of Defense will offer testosterone deficiency screening for soldiers 30 and older...
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"When she turns eight, they will take her"

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Sima* is 18, but has already given birth four times . Her youngest is a newborn, the eldest is four. Sitting with her children in their mud-...
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