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☆ Meet the Americans who can't retire
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-23 | by ( Juliana Kaplan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

More people over 65 are working as pensions disappear, people live longer, and Social Security benefits are seemingly always in peril. Business Insider spoke with several Americans of retirement age about why they are still trading their time for money. "I think older people become very invisible, and maybe it's going to take other older people to help heighten that visibility." On average, Americans who have pensions receive $25,000 annually from them; the average estimated annual Social Security benefit is $38,418 for 2024. Indeed, BI's analysis of retirement data has found that nearly 80% of retirees have Social Security income.

Persons: —, Marcia, I'm, hasn't, she's, Steve Biddle, he's, He's, he'll, Bill, Geoffrey Sanzenbacher, Sanzenbacher, they're, Debra Giarrusso, She's, didn't, I've, there's, Pam, Kurt Vonnegut's, David Certner, Certner, Rebecca, It's Organizations: Service, Business, Social Security, Behavioral Health, Disability, Aging, —, Boston College, Center for Retirement Research, Congressional Research Service, Ford Motor Company, AARP Locations: North Carolina, Connecticut, Philadelphia, America, Michigan

☆ Opinion | Trump, Immigration, and the ‘Lump of Labor’ Fallacy
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-06 | by ( Paul Krugman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

What did Kurt Vonnegut, the novelist, and François Mitterand, the socialist president of France from 1981 to 1995, have in common with Donald Trump? Both, at some point, believed in what economists call the lump of labor fallacy. And Trump clearly shares that belief. As I noted in my most recent column, it underlies his hostility to immigration — well, that and his belief that immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country.” It also underlies his protectionism. So this seems like a good time to talk about the lump of labor fallacy, how we know it’s a fallacy and why it’s a zombie — an idea that refuses to die and instead keeps shambling along, eating people’s brains.

Persons: Kurt Vonnegut, François Mitterand, Donald Trump, Trump, Vonnegut, Mitterand, Vonnegut’s, ” Locations: France

NEW YORK (AP) — Tim Dorsey, a former police and courts newspaper reporter who found lasting fame as the creator of the crime-comedy novel series starring Serge A. Storms, an energetic fan of Florida history and an ingenious serial killer, has died. Dorsey, who published 26 novels, died Sunday, according to Danielle Bartlett, a publicity director at William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins. Fans of Dorsey appreciated his clever observations and satirical pokes at the weirdness of Florida. He was part of a trio of former newspapermen from Florida — including Dave Barry and Carl Hiaasen — who found a rich vein of absurdist humor in the state. “It was a privilege and honor to work with Tim Dorsey.

Persons: — Tim Dorsey, Serge A, Dorsey, Danielle Bartlett, William Morrow, Dave Barry, Carl Hiaasen —, Tim Dorsey, Serge, Storms, Emily Krump, Coleman, Florida grifters, ”, “, ’ ”, Bruce DeSilva, Kurt Vonnegut, hasn’t, ” Dorsey, ___ Mark Kennedy Organizations: HarperCollins, Maltese, Torino, The Associated Press, “, Auburn University, The Alabama, The Tampa Tribune Locations: Florida, Tabasco, Indiana, Tribune’s Tallahassee

☆ In ‘The Future,’ Earth Barrels Toward Fiery Destruction
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( Ian Wang | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

THE FUTURE, by Naomi AldermanThere are few figures in the Bible more cruelly evocative than Lot’s wife, who is transfigured into a pillar of salt for looking back at Sodom. Early in her novel, a woman is frozen to death with a chemical refrigerant made of paramagnetic salts: a Lot’s wife for the Information Age. Alderman’s Sodom is our own polarized, plutocratic world. Whether by divine will or not, “The Future” finds the earth barreling toward fiery destruction. But no such fever pitch is reached in Alderman’s new novel, whose outlook is decidedly more reformist than revolutionary.

Persons: Naomi Alderman, Anna Akhmatova, “, Kurt Vonnegut, ” Naomi Alderman’s “, Zimri Nommik, Ellen Bywater, ”, Alderman, Harvey Weinstein, — Locations: United States

☆ The world's biggest publisher is suing a Florida school district for banning books by writers including Toni Morrison and Khaled Hosseini
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-18 | by ( Ryan Hogg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Penguin Random House is suing a Florida school district and board after it banned certain books. Penguin Random House has joined forces with an authors' group to sue a Florida school district after it banned a number of books. Books removed or restricted by Escambia include "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison, "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut, and "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini. All have had books removed from libraries or had student access restricted by the district, PEN America said in a press release. "The book removals and restrictions enacted by the School District and School Board are denying students access to books they would like to read, or chilling such access."

☆ Penguin Random House and Florida parents sue school district over book bans
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-17 | by ( Jo Yurcaba | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

A selection of books including "The Bluest Eye," by Toni Morrison, that have been the subject of complaints from parentsPenguin Random House, authors, parents and an advocacy group filed a lawsuit Wednesday against a Florida school district for removing 10 books related to race and the LGBTQ community after a high school teacher complained. In addition to the publishing house, PEN America, a nonprofit group that advocates for free expression in literature, five authors whose books have been removed from the district, and two parents whose children go to school in the district filed the suit against the Escambia County School District and the Escambia County School Board in Pensacola, Florida. "The clear agenda behind the campaign to remove the books is to categorically remove all discussion of racial discrimination or LGBTQ issues from public school libraries. Neither the district nor the school board immediately returned requests for comment. More than 100 other titles are restricted and require parental approval for access.

☆ Cu cât un ceas este mai exact, cu atât creşte nivelul dezordinii în Univers, susţin oamenii de ştiinţă
▼ + stars: | 2021-05-21 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +5 min

Conform celei de-a doua legi a termodinamicii, pe măsură ce înaintăm pe axa timpului spre viitor, nivelul entropiei dintr-un sistem creşte. Pe aşa-numita "săgeată a timpului", entropia este mereu mai mică în trecut şi întotdeauna mai mare în viitor. Maşinăriile, aşa cum sunt şi ceasurile, produc entropie sub formă de căldură pe care o disipează în mediul înconjurător. Acest lucru înseamnă să trebuie să investeşti în producţia de entropie", a adăugat ea. Cert este că, susţin oamenii de ştiinţă, ceasurile cu cât produc mai multă entropie, cu atât funcţionează cu mai multă precizie.

Persons: Natalia Ares, Kurt Vonnegut, ştiinţă, Ares Organizations: Universitatea Oxford, blender

Câte cărți din această listă de 130 din literatura română și universală ai citit? Mircea Eliade – Maitreyi#5. Liviu Rebreanu – Ciuleandra#21. Liviu Rebreanu – Adam și Eva#22. JRR Tolkien – The Lord of the Rings#102.

Persons: Facebook, Mihail Bulgakov, Maestrul, Margareta, 2, George Orwell, Nicolae Dabija, Mircea Eliade, Maitreyi, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Marin Preda, Feodor Dostoievski, Liviu Rebreanu, Oscar Wilde, Dorian Gray, Franz Kafka, Albert Camus, Antoine, Saint, Margaret Mitchell, Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu, Ernest Hemingway, Ion Druță, Jane Austen, Adam, Eva, Frédéric, Hector, Lev Tolstoi, Anna Karenina, Victor Hugo, Emily Bronte, J.K . Rowling, Harry Potter, Ion, Mihail, Dan Brown, Erich Maria, Irvin D ., Nietzsche, Anne Rice, Alexandre Dumas, Monte, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes, Bram Stoker, F . Scott Fitzgerald, Friedrich Nietzsche, Zarathustra, George Călinescu, Haruki, Henri Charriere, Mario Vargas Llosa, Milan Kundera, Stendhal, Roșu, Sisif, Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, Chuck Palahniuk, Elisabeth Gilbert, Harper Lee, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Quo, Herman Hesse, E.B . White, J.D . Salinger, Jose Saramago, Marcel Proust, Stieg Larsson, Patrick, Paulo Coelho, William Shakespeare – Romeo, Adolf Hitler, Mein, Aldous Huxley, Aureliu Busuioc, Boris Pasternak, Camil Petrescu, Procust, Cela, Charles Dickens, Dante, George R.R, Martin, Guy de Maupassant, Haruki Murakami, Kafka, Siddhartha, Ioan Slavici, Johann Goethe, Jules Verne, Kurt Vonnegut, Mircea Cărtărescu, Napoleon Hill, Octavian Paler, Ray Bradbury, Simone de Beauvoir, Somerset, Sun, Umberto Eco, JRR Tolkien, Douglas Adams, Suzanne Collins, Audrey Niffenegger, C.S . Lewis, Louisa May Alcott, Stephen King, Amin, Madeleine L’Engle, Margaret Atwood, Khaled, Orson Scott Card, Markus Zusak, William Shakespeare, Anne Frank, Frank Herbert, John Steinbeck, Jack Kerouac, Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Tatiata, Milan, Joseph Heller, Stephen Chbosky, Arthur Golden Locations: Pădurea spânzuraților, Eat, Notre Dame, Paris

☆ Lectură estivală. 30 de titluri de cărți care ar trebui să apară în bibliotecă oricărui cititor în această vară
▼ + stars: | 2018-06-25 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | On N'Est Pas Sérieux | Quand On A Dix-Sept Ans . Apusurile De Soare | ) diez.md time to read: +2 min

30 de titluri de cărți care ar trebui să apară în bibliotecă oricărui cititor în această varăÎn pregătirile pentru vacanța la plajă sau lungile zboruri cu avionul, găsește un moment de respiro și așază-te, fie la piscină , fie pe canapea cu o carte în poală și o limonadă rece alături. #diez ți-a pregătit o listă de 30 de lecturi pe care nu le poți trece cu ochii decât de la o copertă la alta! „Viața începe vineri.” „Viitorul începe luni.”#Orhan Pamuk. „Cartea râsului și a uitării”# James Joyce. „Sacrul și profanul”# Mircea Cărtărescu.

Persons: Stefan Zweig, Evgheni Vodolazkin, Kurt Vonnegut, Matei Vișniec, Mario Vargas Llosa, Antoine, Saint, Erich Maria Remarque, Andrei Pleșu, Boris Pasternak, Ioana Pârvulescu, Orhan Pamuk, Giovanni Papini, Gog, Michael Ondaatje, Murakami, Kafka, W . Somerset Maugham, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Harper Lee ., J.D . Salinger, Milan Kundera, James Joyce, Eugene Ionesco, Regele, Hermann Hesse, Filip Florian, Mircea Eliade, Mircea Cărtărescu, Albert Camus, Mihail Bulgakov, Margarita, Szpilman Locations: Saint -

(doc) Top 100 cărți recomandate de către cititorii din Moldova în cadrul Book ChallengeVineri, 29 august, pe Facebook-ul din Moldova, prin intermediul lui Alexandru Vakulovski, a apărut o nouă provocare: utilizatorii de Facebook trebuie să numească Top 10 cărți care i-au marcat sau Top 10 cărți preferate. Echipa #diez, a încercat să colecteze cât mai multe liste ale utilizatorilor și să facă un Top 100 a cărților care i-au marcat pe cititorii din Moldova. Din aceste liste, iată care este Top 100 cărți care ne-au marcat:Top 100 cărți care au marcat cititorii din Moldova#1. Mircea Eliade – Maitreyi#5. Victor Hugo – Notre Dame de ParisÎntreaga listă cu peste 600 de cărți o puteți vedea aici: Lista cu Top 10 cărție care au marcat cititorii din Moldova.

Persons: Alexandru Vakulovski, Mihail Bulgakov, Maestrul, Margareta, 2, George Orwell, Nicolae Dabija, Mircea Eliade, Maitreyi, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Marin Preda, Feodor Dostoievski, Liviu Rebreanu, Oscar Wilde, Dorian Gray, Franz Kafka, Albert Camus, Antoine, Saint, Margaret Mitchell, Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu, Ernest Hemingway, Ion Druță, Jane Austen, Adam, Eva, Frédéric, Hector, Lev Tolstoi, Anna Karenina, Victor Hugo, Emily Bronte, J.K . Rowling, Harry Potter, Ion, Mihail, Dan Brown, Erich Maria, Irvin D ., Nietzsche, Robert, Alexandre Dumas, Monte, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes, Bram Stoker, F . Scott Fitzgerald, Friedrich Nietzsche, Zarathustra, George Călinescu, Haruki, Henri Charriere, Mario Vargas Llosa, Milan Kundera, Stendhal, Roșu, Sisif, Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, Chuck Palahniuk, Elisabeth Gilbert, Harper Lee, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Quo, Herman Hesse, Irina Binder, J.D . Salinger, Jose Saramago, Marcel Proust, Mihaela Rădulescu, Patrick, Paulo Coelho, William Shakespeare – Romeo, Adolf Hitler, Mein, Aldous Huxley, Aureliu Busuioc, Boris Pasternak, Camil Petrescu, Procust, Cela, Charles Dickens, Dante, George R.R, Martin, Guy de Maupassant, Haruki Murakami, Kafka, Siddhartha, Ioan Slavici, Johann Goethe, Jules Verne, Kurt Vonnegut, Mircea Cărtărescu, Napoleon Hill, Octavian Paler, Ray Bradbury, Simone de Beauvoir, Somerset, Sun, Umberto Eco Organizations: Challenge Vineri, Facebook Locations: Moldova, Pădurea spânzuraților, Eat, Notre Dame, Paris

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