Why are forecasters so often wrong? « Peter J. Cooper’s Weblog

"This week RBS has forecast an equity and credit crash within three months. It is unusual to get a direct warning from a major bank. Who forecast a UK housing crash last August when the sub-prime crisis hit? Nobody in my recollection and yet you could see estate agents...

Why corporate America loves eunuchs

"They buy more stuffFrom pretty clothes to cosmetics and gym fees, America’s castrati spend billions trying to look better, and on shiny accessories for their vehicles. They don’t manifest any version of the hunter-gatherer instinct, instead they nest, and put...

Crocs' long walk home

"Three homesick crocodiles in Australia have shocked experts by walking 250 miles back 'home' after being relocated. The discovery was made after tracking devices were attached to the reptiles, reports The BBC. Saltwater crocodiles caught near popular Australian beaches and...

Anti-Apartheid Hero Adelaide Tampo Dies in South Africa

We all remember Nelson Mandela, as well we should, but he is the very first to say he did not work alone. Ms. Tambo was a national hero."South African political activist Adelaide Tambo, who died last month aged 77, has been buried in her home town east of...

Survival Instinct

" Pipal or Sacred Fig has a tendency to grow just about anywhere especially on walls. I don't understand from where do these tree get all that they need to grow when they are growing in a crack of a wall like this one in a crack in children's play area in our society. I guess...

The last fig

" This is the last in the series of sacred fig pictures. There are a few pipal trees growing where this one is. The one in today's picture is bigger than the one I posted yesterday. In the background in Mira, watching Manu collecting pebbles."