Trick free kick compilation
Hilarious rivalry between Franck Ribéry and Luca Toni in The Grand Final
Brilliantly explaining the cultural differences between Gringos, Aussies, Canucks and the Brits
The Times opens up 200 years of their archived articles
Zapping on Neave Television without context
Discover Paris by night or a blue whale
Top 10 Euro football goals
What's the opposite of a self-fulfilling prophesy?
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Unlucky for some? Dutch statisticians have established that Friday 13th, a date regarded in many countries as inauspicious, is actually safer than an average Friday.
A study published on Thursday by the Dutch Centre for Insurance Statistics (CVS) showed that fewer accidents and reports of fire and theft occur when the 13th of the month falls on a Friday than on other Fridays.
"I find it hard to believe that it is because people are preventatively more careful or just stay home, but statistically speaking, driving is a little bit safer on Friday 13th," CVS statistician Alex Hoen told the Verzekerd insurance magazine.
A Devon petrol station is charging drivers more than £1.99 a litre - or about £9 a gallon - for petrol and diesel as drivers clamour for fuel.
He said the move was prompted by dwindling stocks. "We cannot get any more supplies. We're not being mean. I would say I'm a very nice person. The price will go back to normal as soon as we get a delivery."
This is, for example, Greg Mankiw: 'a looming fiscal crisis, which threatens to unfold as baby boomers retire and start collecting Social Security and Medicare' (and, unrelated to the topic, here's an entertaining quarrel)
This graph from the Congressional Budget Office flies to the face of this mantra:
A presentation is here, and here's interesting commentary:
Although many observers portray aging as the dominant cause of future growth in federal spending on Medicare and Medicaid, most of the increase that CBO projects reflects rising costs per beneficiary rather than rising numbers of beneficiaries. The effect of population aging is smaller.
Or Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams, delivered by Randy Pausch at Carnegie Mellon.
Set aside an hour seventeen minutes to watch this; it's entertaining, useful and moving. To give you another reason, I generally can't stand this sort of 'inspirational' talk, and the fact Randy Pausch was looking forward to 3 to 6 months to live at the time would not be anywhere near enough to sway me over.
One of the best lectures ever delivered; ladies and gentlemen, this is Randy Pausch's Last Lecture:
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