BBC Future
Illusions can reveal everything from how we process time and space to our experience of consciousness.
BBC.COM
How your eyes trick your mind
Look closer at optical illusions, says Melissa Hogenboom, and they can rev
"Liberal rationality is threatened by the pervasive loss of faith in the neutral principles of science, fact, expertise and reason itself," argues writer James Traub #OpenFuture
Payless ShoeSource is going out of business and will close all of its 2,100 US stores. DSW Designer Shoe Warehouse had a miserable holiday season, but it has developed a strategy to avoid Payless' fate.
"Financial markets expect a generally healthier domestic and international economy under a President Clinton than under a President Trump," a study concludes
"The Innovation Illusion", a new contender for the most gloom-laden book on the modern economy, argues that aside from a handful of stars such as Google and Amazon, the engine of capitalist growth is kaput
Yahoo nears Google search deal; Icahn’s plan goes kaput
ZDNet - USA
Yahoo is reportedly near a search deal with Google and plans an unrelated reorganization. Meanwhile, Microsoft says it’s no longer interested in Yahoo at ...
Long way from being bad means it's not bad (yet): this situation would need to get a lot worse to become bad.
kaput
adjective [after verb] INFORMAL
broken; not working correctly:
The radio's kaput.
capitation (kap-i-TAY-shuhn)
noun
1. A counting of heads.
2. A uniform tax assessed by the head; a poll tax.
3. A fee extracted from each student.
Etymology
From Late Latin capitation- (poll tax), from caput (head). Ultimately from Indo-European root kaput- (head), also the origin of head, captain, chef, chapter, cadet, cattle, chattel, achieve, biceps, and mischief, (but not of kaput)
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