🇲🇽🇻🇪‼️ | Momentos de profunda emoción se vivieron en el aeropuerto de Valencia durante la despedida del contingente de rescate "Los Topos" de México. Los ciudadanos y autoridades locales rindieron tributo a los rescatistas mexicanos, reconociendo su heroico esfuerzo y apoyo humanitario en las zonas afectadas por los terremotos.
Max Planck was a musical prodigy who could play the piano, organ, and cello. He even composed his own songs and operas. He once said,
“The main source of all the greatest achievements in natural science, I am convinced, lies in the divine gift of musicality.”
I had no idea..
"This man was born in 1809.
In 1816, at age 7, he was forced to work because his family was expelled.
In 1818, he lost his mother.
In 1828, he lost his sister.
In 1831, he opened his first business and went bankrupt.
In 1832, he stood in the legislative elections and lost.
In 1833, he borrowed money to open another business and went bankrupt again.
In 1835, he met a wonderful woman. He falls in love with her, they get engaged, and she dies.
In 1836, he entered a dark period of his life: deep depression.
He remains bedridden for 6 consecutive months. But he gets up.
He gets up and in that same year of 1836 he runs in the legislative elections and loses again.
In 1840 he presented himself as an elector; he loses.
In 1842, he met the woman he would end his life with.
They fall in love, get engaged, get married and she gives him 4 children and they lose 3 (three).
In 1843, he appeared at the congresses and lost.
In 1845, he appeared again at the congresses and lost again.
In 1850, his son died.
In 1854, he ran for the Senate and lost.
In 1856, he ran for Vice President, he didn't even have 100 votes.
In '58, he ran again for the Senate and lost again.
And in 1860 ABRAHAM LINCOLN was elected President of the United States of America 🇺🇸.
He was elected for two exceptional terms (he was assassinated in beginning of the second term.) He was one of the most respected and impactful Presidents in the history of the United States 🇺🇸.
It's important to tell this story of perseverance because we see the hero, but we don't see the backstage of the afflictions. "
Wow. ...
I think this is a great example of Never Never Never Give Up! 🇺🇸🇺🇸
A man's wife was murdered in Japan in 1999. Satoru Takaba spent the next 26 years paying $145k in rent to keep the crime scene completely untouched, believing future DNA technology would catch the killer.
He was right.
After being hunted to near-total extinction, blue whales have officially returned to the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia in numbers not seen in over half a century.
Quelque part au-dessus du Sahara, en 1935, un avion s'écrase dans le désert. À bord, un pilote français et son mécanicien. Pas d'eau, ou presque. Ils vont marcher des jours, au bord de la mort, sauvés in extremis par un nomade.
Ce pilote tient déjà un carnet. De ces déserts, de ces nuits de vol, il tire des livres. Et un jour, à New York, en pleine guerre, il dessine un petit garçon blond venu d'une autre plan��te.
Il s'appelle Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Il est né un 29 juin 1900, à Lyon.
Le Petit Prince paraît en 1943. Il deviendra le livre français le plus lu au monde, traduit en près de 300 langues, le plus traduit de la planète après la Bible. Près de 200 millions d'exemplaires.
Son auteur, lui, ne le verra jamais en France. Le 31 juillet 1944, il décolle pour une mission de reconnaissance au-dessus de la Méditerranée. Il ne revient pas.
Pendant près de soixante ans, on ne saura pas où. Ce n'est qu'en 2003 qu'on identifie son avion, au fond de l'eau, au large de Marseille.
L'homme qui a écrit qu'on ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur a disparu dans le ciel.
You know about Einstein and much of his work, yet you probably can't name a single thing Ludwig von Mises did, and that's a scandal.
In 1920 Mises published "Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth." He proved, in a few dozen pages, that a socialist economy cannot allocate resources rationally. No private ownership of the means of production means no market for capital goods. No market means no prices. No prices means no way to compare the value of building a steel mill versus a rail line. The planners are flying blind. Seventy years later the Soviet Union collapsed under exactly the contradiction he described, and the men who run economics departments still pretend he was wrong on technical grounds. He called it in 1920. They called it bad luck in 1991.
Then there's "Human Action," 900 pages he wrote in his second language, building economics up from a single self-evident starting point: man acts. He acts to remove felt uneasiness. From that one axiom Mises derived the entire structure of prices, interest, money, and the business cycle without a single regression or pretend-physics equation. Einstein had the decency to work with constants that actually hold. You cannot run a controlled experiment on a human being who learns, anticipates, and changes his mind. Mises refused to fake one. The profession punished him for this honesty by handing Nobel prizes to people who model the economy like a billiard table.
Consider the man's life. He fled Vienna in 1934 as the Nazis closed in, then fled Geneva in 1940, landing in New York with no job and no English-language reputation. Harvard and Princeton, busy hiring central planners, never offered him a paid chair. He taught at NYU on a salary funded by private donors, including the William Volker Fund. Friedrich Hayek, his student, took the 1974 Nobel. Mises died in 1973, one year too early, never having received a dime of official recognition for being right about the largest economic question of the twentieth century.
You were taught to revere the man who explained the stars. The man who explained economic reality got erased.
In a just society, Mises would have received multiple Nobel prizes. Do you agree?
🇻🇪‼️ | Una familia entera, conformada por un hombre, una mujer y un menor de edad, fue rescatada con vida tras permanecer varios días sepultada bajo las estructuras colapsadas en La Guaira a causa del doble terremoto.
“Los consumidores no crean la inflación. Los productores no crean la inflación. La inflación es producida únicamente por un gasto público excesivo y por una creación excesiva de dinero por parte del gobierno, y por nada más.”
- Milton Friedman -
El loto de nieve de Xinjiang Tianshan (Saussurea involucrata) es una rara planta alpina que crece en las montañas Tian Shan de Asia Central, entre los 3 000 y 4 800 metros de altitud. Sobrevive al frío extremo y la radiación ultravioleta
“Los impuestos son un robo a gran escala, porque atentan contra el derecho de propiedad y su finalidad es mantener a una casta de parásitos que viven a costa de los gobernados”.
- Murray Rothbard –
“El hombre no es libre a menos que el gobierno sea limitado. Hay una clara causa y efecto aquí que es limpia y predecible como una ley física. A medida que el gobierno se expande, la libertad se contrae”
Ronald Reagan
This is real footage from 126 years ago.
What you are watching is the trottoir roulant, the moving sidewalk, built for the great World's Fair in Paris in 1900.
More than a century ago, three years before the Wright brothers would make the first airplane flight, the city built an electric street that carried you across itself while you simply stood there...
It ran in a loop of around three and a half kilometres, raised on a viaduct above the fairgrounds, with nine stations where you could step on and off.
And it had a clever design: two moving platforms side by side, one going at walking pace and one faster, so you could step onto the slow one first, then onto the quick one, and ride the whole circuit in about twenty-six minutes without taking a single step.
Nearly fifty million people came to that fair, and for most of them it was the first time they had ever moved through a place without taking a step.
The very first moving walkway had appeared seven years earlier, at the World's Fair in Chicago in 1893, built by the same designers. But the Paris version was longer, faster, and far more sophisticated, and it was here that the world truly fell in love with the idea.
It astonished people. The thought that the ground itself could carry you felt like magic, like something out of a dream of the future. They even called it the Rue de l'Avenir: the Street of the Future.
Thomas Edison sent a crew to film it, which is why we can still watch it today...