Electronic commerce is such an unstoppable force in our pandemic-affected society that Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) analyst Heath Terry raised its target price on Monday to Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) at a level 28% above where the stock closed on Friday. In May, it raised its target price to $ 3,000 …
Read More »Global warming is driving polar bears to extinction, researchers say
Groups like the Cato Institute, a libertarian research organization that defies aspects of climate change, have expressed concern about exaggerated bears, arguing that some research shows that the animals have survived repeated warm spells. But scientists say that during the early early periods, bears probably had important alternative sources of …
Read More »Supreme Court rejects Democrats’ request to speed up tax case
Crowds line up outside the Supreme Court as he resumes his oral arguments at the start of his new term in Washington on October 7, 2019. Mary F. Calvert | Reuters The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an effort by Democrats in the House of Representatives to speed up the …
Read More »The doctor shows for fools that even six masks do not reduce oxygen intake / Boing Boing
The doctor shows for fools that even six masks do not reduce oxygen intake / Boing Boing Irish doctor Maitiu O Tuathail got so fed up with people claiming that surgical masks caused oxygen deprivation that he put on half a dozen while connected to an oxygen meter. Guess what …
Read More »Victim of ‘murder’ from the Iron Age unearthed outside London
The ancient skeleton of a man thrown upside down into a ditch with his hands tied in front of him has been unearthed outside London. The man may have been the victim of an Iron Age murder or execution. Although archaeologists are not sure how the man died, their strange …
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