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...minutes. Most people also read great meaning into their nocturnal visions. In fact, according to a new study in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, the vast majority of people in three very different countries - India, South Korea and the United States - believe that their dreams reveal meaningful hidden truths...
...have dreams about bad things happening to their friends. Similarly, we invest more meaning in dreams in which our enemies are punished and less meaning in dreams in which our enemies emerge victorious. In short, our interpretation of dreams may say a lot less about some quixotic search for hidden truth than it does about another enduring human quality: optimistic thinking...
...seems oddly sexual: 1 • Performances inspired by Star Wars: 3 • Freaky Tom Cruise moments: 2 • Things from Japan: 4 • People with too much time on their hands: 37 • Grown men who may never know the love of a woman: 12 • Bonus NSFW links hidden at the bottom of the page that should not be viewed in public, or even at all: 4 • Number of links I clicked on at work anyway: 4 • Level of awkwardness when my boss walked by: high to very high...
...period, Citigroup has lost $130 billion in market cap. Bank of America has lost $200 billion. Since GE's financial services business is not the majority of its revenue, the destruction of it market value seems extreme. Balance sheet jockeys would say that the trouble the market fears is hidden within GE's asset base and will jump out to eviscerate earnings soon. So far there is no sign that GE will implode because of the state of its financial services receivables or its debt...
...also admirable that the Obama team has chosen to be more forthright than the previous administration when it comes to deficit accounting. The announced changes to budget deficit calculation—which will now include the costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in addition to other previously hidden government spending—is certainly a step toward more transparent government. Their commitment to reducing the deficit in fact as well as on paper is essential to making real improvements in fiscal responsibility...