Over the past week, like many others around the world, my attention was riveted to the events surrounding the Stoneman Douglas High School Shooting in Parkland, Florida—but as an historian, my central focus was on the control over social memory this horrific event showed was being employed against the American people. […]

Neil deGrasse Tyson gets stumped by Katy Perry, the smartest girl in the world. PewDiePie delivers once again.

Perry: Is math related to science?

[crickets]

Tyson: Most people who could be born, will never be born. Will never even exist.

Perry: Like sperm…

Tyson: Well, sure, yeah yeah-

Perry: But it’s science!

Tyson: The rest don’t.

Perry: So where do they go?

Tyson: They’re dead!

Later, Perry waxed philosophical.

Perry: I wanna become a scientist now.

Tyson: NO! uh, we need you, we need you on the stage. When you’re done on the stage then we’ll take you in.

Perry: I might be done on the stage.
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According to this report, to fully understand the genesis of this present crisis, one must remember that it was only this past March-2018 when American shale oil producers became profitable—that in turn caused them to boost production with the US becoming the top oil producer in the world by September-2018—all of whom were buoyed by their belief that they had locked in stable oil prices for both 2019 and 2020. […]