How Margaret Thatcher forced the French to help out.

North Korea Tries Extortion Again.

Hezbollah makes extortion work for them.

A man who would not be extorted. (H/T The Belmont Club)

Euro under siege after Portugal hits panic button

Qantas A380 Sustained Worse Damage than First Thought

A case where the medical field’s poor grasp of statistic makes them look like fools?

Maths shaken by the ‘unprovable’

Things you do not want to know.

Naval Special Warfare is trying to boost the amount of minorities in the SEALs

How QE works

Grocery Store Automats Get a Rise Out of German Bakers

Upcoming civil service exams. The blog post is worthless. The comment section is all about why the IT specialist scores have not been handed out yet.

Fed to Buy $600 Billion of Treasurys

TRIM21: A Cure For the Common Cold? Maybe Not. . . Commentary on the article posted yesterday. Obvious to anyone with reading comprehension, but kind of interesting nonetheless.