Obama aide John Podesta says ‘biggest failure’ was not securing the disclosure of UFO files

"Our colleague Karen Tumulty asked him in 2007 about the FOIA jam at the library, and Podesta, through a spokesman, replied: 'The truth is out there.' That's the show's tag­ line."

Management theories from Roman slave-owners

"The surviving ancient manuals on estate management urge the master to guard against slaves gossiping, fiddling the accounts, or pretending to be sick. These all chipped away at the master’s authority, and the manuals make it clear that it is vital to promote the most ambitious slaves to the position of overseer in order to ensure the efficient running of the estate."

In These Very Moments, The Protocols Are Being Rewritten

"If they don’t understand our words, they’ll understand our threats. And if in the past, we ran the show from behind the scenes, now we’re doing it openly, from center stage. And if you forget our donations, the wellspring will run dry."

How reading a little each week is a form of life support

"People who read regularly feel closer to their friends and to their community than lapsed or non-readers. Previous research has shown that, in addition to enhancing willingness and ability to communicate with others, reading helps promote respect for and tolerance of others’ views. The sympathetic intuitions which reading summons can make us more open to others’ experience and make us feel more part of the wider human community."

Cinco de (M)Alien?

"Will the slides follow the same fate as the infamous 'alien autopsy' Santilli video, or will our friend Nick Redfern be proved right, and they will instead become the equivalent of the Patterson-Gimlin film —forever dividing the researchers into 2 camps (believers and skeptics) out of a lack of tangible evidence —i.e. an actual body— that could conclusively prove them either as authentic or a hoax[?]"

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

"Gulvi simply didn’t understand that she would be branded a racist if she didn’t believe that the entire worlds population could come to Sweden and be financially supported for life by the Swedish people. She died a couple of months later."

The Myth of the Creative Genius

"In Mozart's real letters to his family, he revealed that he revised his compositions, sometimes got stuck, needed a piano and harpsichord to compose, left and returned to his work, and contemplated theory, craft, melody and rhythm when composing."

"So here is still more evidence of the plasticity of the brain, and its ability to adapt to new habits, new skills, and new information. Start doing the work, and the brain responds, allowing one to build and retain not just technical knowledge, but also the imaginative capacity needed to utilize it fully."