The artist differentiated his two careers by his signature: As a singer, he was Tony Bennett, but as a painter, he used his given name, Anthony Benedetto.
樂觀經濟學家 (Optimistic Economist)諸多感人的故事： Julian Simon (1932~1998), 編輯 'The State of Humanity,' (1995)......地球，"人新世" (a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene) ，
''He believed that the world needs problems because they make us better,'' said Robert L. Bradley Jr., president of the Institute for Energy Research in Houston. ''Problems make us better off than if they had never occurred.''
The essence of Mr. Simon's view of man and the future is contained in two predictions for the next century and any century thereafter that are in ''The State of Humanity,'' a book he edited for the Cato Institute.
''First,'' he wrote, ''humanity's condition will improve in just about every material way. Second, humans will continue to sit around complaining about everything getting worse.''
He argued that mankind would rise to any challenges and problems by devising new technologies to not only cope, but thrive. ''Whatever the rate of population growth is, historically it has been that the food supply increases at least as fast, if not faster,''
''Fortunately for this planet,'' Mr. Simon said in response to the Global 2000 Report,(1980) ''these gloomy assertions about resources and environment are baseless.''
The Ehrlich group bet $1,000 on five metals -- chrome, copper, nickel, tin and tungsten -- in quantities that each cost $200 in October 1980, when the bet was made. Mr. Simon agreed that he would sell the agreed-upon quantities of the metals to the Ehrlich group 10 years later at 1980 prices. If the combined prices of acquiring the metals in 1990 turned out to be higher than $1,000, Mr. Simon would pay the difference in cash. If prices fell, the Ehrlich group would pay him.
...Yet in the fall of 1990, with the prices of the metals down sharply, Mr. Ehrlich mailed Mr. Simon a check for $576.07.
Mr. Simon wrote back a thank you note, along with a challenge to raise the wager to as much as $20,000, tied to any other resources and to any other year in the future. Mr. Ehrlich declined to take him up on the new offer.
READOUT: Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen’s Lunch with Women Economists and Entrepreneurs in Beijing July 8, 2023
BEIJING — Today, Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen hosted a lunch in Beijing, People’s Republic of China, with women economists and entrepreneurs. The participants discussed the Chinese economy and opportunities to increase the representation of women in the workforce, including in leadership positions. The Secretary underscored that women’s participation in the workforce is one of the major drivers of creating inclusive growth. She also noted that women’s contributions to economics, in particular, are important to help ensure that economic research and policymaking appropriately reflect society’s priorities.
美國擁有很多女權學者，女性主義、LGBTQ、Transgender，令英語世界的年輕婦女越來越以肥和醜為主流，因為左膠批判所謂的Slut-shaming （這個學術名詞，各位可以自己Google），但中國的女性，風格完全與西方左膠崇尚的相反，在英美老男人支配的院校，they speak a different bodily language.
耶倫像一個慈祥的祖母，和她的一群中國孫女兒們家庭團聚場面很溫馨。用英文來說：The grey-haired Yellen looks like having a warm family union dinner with her lovely Chinese grand-daughters.
Detail from Simone de Beauvoir Google Doodle on 9 January 2014, on what would have been her 106th birthday.
Google has celebrated what would have been the 106th birthday of the French feminist writer Simone de Beauvoir with a Google Doodle on the search engine's home page.
Born
Simone-Lucie-Ernestine-Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir on 9 January 1908 in
Paris, De Beauvoir is best known for her book The Second Sex, one of the
most important works of 20th-century feminism, and novels such as She
Came to Stay and The Mandarins.
De Beauvoir had a lifelong
partnership with Jean-Paul Sartre, which did not exclude other
relationships. She said the absence of marriage and children allowed her
to pursue her studies and writing.
The doodle features an image
of the writer in front of Parisian street buildings with canopies, which
suggest the Cafe de Flore in the 6th district of Paris with which
Beauvoir and Sartre were associated.
Beauvoir and Sartre were
proponents of the philosophy of existentialism and both edited the
magazine Les Temps Modernes. De Beauvoir edited it until her death in
1986.
The U.S. Senate confirmed Janet L. Yellen as the chairwoman of the
Federal Reserve, marking the first time that a woman has led the
country’s central bank.
China and Japan have both been compared to the Harry Potter villain Voldemort in a bizarre war of words between ambassadors.
It follows Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s appearance at the
Yasukuni Shrine last month, which sparked outrage in China and South
Korea.
The countries see the shrine, which honours convicted war
criminals among Japan’s war dead, as a symbol of Japanese occupation in
the Second World War.
Chinese ambassador Liu Xiaoming dealt the first blow in an opinion piece published in the Daily Telegraph last week.
He
wrote: “In the Harry Potter story, the dark wizard Voldemort dies hard
because the seven horcruxes, which contain parts of his soul, have been
destroyed.
“If militarism is like the haunting Voldemort of Japan,
the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo is a kind of horcrux, representing the
darkest parts of that nation’s soul.”
Magical horcruxes were used by “He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named” to become immortal by storing parts of his soul. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe waves to wellwishers upon his arrival at the Ise shrine in Ise, Mie prefecture
The controversial article urged Britain to remember Japan’s defeat in
the Second World War and accused “some people” in Japan of posing a
“serious threat to global peace”. China-Japan tensions: Chef crashes balloon near disputed islands
In a response published in today’s Telegraph, Japanese
ambassador Keiichi Hayashi, wrote: “There are two paths open to China.
One is to seek dialogue, and abide by the rule of law.
“The other
is to play the role of Voldemort in the region by letting loose the evil
of an arms race and escalation of tensions, although Japan will not
escalate the situation from its side.” China's Liaoning aircraft carrier completes sea trials
He called militarism a “ghost” from Japan’s past and insisted
the country had exercised “utmost restraint” in disputes over the East
China Sea, where he argued Chinese ships had repeatedly intruded into
Japanese territorial waters surrounding the Senkaku - or Diaoyu -
Islands.
Japan has controlled the uninhabited archipelago since 1895 but China also claims the islands.
