Daily Archives: May 9, 2026

Quote, Unquote

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To meet with the prophet during a plague, certain protocols must be followed. It’s a gray spring morning in Salt Lake City, and downtown Temple Square is deserted, giving the place an eerie, postapocalyptic quality. The doors of the silver-domed tabernacle are locked; the towering neo-Gothic temple is dark. To enter the Church Administration Building, I meet a handler who escorts me through an underground parking garage; past a security checkpoint, where my temperature is taken; up a restricted elevator; and then, finally, into a large, mahogany-walled conference room. After a few minutes, a side door opens and a trim 95-year-old man in a suit greets me with a hygienic elbow bump.
~ McKay Coppins via The Atlantic

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Campus Trivia Night

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Question: Which 5 countries were the largest economies in the world by nominal GDP in the year 2010?

Via the IMF by way of Wikipedia

  1. United States
  2. China
  3. Japan
  4. Germany
  5. France

In the half decade between 2005 and 2010, China surpassed Japan and Germany to become the 2nd largest economy in the world as measured by nominal GDP in $US as estimated by the International Monetary Fund. In this same time frame, France surpassed the United Kingdom to re-enter the list of the world’s five largest economies as measured by nominal GDP.

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