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The Japanese secret to being calmer and happier
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Apple discloses what it is legally required to disclose, but the gap between what is disclosed and what is materially relevant to investors has widened—and that gap is itself a liability.
~ Isaac Stone Fish via American Affairs
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In any society, politics is an arena for debates about the good life. The way the government taxes and spends and bans and regulates has a powerful effect on the behavior of its citizens, and what the law allows or forbids has some effect — not decisive, but inevitably influential — on what ordinary people think and do.
~ Ross Douthat via The New York Times
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Reason shapes the future, but superstition infects the present.
~ Iain Banks
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Portland State University was founded on this day — June 1 — in 1946.
The first group of students started their studies on June 1, 1946. Portland State University gained status as a University on April 24, 1969.
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