Yehuda’s Blog

Recent numbers show that the amount of banks on the brink of failing is as high as in 1993.  Remember what happened then?  The internet boom hit, everyone did well, and then it went bust.  Next the housing boom hit, everyone did well, and then it went bust.  Which brings us to now.  A serious bust. 

Our culture promotes infidelity.  Movies show us people (stars) we idolize in compromising positions,  Reality TV lets us look into other people’s lives, and magazines allow us to view both at a glance.  The effect is this: our infatuation with other people eventually leads to a desire for an inappropriate sexual relationship.

By now most of us have heard of the great Pacific garbage patch.  The floating landfill of plastic water bottles and debris located in the central north Pacific Ocean that is estimated to be two times the size of Texas.

But recently scientists have shed light on the widely ignored plastics issue in the Atlantic - a growing toxic mass whose density is comparable to that of the Pacific's.