Nihil est verum

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1BQPV-iCkU&feature=related This video shows our possible future as we are becoming more dependent on technology. It starts now with Nomophobia which is a fear of being without your mobile phone.  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2141169/The-biggest-phobia-world-Nomophobia--fear-mobile--affects-66-cent-us.html  <-- This link suggests that 66% of everyone who has access to a mobile phone suffers from this phobia , making it the one of , if not the biggest phobia in the world ( which is why whenever I can , I turn my phone off and leave it in a separate room). The specific fears of this phobia are included in the link but I will list a few here : 1. Losing reception. 2. Running out of battery. 3. Losing sight of the phone itself ( most people just believe this part is related to the increasing costs of mobile devices, which is a valid argument in my opinion). The fact that it exists though is just sad for our current generati...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HX7fqaxMfJQ&feature=g-hist The link to the video above ( please bare with it being a music video ) shows some real life situations that economics plays a major factor in. Like how expensive movie theater popcorn is, or how Walmart can keep lowering their prices no matter how bad the economic climate seems. This post in particular means a lot to me since I plan on being an econ major ( well international economic affairs major but close enough ) and I have had trouble trying to explain to so many of my friends why they should care about economics. Most of them would say things like "well it's just not stupid to you because you understand it, if you were me you would think it is stupid too." , even if I explain that it effects their everyday life I get the same response. So hopefully this post will persuade one or two who read it and cement the importance of economics to anyone else who reads it. Let's start off with girls who comp...