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1 day ago · The Butterfly Effect: Shocks from Afar. Very few people outside the Collateralized Loan Obligations market were familiar with Norinchukin Bank, a private bank owned by Japan’s 3,300 agricultural cooperatives, until it announced JPY1.5 trillion ($9.4 billion) in portfolio losses and plans to raise equity to fill that gap.
5 days ago · In the 1960s, scientist Edward Lorenz began exploring the phenomenon we now know as the “butterfly effect” after discovering that an event as simple as the flutter of a butterfly wing has the potential to create a storm on the other side of the world. Sometimes the biggest things start small.
3 days ago · The Butterfly Effect is a theory that essentially emphasizes how one small action can have enormous, life-altering consequences. Muni Long explores this concept in her song, “Butterfly Effect,” as she reflects on the potential impact of small choices she has made in her life.
3 days ago · If you have ever been truly disgusted by something you saw, you have experienced feeling sick to your stomach. Revulsion involves the brain, clearly, but somehow it can be felt in our digestive system. The same is true of anxiety and love: there’s a reason we speak of butterflies in our stomach. To the probing minds of our ancestors, the stomach was mysterious. Unlike the mouth or the eye ...
1 day ago · 3. Credit: New Line Cinema. Thinking back to the early 2000s, a few movies instantly leap to my mind. Some of Christopher Nolan’s best films came out in the early 2000s, like Memento, Batman ...
4 days ago · “Butterflies is more than just a social network; it’s a fresh approach to connection and interaction.” - from their “about this app” paragraph. From my experience, I confess to being a skeptic, doubting the payback of the promised interaction of most social media apps.
5 days ago · The butterfly effect 1871 US entrepreneur Henry Meiggs signs a contract with the government of Costa Rica to build a railroad between San José and the port of Limón. He invites his nephew, Minor Cooper Keith, to join him. Keith takes over the project following Meiggs’ death in 1877. 1884 Keith raises £1.2 million from British banks to […]
