Новости за 13.11.2016

Profile of Robert Gagno, autistic pinball genius. “He folds his upper torso over the glass at almost a 90-degree angle, mirroring the machine’s rigid geometry. It’s an unorthodox stance, hips back, knees knocked together like a skier. He’ll catch two balls on one flipper and pass them back and forth, along with a third and fourth, hitting combinations of shots that seem to unlock the secret dreams pent up inside each cabinet. He perceives things in a pinball machine that nobody else can”

“On a tiny island in the western Pacific, between a one-story laundromat and a cell-phone shop, you’ll find what may be the most successful casino of all time. Nothing about the facility, which opened last year on the US island of Saipan, hints at the money flowing through it — table for table, far more than at the biggest casinos in Macau, the world’s number-one gambling capital”. And all above board, obviously. An ex-Trump gambling boss runs the show, advised by former CIA and FBI directors

“When I speak with Democrats, and with Progressives in particular, they view themselves as the people concerned with diversity. That is a significant cognitive mistake. Until Democrats and Progressives can grasp their lack of diversity, they will struggle to make their way forward in the new political climate of the United States. They will not understand how anyone could view them as divisive, since they automatically think of diversity as being on their side”