By Otto Baynes   In spite of decades of study, medical science is still unclear about many of the frequently touted health benefits of fish oil. Recommendations for the use of fish oil as a supplement often stem more from anecdotal cultural evidence than they do from definitive scientific evidence.

Andreas Wahl, a Norwegian physicist, tied himself to the side of building forty-five feet off the ground to demonstrate a basic property of physics.  The only thing keeping him from falling and potentially breaking a body part, or several, was a cable with a weight attached to the end.   At first,

©2016 Bloomberg View O1OO3F6JTSEI (Bloomberg View) — Yesterday, in discussing the lower- and middle-class workers who have been increasingly displaced by automation and trade, I wrote that both parties are simply reiterating longstanding policy preferences that are far more geared to the desires of their respective elites, than to the

©2016 Bloomberg News O1P0U76TTDTO (Bloomberg) — Treasuries are rallying in January for a third year in a row. U.S. government securities have gained 1.8 percent, based on the Bloomberg U.S. Treasury Bond Index. They rose 3 percent in January 2015 and 1.8 percent in January 2014, both the best monthly

©2016 Bloomberg News O1P0VY6JTSEG (Bloomberg) — The first Donald Trump-free Republican debate began Thursday night in Des Moines with chief rivals reveling in the chance to hit the front-runner without him hitting back—and actually get some attention themselves. “I’m a maniac, and everyone on this stage is stupid, fat and

©2016 Bloomberg News O1MW996JIJW1 (Bloomberg) — It’s been three years since Asian stock investors faced volatility this severe. The MSCI Asia Pacific Index has moved up or down more than 1 percent for six straight days, the longest stretch since equities were rocked by the European debt crisis in June

©2016 Bloomberg News O1MO9G6JTSEA (Bloomberg) — Roughly 45 minutes before Donald Trump’s campaign would announce on Tuesday that he was skipping Thursday night’s Fox News debate, as always giddily tipping the Republican race into chaos in a yet another pique of strategic petulance (or is it petulant strategy?), Ted Cruz was

©2016 Bloomberg View O1M6WS6KLVRD (Bloomberg View) — Apple Earnings Once you have sold everyone in the world an iPhone, what do you do? Sell them a bigger iPhone on which they can play solitaire? Sell them a smaller iPhone they can wear on their wrists? Sell them a smaller wrist-iPhone, but

©2016 Bloomberg News O1LFFV6S972D (Bloomberg) — During the next eight days, independent U.S. oil explorers are expected to report 2015 losses totaling almost $14 billion, the result of the steepest price collapse in a generation. Hess Corp. kicks off earnings season for the companies on Wednesday with what analysts predict

©2016 Bloomberg View O1KZS66JTSEC (Bloomberg View) — Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, the two candidates who are putting up the biggest fight against Donald Trump’s surprise surge in Iowa, aren’t supposed to have much in common. One is a hard-line right-wing maverick with a gift for alienating people; the other