12 Warren Buffett Style Dividend Stocks With A Margin Of Safety - Forbes   

Before the establishment of the Securities and Exchange Commission, flim-flam artists and stock scammers ruled the roost on Wall Street and were given few disincentives to making up numbers regarding the operating results of companies they were promoting. Once the reporting of financial information was standardized and required by federal law, it provided a basis for evaluating companies based on things like earning power, efficiency with assets and stockholder equity, and other real-world measures of financial performance.

Besides authoring the old and new testament of value investing, Benjamin Graham ran a successful investment firm that was an early investor in GEICO.

Before his death in 1976, Graham went on to publish several more books on how to spot attractive investments, perhaps none more consequential than The Intelligent Investor, in 1949. In this still-influential investment tome, Graham addressed the idea that there were two types of investors: aggressive or enterprising and defensive. Defensive investors are the most risk averse.

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Mark Carney argues that finance needs to go where the emissions are - The Economist   

IN A WORLD starved of good news on climate, it is welcome that investment in clean energy has grown exponentially and is now running at almost double the rate of investment in all new fossil fuels. This year solar alone will receive more capital than new oil-and-gas production. As a result of these dramatic shifts, global carbon emissions from energy use may peak next year

But even as the arc of global emissions is finally beginning to bend, much more will be required to reach climate justice. First, clean-energy investment must rise from $1.8trn this year to around $4.5trn a year by the early 2030s. And crucially, heavy-emitting industries must begin to make their contributions. These sectors—materials, chemicals, heavy transportation—already generate almost one-third of global emissions. Based on current trajectories those emissions will rise by more than 30% by 2050—putting the world’s climate goals out of reach.

The challenges to decarbonising heavy-emitting industries are legion. These parts of the economy are both carbon-intensive and hard to electrify. Getting them to net zero requires building new low-carbon manufacturing facilities, developing sustainable fuels and green-hydrogen supply, and deploying small modular nuclear reactors and carbon-capture and storage capacity. Many of these technologies are nascent and all are uneconomic at small scale. Regulatory barriers are skewing incentives. And given the interconnections between heavy-emitting sectors, slow progress in one sector delays action in another.

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First transatlantic flight using 100% green fuels to take off - BBC News   

The first transatlantic flight powered only by sustainable fuels is due to take off on Tuesday morning.

Operated by Virgin Atlantic, it will fly from London's Heathrow to New York's JFK airport at 11:30 GMT.

Airlines see the flight, which is supported by government funding, as demonstrating that a greener way of flying is possible.

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The Makeup Artist Behind Bradley Cooper’s Prosthetic Nose - The New Yorker   

Kazu Hiro did not have a particularly happy childhood. He grew up in Kyoto, on a small, busy street lined with markets, where his father was a fishmonger and his mother sold clothes. "I was sensitive," he told me. He felt bullied by his parents, so he tried his best to keep to himself. "I hated school," he said. He dreamed of leaving Kyoto and his family behind. In kindergarten, he would sculpt or paint in the corner of the classroom. "That was my obsession: making something."

When he was eight, he saw "Star Wars" and became fascinated with the film's special effects—he was particularly curious about what Chewbacca's hair was made of. "Star Wars" seemed like an evolutionary leap from the "cheesy" feel of such Japanese movies as "Godzilla." As a teen-ager, he took a bus each weekend to a store that carried imported books and magazines, hoping to learn everything he could about filmmaking and special effects. One day, he found an issue of Fangoria, a movie magazine for blood-and-guts enthusiasts. Hiro was squeamish, yet horror films were where a lot of the innovations in makeup and low-budget effects were happening. He read an interview with Dick Smith, one of the most influential makeup artists in Hollywood, renowned for his work on "The Godfather"—notable not just for Smith's aging of Marlon Brando but for the special blood bladders he devised to make gunshot wounds more realistic—and "The Exorcist," whose remarkably visceral scenes of demonic possession remain the benchmark for scary movies. The spread featured a photograph of one of Smith's lesser-known triumphs, when he turned the actor Hal Holbrook into Abraham Lincoln for a 1976 television miniseries. "I thought, This is it. This is what I have to do," Hiro said. The next day, at school, he found a picture of Lincoln and tried to re-create the President's appearance on his own face, using makeup, with forgettable results. He had also dabbled with sculpting and 8-mm. film, but, he realized, "the human face is totally different."

In the late nineteen-forties, when Smith was learning the trade, makeup artists were mostly tasked with rendering actors more attractive for the camera. Those who pursued special effects, transforming actors into ghouls or bogeymen, kept their techniques a closely guarded secret. But Smith wanted to share his methods, and he wrote a how-to book for hobbyists and advertised a correspondence course in Fangoria. Hiro sent him a fan letter, and the two began writing to each other. Hiro mailed Smith photographs of his work. "He advised and encouraged me without asking for anything," Hiro said. Most fans wrote to Smith for help in bringing their fantastical visions to life, but seeing Smith's Lincoln showed Hiro an alternative. He became a student of faces—their form and structure, what people look like when they smile or communicate with their eyes. And he became drawn to the faces of accomplished people, and to the challenge of figuring out how their passion or genius "reflects on the surface," he said.

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