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Though earthworms turning garbage into gold is irresistibly interesting, worms get pressed into many other services for humanity. The Jerusalem Post, a newspaper, reports findings from the Hebrew University research in which the team repaired worm neurology. The research team created and introduce...

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Writing a business book as a novel, something that Goldratt helped make popular, was widespread for a while. This trend led to criticisms of business books being "light fluff", instead of serious works. Novelization improved the breadth of readership and sales of the book, making it a good business...

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The impact of insurance on world trade is simple to understand. Transactions, including trade, involve multiple types of risk. Insurance is one way of dealing with risk by aggregating it across multiple owners and thus shifting it away...

As a technophile, for decades I have maintained an interest in space developments, so the current boom in space, especially the private space race, has been enormously entertaining. While reading and studying for a class in finance, I saw things a little differently. This following essay shares one...

At a recent conference I attended, many people agreed with the proposition that financial education is sorely lacking in all parts of the world. Part of the problem is that even if everyone had advanced degrees in the topic, there would still be unknown aspects. The space is simply too large! One o...

(Note: The following was originally written to fulfill course work)

Carbaugh (2017) on page 370 briefly mentions cryptocurrency. He takes a pretty negative view, focusing almost exclusively on the bad actors taking advantage of the technology’s lack of governmental controls. Though cryptocurrency/...