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Music Teacher Captures Isolation's Emotional Toll In Song
This poignant video of a music teacher trying to convey her thoughts and feelings about shelter-in-place through a heartfelt song nearly brought me to tears.
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Contagious vs Infectious
An infectious disease is a communicable disease that spreads by contaminating people (or animals) with pathogenic microbial agents, such as viruses, bacteria, or other microorganisms. In other words, a disease…
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Lockdown is a huge mistake…
A dull presentation, but it’s from someone (a Nobel Prize winning scientist) that understands the math.
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Art Prices Hold Steady When Stock Markets Crash
There is a relationship between art and stocks that is worth noting. According to the MMAAI (Mei Moses All Art Index), which has been tracking art returns since 1820, prices for art rise when the stock market…
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Seymour The Squirrel And The Avocado Helmet
“Seymour the Squirrel and the Avocado Helmet” - Is this animal abuse?
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Why The Spanish Flu Wasn't Actually Spanish
The Spanish Flu, which started during WWI, got the name as the result of a misunderstanding. Spain was hit hard by the epidemic – and though other major European countries and the US suppressed the news to…
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Canadian Comedian Finds Humor In Pandemic Isolation
“Isolation” – This Canadian comedian has been on a roll lately, riffing on the Corona Crisis and its effects…
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Career Growth Matters More Than Workplace Comfort
72% of employees say they are driven more by career advancement opportunities than contentment with their work environment. (Source: a survey by TalentLyft)
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Confidence Without Competence: A Universal Truth
When you have no idea what you’re talking about…
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South Africa's Unusual Three Capital City System
South Africa has three capitals – one for each branch of the government: Pretoria (executive), Bloemfontein (judicial), and Cape Town (legislative). Unlike most countries, it does not have a legally defined…
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I Wonder How Much This Guy Gets Paid
I wonder how much this guy gets paid…
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FDR's New Deal Programs That Transformed America
The New Deal included the establishment of the Civil Works Administration (CWA), the Farm Security Administration (FSA), the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), and the Social Security Administration (SSA)…
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Great Ensemble Performance In Song
Great song… great ensemble performance.
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Understanding Treasury Bonds, Notes, And Bills
There are three kinds of government fixed-income securities: Treasury bonds, notes, and bills. T-bonds (long bonds) mature in 30 years and typically pay the highest interest rates twice yearly. They are sold…
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Very interesting. With all the research I’ve been doing, I didn’t…
Very interesting. With all the research I’ve been doing, I didn’t know some of these “facts.”
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Understanding Treasury Bonds And Their Benefits
Treasury bonds (T-bonds) are US government debt securities with a maturity of 10 to 30 years. They pay a fixed interest rate to the purchaser on a semiannual basis until maturity. At maturity, the purchaser is…
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Adley's Pandemic Comedy Gold on Instagram
Good corona humor: “Adley on Instagram” LINK
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How Bad Was the Great Depression?
The stock market crashed on Black Thursday, October 24, 1929. By the following Tuesday, it was down 25%. Many investors lost their life savings that weekend. By 1932, one out of four people was unemployed…
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Penguin Takes Its First Adorable Steps
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Obesity Remains America's Deadliest Health Crisis
Unlike what some in the media are claiming, obesity – not coronavirus – is almost certainly the biggest killer in America. * It is responsible for about 600,000 or 20% of the approximate 3 million Americans…
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Creative Ways To Build With Matchsticks
“Matchstick Art” – Got some spare time on your hands? Here’s an idea…
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The Mathematical Magic Behind Overtone Singing
Have you heard of polyphonic overtone singing? First, I came across this video on YouTube. I expected to hear a pretty voice. Instead, I heard this: I sent it to Number Two Son, a composer, and he introduced…
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Questioning Conventional Wisdom in the COVID-19 Crisis
Finally, some doctors and scientists are starting to talk about all this bad math we’ve been given. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UO3Wd5urg0
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US COVID-19 Case and Death Timeline 12/31 to 4/14
Some of my friends are arguing about the administration’s response to the Corona Crisis. I’m not interested in that discussion, except from a social and psychological perspective – i.e., how social myths…
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Hozier's Haunting Cover Of The Parting Glass
“Hozier Sings ‘The Parting Glass’” – a beautiful rendition of a beautiful Irish song that might bring some thoughts and feelings back into a larger perspective.
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How Companies Navigate Recessions: Four Strategic Approaches
A Harvard Business Review study 4,700 public companies looked at the three years before, during, and after several recent recessions (including the recession of 90/91). They divided companies’ responses –…
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Sports Star Opens Up About COVID-19 Experience
A sports star talks about his experience with COVID-19…
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How Ferrara Escaped The Seventeenth Century Plague
As the plague ravaged Italy from 1629 to 1631, killing more than 45,000 in Venice alone, the northern Italian town of Ferrara kept it at bay. Critical to the city’s success, records suggest, were border…
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Marsh Family Performs Les Miserables During Lockdown
The Marsh Family goes viral with a lockdown version of “One Day More” from Les Miz… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRoMfg5ZgZU
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Waffle House Index Hits Red During Pandemic Crisis
On March 25, Waffle House declared a “Waffle House Index Red” in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The Waffle House Index, an informal metric used by FEMA for nearly a decade, refers to the measure of…
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J.B. Smoove's Hilariously Chaotic Coronavirus Meditation Guide
More corona humor: a “relaxing” guided meditation with Curb Your Enthusiasm’s J.B. Smoove on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEoRjS70Vs8
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Pandemic Slang: The New Words We're All Using
The coronavirus has given rise to a host of new slang terms. Here, from Dictionary.com, are some that you may already have added to your vocabulary: * rona – an informal shortening of coronavirus (“Yeah, I…
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Bill Gates's Prescient Warnings About Pandemic Risk
Click here to watch Bill Gates’s chilling warnings to Trump – before the coronavirus outbreak hit.
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DIY Mask Making: A Simple Video Guide
A really cool and easy way to make a mask…Video
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Viral Video Imagines A Butt-Cleaning Robot Future
More viral humor: “Butt-Cleaning Robot – No More Toilet Paper!” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQM__8Jn978&feature=youtu.be
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Remote Work Scams Surge: How To Stay Safe Online
Cyber trickery is raging now that millions of Americans are working remotely. Here are some tips to avoid being duped: * Verify that you’ve got the right person when reaching out to any publicly published help…
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MIT Forum Tackles Diversity While Dodging the Obvious Irony
In what world can you take this seriously? The MIT Enterprise Forum of South Florida recently hosted an online forum titled “The Importance of Diversity and Inclusion in the Workforce and Leadership Teams.”…
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Facts That Informed This Essay
* The seasonal flu kills between 12,000 and 61,000 people a year. * In Italy, about 10% of people known to be infected have died. In Iran and Spain, the case fatality rate is higher than 7%. But in South…
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Tom Dyson On Gold As Wealth Protection
On Friday, I talked about what might happen in the gold market and explained how I use bullion gold as a wealth management strategy. I referenced ideas from Tom Dyson. Here are his latest thoughts.
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Gold: The Basics
* The price of the metal has increased substantially over the past 50 years. * Its price is driven, like most commodities, by supply and demand. * The lion’s share of the world’s gold is held in the vaults of…
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Coming this weekend… “The Week in Review
More viral humor… Coming this weekend… “The Week in Review”
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Test Your Punctuation Skills With This Quiz
How good are you at punctuation? To try a 10-question test designed for middle-schoolers, click here.
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Coronavirus Humor To Brighten Your Day
Ready for a little coronavirus humor?
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Counting To A Trillion Takes Thirty Thousand Years
Putting the government’s trillion-dollar coronavirus stimulus bill into perspective – a trillion is a huge number. If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take more than 30,000 years to reach it.
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Please Pass the Salt
Got some spare time now that you’re stuck in the house all day? Here’s something you can try…
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Learning From China: 7 High-Tech Strategies for Pandemic Containment” by Peter Diamandis LINK
“Learning From China: 7 High-Tech Strategies for Pandemic Containment” by Peter Diamandis LINK
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Why We Might Be Overreacting To Coronavirus
Most of the analysis of the coronavirus pandemic has been scary... even the best of it. But here is an argument as to why we may be overreacting to the virus that I found edifying.
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5 Historical Facts About the Stock Market
Historically, the Dow has been positive 52% of the total trading days and negative 48%. The average daily return is 0.73% when it’s up and -0.76% when it’s down. There is no significant difference between the…
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George Carlin on Germs and the Immune System
George Carlin was funny… he was brilliant… he was prophetic. Watch an excerpt from his “You Are All Diseased” routine.
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How Doctors Finally Discovered Hand Washing's Life-Saving Power
Common sense tells us that one of the best ways to prevent the spread of infectious diseases is to wash your hands – but doctors didn’t realize this until the mid-19th century. Click here for a recent article…
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