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money
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Your Reviews Can Be A Security Risk
Most people assume a public review is low-stakes. You rate a restaurant. You write a paragraph about a hotel. You leave a snide comment under a product because it let…
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When AI Becomes Epistemic Gatekeeping
Artificial intelligence can be an amazing tool if you understand its utility, but what if it is quietly pushing you away from the very things you need to see? That…
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End of the Road, Revisited
Have you seen what gold has been doing? Are the forecasts finally upon us? In 2012, the documentary End of the Road: How Money Became Worthless made a claim that…
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Most Physicians Stopped Teaching Long Ago
The word doctor does not mean “healer.” It also doesn’t mean “surgeon,” “physician,” or even “medical authority.”
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Org/Ldr Development Is Piss In the River
Leaders must resist judging organizational change too quickly. Like piss in the river, problems persist even after the source is stopped, taking time to clear.
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When Emotion Outvotes Reason
The recent election in New York has captured national attention, not because of the typical partisan noise, but because a self-proclaimed socialist, using openly communist slogans, has taken power in…
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Why SNAP and Credit Cards Are Not the Same
There is a growing tendency to compare the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), distributed through Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards, with ordinary credit cards. The argument usually arises during discussions…
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The Shadow Banking System
The financial world you know (JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, your local credit union) has a hidden counterpart. It’s a $65 trillion network called shadow banking, larger than traditional banking…
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What’s the Deal with Methylene Blue?
This article comes at the request of several readers, because once again, we see an old and reliable treatment in the news, being ridiculed as pseudo-science or dangerous. Why? Probably…
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Government Secrecy Is Easier, Not Harder
When someone insists, “There’s no way the government could keep something like that a secret,” regardless of what “that” might be, they are making a claim that simply collapses under…
