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California Defies Doom With No. 1 U.S. Economy

The Golden State has no peers when it comes to expanding GDP, raising household income, investing in innovation and a host of other key metrics.

Textbook Case of Bad Textbooking

How Moses helped write the Constitution and other things you can learn in high school textbooks in Texas

Jon Rahm out of Memorial Tournament with COVID midway through record-setting performance

Jon Rahm is a professional golfer, which means that he spends a good amount of his life traveling, a lot of time on airplanes and in hotels and other common areas where a lot of people mass and spread germs.

An Italian Artist Auctioned Off an ‘Invisible Sculpture’ for $18,300. It’s Made Literally of Nothing | Artnet News

“It is a work that asks you to activate the power of the imagination,” the artist, Salvatore Garau, said of his sculpture.

The Extortion Economy

Ransomware has become one of the most common types of cyber-crime, devastating individuals, businesses, and government agencies. Law enforcement has largely failed to catch or deter the hackers, who are usually foreign. But we found that U.S. companies, exploiting regulatory loopholes and sometimes…

Op-Ed: When reading to learn, what works best for students — printed books or digital texts?

The pandemic hastened the rise of digital reading for school assignments. But for most students, print is the most effective way to learn.

A New Understanding of Herd Immunity

The Leading Causes of Death in the US for 2020

Suicides down YoY by 5% for 2020.

The Leading Causes of Death in the US for 2020

This Viewpoint from the US National Center for Health Statistics reports a 2020 mortality estimate 17.7% higher than that of 2019, with leading causes of death comprising heart disease, cancer, and COVID-19.

MMT: Here’s a plain-English guide to ‘Modern Monetary Theory’ and why it’s interesting

Maybe we can just spend our way out of a crisis.

Category: Society

California Defies Doom With No. 1 U.S. Economy

Textbook Case of Bad Textbooking

Jon Rahm out of Memorial Tournament with COVID midway through record-setting performance

An Italian Artist Auctioned Off an ‘Invisible Sculpture’ for $18,300. It’s Made Literally of Nothing | Artnet News

The Extortion Economy

Op-Ed: When reading to learn, what works best for students — printed books or digital texts?

A New Understanding of Herd Immunity

The Leading Causes of Death in the US for 2020

MMT: Here’s a plain-English guide to ‘Modern Monetary Theory’ and why it’s interesting

Schools Restarting in Times of Covid