Science: Making Salt Water Fresh With One Tiny Battery
Access to fresh water remains one of the dividing lines between the “haves” and “have nots” of this world. It affects commerce, culture, even people’s self esteem. That’s why this development is such...
View ArticleThe Way of Men: Interview with Jack Donovan
“The Way of Men” book author Jack Donovan answers some hard questions about masculinity and society, and the way forward for men. JC: Strength, courage, mastery, and honor. Which readings were most...
View ArticleIt’s All Just A Little Bit Of History Repeating …
Seán Flynn on the end of American Empire, and how the internet is more like the Catholic Church than you imagined. Dwell on the past and you’ll lose an eye, counsels an old Russian proverb. Forget the...
View ArticleA Case for the Magic Money Machine
I’m no economist, so I’m expecting that someone who understands global commerce better than I will set me straight. But until then… I, like a lot of people, am concerned about American foreign debt....
View ArticleAre Drones More than Killing and Surveillance Machines?
How do we benefit from drones without giving up our privacy, civil rights and humanity in the process? — From the very first formation of primitive social groups in the dawn of humanity, there have...
View ArticleWhat You Can Learn from One of the World’s Top Sales Authorities
Embed from Getty Images — Summary In this episode of The Go-Giver Podcast, Bob takes a deeper look into The Law of Value. He then interviews one of the world’s top sales authorities, Anthony...
View ArticleHow to Turn Bad Employees into Rock Stars
Embed from Getty Images Zech Newman shares the secrets of turning low performers into your best workers. — As a small business owner, I have around twenty-five people that I employ. In business, the...
View ArticleHow to Reframe Your “No’s” in Business … and GO for No
Embed from Getty Images On this episode of The Go-Giver Podcast, author Andrea Waltz helps us reframe the “no’s” in business, and in fact, GO for No. — Summary Not many people enjoy hearing the word...
View ArticleWeird, or Just Different?
“There’s a flip side to everything,” the saying goes, and in 2 minutes, Derek Sivers shows this is true in a few ways you might not expect. — “There’s a flip side to everything,” the saying goes, and...
View ArticleThe Powerful Connection of Entrepreneurship and Spirituality
As entrepreneurs gear up for 2019, let us remember that there are two basic motivations of the entrepreneurial spirit. The first is the business side of the endeavor and its bottom line, otherwise...
View ArticleThe Fall and Rise of Great Public Spaces
Public space is a literal commons: the common ground where people come together as friends, neighbors and citizens. Places we share together—parks, streets, sidewalks, squares, trails, markets,...
View ArticleOld-Fashioned, Healthy, Lacto-Fermented Soft Drinks: The Real “Real Thing”
— My brother John and I share a hobby of brewing lacto-fermented sodas–root beers and ginger ales–which we share among family and friends and occasionally sell at health food conventions. Often we are...
View ArticleThe East India Company Slaving Voyage of Nicholas Skottowe
— It is well known that, alongside its trade in goods, the East India Company used its ships to transport large numbers of people around the world: merchants, administrators, soldiers, sailors,...
View ArticleNot the Daily Express, 1905
— Lord Northcliffe (1865-1922), founder of the Daily Mail, is perhaps best known today as one of the models for Lord Copper, the megalomaniac press baron in Evelyn Waugh’s novel Scoop. (‘Definitely,...
View ArticleDispatches from the Western Front: Open and Serving
The Foreseeable Future On any given day, the shopping center across from our community is a buzzing hive of commerce. IKEA, one of the three mega-chain anchor stores beckons would-be interior designers...
View ArticleHow to Save the US Postal Service
As if we did not have enough to worry about between health, economy, and schools, there are now fears around a reduced-service postal system. As a retiree managing several prescription medications, I...
View ArticleNationalism Across the Decades
One of the first jobs I had was bagging fertilizer. It sounds terrible, but it was actually a good gig. It was a long, low, rambling, deteriorating, unpainted wooden building in a distant corner of the...
View ArticleInnocent Habits You Must Break To Stay Safe in a COVID World
The two-year onslaught of the COVID-19 pandemic, continuing with the rise of the Delta and Omicron variants, has taken center stage in every aspect of life, not the least of which is the consumer...
View ArticleWashington Legislature Aims to Regulate AI — But Treads Cautiously
By John Stang / Crosscut.com Baby steps. Extreme caution. Distinguishing between science fiction and science reality. The Washington Legislature aims to tackle artificial intelligence in the upcoming...
View ArticleIn the Market for a Car? Soon You’ll Be Able To Buy a Hyundai on Amazon − and...
By Vivek Astvansh, McGill University This is the year you can finally buy a car on Amazon. Well, one kind. Eventually. On Nov. 16, 2023, at the Los Angeles Auto Show, Amazon and Hyundai made a big...
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