Margie Pritchard
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Bees are disappearing: Bees are absolutely essential for our food-production system. Here are a dozen mind-blowing facts about bees. Whether you’re fascinated by bees or terrified of them, you enjoy the fruits of their labor: Bees play a vital role in our ecosystem by pollinating plants. Honeybees pollinate $15 billion worth of US food crops a year;…
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Listen now: https://www.voiceamerica.com/episode/116380/the-bob-pritchard-show-july-23rd-2019 SHOW TITLE: The boom in cryptocurrencies. My guest today is Tim Wales, CEO and Co-founder of Kadima.Ventures. A true visionary and exciting entrepreneur, Tim has a proven talent for technology ingenuity. Tim is laser-focused on helping emerging companies in a collaborative setting, while also designing and building custom enterprise business solutions.
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I absolutely love this wonderful story… A lady in a faded gingham dress and her husband, dressed in a homespun threadbare suit, stepped off the train in Boston and walked timidly without an appointment into the Harvard University President’s outer office. The secretary could tell in a moment that such backwoods, country hicks had no business at…
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Mechanical Turk offers workers the freedom to complete menial tasks for small sums of cash. The platform, run by Amazon, offeres anyone the opportunity to earn money by completing quick, menial tasks posted by researchers: labelling images, taking surveys, transcribing receipts. These tasks can pay as little as $0.01. Today, a reported 500k workers on Mechanical…
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Over the last 10 years, the U.S. National Institutes of Health has invested $170 million to better understand the universe of bacteria that live within us—the so-called microbiome. In thefirst phase of the project, researchers focused on cataloguing the myriad types of microbes found throughout the body, including in the mouth, nose, gut, and reproductive…