Blog Posts
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If you worked full time in the United States, earning the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour for the whole year, working 40 hours per week, your federal income taxes would be around 12% of your income … that is $1,800.00 in tax. However, if you are one of 60 top US companies with total income of $79 billion, your…
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A couple of weeks ago, I told you never to use the smartphone/laptop chargers in airports. They will hack you. Now I have another warning for you. Never use the WiFi in your Airbnb. Don’t take my word for it, listen to Jason Glassberg, an “ethical hacker” and co-founder of Casaba Security. Staying in a stranger’s…
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Last year, when China, the biggest consumer of discarded plastics, banned nearly all waste imports, it signaled a sea change in the global recycling system. The trade in plastics quickly rerouted to neighboring Southeast Asian countries that lacked effective recycling plants and disposal laws, leaving much of the waste to be burned or dumped in fields and…
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Sixty six (66) million years ago, a 6-mile-wide space rock caused a tsunami in the Atlantic Ocean, along with earthquakes and landslides up and down what is now the Americas. A heat pulse baked the Earth, and the Tyrannosaurus rex and its compatriots died out, along with 75% of the planet’s species. There have in fact been 4…